WAKE ISLAND IS A CONVERSATION SERIES ABOUT THE DARKENING UNDERCURRENTS OF CONTEMPORARY CULTURE WITH HOSTS PAUL K AND DAVID LEO RICE 🕳️ 🐇
WAKE ISLAND
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WAKE ISLAND IS A CONVERSATION SERIES ABOUT THE DARKENING UNDERCURRENTS OF CONTEMPORARY CULTURE WITH HOSTS PAUL K AND DAVID LEO RICE 🕳️ 🐇
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Recent Episodes
May 8, 2026
Evil: A Study of Lost Techniques with Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh
<p>Wake Island is back. It’s been a long hiatus, a lot of life changes and transitions... the usual upheavals that seem to have hit everyone over the last year or so.</p><p>We’re kicking things off with <a href="https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/wake-island/episodes/Exaltations-in-the-Dead-of-Night-with-Jason-Bahbak-Mohaghegh-Part-I-e29sa4l" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">past guest of the show</a>, Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh, a philosopher, writer, and teacher, and a vector for a lot of the ideas that shape the tone and approach of Wake Island. What I love about listening to Jason is that he comes at things from the perspective of the avant-garde, whether it’s the after-dark, mania, or the apocalyptic imagination, he brings a level of sophistication to these ideas that I admire.</p><p>This episode we’re talking about his latest book, <a href="https://scarletimprint.com/publications/p/evil" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Evil: A Study of Lost Techniques</a> from Scarlet Press. Jason doesn’t moralize evil in the ways we’re accustomed to. He treats it as a set of techniques that operate below the threshold of cognition, things that bypass your defenses, in the same way a lullaby ushers a child out of consciousness into the realm of sleep, or doomscrolling steals hours of your life before you realize they’re gone. It’s less a study of bad behavior than a diagrammatic map of how evil reclaims the world.</p><p>Also thank you to Matti Bye and <a href="https://oonarecordings.bandcamp.com/album/mambo-noir-trio" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Mambo Noir Trio</a> & OONA Recordings for letting us use “Noir” to close out the episode. </p><p><br></p>
January 5, 2026
CRY OF THE CONQUERED
<p>Written by David Leo Rice and Paul K</p><p><br></p><p>This is the final entry in our Substack project, which set out to explore the energy, sickness, and imagery of 2025.</p><p><br></p><p>If you enjoyed this entry, feel free to go back and read our <a href="https://substack.com/@wakeisland/posts" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">previous passages.</a></p><p><br></p><p>We’re hoping to release more podcasts and Substack posts in 2026.</p>
September 17, 2024
Chaos and Disenchantment: Berlin Wall book launch w/ David Leo Rice & B.R. Yeager
<p>In this season-ending episode of Wake Island, guest co-host BR Yeager—author of Negative Space and Burn You the Fuck Alive—joins us for a hall of mirrors conversation. Together, we get into David Leo Rice’s latest book, The Berlin Wall, using it as a lens to examine violent cusp figures like Anders Behring Breivik, Timothy McVeigh, and the Columbine shooters.</p> <p><br>We take a gut check for 2024, exploring the height of disenchantment that drives us to embrace disharmony in a world where consensus feels out of reach and history feels at once stuck in place and spiraling out of control. Along the way, we nosedive through historical inflection portals and terroristic moments that warp our perception of reality and linear time.</p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>Europe, 2020. Some claim that the Berlin Wall, once a living entity, is coming back together, its scattered pieces seeking reunion on the far side of history. The European continent trembles on the edge of total war, either in reality or deep in its own feverish imagination. Part present-tense apocalyptic satire and part neo-medieval phantasmagoria, David Leo Rice’s new novel presents an alternate history of the present where the Internet has become a territory unto itself and unstable factions obsessed with nationalism, liberalism, and romanticism drive one another toward a clash that could turn the very notions of refuge and culture into the ravings of a lunatic.</strong></p> <p><br></p> <p><em>With </em>The Berlin Wall<em>, David Leo Rice has produced a text that feels totally sui generis: he has achieved the rarest of writerly feats and become his own genre. No other writer I know embodies simultaneity so cleanly or marries the aesthetics of gnosticism, decadence and pop-culture with a clarity of prose. If </em>The New House<em> was a bildungsroman from alternative dimensions, </em>The Berlin Wall<em> is an allegorical history of the present. It is as if Rice presents an archaeology of time, dusting off human chronology to reveal the multiplicative source of life in all its writhing self-contained logic beneath. He charts how forms form and the way the gross larval simplicity of fascism invades and reproduces in bodies.</em></p> <p>— Thomas Kendall, author of <em>The Autodidacts</em> and <em>How I Killed the Universal Man</em></p> --- Support this podcast: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wake-island/support" rel="payment">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wake-island/support</a>
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