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In the vast, unpredictable theater of now, Mattin and Miguel Prado surrendered to the whims of the unconscious, that masterful improviser, seeking to conjure into being a future that, once distant, now beckoned with the inevitability of a forgotten prophecy slowly, inexorably coming to fruition.

New episodes: Monthly
Typical length: 1 hr 33 min
Latest: 28 Jun 2026
Language: English

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28 Jun 2026 · 1 hr 11 min

SD53 Carles Guerra “Tosquelles: El diagnóstico de una locura colectiva”

SD53 Carles Guerra “Tosquelles: El diagnóstico de una locura colectiva” Carles Guerra nos presenta su trabajo de investigación sobre la increíble figura de Francesc Tosquelles. Ahora que volvemos a vivir en un estado de guerra, hablar de Tosquelles nos puede ayudar a entender cómo se pueden generar herramientas y formas de trabajo colectivas, así como nuevas maneras de relacionarse con las instituciones, transformándolas y cuestionando las divisiones del trabajo establecidas. Fundamental para lo que se llama la psicología institucional, su influencia se extiende a psiquiatras como Jean Oury,…

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16 Jun 2026 · 1 hr 14 min
SD55 w/ Marek Poliks and Roberto Alonso Trillo - Exocapitalism
In this episode of Social Discipline, we talk to Marek Poliks and Roberto Alonso Trillo about their book Exocapitalism: Economies with Absolutely No Limits. Can we rethink capitalism beyond the familiar language of labour, ideology, social construction, and historical origin? Poliks and Alonso Trillo argue that capital should be understood less as a human-centred mode of production than as a logic of arbitrage: the extraction of value from differentials across time, markets, substrates, and scales. The conversation asks whether contemporary capitalism can still be fought with the concepts we…
26 Apr 2026 · 1 hr 59 min
SD54 Sunik Kim "No Exit but Revolution"
In this episode, we speak with Sunik Kim — Korean American musician, writer, and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. Kim's music has been described as "a frenzied electronic orchestra that sits somewhere between free jazz, noise, and Korean shamanic music. Their writing, spanning subjects from Korean communism to Conlon Nancarrow, has appeared in The Wire, Pitchfork, Bandcamp Daily, Tone Glow, and elsewhere. We discuss in detail their new essay "Zones of Illusion", tracing the connections between illusion, cognition, class, and the conditions under which sound — and thought — might still escape…
4 Apr 2026 · 1 hr 9 min
SD52 Andreas Petrossiants "We Can Now See Clearly What We Are Up Against"
SD52 Andreas Petrossiants "We Can Now See Clearly What We Are Up Against" In this episode, we begin by expressing our admiration for and inspiration from our late friend Marina Vishmidt. We actually met last year in Vienna at the conference celebrating her work "What Is Infrastructural Critique?”. We discuss Vishmidt critical insights into the collapse of the myth of artistic autonomy and how art operates within broader infrastructures of capital. Petrossiants, who has been involved in housing struggles in New York City for some time, is now pursuing a PhD at NYU, working with Michelle…
25 Mar 2026 · 1 hr 50 min
SD51 Jakob Jakobsen "The Ghost of Jakob Jakobsen" with Dream Academy and SASUSU Radio
SD51 in collaboration with Dream Academy and SASUSU Radio Jakob Jakobsen “The Ghost of Jakob Jakobsen” For the first time publicly, we recorded Social Discipline live at Tromsø Kunstforening (TKF) on March 1, 2026, with Henrik Sørlid from Dream Academy and an engaged audience. We begin with Jakobsen’s Letter of Resignation (2021), his farewell to the art scene, where he explains his motivations for the first time ever. However his practice has involved not only gestures of negation but also of affirmation. Deeply rooted in the punk ethos of DIY and unskilled practice, the underground…
12 Mar 2026 · 1 hr 5 min
SD50 Avgi Saketopoulou ¨¨"Towards a Psychoanalytic Theory of Resistance"
Avgi Saketopoulou "Towards a Psychoanalytic Theory of Resistance: Exigent Sadism & The Revolutionary Impulse" In this podcast we discuss the radical figure of the Marquis de Sade, the revolutionary potential of sadism, and how the meaning of the concept changed in the aftermath of the Holocaust. But what does it mean today to speak about sadism in the midst of the current genocide in Gaza? Saketopoulou proposes the sexual drive as an anarchic energy that can be mobilised for political purposes: revolutionary impulses against the current memory culture, proprietary relationships to the past,…
7 Mar 2026 · 57 min
SD49 Diedrich Diederichsen "Is Berlin Over? We Live in a World of Echos and Delays"
Is Berlin Over? In this conversation, Diederichsen offers clues for understanding the current developments of contemporary fascism and its attack on the bohemia and critical artistic expressions, and how this manifests specifically in Berlin and within the broader German context. By exploring the period between 2005 and 2015, and the ways in which culture was mobilized as a form of soft power, we can trace how a limit was reached during that decade, particularly when decolonial critiques began to pose a threat to Germany’s Staatsräson, its unconditional support for the security of the State…
9 Jan 2026 · 1 hr 9 min
SD48 Alessandra Mezzadri "The Scalation of Struggles: Social Reproduction and Formal Subsumption"
The Escalation of Struggles: Social Reproduction & Formal Subsumption Alessandra Mezzadri discusses how formal subsumption can be understood through the diverse and rich perspectives of social reproduction, drawing in particular on the Italian Marxist Feminist tradition, to which the concept of the social factory owes a great deal. Through a feminist reading of her fieldwork in India, and in dialogue with the work of Jairus Banaji, she shows how the Global South reveals the ways in which formal subsumption continues to function through multiple, heterogeneous forms of labour. Rather than…
17 Aug 2025 · 1 hr 4 min
SD47_Carina_Erdmann Rehearsing Revolution: LARP, Conspiracy and Collective Life
What can LARP teach us about pedagogy, community, and collective world-making? artist, researcher, curator and mentor in Game Design, Carina Erdmann joins Miguel Prado & Mattin to talk games as art, hacking everyday platforms, the politics of play, and why we might need to train our social muscles for futures that don’t yet exist. This conversation moves through conspiracy as collective thinking, the limits of empathy, and the careful work of attunement in collaborative play. Along the way, we touch on opacity and prefigurative practices, communal living experiments like the ones exercised…
14 Jun 2025 · 1 hr 40 min
SD46 w/Ray Brassier - Beyond Extinction Lies Communism
We’re incredibly honoured to be joined by Ray Brassier, a hugely formative thinker for both of us and one of the most important philosophers of the past 20 years. We talk about his upcoming book Fatelessness: Freedom and Fatality After Marx and, the contemporary condition of The Wretched of the Earth. Ray also gives an absolutely brilliant takedown of Nick Land and the speculative inhuman. Hope you enjoy it.
10 May 2025 · 1 hr 52 min
SD45 w/Inigo Wilkins - Shitshow Theory and Entropic Modernity
Mattin and Miguel Prado sit down with friend of the pod and fellow NRU member Inigo Wilkins to dive into Shitshow Theory — a work-in-progress text by Mattin and Inigo — and Miguel’s own take on what he calls Entropic Modernity. Together we try to make sense of the neo-reactionary turn, Trump-era chaos, and the cultural meltdown we’re all living through. Theorising the shitshow, one glitch at a time.
12 Mar 2025 · 5 hr 1 min
SD44 w/Jeff Perkins "The Fluxus Cab Driver"
Social Discipline is incredibly excited to present the adventurous life of Jeff Perkins, a hidden gem of the American underground. This massive five-hour podcast, recorded in Berlin in June 2024, explores his fascinating journey—no one else can claim to have performed for Yoko Ono and John Cage, created legendary light shows with The Velvet Underground, Sly and the Family Stone, and The Germs, programmed the first Kenneth Anger retrospective in L.A., and encountered both Charles Manson and members of the satanic cult The Process. Jeff joined the military in the 1960s and was stationed in…
11 Mar 2025 · 2 hr 24 min
SD 43 Sandro Brito La afirmación de la vida en medio de la muerte Bolivar Echeverría
En este episodio, Sandro Brito, de la Cooperativa Cráter Invertido en Ciudad de México, nos introduce a la obra del marxista ecuatoriano Bolívar Echeverría y su biografía heterodoxa y fascinante. Como nos comenta Sandro, Echeverría, influenciado por el existencialismo de Unamuno, comenzó a interesarse en Sartre y Heidegger. Además, formó parte del grupo artístico Cortadores de Cabezas. En 1961, viajó a Friburgo con la intención de conocer a Heidegger, pero este lo rechazó por no saber alemán. Entonces se trasladó a Berlín, donde acabó en la Freie Universität, donde conoció a Rudi Dutschke.…
18 Jun 2024 · 1 hr 52 min
SD42 - W/ Amy Ireland & Maya B. Kronic - Cute Accelerationism
Join us for an euphoric episode with our very good friends of the pod, Amy Ireland and Maya B. Kronic. Inspired by their work on Cute Accelerationism this episode explores the multiple dimensions of contemporary cuteness. From its sensory and cultural impacts to its erotic and semiotic layers, we unravel how Cute opens a gate to the transcendental process of acceleration itself.
30 Apr 2024 · 1 hr 4 min
SD41 - con Manuel Borja-Villel - El Museo en Ruinas
Para el presente episodio, hemos tenido el privilegio de conversar con Manuel Borja-Villel, cuya dirección en el Museo Reina Sofía ha marcado un antes y un después en el enfoque museístico moderno. Hablamos de las constantes guerras culturales que enfrenta el arte contemporáneo, del concepto de Cora, discutimos su reciente participación en la Bienal de São Paulo y las audaces propuestas que presentó para Documenta.
21 Apr 2024 · 1 hr 25 min
SD40 - w/ Alicia Juarrero - Context Changes Everything
In this episode of Social Discipline, we're joined by the renowned philosopher and complexity scientist, Alicia Juarrero. Alicia delves into the intricate world of causality in complex systems, offering insights from her seminal work, Dynamics in Action and Context Changes Everything. Throughout our conversation, she unpacks the principles of complexity and their implications for understanding human behavior and decision-making processes. We also explore how her theories challenge traditional views of causality and control in both social and natural sciences. Additionally, Alicia shares her…
12 Feb 2024 · 2 hr 11 min
Social Discipline EP39 Howard Slater
In this cultural biography from the incendiary and radical poet and thinker Howard Slater (Break/Flow), we speak about far-left culture in Britain since the 1970s and its relationship to politics and poetry. Slater started the legendary Break/Flow zine in the 90s and participated in the Virtual Future conference. In the 2000s, he began the eclectic label Difficult Fun with others. In the early 2010s, he was part of developing MayDay Rooms, a fantastic archive and resource for social movements and marginal cultures based in London. Slater is currently translating Jacques Camatte and working…
27 Apr 2023 · 1 hr 26 min
SD 38 w/Marwa Arsanios - Who Is Afraid of documenta fifteen?
In this episode, we speak with artist Marwa Arsanios about her practice, documenta fifteen, feminism, and the possibility of reshaping the political potential of art. She talks to us about her ongoing project, Who Is Afraid of Ideology?, which Arsanios did as part of documenta fifteen. In this project, she explores through collaboration the possibility of communizing land and its practical, legal, and geological connotations. Furthermore, we discuss the aftermath of documenta fifteen and its problems. We also get to know about the origins of the title and the ideological differences in…
27 Aug 2022 · 1 hr 54 min
SD37 - w/ Hamja Ahsan - From Aspergistan to documenta fifteen
Conversation with artist, writer and curator Hamja Ahsan on the support campaign he organized for his brother Syed Talha Ahsan, his groundbreaking book Shy Radicals, his project at documenta fifteen and the hate campaign that he is receiving from some of the German media. Hamja talks openly about mental heath issues, islamophobia and the crucial support that he got from Anne Tallentire while he was studying at Central Saint Martins.
27 Jul 2022 · 1 hr 48 min
SD36 - w/ Diana Walsh Pasulka - A New Form of Religion
Miguel Prado and fellow Guild navigator (and co-host for today's episode) Sonia de Jager meet Diana Walsh Pasulka: professor of philosophy and religion at UNCW and author of American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, and Technology. We discuss what do we mean by agnostic when we want to be challenged by new knowledge, the UFO phenomena as a new form of religion, recent congress' public hearing into "unidentified aerial phenomena'', how ancient aliens could have handed technology to humanity and much more! Cover image by NonayahBiz…
1 Jul 2022 · 1 hr 4 min
SD35 - w/ Jeffrey J. Kripal - Make the Impossible Possible
We had the great pleasure of being joined by Jeffrey J. Kripal in conversation about how to lift the veil of Isis, the radical collapse of the subject-object structure, paranormal research, LaMBDA alleged consciousness, conspirituality, Esalen Institute and its impact on American culture and many other liminal topics. Jeffrey Kripal is J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University and is the associate director of the Center for Theory and Research at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California. He is the author of eight books, including: The Flip: Epiphanies…
21 Jun 2022 · 1 hr 33 min
SD 34 - w/ Wassim Z. Alsindi - ₿etween Collective Salvation and Private Enrichment
Crypto collapse! Simply HODL and stay with us while we talk with Wassim Z. Alsindi: veteran of the timechain, founder and host of the 0x Salon, conducting experiments in post-disciplinary collective knowledge practices. Wassim specialises in conceptual design and philosophy of peer-to-peer systems. Today he guides us through the speculative hellscape. Some resources: (blockchain-time) Reminiscences of a Clock Operator https://0xsalon.pubpub.org/pub/jmysxacr/ (nfts/digital art) The Revolution Will Not Be Tokenised https://0xsalon.pubpub.org/pub/nl45krtx/ (bitcoin indeterminacy)…
19 May 2022 · 57 min
SD33 - w/ Elvia Wilk - Death by Landscape
This week, we had the great pleasure of being joined by Elvia Wilk, writer and editor, author of Oval (2019) and Death by Landscape, a collection of essays forthcoming this July from Soft Skull Press. We talked about her new book, the pandemic, plants, the weird, LARP, the Web 3.0 and post-nuclear religious fiction!!! Errata corrige: 29:30 Yes, plants do release more oxygen than carbon dioxide 🙊
3 May 2022 · 1 hr 27 min
SD32 - w/ Matana Roberts - The Power of the Pushback
We had the great pleasure of being joined by Matana Roberts, multidisciplinary artist, saxophonist, composer, and sound adventurer. We talked about the unequal mental health toll of the pandemic, the healing power of live music, their Coin Coin work and many other things!
7 Apr 2022 · 1 hr 59 min
SD31 - w/ Gabriel Tupinamba and J.P. Caron - It Takes Some Structure to Make Negativity Productive.
We are back with Brazilian philosophers Gabriel Tupinamba and J.P. Caron from Círculo de Estudos da Idéia e da Ideologia, an institution with the task of investigating the political thought and collective organizational practices called for by the return of the communist hypothesis. They give us a primer on the institution and their meta-structural organizational practices. 4 sound pieces made out of the CSII archive of recordings. One per individual. J.P. piece was composed and mixed by himself, text: Gabriel Tupinambá- Freeing thought from thinkers, mastered by Sanannda Acacia.
15 Mar 2022 · 1 hr 29 min
SD30 - w/ Pan Daijing - Extraction of Spinal Fluid and other Physical and Psychological Depths
We are back with Pan Dajing. We talk her work(that we love!), about solitude, crypticism, intimate "connection at a distance" and many other digressions into the emotional core of our "spiritual fluid".
15 Feb 2022 · 1 hr 41 min
SD29 - w/ Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm - The Goth Philosopher of Revolutionary Happiness
We welcome philosopher and social scientist Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm, author of The Invention of Religion in Japan (2012), The Myth of Disenchantment (2017) and Metamodernism (2021). Among many other things, we talk about his work, modernity and its alleged departure from the supernatural, Mark Zuckerberg completely misreading Snow Crash, and how philosophy help us to live a live that it is worth living.
2 Feb 2022 · 2 hr 2 min
SD28 - w/ Simon Reynolds - Depressive Hedonism and Musical Exorcism in Traptimes
We had the great pleasure of being joined by majuscule music journalist and author Simon Reynolds. In times of "Shock and Awe" we discuss the legacy of CCRU and Mark Fisher(and its neo-reactionary co-option), depressive hedonism and the attention economy, if there are any subversive attributes left to be found in subcultures... and among many other things, we share what still gives us a kick in music nowadays!
13 Jan 2022 · 1 hr 50 min
SD27 w/ Jules Joanne Gleeson: Freaks of The World Unite
We are back with Jules Joanne Gleeson, writer, comedian and historian, recently co-editor of the collection: Transgender Marxism, published by Pluto Press in 2021. A groundbreaking synthesis of transgender studies and Marxist theory. We talked about gender and family abolitionism, her writing, industrial music, stand-up comedy and many other things! 🦖
5 Jan 2022 · 1 hr 14 min
SD26 - con Mario Aguiriano y Kolitza - Comunismo y Crisis
Arrancamos un nuevo año con Mario Aguiriano(del podcast Café Marx) y Kolitza. Hablamos sobre la crisis, el comunismo, la pandemia, Marx, las limitaciones de la sociodemocracia y una presentación breve del movimiento GKS (gazte koordinadora sozialista). Música de J.Martina, Harrga y Mattin

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