Not Not: A Podcast

In this extra special episode Caoimhe and Katherine discuss The Matrix: Resurrections (2021) and Riverdale S5E6, The Jughead Paradox (2021). Topics include Reggie Prime vs. Morpheus Uno, Plato's House of Mirrors, and why science is sometimes just a rock on your bedside table. We have a website: www.notnot.ie References: Hideous and cruel, twisted and cursed — all hail RIVERDALE, television’s first sentient series by Hagai Palevsky https://medium.com/@DialHForHagai/hideous-and-cruel-twisted-and-cursed-all-hail-riverdale-televisions-first-sentient-series-e4a50ff421e8 The Matrix Sequels Are Good, Actually | Sophie From Mars (ft. Sarah Zedig)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0VnYcMHuDc

In this episode Caoimhe and Katherine discuss the film Jupiter Ascending (The Wachowskis, 2015), and the novel The Red Tree (Caitlín R. Kiernan, 2009).Topics include magic circles, the lesbian gothic, reclaiming monstrosity, and Eddie Redmayne's knee high sandals. References and Further Reading: Hairy Thuggish Women: Female Werewolves, Gender And The Hoped-For Monster – Elizabeth Clark In the Dust of This Planet: Horror of Philosophy Vol.1 – Eugene Thacker Lesbian Gothic: Genre, Transformation, Transgression – Paulina Palmer Monster Trans – Boots Potential My Words To Victor Frankenstein Above The Village Of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage – Susan Stryker The Power of Myth – Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers "sentient globs of plesiomorphies" – Caitlín R. Kiernan ​

In this episode Caoimhe and Katherine discuss Star Trek: Discovery (Season 1, 2017) the TV show co-created by Bryan Fuller, The Motherless Oven (2014) the comic by Rob Davis, and We Appreciate Power (2018) the song by Grimes. Topics include Xenofeminism, fungus, AI Overlords, and why rationalism is the coward's path. This episode we made a button! Go here to press it: www.notnot.ie/ai-overlords References and Further Reading: Many of our references for this episode were taken from a reading list put together by Virginia Barratt and Petra Kendall for their course 'The Future Is Unmanned' at the New Centre for Research and Practice. 6 Ways Mushrooms Can Save the World – Paul Stamets A Cyborg Manifesto – Donna Haraway Black Circuit: Code for the Numbers to Come – Amy Ireland Cyberfeminsim and Artificial Life – Sarah Kember Dialectic of Sex – Shulamith Firestone The Cyberfeminist Manifesto for the 21st Century – VNS Matrix I would rather be a Cyborg than a Goddess – Jasbir Puar Intelligence Is No Longer On The Side Of Power – Matthew Fuller interviews Sadie Plant ​The Most Terrifying Thought Experiment of All Time – Slate On the Matrix: Cyberfeminist Simulations – Sadie Plant Slime Intelligence – Elvia Wilk with Jenna Sutela Technoccult News The Xenofeminist Manifesto – Laboria Cuboniks Zeros and Ones – Sadie Plant

In this episode Caoimhe and Katherine discuss Utopia (2013 - 2014), the TV show created by Dennis Kelly, and His Dark Materials (1995 - 2000), the YA book trilogy by Philip Pullman. Topics include hyperstition, left accelerationism, and ranking the fantasy sleeping pods of the future. This month we made a card game! You can play it here: https://www.notnot.ie/where-is-eve-card-game ​Our previous essays on these subjects, Hypertopia and Dust, Divination and Dark Matter, can be found on our blog: notnot.ie/blog References: Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials, Reza Negarestani: https://re-press.org/books/cyclonopedia-complicity-with-anonymous-materials/ Hyper / stition — Xenogothic on ‘Pisalni stroji’, Xenogothic: https://xenogothic.com/2019/03/05/hyper-stition-xenogothic-on-pisalni-stroji Anomalous Worlds: On Accelerationism & Patchwork, Xenogothic: https://xenogothic.com/2019/03/26/anomalous-worlds-on-accelerationism-patchwork-pws4/ Hyperstition Archive: http://hyperstition.abstractdynamics.org/ Cybernetic culture research unit: http://www.ccru.net/ Lemurian Time War, Ccru: http://www.ccru.net/archive/burroughs.htm Capitalist Realism, Mark Fisher: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/capitalist-realism k-punk blog, Mark Fisher: http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/ The Missing Subject of Accelerationism: Heavy Metal’s Wyrd Realism, Edia Connole (in Floating Tomb: Black Metal Theory): http://mimesisinternational.com/floating-tomb-black-metal-theory/ Decadence Card Game: http://andersaamodt.com/decadence.php

In this episode Caoimhe and Katherine discuss Mandy (2018), a film by Panos Cosmatos starring Nic Cage and Andrea Riseborough, Teatro Grottesco (1997), a collection of short stories by Thomas Ligotti, and Pinball (1974), the single from Brian Protheroe. Topics include black metal theory, hyperplastic posthumans, and how the uncaring universe is personified by the mac-and-cheese-spewing Cheddar Goblin. References: Interview with Thomas Ligotti, Teeming Brain: http://www.teemingbrain.com/interview-with-thomas-ligotti/ Thomas Ligotti: Dark Phenomenology and Abstract Horror, Craig Hickman: https://non.copyriot.com/thomas-ligotti-dark-phenomenology-and-abstract-horror/ Dark Posthumanism, David Roden Slime Dynamics, Ben Woodard: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/slime-dynamics The Oral History of Cheddar Goblin, the Mac & Cheese-Loving Mascot in 'Mandy': https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/mandy-movie-cheddar-goblin-too-many-cooks Mandy: Anatomy Of A Cheddar Goblin: https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/mandy-anatomy-cheddar-goblin/

In this episode Caoimhe and Katherine discuss Predestination, a 2014 film by Michael and Peter Spierig starring Ethan Hawke and Sarah Snook, and Good Omens, a novel by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett published in 1990. Topics include time loops, sympathetic prophesies, and the ethics of seducing your past self. Featuring an original audio drama acted by David O'Meara.