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• 00:00:00

  Hello, everyone. Welcome back to Zero Books and Repeater Media. I am Craig from Asset Horizon, and I'm also joined by our co-host and sometimes host, Adam here. And today we have the pleasure of speaking with Nicholas Blinko, who is an English author, critic, and screenwriter. He has written for British radio…

• 00:09:59

  yet 30 I'm not quite sure how old he was but I mean he was only in his late 20s he dressed like a lot of people dressed at the time uh in black so he looked like a follower of a band called Crass you know black jumpers they're hung down to his knees and tight black trousers he looked as though he cut his own hair…

• 00:17:31

  And they were talking Foucault every single night on the BBC. So it was... Yeah. It wasn't that we were in conflict with all the Marxists. It was more that a lot of people were thinking Marxism isn't working. And that led some people into being more and more and more neoliberal. I mean, it's quite funny in a ways that…

• 00:23:19

  We were, you know, thousands of people, completely off their heads, dancing together. So you had a... A sense of the swarm, which became a really big, important idea. And... The people that were coming to Auric, certainly after me, and forming the cybernetic research unit with Nick, were even more the generation…

• 00:28:44

  And I think this is very much the notion of the human security system, because it feels a sense of, yep, security is for the sake of maintaining human, which for him is Oedipus. This familial unit. And absolutely, I mean, it goes back to someone like Hula Smith's Firestone, the idea of, or Xenofeminism…

• 00:33:59

  And that's like, it took me a bat because I thought it was. And so I had to, and it racked my brain. And there's certainly a reading of dollars in the Tory that comes from economy, a little bit now. And I wonder whether we overemphasize the economy a little bit now in our reading of dollars and guitar. But I don't…

• 00:41:41

  I think you're dead right that Nick Land had a hegemony, hegemony, hegemony, hegemony. Yeah. He had that kind of influence. And that was for very specific reasons that there wasn't very much translated by Deleuze and Guattari. It was coming out during this period. He was about the only person who read it. And…

• 00:47:40

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