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Same podcast that produced the CCRU/Mackay retrospective, here discussing Burroughs' control theory and cosmic horror — CCRU-adjacent but not explicitly Land/CCRU focused in this episode.

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Self-transcribed from the recording's audio/video with Whisper ASR, then drawn from the frozen curation of the CCRU oral archive. The identifiers below fingerprint the exact source transcript files.

Series
standalone
Duration
01:21:23 (~81 min)
Words
14,341
Corpus cluster
audio-land
Source/billing metadata (unverified)
Sean, Matt, Corey J. White (Buddies Without Organs)
Topics
William Burroughs · control theory · cosmic horror · megapunk
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  • 00:00:30

    Hello and welcome to Buddies Without Organs presents The K-Files. I am Sean, my pronouns are he and him, and I am joined by Matt. Hello, hi buddies. Yeah, my name is Matt. My pronouns are also he, him. And we are also joined by our friend down there in the Antipodes, Corey. Hello, good morning buddies. Yep, my name…

  • 00:12:41

    a lot to talk about and we've not got well I mean we've got all the time in the world but for the sake of our own patients um I think the the high position blog is really interesting um it's not you know Mark's best known for his K-Punk blog um but it wasn't there wasn't the only one it wasn't the only online project…

  • 00:20:57

    And this this stony theme is telling as well. I think Mark's got a really great post on the stone tape that I'm not sure if that was just on his blog or also made it into one of his books. Either way, maybe that's another something else to pin for the time. Anyway, to get to the point, I think is that it's it's it's…

  • 00:28:08

    Which was my own fault for not being a good podcast dictator because I do actually have like in my notes written in front of me saying that like we need to talk about children of the stones and 70s less of a tool. Sub point sub point a plot summary. Okay, Corey, you go first in telling us what you thought about…

  • 00:34:07

    But yeah, this is yeah, I will put a link to it to actually in the also like this or not. YouTube. Yeah. Yeah, the whole series is available on YouTube. Yes, quite special actually the yeah and it should be said though like your level of enjoyment of it is going to depend on like your your mental bandwidth when…

  • 00:42:33

    that's aimed directly at you and it can emanate from anyone or even anything in your vicinity so that means that in burrows writing the forces of controls and the forces of control um might be ubiquitous and largely arbitrary but if they choose to target you they're going to target you with all of the intensity…

  • 01:01:27

    in some i'm gonna bring up kenneth grant right um i'm gonna bring up kenneth grant here who is one of alistair crowley's disciples and arguably his last living disciple actually and the reason i'm bringing him up is because in his book outside the circles of time and just the name of it should give you you know reason…

  • 01:20:24

    stop blogging this year and i'll put up blog stuff if and when i do uh not quite sure when we're going to be recording next but we are planning on having a much more regular recording schedule uh for the k files than we succeeded to have with our bodies without organs where we managed at best one a month we're hoping…