Body is Construct: Recent Episodes
Liv Phoinix
Here and now, ways of relating are being rescripted, reshot and reimagined.
Body of Construct is about counternormative voices. Shifting, changing and morphing positions for feeling the human pulse of the multimedia environments in which we all live. Exploring intersections of sexuality, society, technology and the self.
I can't wait for you to hear Ayoto Ataraxia speak about his debut film, My Film with Andrei Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Document a Sex Party.
It’s a highly emotive episode with a lot of food for thought. He speaks about the film as an examination of friendship and understanding men in another light. As an act of self expression from his own gaze. Ayoto voices a lot of frustrations here too. So sit back and take in an hour of Ayoto's truths. Get provoked maybe. By the time I declare the recording good enough there's one thing you'll know for sure, it's not easy.
In conversation with Letizia Chiappini. She's an urban sociologist living, learning and teaching out of Amsterdam: Creative Business at the University of Applied Sciences. In this episode we catch up on where she's at with her body of work and thoughts right now. Chat platforms and talk about about what motivated her in co-founding the Slutty Urbanism Collective.
Our technofeudal tomorrow is already here, it’s just unevenly distributed, paraphrasing William Gibson.
It's the summer of 2021, The Blue Origin has returned to earth as our pristine blue marble burns. Will's in London in quarantine, and I'm a snarky mood. Quipping in now and then.
Plenty of tongue-in-cheek assessment here.
It's not a very hopeful moment, but what to do about it? Will leans toward collective organization around a concrete goal. I wonder what an activist would get up to at a dinner party with a bunch of billionaires in a post-apocalyptic bunker. Will's short story The Next, published in his new book Twenty Terrifying Tales from our Technofeudal Tomorrow gives some ideas.
people #printed #amazon #banks #bezos #anarchist #mars #czar #billionaires #workers #oceans #space #nice #kill #mec #read #swordfish #thinking #labor #person
Full transcript on : https://bodyisconstruct.com/technofeudal-today-the-next-1
In this episode I speak with the prolific writer William Kherbek. We get into his new book Twenty Terrifying Tales from our Technofeudal Tomorrow, in which he steers his theory of technofeudalism over a harrowing, hilarious joyride of new terrain.
Set about fifty years in the future, with titles like Contestant Classes, Designer Neurons and CryptoProphet1, these are of course stories of today. We dig into one of my favorites, Data Self-Partnered and touch on topics like the metatheory of cults, platform business epiphenomena and new cold war Sinophobia.
Transcription, credits and links up on https://livphoinix.com/William-Kherbek
Postscript: William Kherbek would like to take the opportunity to apologize to Spike Jonze for conflating his film Her with Alex Garland’s film Ex Machina. Apparently there were several films about men wanting to have relationships, sexual or otherwise, with their computers. William is happy to accept that Ex Machina is the more incel of the two films.
In this episode I talk to Maria Pia about fluidity. As a drive, a process, a mode of experience. And all of these combined.
"It's coming particularly useful, this fluid approach to life, in pandemic times. If you think about it, reality is...we can't control it and we create an illusion trying to control it"
This is a personal story of Maria's self development and how that development has come to inform how she lives and works today.
Maria talks about using sexuality and some of its associated practices as means of changing herself - seeing her through life's transitions. She speaks on conscious kink and embodied performance. Psychomagia and symbolism. Ephiphenomenalism through the performance art of Rocio Boliver. Mummification during a time of intense grief.
A long time activist, Maria's way of fighting for matters close to her heart has changed. She tells us about her London-squatter days and how she's shifted from old school martyrdom and normative constructs toward self care and polytopes through relational anarchy.
Recently Maria ran the open call for the London Uncensored Festival. For lovers of art and pornography, and especially those who reject the distinction between the two. I wondered, what's ethical porn? And how's it different from porn that doesn't label itself as such?
For transcription and links check out https://livphoinix.com/Maria-Pia
In conversation with Naomi Elisha, a dance artist born in Tel Aviv and living in Berlin. Naomi and I talk about the foundations of her identity as an AFAB, nonbinary trans performance artist. We also talk about sex positive community, positive vs. negative freedom, micro aggressions and tantric bodywork.
Keywords: sexuality, gender, curious, experience, sex, sexual, discourse, AFAB, trans
Check out the transcript at https://livphoinix.com/Naomi-ELisha