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Dancer, choreographer and co-founder of Scarlet Imprint, Alkistis Dimech, joins me for a conversation. Starting from butō and her concept of the "occulted body," we follow it into neuroscience, language models and finally pathophany, lineage and devotion as the practices that survive a collapsing world. Scarlet Imprint is an independent press publishing on contemporary occult thought and practice. https://scarletimprint.com Picture source: Fabric cabinets in Albert von Schrenck-Notzing's "Phenomena of Materialization" (1923).

Choosing the right fork for the lasagna of reality. World-building and metaphysical shelter-in-place with Italian philosopher and writer Federico Campagna.

Iranian-American philosopher Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh joins me for a garden walk - through evil and madness, secrets, games. Poetry that sits at the start of every civilization, rave cultures in active war zones, programmers who can dance, horror films as the real history of reality, mysticism as transaction, and the praying mantis. Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh, Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Middle Eastern Studies and now Professor of Comparative Literature at Babson College, is the author of nine books spanning philosophy, literature, psychoanalysis, and cultural studies, including Omnicide: Mania, Fatality, and the Future-In-Delirium, Night: A Philosophy of the After-Dark, and Evil: A Study of Lost Techniques

A free-flowing talk with artist, writer, and arts educator John Cussans about potlatch, the Bataillean concept of excessive, communal expenditure, and whether figures like Trump represent a perverse modern version of it. A note on how John stopped consuming news entirely, the lost promise of the 1990s anarchist internet , the political polarization narrative, and the toll lacanian marxism takes on mental health. John Cussans is an artist, writer, and arts educator working across contemporary art, cultural history, and critical art theory. Among other things, he is the author of Undead Uprising: Haiti, Horror and the Zombie Complex , which traces the zombie figure from Hollywood back to its roots in Haitian Vodou and colonial history.

A special episode in memory of Guy Klucevsek. Sort of degerate radioplay in the spirit of Patrik Ouředník. No music here, just news and fake news of funerals and beheadings, Marlon Brando, degenerative art, mushroom poisoning, trump fragrances, Darwin's relations to bees, high IQ religion, Nick Land, Baudrillard, Collins and Crickillon and Avicenna. To listen with the music: https://www.mixcloud.com/upload/shimalsky/flying-vegetables-of-the-apocalypse-in-memory-of-guy-klucevsek-gsm-ep-15/edit/ Guy Klucevsek (1947–2025) was an American accordionist and composer who fused polka, minimalism and experimental music. A central figure in Downtown New York's experimental scene, he drew on his Slovenian-American heritage to push the accordion beyond its beer-hall associations. He composed over 100 works, released more than 20 albums, and collaborated with John Zorn, Tom Waits, Laurie Anderson and Bill Frisell, and co-founded the group Accordion Tribe in 1996.