The first of two episodes on the BAP book Bronze Age Mindset (2018).
Once a clone, always a clone
A&E use Juel Taylor’s 2023 film They Cloned Tyrone as a way into talking 21st century biopolitics, necropolitics, Haiti, and revolution.
Cormac McCarthy and neoliberalism
Found this lost episode from June 2023 while scrounging the couch cushions deep for change wherein A&E discuss the political scene as it had been unfolding to that point in World History. Plus: the neoliberalism of Cormac McCarthy’s fiction.
Chain reaction
Time to chat the next of several selections in this season of the mass market communist film: Chris Nolan’s Oppenheimer, wherein labor organizing gets more screen time than quantum physics.
The deep state gets groovy, or The Source Family
A&E chat Maria Demopoulos’s and Jodi Wille’s 2012 doc The Source Family, discussing how state agencies were always-already part of the American counterculture.
How to Joe Biden a Pipeline
A&E discuss Daniel Goldhaber’s 2022 film How to Blow up a Pipeline, asking if it’s really true at this point that it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.
Resurrecting Laura Palmer
The second of two conversations on David Lynch’s Twin Peaks franchise, A&E here discuss the conclusion of season 2 and the start of season 3.
Fire walk with me
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We were dead before the ship even sank
A&E resurrect the discussion of Alex Garland’s film Annihilation as a way into a chat about Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, and paperclip maximizers, which, you know, will soon be running the show.
Lost Highway meets Silkworm
In this first of (at least) two discussions revolving around David Lynch, the gents focus on the director’s underrated 1997 film Lost Highway. But first! A brief encore discussion the postpunk band Silkworm and the new article on this at PopMatters.