“I am filthy [Je suis sale]—writes Lautréamont—I am riddled with lice. Hogs, when they look at me, vomit. My skin is encrusted with the scabs and scales of leprosy, and […]

http://archives.kpfa.org/data/20160425-Mon1500.mp3

“If we want to know where we are headed as a species, it helps to know how we got here in the first place. Our current situation is entirely novel […]

“In what follows, I track a strand of avant-garde aesthetic production that gathers under the heading of “auto-destructive art,” and that, in its attention to chaos, risk and intensity, makes […]

https://libwww.freelibrary.org/assets/podcasts/20160607-maryroa.mp3 @mary_roach see also http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/magazine/what-if-ptsd-is-more-physical-than-psychological.html

or, A Parabolic Translation of Paracelsus, as lifted from the introduction to Die Kunst des Liebens. By Lital Khaikin. National Gallery of Art, Alfred Stieglitz Collection Anyone who imagines that […]

https://voicerepublic.com/embed/talks/speculations-conversation-with-levi-bryant

http://scalar.usc.edu/works/uiuc-food-networks/media/MichaelMoss_SaltSugarFat2013_2.1.pdf

“Plastic is often thought of as a malleable material; its metaphorical connotation, plasticity, implies movement and shape shifting. However, plastic is actually one of the most durable compounds on earth […]

see also https://rsbakker.wordpress.com/2016/06/05/to-ping-or-not-to-ping-physics-phenomenology-and-observer-effects/

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go. We think by […]