Robert Anton Wilson and Karl Hess

Here's a weird little video I happened upon the other day... It's a discussion between Robert Anton Wilson and prominent libertarian anarchist Karl Hess (click that, it's interesting...). They talk about all sorts of things and detail their experiences in life, politics and philosophy. enjoy...

Fenriz' Black Metal University

This is the drummer of Darkthrone going over the history of black metal as he sees it. Something new? not really, but entertaining all the same. I just like seeing people who love music talk about music... Certainly interesting to metal fans and to people who may be curious about the trve black metal...

(a little bit of overlap with the videos, but whatever...)

William Burroughs interviewed by Kathy Acker

Sun Ra on life, space and mythology as liberation...

Cornel West @ Dartmouth 4/13

I love this fucken guy...
Bookmark this it and watch it soon because they're going to take it down on august 31st...
enjoy...

Bertrand Russell interviewed on the BBC in 1959

Robert Anton Wilson interviewed by Genesis P. Orridge and Richard Metzger

Zizek at Powell's in Portland...

J.G. Ballard - future now

Sun Ra and astral navigation...

Here's a BBC doc on Sun Ra.




And here's Space Is The Place. his movie from 1974.
enjoy.

Grant Morrison on Magick and art.

Lecture at disinfo.con (which was the first I'd ever heard of him...)

"The Invisibles is a comic book series that was published by the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics from 1994 to 2000. It was created and scripted by Scottish writer Grant Morrison, and drawn by various artists throughout its publication.^[1]
The plot follows (more or less) a single cell of The Invisible College, a secret organization battling against physical and psychic oppression using time travel, magic, meditation, and physical violence.^[2]
For most of the series, the team includes leader King Mob; Lord Fanny, a Brazilian shaman; Boy, a former member of the NYPD; Ragged Robin, a telepath with a mysterious past; and Jack Frost, a young hooligan from Liverpool who may be the next Buddha. Their enemies are the Archons of Outer Church, interdimensional alien gods who have already enslaved most of the human race without their knowledge."



A documentary about the man's life.

Aldous Huxley on life, freedom and control.

"Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. Best known for his novels including Brave New World and a wide-ranging output of essays, Huxley also edited the magazine Oxford Poetry, and published short stories, poetry, travel writing, film stories and scripts. He spent the later part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death.

Huxley was a humanist, pacifist, and satirist. He later became interested in spiritual subjects such as parapsychology and philosophical mysticism,^[1][2] in particular Vivekanda's Neo-Vedanta and Universalism.^[3] He is also well known for his advocacy and consumption of psychedelic drugs.
By the end of his life Huxley was widely acknowledged as one of the pre-eminent intellectuals of his time."

Chris Hedges on the death of the left, corporations and modern society.

From Wikipedia: Christopher Lynn "Chris" Hedges (born September 18, 1956) is an American journalist specializing in American politics and society. Hedges is also known as the best-selling author of several books including War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2002)—a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction—Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle (2009), Death of the Liberal Class (2010) and his most recent New York Times best seller, written with the cartoonist Joe Sacco, "Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt" (2012).
Chris Hedges is currently a senior fellow at The Nation Institute in New York City.^[1] He spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He has reported from more than fifty countries, and has worked for The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News, and The New York Times,^[2] where he was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years (1990–2005).
In 2002, Hedges was part of the team of reporters at The New York Times awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the paper's coverage of global terrorism. He also received in 2002 the Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, Princeton University^[2] and The University of Toronto. He writes a weekly column on Mondays for Truthdig and authored what The New York Times described as "a call to arms" for the first issue of The Occupied Wall Street Journal, the newspaper giving voice to the Occupy Wall Street protests in Zuccotti Park, New York City.

Richard D. Wolff - Global Capitalism April 2013

Richard Wolff's global capitalism seminar for april 2013.

Richard D. Wolff on The Crisis of Capitalism

A general analysis of the capitalist system and it's failings. Sounds dry, but he's an engaging speaker and can be pretty entertaining... I'm in the middle of a few of his lectures on Marxian Economics right now and will probably be posting those in the future. until then; enjoy.





from Wikipedia: "Richard D. Wolff (born April 1, 1942) is an American economist, well known for his work on Marxian economics, economic methodology, and class analysis. He is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University in New York. Wolff has also taught economics at Yale University, City University of New York, University of Utah, University of Paris I (Sorbonne), and The Brecht Forum in New York City"

Buckminster Fuller - Everything I know

This dude might blow your mind... A genius philosopher, engineer and inventor; Bucky Fuller sought to understand and teach as much as possible. In 1975 Bucky gave a lecture that lasted 42 hours. It was Called "Everything I know". In this lecture he discusses the origins of life on earth, geometry, religion, power and ultimately human evolution. It's a fascinating listen to be sure. At any rate, listen to the first one or two volumes at least. You will not be sorry. The videos of the first half of the lecture are embedded below and there are links to all of them on open culture as well as a link to the Buckminster Fuller Institute where you can get more information and transcripts of these talks and others. enjoy.
 

John Taylor Gatto on Education/Schooling/Control/Self Determination

I don't remember how I found out about John Taylor Gatto, but after initially seeing this series of videos I've ended up watching them all a few times over. There's an introduction to who the man is in the first 17 minutes of the first video; after that it's a long interview/lecture about the history of the school system, the founding of our society as we know it and a few strategies to break oneself or at least one's children out of this cycle of premeditated, conditioned self destruction. Heavy shit, yes- but worth listening to and understanding. enjoy.

Burroughs Called the Law

My basic life's religion is a mix of things I got from punk, acid, burroughs, tolkien, norse mythology and total basement hesher satanic death worship... and of all the manners of occult business I've looked into over the years in some kindof quest for context and power this magic is what makes the most sense to me... and it really is magic, dude. it turns the void in on itself, like a big mirror on the power structure... a spell against control and cosmic oppression... a celebration of not being beaten yet, you fuckers... we're on to you... William Burroughs had a way of venomously illustrating the worst and most destructive aspects of human nature and the dangers and excesses of control; both as a concept and as the reality and context we presently exist in. He was also really fucking funny. dude was way ahead of his time, which just becomes more and more evident as you delve further into his work... he was and is doing the good work for our species as a whole. of this I am sure. Anyway, I give this stuff a lot of lip service, and I do spend a good deal of my time listening to these recordings, so I figured it might be cool to share it with my friends or people who might not hear it through the floor late at night at 134 or hear me quoting from it all of the time for seemingly no good reason... For this, I've comprised a mix of some of my favorite bits of Burroughs' spoken voice. There's a lot from place of dead roads and the western lands, a few cut ups, some random stuff and a few nova express era spells and curses... there are a ton of great interviews and other pieces that are way longer and not so easily cut and put into a mixtape, but maybe I'll start in on those at some point... I dunno... I figured this would be a good starter at least, and while certainly not for everyone, I've gotten a lot out of it and I feel a kindof responsibility to pass it on in hope that you might gain from it or do something valuable with it as well.

enjoy.