DB10

About DB10

DB10 - where the obscene and the absurd refuse to be contained. Tim Gregory and Melletios Kyriakidis dismantle dominant narratives, exposing the grotesque, the derailed, and the unspeakable in contemporary discourse. This is not an art podcast for passive consumption. It’s a dissection of the fetishised and the discarded, the hauntological wreckage of academia, and the anarchic play of a world in collapse. From auto theory to Marx, from magic to pornography, from counter-histories to fractured aesthetics -nothing is stable, and everything is unsettled. Instagram.com/db10_unhinged

Publisher

Melletios Kyriakidis and Tim Gregory

Category

comedy

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

6 Jul 2024

Latest episode

29 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

23 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   29 Aug 2026

   Anarchy of the Archipelicans

   In this episode we talk about anarchy. Through the scholarship of Bima Satria Putra, David Wengrow, and Stevphen Shukaitis, we explore the longer histories of anarchy in South East Asia. Long histories of refusal, separation and difference emerge across the archipelago in response to various forms of centralised authority. History shows anarchy always wins. Instead of anarchy coming at the end of “civilisation,” it can be thought of as the start of experimentation in different communal organisation. We discuss how this refusal is always also a refusal of centralised gender and sexuality. We descend into the problematics of classification and dive into the violence at the centre of white nationalism as productive of difference where there is none. Then Melletios gets angry on a bus, and Tim finds a gun hilarious. Further Reading Bima Satria Putra, Anarchy in Alifuru, 2025 (https://www.akpress.org/anarchy-in-alifuru.html) Bima Satria Putra, David Wengrow, and Stevphen Shukaitis, Fire Tribes and Stateless Worlds: A Conversation, e-flux, 2026 (https://www.e-flux.com/journal/164/6776903/fire-tribes-and-stateless-worlds-a-conversation) Dagmar Herzog, The New Fascist Body, 2025 (https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12562&menu=0) David Graeber and David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, 2021 (https://davidgraeber.org/books/the-dawn-of-everything-a-new-history-of-humanity/) Shukaitis, S. and Figiel, J., The Wages of Dreamwork Class Composition & the Social Reproduction of Cultural Labor. Minor Compositions, 2024 (https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=1314) Hakim BeyT.A.Z. The Temporary Autonomous Zone , 1991 (https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/hakim-bey-t-a-z-the-temporary-autonomous-zone-ontological-anarchy-poetic-terrorism)

2. 

   4 Jul 2026

   Gustave on Pills and Porn

   In this episode Melletios and Tim discuss charity collectors,hot lecturers, wheelchairs using bike lanes and a design for a perfect cow killer. We (finally) get to Paul Preciado’s Pharmacopornography. We discuss the history of biopower via Kodak, fallout shelters and Miss Atomic Bomb. All of this for Tim to arrive at his “trauma” of being kicked out of a mall by mall cops. This shit is killing us, so listen along if you want it to kill you too. x Links to smarter people: Paul Preciado, Testo Junkie (https://transreads.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/2022-01-13_61e07ee9a5e32_Preciado_Beatriz_Testo_Junkie_2013.pdf) Beatriz Colomina,  X-Screens: Röntgen Architecture (https://www.e-flux.com/journal/66/60736/x-screens-r-ntgen-architecture) J. Logan Smilges Crip Negativity (https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517915582/crip-negativity/)

3. 

   8 Jun 2026

   Syntax Error: Painting is Dead, Long Live Painting

   In this episode our painting is selected for the Salon des Refusés, and Melletios goes to the opening. He embarrasses himself but somehow makes friends with Craig Foster. Meanwhile Tim tries to start, but Melletios needs to know what brand of salt Tim puts in his hair. Eventually Tim discusses Effigy Attack and the laws around paintings being treated as actual humans (for the purposes of being hanged during the French revolution). If a painting can come alive so it can be harmed, how can we think of contemporary painting and AI as the ghost of deep traumas in excess of photography? How can we think of the new laws around AI generated porn as the tip of the iceberg? Where each AI image holds the traces of the image based work and extractive mining that are required for the spectacle to appear. Can “alive” paintings reveal that  ‘truth emerges through art as revelation rather than representation’ (Bogna Konior, 2026). Links: Blak Douglas Artist Website (https://blakdouglas.com.au/about/) Karla Dickens at AGNSW Website (https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/artists/dickens-karla/) Laurel Nakadate Artist Website (https://laurelnakadate.weebly.com/) Wangechi Mutu at MoMA (https://www.moma.org/artists/28097-wangechi-mutu) Up in the Sky by Tracey Moffatt 1997 (https://www.mca.com.au/collection/artworks/1998.25.1/) War in the Age of Infinite Evidence: On AI-Generated War Photography, Bogna Konior, 2026 (https://www.e-flux.com/journal/160/6776831/war-in-the-age-of-infinite-evidence-on-ai-generated-war-photography) Seeing Against Seeing by Alexey Yurenev 2023-2025 (https://yurenev.com/projects/seeing-against-seeing)

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Spotify

5.0 / 5

11 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 43 / 100

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0

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Engagement

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