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Urbanomic
by Urbanomic Media Ltd.
Urbanomic is a publisher and arts organization based in the UK. Our aims are: to act as an advocate for philosophical thinking as a creative practice, and for the continuing cultural importance of philosophy; to support research activities addressing crucial issues that do not fall under any one discipline or practice; to present to the public the results of that research, and an insight into the research process itself, through a variety of media; to engender interdisciplinary thinking and production.
Episodes
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Between Possession and Depression: The Dark Continuum of Roman Techno
Mixtape compiled by ‘VM’, member of the Gruppo di Nun and chronicler of Rome’s dark twin city of Remoria, takes us back to the years 1990–1994, when a new brand of home-grown techno pumped a chronic strain of no-future energy into the peripheral zones of burned-out Empire. For the accompanying…
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Atlas Endlos
In-depth discussion of the aesthetic, political, architectural, and passional dimensions of Yves Mettler’s work on urban spaces whose names invoke a multitude of concepts and visions of ‘Europe’, as documented in the Urbanomic book ‘Atlas Europe Square’. With Mettler and contributors Stephen…
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Traversing Melancholy
Author of Theory of the Solitary Sailor. Gilles Grelet sails across the channel to talk with translators Amy Ireland and Robin Mackay about his ‘antiphilosophical biography’ , with topics ranging from melancholy, silence, and formulaic writing to happiness, how to exorcise a boat’s deadname,...
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Jungle Bekno Dunder Mix 160
‧͙⁺˚*･༓☾ TAKE THE RUFF WITH THE KUTE ☽༓･*˚⁺‧͙ Live amen-heavy kawaii sparkles from DJK Huysman’s afterparty set at BEK’s event ‘The Only Lasting Truth is Change’, Bergen, Norway, Saturday 20 Nov 2021.
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Jean Cavaillès: A Necessary Becoming
To mark the publication of a new translation of Jean Cavaillès’s On Logic and the Theory of Science, Robin Mackay is joined by Knox Peden and Matt Hare to provide an introduction to Cavaillès's philosophical project for the uninitiated, and to examine what is at stake in On Logic’s confrontation...
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A Serial Killer of Memories
To celebrate the release of Chronosis, Keith Tilford and Reza Negarestani join Robin Mackay to talk about their collaboration and the ideas that fuelled the time-twisting plot of the comic. Creative tension and backchannel bickering, cat monks, Boltzmann brains, cosmic body horror, Bertrand…
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PlaguePod Live (New Variant), Year 2 Day 1
To celebrate a year of lockdown lunacy, in this special anniversary show we invite survivors from the very first PlaguePod to come back and tell us what their COVID highlights have been. Reza Negarestani, Miguel Prado, Shaun Lewin, Amy Ireland, and Xenogothic are among the guests. DJK Huysmans is...
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Hypervirus
Highly advanced AI reads Nick Land, ‘Hypervirus’, from Fanged Noumena https://www.urbanomic.com/book/fanged-noumena/ As featured in Urbanomic PlaguePod Live New Variant Day 3 The backing track is (1) Untitled shruti transform by Mark Fell (2)‘Zero Fucks’ by Special Request
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PlaguePod New Variant Day 3
We’re back in lockdown again. So we’re back on air. Pete Wolfendale discusses online personas and exo-selves, Keith Tilford and Iceland Bob give their all-time top ten list of comics, and there are readings from Fanged Noumena and archive recordings of talks by Ray Brassier and Mark Fisher.
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SecondWavePod Day 4: A New Dawn
We’re back in lockdown. So we’re back on air, with some guests, some tunes, some book news, and…some other stuff. Reza Blades and Kilford, along with Iceland Bob, join us to talk comics and Boltzmann Babies, there are X-Risks with Thomas Moynihan, a reading from Gabriel Catren’s forthcoming...
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Not A PlaguePod Live Day 194(?)
One last blast from the COVID bunker before the second wave hits. Tunes from DJK Huysmans, chat from around around the world, and T-shirt advertorials (get your PlaguePod T-Shirt here: https://www.urbanomic.com/event/conceptwear-2/)
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PlaguePod Live Day 131 – Live Solar Grand Finale
It's not over til it's over! Your favourite car crash of a podcast returns one last time for a sunny Sunday afternoon with a special solar-powered remote broadcast from End of the World Garden, with a UK Garage set from DJK Huysmans, phone-ins from across the globe, and finally a CoronaQuest...
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Urbanomic PlaguePod Special: Guns Of Brixton
As the COVID era segues into something far more cursed, in this exclusive communiqué Anthony Nine drops a poetic-occultural dubplate mapping the fundamental lines of contemporary struggle in a world of politricksters. With a timely advocacy of the power and discipline of real magical practice...
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PlaguePod Live Day 53
PlaguePod returns to take a look at Crack-Ups and Lockdowns, with readings of real-life and fictional breaking points, plus a return to the subject of mental health in weird COVID times with Matt Colquhoun aka Xenogothic. We have Mark Fell joining us to chat from deepest Rotherham with some...
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PlaguePod Bonus Coronademonology
Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh, author of Omnicide, enumerates 11 important principles for understanding coronachan as a demon. Extracted from PlaguePod Day 41. More details: https://www.urbanomic.com/book/omnicide/
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PlaguePod Bonus Irreversible Noise Readings
Inigo Wilkins reads from his forthcoming book Irreversible Noise – extracted from PlaguePod Live Day 34. More details: https://www.urbanomic.com/book/irreversible-noise/
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PlaguePod Live Day 41
A truly next-level Princely Persian Mayday PlaguePod as we bring together Omnicide author Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh and our favourite Geistig Lego™ AGI engineer Reza Negarestani. Lisa Blanning joins us with a special selection of COVID tracks, Amy Ireland jacks in from the Pandemonium Matrix to...
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Plaguepod Live Day 34
PlaguePod Live: Cope Edition. What's going on? It's been over a month in lockdown, the epistemological conundrum of coronavirus has been solved (no one knows anything) and we are bored, deranged, chronically anxious, and have no idea what to talk about. But there is fresh junglism, there is...
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Plaguepod Bonus Audint Readings
Readings from the collection Audint—Unsound:Undead (published by Urbanomic, https://www.urbanomic.com/book/unsoundundead/) as featured in PlaguePod Day 26. 0:00 Lisa Blanning, ‘Ghost In The Machine: Hikikomori And Digital Dualism’ (music: DVA [Hi:Emotions], NOTU_URONLINEU, on Hyperdub) 9:53 Steve...
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PlaguePod Live Day 26
In this action-packed PlaguePod we present a series of readings from Audint—Unsound:Undead, plus some extra special additions from the Audint Crew and from Kode9, we invite listeners to call in to our brand new feature, the challenging dystopian adventure game CoronaQuest, and with guests Thomas...
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PlaguePod Live Day 21
To discuss time and the templexical effects of the global pandemic, we welcome Vince Garton, Anna Greenspan, Amy Ireland, Nick Land, and Ben Woodard. Plus music, noise, and readings.
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PlaguePod Live Day 17 No ’Rona
Special emergency apocalypse-fatigue relief edition of PlaguePod featuring music, readings, and call-ins, with a no hardpants policy and a strict ban on any discussion of the spiky boi.
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Plaguepod Live Day 13
In this edition of PlaguePod, we try to look away from the dying embers of the West. Guests in to discuss differing responses to the coronavirus crisis, sinofuturism, and post-soviet accelerationism include Bogna Konior (Hong Kong), Vince Garton (London), Dino Ge Zhang (Wuhan, just out of...
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PlaguePod Bonus Lockdown Storytime
Extracted from PlaguePod Day 9, tales of extreme isolation and madness to sooth you during coronavirus lockdown. Readings from three stories of domestic withdrawal and quarantine by JG Ballard, ‘The Enormous Space’ (1989), ‘Having a Wonderful Time’ (1978), and ‘The Intensive Care Unit’ (1977)…
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PlaguePod Live Day 9
For this PlaguePod, we’re joined by guests including Simon Sellars, author of ‘Applied Ballardianism‘, DJ producer and UIQ label boss Lee Gamble, and author and blogger Matt Colquhoun (Xenogothic) to talk about the psychological effects of the Coronavirus crisis and the ever more alarming...
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PlaguePod Live Day 5
PlaguePod returns with guests including Shaun Lewin, Laura Tripaldi, and Reza Negarestani to talk speculative virology, herd immunity, food security, and much more, plus a diverse range of grime, jungle, juke, and other bangers, a feature interview with Tony the Greengrocer, and an exclusive...
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PlaguePod Live Day 3
Live lockdown mix of abstract jungle and other socially-distanced music, readings from Urbanomic publications, phone-ins from around the world, and noise from Urbanomic HQ
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PlaguePod Live Day 1
In this live and chaotic podcast, socially-distanced Urbanomic-adjacent guests from across the planet join us from their respective lockdown cells to share personal and speculative views on the Coronavirus era. Plus some great jungle tunes. With Matt Colquhoun (Xenogothic), Amy Ireland, Nyx Land,...
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The Utopia of Popularity
In this recording of the November 2019 launch event for Agnès Gayraud’s book ‘Dialectic of Pop’, published by Urbanomic, Robin Mackay and the author discuss the problematic and major themes of the book. Music from the album Vie Future by La Féline: https://soundcloud.com/la-f-line...
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Maniac Lullabies
Robin Mackay is joined by Amy Ireland to talk to Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh about his book ‘Omnicide: Mania, Fatality, and the Future-in-Delirium’, lullabies, nerds, mysticism, assassins, sorcery and hyperstition, practical magic, and more…. https://urbanomic.com/book/omnicide/ Music used in the...
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Swarmachines Rewind
Unheard since its 1996 ‘performance’ at a conference at The Hacienda in Manchester, this recently rediscovered cassette tape of the audio version of ‘Swarmachines’, with the voices of Sadie Plant, Angus Carlyle, Mark Fisher, and Nick Land machinically integrated with some premium mid-90s jungle…
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The Spinal Landscape
In this epic osteogeographical podcast recorded entirely on location, we go back to the future and take a tour around Cornwall with author Thomas Moynihan to discuss his book Spinal Catastrophism: A Secret History. In the last section Shaun Lewin joins us at Plymouth station to talk railway…
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Unsound Methods
Audio Trailer for the book ‘Audint—Unsound : Undead’, edited by Steve Goodman, Toby Heys, and Eleni Ikoniadou, published by Urbanomic. https://www.urbanomic.com/book/unsoundundead/ Track listing here: https://www.urbanomic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/unsoundmethods.pdf
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Deep Assignments: A Ballardian Mix
Exclusive Applied Ballardianism soundscape compiled by Philip Sanderson and mixed by DJ Huysmans. Created for the Ballardian Breakfast Briefing 21 July 2018 https://www.urbanomic.com/event/ballardian-breakfast-briefingmidnight-seance/
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DJ Huysmans: Hyperplastic/Supernormal - Marlowe Birthday Mix
Synthetic Fundamentalism for 4-year olds and damaged adults
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Songs of Labour and Pleasure
An idiosyncratic mixtape based on an impromptu listening seminar held at Labour Camp, part of Paul Chaney’s Critical Camps series at Kestle Barton, traces the relationship between work and eroticism through popular song. More details at https://www.urbanomic.com/podcast/songs-labour-pleasure/
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Archipelagic Listening: Interview with François J. Bonnet
François J. Bonnet talks about ‘The Order of Sounds: A Sonorous Archipelago’, his book on the philosophy of sound and listening, explaining the motivation behind its examination of modes of listening and its mapping of plural sonic ontologies, and expanding on some of the concepts he introduces…
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Yarncast: Robin Mackay and Paul Chaney – Field, Plot, Yarn
In this episode of Urbanomic's Yarncast series, Urbanomic director Robin Mackay and artist Paul Chaney talk about the ideas behind the project and some of the background to their work. Recorded at Bergen Academy of Art and Design. Yarncast is a series of podcasts produced by Urbanomic as a part…
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Yarncast: Amanda Beech - Hard Cases
In this episode of Urbanomic’s Yarncast series, artist Amanda Beech (www.amandabeech.com) discusses the compelling power of crime fiction, TV shows and movies, the materiality of language and image, and how her video work interrogates the subject-positions and theories of knowledge and power...
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Yarncast: Eyal Weizman – Forensics and Counter-Forensics
In this episode of Urbanomic’s Yarncast series, architect and theorist Eyal Weizman discusses his Forensic Architecture project (http://www.forensic-architecture.org/), and explains why the defence of victims of state violence demands a counterforensics that introduces new types of evidence, new...
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Yarncast: Allison Evans – From Fact Patterns to Plots
In this episode of Urbanomic’s Yarncast series, creative consultant Allison Evans tells us about her work developing and preparing visual presentations for the courtroom, transforming facts into a compelling plot that will bring the jury on side. Yarncast is a series of podcasts produced by...
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Yarncast: Benedict Singleton – Plots, Platforms, and Sinister Designs
In this episode of Urbanomic’s Yarncast series, strategist Benedict Singleton (www.benedictsingleton.com) discusses the longstanding suspicion of design as a practice of illicit manipulation, the concept of the trap, and the difference between plots and plans. Yarncast is a series of podcasts...
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Yarncast: Henry Turner – The Stage and the Diagram
In this episode of Urbanomic’s Yarncast series, Professor Henry Turner, author of The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial Arts 1580-1630, discusses how the modern concept of ‘plot’ emerged during the early modern era in the theatre, where playwrights such as…
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Yarncast: Gunnar Staalesen – Noir in Ultima Thule
In this episode of Urbanomic’s Yarncast series, Norwegian crime writer Gunnar Staalesen, creator of the private detective Varg Veum (www.vargveum.no) discusses his career, how plots are constructed, and the influence of Norway, and especially his hometown of Bergen, on his brand of ‘nordic noir.’...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Urbanomic is a publisher and arts organization based in the UK. Our aims are: to act as an advocate for philosophical thinking as a creative practice, and for the continuing cultural importance of philosophy; to support research activities addressing crucial issues that do not fall under any one discipline or practice; to present to the public the results of that research, and an insight into the research process itself, through a variety of media; to engender interdisciplinary thinking and production.
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