the-k-files-who-s-pulling-your-strings-featuring-amy-ireland

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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.

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• 00:00:00

  Hello and welcome to another episode of The K-Files, brought to you by Zero Books, being also brought to you by Buddies Without Organs, or possibly the other way around. It's difficult to keep track of it sometimes. I'm your host, Sean. I'm operating on four hours of sleep because I am an insomniac ever since last…

• 00:17:39

  And I think that's, I think that's, I think that's, I think people started using it as like a sort of a badge of, a badge of some sort of being part of some sort of, I dunno, diffuse club. No one really was kind of aware who was there. And this guy was trying to use like, yeah, I had claimed with in my bio and it's…

• 00:30:04

  So, to attempt to refute such narratives is to be drawn into a tedious double game. One either has to embrace an arbitrary, and outrageous cosmic plot, or alternatively advocate submission to the most mundane construction of quotidian reality, dismissing the hyperstitional chaos that operates beyond the screens. This…

• 00:44:05

  On the other hand, it's sort of so unhuman that it kind of touches this other space. Yeah. And I guess that's kind of that sort of transcendental, I was going to say vibe, which totally demeans it almost in a way, but it's, you know, but it's, it's, it's maybe vibes is a good word for it even. It's something that…

• 00:55:09

  Um, the thing... but, yeah, there is this... it's very interesting to me that, like, the real bad thing you get from this, like, the point of all of these activities is to produce a fractured sense of self, a skitzed self, right? When, if psychoanalysis tells us nothing else, it tells us that we are actually all just…

• 01:07:46

  They are referred to as demons and twins. So the theme of twins and Syzygy is referring back to this very real art event and this particular numerical diagram that was discovered by CCRU. Just wanted to say this is a tangential point about Kabbalah, which is which really does feel often that most tangential…

• 01:25:33

  And the syzygy in question is the syzygy of anima and animus, and which he uses very, very heteronormative language. We should talk about this. But it is still the encounter with an other which is still part of us, but will always exist as the opposite of our gender to us, again, brings together all of these strange…

• 01:41:22

  them or not anyway um thank you for joining us listeners uh i have been sean uh and i think i still am actually um we will be back uh i think we'll be we should be back next week uh we're going to try and keep a very very tight uh turnaround uh with these uh thank you for joining us and um yes where can people yeah…