The USA is parading its incontinence, pissing everywhere. In the rest of the world, outsiders study the puddles and taste the piss. An example is Iran. We will start this talk with a short segment on Iranian propaganda, but we will talk mainly about something coming from the Vatican.
Franciscan friar Paolo Benanti, a Vatican advisor on AI, has written an article fantasising about burning Peter Thiel alive to protect democracy. You see, he is happy. Finally he feels his theology is useful.
From our cheerful and untouched bubble, we assess his attack, and agree that the Church is wasting its time, so long as it neglects what is within its reach: art spectacle and imagination. In other words, Rome should return to the business of Counter-Reformation.
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16 Apr 2026
The Grace of George Soros
The Grace of George Soros
George Soros is usually discussed in the language of conspiracy or moral piety. But to understand someone it does actually make sense to listen to what they have to say. A beyond good and evil look at this impressive man. Join us for a mini voyage into the world of Soros.
KIRAC makes art films released as Episodes. In our Salons we test ideas that later become Episodes. Our discussion of Soros is part of a series on the future of art beyond the post-war order.
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16 Apr 2026
16th Century Whore Dialogues — A Review
Pietro Aretino's Whore Dialogues. Written in Renaissance Venice.
"The vices of women talked about freely."
A book about a functioning society because everybody's always needing something from someone else. The masters need the slaves to bring the food from the land. The woman needs the slaves to have sex with. The master needs the sixteen-year-old beautiful girl to prance with, to feel young. And so everything clasps in each other in this sort of deeply unholy orgy of people.
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