5: C.H.U.D. -- Subterranean America and the Limits of Care feat. Lucas Murphy

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, horror screenwriter and Cusper Magazine editor, to discuss the 1984 movie, C.H.U.D. dir. Douglas Cheek. Cusper is an arts and literary magazine based in LA. Jackie's schizo essay in edition 1 can be found digitally here. See a trailer for Lucas' upcoming short, "You Can't Talk to the Dude", here. Works cited: William T Vollman, "Four Men" Hannah Arendt, "The Banality of Evil" US (2019) The Warriors (1979) The Descent (2005) Political negligence and toxic waste; homeless neighbors, tunnel people, and what you can do; limits of empathy; faith, force, and culture in collective struggle; being forced to be good; 80's Soho gentrification; conservatives, liberals, and drug addiction; do CHUDS have ethics?; toxins as connective force; the unseen struggles; below america; the white male american hero archetypes in 80's cinema; the woman as partial subject in 80's cinema; limits of Black representation in film and videogames; the morlocks from X-men; gradients of care; AI as toxic sludge; Nuclear anxiety; political gridlock as villain

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