Podcasts and Interviews with Douglas Lain about Billy Moon

Facebook Twitter Billy Moon by Alpha to Omega Podcast Listen Billy Moon on The Skiffy and Fanty Show Listen SCIFI DINER PODCAST EP. 184 – OUR INTERVIEW WITH AUTHOR DOUGLAS LAIN Listen Douglas Lain In Conversation with Our Spring HUM 415 Course on Twitter Read More to explore

Society of the Spectacle –The film by Guy Debord.

In 1973 Guy Debord released a film version of the Society of the Spectacle. This is the newer film transfer (higher quality) with voiceover by Dore Bowen and excellent translation provided by Ken Knabb. You have to click the link to watch it on Vimeo.   https://vimeo.com/139772287

Yoko Ono, Plastic Ono Band & the Rza

“Seeds of Joy/Life is a Struggle/Greenfield Morning I Pushed an Empty Baby Carriage All Over the City” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAxzcXJFdjc I watched this live performance live in 2010 in L.A. at the Orpheum Theater. The opening is Yoko’s piece, “Play it by Trust” (which you can read about here: http://camstl.org/exhibitions/front-room/yoko-ono-play-it-by-trust/). The blog/header photo for this post comes […]

So Wrong, They're Right

So Wrong, They’re Right (1995) This is a beautiful, lo-fi documentary on 8-track tapes.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7nva7meVv0

Interviews with Mark Fisher on Capitalist Realism

Here are some additional resources on Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism, including some pretty good interviews. Pre-Occupying Mark Fisher http://theoccupiedtimes.org/?p=3454 Questioning Capitalist Realism: An Interview with Mark Fisher http://www.spc.org/fuller/interviews/questioning-capitalist-realism-an-interview-with-mark-fisher/ Interview: Mark Fisher by Alex Andrews http://ceasefiremagazine.co.uk/interview-mark-fisher-on-capitalist-realism-and-more/ Mark Fisher Interviewed by Joe Kennedy http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/capitalist-realism/ Interview of Mark Fisher by Rowan Wilson http://www.readysteadybook.com/Article.aspx?page=markfisher

La Jetée

Here is the full film on YouTube. It’s only 26 minutes long. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLfXCkFQtXw And here is William Gibson on La Jetée Read His Thoughts

They Live

Here is They Live by John Carpenter (1988) Note: It may cycle through two non-existent 15 second ads but the entire film is there.  https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2loe22

Postscript on Control Societies

https://vimeo.com/9351602 Deleuze’s Postscript on the Societies of Control from Peter Woodbridge on Vimeo. Adobe PDF of the original essay Gilles Deleuze – Postscript on the Societies of Control

Fukkatsu no hi (Virus: Day of Resurrection) by Kinji Fukasaku

This is Kinji Fukasaku’s 1980 film, Fukkatsu no hi, bearing the international title Virus. It is one of the most bizarre apocalyptic films I have ever seen. An over-the-top end of the world melodrama. Unbelievable (literally), and yet nonetheless compelling. I kind of love this film. For those who don’t know, Fukasaku was the director of […]