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🗓️ 4 September 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Rachel Kushner joins us to talk about her new novel Creation Lake--the story of an American agent provocateur infiltrating a rural commune in France.
We go through some of the inspirations behind her characters in this and past books (including Jacques Camatte, Julian Coupat, and Ben Morea), a Soviet historian's theory of the Neanderthal origins of class war, and the RKCU (Rachel Kushner Cinematic Universe)
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Megabasin protests: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/06/water-mega-basins-reservoirs-france-drought/674313/
Drift Mag interview: https://www.thedriftmag.com/history-as-it-is-happening/
Nation Review: https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/rachel-kushner-creation-lake/
Info on Eric McDavid entrapment case: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/01/18/40682.php
The Tribe: Interviews with Jean-Michel Mension Jacques Camatte - This World We Must Leave
Tiqqun - Introduction to Civil War
The Invisible Comittee - The Coming Insurrection
The Zad and NoTAV: Territorial Struggles and the Making of a New Political Intelligence
Song: Daft Punk - Get Lucky (V A P O R W A V E)
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0:00.0 | Yeah, but yeah, I don't mind talking about my peneal gland if it comes up. |
0:09.0 | Oh, peneal glands are coming up on this podcast episode, Glens, |
0:13.0 | and all that. |
0:14.0 | The truth is that, you know, they trepinated my cheek |
0:16.2 | in order to allow for this area. |
0:20.5 | For folks who aren't watching because this isn't a video recording, Rachel Kushner is pointing to her third eye to her |
0:27.1 | Pennial gland. We're talking about the ontology of medical |
0:35.0 | condition. |
0:39.0 | condition. This is how I feel about the back, |
0:41.0 | my back. |
0:42.0 | This is how I feel about the back, my back. This is how I feel about my giant honking tonsils. I went to the |
0:47.1 | ear, nose, and throat doctor a couple weeks ago and she's like, let's just go have a look in there. And she opened, I opened my mouth and she's like let's just go have a look in there and she opened I opened my mouth that she goes whoa |
0:55.5 | Those are some honking tonsils and they're gonna take them right out which was awesome like I didn't think they did that |
1:02.0 | Yeah, I'm gonna get them. It's been causing me all like sleep apnea and stuff like that. And she's like, you know, you really should have got these taken out 20 something years ago. And then I felt badly about myself. I said, what is it about me that like I've lived with this |
1:15.1 | condition for so long and I never really did anything about it. What does that say about me as a person? |
1:20.4 | And the doctor was a brassy old woman and she's just like we're just gonna we're just gonna chop him right out you'll be fine |
1:26.2 | baa baa baa you move on with the rest of your life well the the back is often a personal thing |
1:32.3 | and if you ever read Dr sarno I highly recommend is often a personal thing. |
1:32.7 | If you ever read Dr. Sarno, I highly recommend it. |
1:36.4 | He talks about the sort of mental causes of back pain. |
1:39.4 | So I got some bad jujou in my brain, |
1:41.5 | which is why my back hurts. got you all right I thought you |
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