Keegan Brady, Taylor Lewandowski, and Lynne Tillman talk about how Lewandowski and Tillman’s interview book The Mystery of Perception took shape, reflecting on their collaborative process and considering the interview-as-book as a contemporary, metamodern twist on the literary “I".

Listen to the full segment ➚here

Bonus Links:

>>> Get your hands on the book through Archway Editions ➚here.

>>> Listen to more Lynne Tillman in the MPR archive ➚here.

 

 

 

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Bob Flanagan’s Fuck Journal sits at the crossroads of censorship, poetics, and desire. To celebrate its return to print, Hanuman Editions hosts a reading and discussion with writer and sex worker Liara Roux, exploring the journal’s legacy as an intimate record where language dissolves into transgression.

Listen ➚here

Bonus Links:

>>> Watch Sick, the Bob Flannagan documentary ➚here

>>> Buy Fuck Journal ➚here

 

 

 

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For this segment, young militants involved in Palestine solidarity encampments join Ruth Wilson Gilmore — veteran organizer, Marxist geographer, and founding figure of the prison abolition movement — for a one-time seminar designed to trade insights and reflect collectively on the challenges and victories of resistance.

Listen to the full segment ➚here

Bonus Links:

>>> Listen to the lecture that informed their conversation ➚here.

>>> Introducing The Bad Side ➚here.

 

 

 

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The Committee is a radio play by Liz Magic Lazer that weaves student testimonies into a collective autofiction — part psychodrama, part political satire. Presented as a live news broadcast, it draws on the rhetoric of McCarthyism, the spectacle of reality TV, and the fragility of artistic freedom in a time of protest and repression.

Listen to Act 1 ➚here

Listen to Act 2 ➚here

 

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Are incels and gooners symptoms of social breakdown, or emerging sexual identities that demand recognition? Tony Tulathimutte and Daniel Kolitz talk with Elvia Wilk about their encounters with the erotic lives of very online men—and about the paradox of rendering porn, the antithesis of language, through writing.

Read a transcript of the conversation ➚here

Bonus Links:

>>> Read about Kolitz's report, The Goon Squad, in Harper's ➚here

>>> More from Press Play on writing about desire ➚here

 

 

 

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Pascale de Graaf traces the origins of electronic music and cybernetics through the lens of Jasia Reichardt’s robotics archive. From Halim El-Dabh’s groundbreaking Wire Recorder Piece (1944) and John Cage’s pioneering tape compositions of the 1960s, to Philip K. Dick’s speculative fiction and the genre-defying music of Arca, this episode provides an interdisciplinary perspective on the intertwined histories of technology that have shaped contemporary artistic visions of the future.

Listen to the full segment ➚here

Bonus Links:

>>> Read "The Electric Ant" by Philip K Dick ➚here.

>>> Watch Eris Sykes' film "The Plank" ➚here.

>>> Watch Jasia Reichardts' Brief Tour of Cybernetic Serendipity ➚here.

 

 

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ART follows musician Dorian Electra’s encounters with their favorite works from Antiquity. Part tribute and part experiment, ART is a self-aware outsider’s attempt at translation.

This book-launching segment features readings and performances by Dorian Electra, Jane Balfus, Sam Rolfes, Corrine Ciani, Julian Ribeiro, Babedrea33, Izzy Casey, Christian Prince, Ruby Justice, Lewis Grant, Count Baldor, DJ F*ck, Nicholas Christenson + Lulu West, and more.

Listen to the full segment ➚here

Bonus Links:

>>> Buy a copy of ART ➚here.

>>> Listen to Dorian talk alt-media conspiracies & ideological mixology ➚here.

 

 

 

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