Safety Propaganda 101
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At the end of 2023, Adam took to the podium to explain the Safety Propaganda ideology and the Counter-Agency of the Avant-Garde to a small but captivated audience. This event was sponsored by
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Weebed Out
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Adam is back from Japan: tales of shopping, noise, fem-boys, etc OST Merging Moon Prurient and Linkekraft Beherit "Sadomatic Rights" LLoyd Banks Blancmange LINKS:
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PREVIEW DECA DYKE
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Shortly before Adam's journey to Japan, he and Matthew discuss two trashy arthouse thrillers from the past and present: Ingmar Bergman's 1980 made for TV movie From the Life of the Marionettes and Rose Glass' 2024 bodybuilding lesbian romance thriller Love Lies Bleeding. From the Life of the Marionettes is a disturbing slow burn of a masterpiece – restrained and haunting in equal measure. Love Lies Bleeding, however, takes a good narrative conceit and then destroys it with every Tumblr millennial girl trapping: shallow Lynch wannabe surrealism, style suffocating substance, and an obnoxious...
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Spiced Out (W/ Benjamin Braddock and Monica Milkers)
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Dune: Part 2, Denis Villeneuve's second half of his adaptation of Frank Herbet's sci-fi masterpiece Dune, is out. It's huge. Everyone has an opinion. So do we. Dr. Benjamin Braddock and Mommy Milkers join the show to discuss the film. SOUNDTRACK: Herbie Hancock Reverend Bizarre John Frusciante UGK Hans Zimmer LINKS: Ben at X: Monica at X:
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The Avatar is a Pornographer (w/ Emma Stern)
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A week before the opening of her exhibition the Pond Society in Shanghai, artist Emma Stern discusses her work, porn, ABBA and the creation of avatars. Matthew Denicola is the new producer and co-host of SOS by SP. We thank Will Samson for his two years of work Soundtrack Y$ Controlled Bleeding Blue Cheer Omni Trio Abba LINKS:
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PREVIEW Welcome to Helltown (W/ Edward Giles and Max Julian Eastman)
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Conceptual artist, musician, and founding member of iconic NYC power electronics group Final Solution, Edward Giles, joins the Safety Propaganda network. The primary topic is the reissue of Edward's industrial project Helltown Inc on former guest Max Julian Eastman's label. The release not only comes with hours of music, art inserts and otherwise, but a memoir of sorts in which Edward recounts the underground culture of New York of the '80s. Edward and Max discuss the release of Helltown Inc and Edward discusses his history in art, losing his friends and bandmates from Final Solution, and his...
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PREVIEW Barney Does it All (W/ Bjarne Melgaard)
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Regularly referred to as "The most famous Nordic Artist since Edvard Munch," painter, sculptor, filmmaker and installation artist Bjarne Megaard joins the audiocast to dish on decades in the art world. Topics covered: Bjarne's new film Barney Does it All based on his time as a whore in Sydney, his interview with porno actress Rae Lil Black in the new issue of Richardson Mag, the perpetual antagonism between him at the art world and the cowardice of curators, his former financial backers who fucked him out of millions, drug addiction, ketamine therapy, fashion, anabolic steroids and being...
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Poor Greek (W/Zane)
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Yorgos Lanthimos has not been a preferred filmmaker of the Safety Propaganda universe. Too self-consciously "weird". Too Letterboxd. His new film Poor Things, starring Emma Stone in a virtuosic performance as a young woman with the brain of an infant, is a comic masterpiece. Based on a story by surrealist Scottish author Alsadair Gray, 'Poor Things' is an absolute delight to watch. Riotously funny. A must-see. Joining us to discuss this massive leap in Lanthimos' artistry, as well as other new films (The Iron Claw, The Zone of Interest etc,) is our friend Zane. A true HEAD if there ever was...
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Kanye Versus the Vultures (w/ Matthew Denicola)
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Kanye is trying to release a new record, Vultures, with Ty Dolla $ign, and his enemies are refusing to get its samples cleared, leaving the record unreleased. Kanye, of course, isn't staying quiet about what's happening behind the scenes, and treated the world to a 15 minute rant against his many enemies, ranging from LVMH CEO Bernard Arnaut, the Rothschilds, Jay-Z, and Drake among them, as well as the abandonment of the family that has left him adrift. It's powerful stuff, and of course he isn't exactly taking it easy on Zionists either. The controversy and aura around a Kanye release is...
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PREVIEW Life Long Insomniac (W/ Stephen Tunney AKA Dogbowl)
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At the end of November, friends of SP Newton Gallery hosted an exhibition of paintings and cartoons by American artist Stephen Tunney. Many of those in attendance likely had no idea that these disorienting, vivid, and fantastical images were made by the same Stephen Tunney behind the indie rock solo project Dogbowl. When Stephen plugged his guitar in to perform some of those songs, the image completed itself. Indeed, Tunney has had a long and fascinating career, from playing guitar with cult band King Missile, recording with godhead of New York weird music Kramer, writing what has been...
info_outlineA long sought-after guest joins System of Systems to discuss a number of artistic, philosophical, and political topics. Adam and the writer, critic and philosopher DC Miller became internet-linked after Adam demonstrated public interest in DC's writing. The result was that Adam was fired from The Quietus, where he wrote a regular column on the noise music underground and critical theory, and lost a number of other writing contracts. How did DC become such a controversial figure? Well, it mostly stems from the extreme Antifa-led overreaction to the now defunct British gallery LD50 and its 2017 exhibition that examined the imagery of what was then being called the alt-right and hosted talks by thinkers like Nick Land and Brett Stevens. DC heroically defended the gallery's right to tackle sensitive ideas and art. For that commitment to freedom of expression and fundamental enlightenment values, DC lost all of his positions in the art world. Seemingly overnight, he went from a known regular art critic for Frieze and Art Monthly to persona non grata.
But we believe that DC is among the most misunderstood thinkers and creative people currently in the discourse. Though Adam and DC do have some differences in their view points, they also agree on a lot, specifically when it comes to diagnosing what is WRONG in our culture. In this chat, DC and Adam discuss art, psyops, the left, the elite, and recent work by the writer. DC recently wrote a response article to the essay that Adam published, 'Marxist Defends the Great Reactionaries,' that will be also published by American Greatness soon. DC is now publishing regularly on his Substack, is a contributing editor to im1776, and also publishes with The Conservative Woman. Enjoy the show!
SOUNDTRACK:
Drexciya "Neptune's Lair" (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLryJ-4UNwXnfNR1h7RHPT2_TT6hu91G1o)
Scott Walker "Farmer in the City" (https://youtu.be/zIJzTWk6bSw)
Ghoulbog "Tredje Stycket" (https://styggelsetapes.bandcamp.com/track/tredje-stycket-viddernas-h-rskare)
Links:
DC's Substack: https://cryptogram.substack.com/
DC debates Zeroh HP Lovecraft: https://im1776.com/2021/06/08/dialogue-dc-miller-vs-zero-hp-lovecraft/
"The Occult Left": https://cryptogram.substack.com/p/the-locusts-have-no-king
DC Miller "The True Story of LD50": https://medium.com/@dctvbot/no-platform-for-aristotle-867a04c5da50
Jonathan Jones on LD50: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2017/feb/22/art-galleries-free-speech-ld50-dalston
Adam's statement on being fired from the Quietus: https://www.adamlehrer.com/blog/2020/8/11/a-statement-on-my-severed-relationship-with-the-quietus
Adam "A Marxist Defends the Great Reactionaries": https://amgreatness.com/2021/01/01/a-marxist-defends-the-great-reactionaries/
DC, Justin Murphy, and Nina Power: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvUcO8sQZSI