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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.

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

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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

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

Calvin LeCompte (The Uline Catalog on NTS) comes on to give an expert primer on 60's psych folk, lo fi, and outsider garage and talk about the making of his excellent upcoming record Yankee Doodle FoxtrotPietro Scaruffi, deep Youtube gem digging, human index projects, rejecting soulseek, The Haunted, analog tape hiss, the best 4 track cassette recorder, Yamaha MT8X, Korg CR4, writers block, trot EP, breakup music, the unknown Bicentennial, AI, hypnogogic pop: revisited, James Ferraro, Ferris Wheel (band) - Supernatural Girl, audiophile quality, 60’s lingo, Charles Broom, community, Farewell Ye Guilded fog,

Barrett and Alex open Season 6 and talk about how the project is shifting, how to make a life out of the things you produce, and offer some guidance based on our experience of running a weird, uncompromising projectMusic interspersed and a duo mix at the endFor all episodes and more please visit: patreon.com/contain ZeeoRYc8U39n7uDd5fgE

Full episode up on Patreon n this episode, philosophy professor and AI safety researcher Vincent Lê joins us to explore the strange philosophical roots of Effective Altruism, the Z1zians, and Silicon Valley's culture at large. Rather than rehashing the usual narratives around EA, E/Acc, and AI alignment, we dig into their shared intellectual DNA—from the cringeworthy utilitarianism of Peter Singer to the mimetic theories of René Girard, and even The Office as an unlikely ideological text.We also touch on the Westall UFO sighting and its eerie relevance, Franco "Bifo" Berardi’s reflections on cognitive capitalism and collapse, the “infobrain,” the cult of rationalism, and the surreal logic of AI-driven extremism as LLM's talk like a therapist. Plus: exit strategies, neocameralist fantasy worlds, and the political theology behind technocratic acceleration.Subscribe to Vincent's blog here

Full episode available on Patreon: patreon.com/containInterview with Anthony Darnell, aka Darnell the Artist, known for his daily social media posts of cryptic and hallucinatory artwork based on conspiracy theories, politics, and his military experience. He shares his experiences in the US Marine Corps, using art as therapy, PTSD, the GI Bill, conspiracy theories, and more. This is Anthony's first spoken interview.

Full Premium Episode on PatreonOn the upending political/structural/technological situation, maintaining faith in strange times, broken dreams, etc. Archive, 1/28/25

This New Year we're going in on all things space-relevant and the weird development of libertarian Network States with Fred Scharmen, author of Space Forces.Topics: Biocosmism in Russia, the project Concept Country, Bitcoin City, Nick Land Acknowledgement, mini singularities in the 1970's, astral exploration, lines by decade, science beyond earth, van stripes of the 1970's as cultural signifier, the broken future of Elon and Cyberpunk, why there is no libertarianism in outer space, Title V, The O’Neil Cylinder, "a world where many worlds are possible", Maoist tech Venture Capitalists, Ivan Chtcheglov, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Is Utopia different from the Real?, Is there an Outside to Utopian thinking?, the trash on the the International Space Station, Article V, Envoy of Humanity, the international court (ICC) beyond earth, quaalude colonialism, the ant farm Cadillac graveyard ranch, ecstatic desolation, the art of Rick Guidice and Don Davis, getting people in architecture into space futures

200th episode special on the history and future of abstraction in social life, art, and more. For full 4hr20 minute episode: Part A Part B Patreon.com/Contain

3hr30 min tribute to the non-philosophical thought of François Lauruelle...full episode Francois Laruelle was a French philosopher who developed the concept of "non-philosophy." His work influenced facets of the project (particularly The Spectre of Finance Punk) through his critiques of traditional philosophical systems that prioritized the material and empirical over abstract theorizations + his non-historical/non-mystical encounters with science, art, and spirituality through his mediations on the One (the Real). He sadly passed away last week so it seemed fitting to do an episode on him and try to bring forth some of his ideas a bit in reference to the state of things and ask some pretty broad "what if questions" using the Non-Philosophy magnifying utensil. What would he think of Country Music and barbecue...