Not Not: A Podcast is a not not philosophy, not not pop culture, actually bimonthly podcast about weird books, films, and other things and what they have in common, all controlled by a random number generator. In each episode Caoimhe and Katherine randomly choose a film/tv show, a book, and a wildcard element, talk about their similarities and differences and then try to make something new from them. Topics so far include time loops, sympathetic prophesies, hyperplastic posthumans, Xenofeminism, and the ethics of seducing your past self.
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
31 Dec 2020
Episode 6: The Red Spot
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
5 Sept 2020
Epsiode 4: The Fungal Frontier
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
10 Jun 2020
Episode 3: Where is the new Eve?
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
19 Apr 2020
Episode 2: Cheddar Nonsense
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/
21 Mar 2020
Episode 1: Predestined Omens
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.
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