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Talking with Nicolas Hausdorf, author of Superstructural Berlin: A Superstructural Tourist Guide to Berlin for the Visitor and the New Resident, on Doug Lain & Zero Books, patterns of cultural programming, the gulf between university & the internet, in the domain of the plausible, drawing out cultural poisons, poisoning the attraction of Berlin, a culture of melancholy, death of the European empire, the liquidation of the bourgeoisie, adult playgrounds for stalled teenagers, the liminal period, adolescence & infancy, the body-compass, being embedded within social structures, what we consume, drunken spider webs, Prisoner of Infinity, the body & thought, strength & empathy, the bitter spot of functioning psychopaths, affectively limited, waves of affect, the body & homeostasis, being the One, two Messiahs, Sebastian Horsley, the dialectics of dandyism, transgression & self-expression, Jimmy Savile’s glamor magic, pathologies on parade, MK-ULTRA & psychic engineering, accelerated consciousness, True Detective & the occult history of transportation, human billboards and poison containers, genital organization, LSD & blood flow restriction, accessing death, depression, panic attacks and amphetamines, a world of hyper-stimulation, an accumulation of short-term solutions, healing work, crazed cultural solutions, Trump & anti-elitism, 9/11, embodiments of the State, permanent panic mode, the anthropological limits to bullshit.
Songs: “The Kommema and his Religion” by SunWalker; “Out of Turn,” by Big Blood; “Welcome” by Clinic.