219. Set Free

Preview, full episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/223-other-right-153803230?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_linkEpisode w/ Spike Fuck on theology, music, and the tension between faith and the modern world.Topics: Anglican Ordinate, Latin Mass, John Henry Newman and the Oxford movement, Constantinople, vocational Discernment, Council of Trent, Unchanging, Consumerism/Traditionalism, William Tyndale, asceticism/consuption, addiction, John Henry Newman and the Oxford movement, "Angst" by August Friedrich Schenck (1878), G.K Chesterton, subculture, psychiatry + etc.

Preview, full episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/222-unreadable-149047088?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_linkFirst episode of 2026 — about living inside systems that don’t fully explain themselves.Featuring Arthur Penn’s unsung paranoid surrealist gem Mickey One (starring Warren Beatty), the poetic system of José Lezama Lima and the South American Neo-Baroque, Keynes vs. Veblen, pressures over predictions, Clout Farm, and more.Episode is fully scored with original music.Originally published 1/28/26

Full episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/221-retirement-145269332?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_linkTopics: Jacob Lund Fisker's Early Retirement Extreme book and blog, the history of Social Security, Arte Povera, Ramellzee and Gothic Futurism, Icarians, Oneida, and Shakers, Gothic Monks and the Printing Press, Rotting Cabbage as art, What is Status?, Jef Gey's ecology, saving money in 2026, cultural expression before the state, Autonomy through self-reliance and context, retirement and the polymath, Know How vs. Knowledge, Jannis Kounelis, Nicolaus StenoOriginally published 12/8/25

Full 3.5 hour episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/220-calarts-for-141751002?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_linkTopics: the pictures generation and the War on Representation, Baldessari’s Cremation Project as a gesture of artistic erasure and renewal, Troy Brauntuch, Metro Pictures and Mary Boone art wars of the 1980's, David Salle and the rise of the post-painter art-star, the late 1970's and the end of the FIAT shock, Cady Noland, the disappearance of Jan Bas Ader, Tom Lawson and the complex tension between sincerity and ironic distance, origins of Post-Studio art, Europe and the influence of Fluxus, Hollywood filmmaking technology, John Maus and the early 2000's, the Disney animation department and the dwarf homes of Los FelizOriginally published 10/28/25

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Full episode *HERE*Graham Hunt comes on fresh off the release of his excellent new album Timeless World Forever to talk about songwriting, philosophy, collage, and more.

Preview, for full episode + more consider subscribing here***This episode focuses on the history of the box. From the humble cardboard box to Agnes Martin’s tranquil grid paintings, this episode explores how containers—literal and figurative—have shaped our modern world. M. Treverton & Son: invention of the paperboard, Robert Gair and the pre cut cardboard box, The Container Corporation of America, Louis Sullivan and the rise of the skyscraper, Montgomery Ward and the foundation of modern logistics, Jacques Tati’s “Playtime”, iRobot, Cubism's fractured space, Froebel’s Kindergarten gift method, Joseph Albers, Erik Andersen’s Opus 90, and the creeping enshittification of designs and systems.www.patreon.com/c/contain

Musician, writer, and therapist Matt Baldwin joins filmmaker Ben Schecter for a conversation on Matt’s cult-classic How to Play Guitar zine series— a collection of sharp, philosophical reflections on creativity, learning, relationships, and survival in a modern world.Self-taught artistry, the roots of autodidact culture, V. Vale and ReSearch, the strange corporate creep into psychedelic therapy, Joun Fahey, Blake, Blue Cheer Preorder the book here

Poet and musician (ex Silver Jews) Chris Stroffolino comes on to talk about the life and work of Sylvester “Sly” Stone as we try to trace parallels of his time to our current social climate - from his optimistic, utopian Family Stone days to his dark masterpiece “There’s a Riot Going On” through his withdrawal into disenchantment and drugs + stagflation, the dawn of hope, and more. Also David Berman tales, Shakespeare, Ishmael Reed, teaching, Oakland, CA, overcoming disabilities, the impossible weight of Sly’s position on the vanguard, AI, Walk Hard: A Dewy Cox story, and more. RIP SlyPlease consider supporting the project on Patreon

For full episode and all deep dive episodes please subscribe Part one of a two-part deep dive into the grid and how it has quietly shaped our personal and social realities throughout history. From the invention of the brick to the birth of the spreadsheet, tracing the grid’s influence across architecture, urban planning, culture, and technology.Starting with the brick-“equal parts mortar and module,” tied to the proportions of the human hand—and follow its logic through systems like the tablet, gridiron city plans (like Mohenjo-daro), maps, musical notation, ledgers, the screen and the moveable type, setting the stage for digital forms to come.Along the way, we talk Le Corbusier, the Swiss grid system of Josef Müller-Brockmann, the design of Instagram, and Lotus 1-2-3. This is a mellow research-based episode on how grids both liberate and constrain the ways we live, think, and create.Cited: Hannah B. Higgins The Grid Book