A Mutant Manifesto
Episodes
30: The Mud of Contingency in Frantz Fanon's "Black Skin, White Masks"
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks; racial tension in America and colonial moments; fraught interracial love dynamics; double-consciousness, code-...
29: The Liberal Fascist Handshake and The Mutant Masses
22 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded 8/14/25Trump's military occupation of DC; Liberal complicity with fascist takeover; why does the mutant matter for the left? Jeanine Pirro wa...
28: Performance, Debt, and Study in Fred Moten and Stefano Harney's "The Undercommons"
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Stefano Harney and Fred Moten's "The Undercommons"; Maroon communities in Black thought; anticolonialism; What does Moten mean by study?...
17: Mutating Traditions feat. Celia Eydeland
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Writer, musician, and educator Celia Eydeland @kartoshkayearnsforaday joins us to talk about mutant family, secular Jewish movements and leftism, reck...
13: Futility
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Become! Become! Become!No one, not two, in sky and seed sewn, dream up shadows to love through and hold their calloused hands. Shape change in the net...
22b: Akira Books 1-2 -- "Come and get swatted, flies!"
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Akira manga volumes 1 and 2 analysis; paul preciado’s Testo Junkie and righteous libido; the destructive anti-woman ideal of speed in the Italian Fu...
24: LA Fires, Disaster Capitalism, and "Flamagra" by Flying Lotus
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
recorded 1/19/25Disaster Capitalism and the Chicago School of Economics; Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine; Privatization of firefighting in the LA fir...
18: You Aren't One: Disgust and Detachment in The Subtance (2024) feat. Lucas Murphy
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Filmmaker and writer Lucas Murphy returns to discuss Coralie Fargeaut's very French body-horror flic depicting Demi Moore's LA starlet facing devoluti...
27: Queer Occultism and Monstrosity feat. Alex A. Jones
31 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sign up for Alex’s class on queer occultism here: https://www.laetitiacartomancy.com/classes-1/p/queerness-the-occultAnd follow her at ardycejones.c...
26: The Grey Victory of Bong Joon Ho's Mickey 17 (2025) feat. Matt O'Connell
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bong Joon Ho’s Mickey 17 Analysis and critique; the pacing of Mickey 17; Do clones share souls? Anti-intellectualism and populist art; satire of the...
25: Solidarity or Compromise in the Face of Status Loss? Second-Term Trump's First Month in D.C.
16 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Trump’s first month in DC; what to do as an aspiring lawyer getting laid off in Trump’s second term; vulnerability as solidarity-building opportun...
23: Frothing at the Mouth--Horror, Healing, Sadomasochism and Performance feat. Dagger Wound
21 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
LA-based performance and noise artist Dagger Wound joins Josh and Jackie to talk about sadomasochism, horror, healing, performance, and how far we’r...
22d: Akira Volumes 5-6--Disaster, Anarchy, Autonomy, and Leadership
09 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The conclusion to our 4-part Akira series. Akira manga analysis and summary; what happens at the end of akira? Memories as karma at the end of life; ...
22c: Depravity and Care--A Feminist Reading of Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira Books 3-4
01 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Part 3/4 of our Akira deep dive. Akira manga analysis and summary; feminism and katsuhiro otomo's akira; Adirenne Rich's Compulsory Heterosexuality ...
22a: Akira (1988) -- Cyberpunk Origins and Anime Apotheosis
15 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Josh and Jackie deep-dive into the foundational Cyberpunk text, Akira. For the next 3 weeks, we will be reading 2 chapters per week of the Akira mang...
21: Pigeons, Migrants, and Urban (In)Hospitality feat. Ramona Gomez
30 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Joined by Ramona Gomez ( instagram.com/divaindistress ), urban ecologist and visual artist, to discuss the intriguing histories both personal and poli...
20: Questing for Knowledge and its Monstrous Processes feat. Studio Virosa
16 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Joined by Studio Virosa to discuss their craft and their films, Poor Magic (2020) and Fishbowl (2022) -- how pursuing knowledge can capture one in deg...
19c: Costumes and Recognition
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
People thought I was a girl; they didn’t get my costume; gender misrecognition and trans becoming; clowns as liminal guides; why animal costumes are...
19b: Treats and Death
30 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
the need for community education and celebration of death; horror candy; sweetness and power by Sidney Mintz; cartoon grim reapers; halloween as commu...
19a: Tricks and Mischief
29 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The history of halloween; mischief as spiritual warding; Baudrillard on Halloween; the vengeance of children; colonialism and delinquency; banishing t...
16: The See-Through Ironies of Benny Safdie and Nathan Fielder's The Curse feat. Matt O'Connell
06 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Joined by filmmaker and musician Matt O'Connell, we discuss the 2023-2024 show The Curse. feat. music from the OST and an outro by Matt AKA Fin Cinema...
15: American National Parks' Simulated Reality and the Right to Preserve
29 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“The National Park to Come” by Margret Grebowicz; Baudrillard’s “Astral America”; “Playing Indian” by Philip J. Deloria; national parks ...
14: Fear of Waking Up
12 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes it feels like something went wrong and that’s why we’re here, that we’re in some kind of cosmic cage or simulated psy-op. We become ...
12: Papa Nurgle's Hedonic Plagues feat. Tyler Barragan
28 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Become! Become! Become! No one, not two, in sky and seed sewn, dream up shadows to love through and hold their calloused hands. Shape change in the n...
11: High Magic and Eldritch Invo/Evocation feat. Alley Wurds
15 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Become! Become! Become!No one, not two, in sky and seed sewn, dream up shadows to love through and hold their calloused hands. Shape change in the net...
10: FKA twigs' Self-Mastery feat. Daphne Duvall
10 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
No one, not two, in sky and seed sewn, dream up shadows to love through and hold their calloused hands. Shape change in the nether pool from breath to...
9: Spirited Substance -- Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Breath, Grief, and Transcendent Faith feat. Amir Denzei Hall and Jasmin Joseph
01 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Amir aka @amirzinggrace is a dancer, writer, and visual artist. Jasmin is a writer and filmmaker--follow her instagram @somekindofheavenlyfilms and re...
8: Versing Fate: Fortuna, Nemesis, and Divination feat. Ione Richards
25 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
No one, not two, In sky and seed sewn, Dream up shadows to love through. Shape change in the nether-pool and drown with friends To arise anew again ...
7: Dissolving "Wetiko"--Pathogenic Existence and The Evil Within feat. Zachary Paul
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
No one, not two, Dream up shadows to love through. Shape change in the nether-pool and drown with friends To arise anew again and again. Joined by ...
6: Ambivalence Through Alterity, Love, and Escape in Charles Burns' "Black Hole"
11 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
No one, not two, Try to love through– Shape change in the nether-pool and drown with friends To arise anew again and again After an emotional sta...
5: C.H.U.D. -- Subterranean America and the Limits of Care feat. Lucas Murphy
04 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
No one, not two, Shape change in the nether-pool and drown with friends To arise anew again and again Josh and Jackie are joined by Lucas Murphy, hor...
4: Partialness and Unity in Donna Haraway's "A Cyborg Manifesto"
27 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
No one, not two, Shape change in the mutagenic pool and drown with friends Again and again Carson, Josh, and Jackie unpack A Cyborg Manifesto by Donna...
Aperitif
27 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A decadent snack. Bivalves; Oysters and clams; french cuisine and sadism; tinned fish; seafood; struggle meals; midwestern cuisine; RIP Anthony Bour...
3b: Searching for Revolutionary Spirit: We Are The Red Line
20 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
shape change -- jump in the mutagenic pool with friends again and again Josh interviewed a bunch of people at the Surround The White House, We Are th...
3a: Revolutionary Spirit, Death, and Will in Online Activism and Real-World Protest
13 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
shape change, jump in the mutagenic pool and drown with friends Josh and Jackie compare the deluge of calls to action online with IRL activations. Ho...
2: Evolving Online Community in Old School Runescape feat. Beaver Mosh
06 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
shape change jump in the mutagenic pool with friends Beaver Mosh makes metal reviews and interviews bands. https://www.youtube.com/@beavermosh4401/v...
1: "Mutant Community Building in Indra Sinha's 'Animal's People'" (A Retrospective)
31 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
shape change jump in the mutagenic pool I read my capstone essay from college almost a decade later with my friend. We discuss, analyze, critique, a...
0: Pilot
24 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Shape change. A rough overview of what we'll be trying to articulate with this project. Addiction, mystery ailments, woe as key to empathy, the ...