The Cloud of Unknowing (Middle English: The Cloude of Unknowyng) is an anonymous work of Christian mysticism written in Middle English in the latter half of the 14th century. The text is a spiritual guide on contemplative prayer in the late Middle Ages. The book counsels a young student to seek God, not through knowledge and intellection (faculty of the human mind), but through intense contemplation, motivated by love, and stripped of all thought. This is brought about by putting all thought ...
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*Preview* Don't Fear the Reaper w/ Howie Hubberman
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Full episode here Ex Guns N' Roses/Poison manager and OG Pawn Star Howie Hubberman comes on to talk about LA in the 1980's, antiquing, Hair Metal, Power Ballads, doing 1000 pushups a day while battling cancer, Slash’s Appetite for Destruction guitar, weird music industry shenanigans, the mafia, mud wresting competitions in the valley, hustling, and…
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190. Eternal Platitude w/ Dan Spencer
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Continuing down the "I ain't reading all of that" interview series with a very special guest bound to be a cult household classicDan Spencer is a musician and songwriter who released my favorite album of the year Return To Your Dark Master. He’s also a longtime Contain listener (to my surprise) and a very knowledgable and thoughtful guy who went fr…
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*Pt. 1* 189. MilSim, True Crime: Cloud of Unknowing w/ Ben Werther and Maggie Dunlap
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First Half, full 2 hr+ episode here ...on LARPing with artists Maggie Dunlap and Ben Werther and his recent show When You Can No Longer Speak, Sing Me A Song documenting mock high stakes environments of Military Simulation (MilSim) culture. Other topics: identity construction and the fraying of the American cultural fabric, the anonymous 14th centu…
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*PREVIEW* 188. Hippos In Tanks Story w/ Travis Woolsey
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*PREVIEW* 186. Wayback Machine w/ Jason Scott (Internet Archive)
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Preview, for full episodes and more subscribe here 2.5 hour rundown of one of the worlds most treasured resources—the Internet Archive—with digital archive legend Jason Scott of Internet Archive. We go in on the ins and outs of the collection and why preserving pre-online digital media matters now more than ever We discuss ripping VHS tapes of Tuva…
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187. UCLA Protest Report - Rave New World x Contain
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In this collaborative episode between Contain and Rave New World, Michelle and Barrett make it to the UCLA student protest encampment just hours before it was violently shut down by the authorities. Slipping past plywood barricades into the graffiti-bombed "liberated zone," they discover an anxious scene of protestors gearing up for a confrontation…
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*Preview* 183. Inside w/ Ben Hopkins (Inside, Simon Magus) and Benjamin Kellog
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Me and Ben Kellog speak with writer/director Ben Hopkins (Inside (2023) w/ Willem Dafoe, Simon Magus, Lost in Karastan) on dialogue-free scripts, armageddon, and more For full episodes, resources, and more support the project on Patreon
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*Preview* 179. Lawrence of Belgravia / Book of the Dead - Corin Johnson
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Interview with Corin Johnson on the unveiling of his pink marble sculpture of Lawrence (Felt, Mozart Estate) in the Fitzrovia Chapel in London and his fascinating upbringing in the Spiritualist Church. Full premium episode on Patreon
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*Preview* 178. BCH (F.T 4) - In Praise of Inactivity w/ Emmalea Russo
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Emmalea Russo is back to analyze the new Byung Chul Han book "In Praise of Inactivity", the 2024 content creator exodus, ethereal tiredness, and more ***Full premium 3 hr episode on Patreon***
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Ebenezer Group News Hour: Flannery Group, Haiti, Kurt Campbell/Nuland Replacement
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New show where Barrett and Alex (Coolwater) untangle geopolitics, news, and twilight as a neo-exotica PI themed music duo. Graphic by Anson Nguyen Music by the Ebenezer Group w/ The Rockford Files Subscribe/Support ******************************************************** Haiti, Jimmy BBQ Shevalier G9 Pierre Esperance NGOs Indigenous Symbolic power …
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181. (First hour) 21st Century Non-Cybernetics: Game Theory, Double Bind, Psychonics in Russia, a History of 'Thinking Machines' Pt. 2
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This is the first half-for full 3 hour episode as well as resources, extra documents, and more plz subscribe HERE Episode on the history of non/anti-cybernetics (Game/Automata/Double Bind Theory) developed in the UK, US, USSR, and China and what that means for us today: cognitive autonomy, surveillance, breaking out of the cyberculture, etc. Throug…
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180. (Preview) 21st Century Cybernetics PT. 1: A History of Feedback Loops
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First hour, for full 3 hour episode, show notes, documentation, and more consider supporting herePart one of a series on Cybernetics of the Future aka "how smart people end up dumb". Instead of retreading well-told examples of the 20th century we go to Leibniz, Yuk Hui, U/ACC, Muller, Ampere, etc. to figure out its ambience and omnipresence in cult…
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177. A History of Volcanoes: JMW Turner, Theory of Color, Starting Over
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This episode dives into the mythological, religious, scientific, and natural geologies of giant lava-spewing cauldrons spanning centuries as well as their place in the history of art.JMW Turner', Goethe's Theory of Color, JW of Derby's Vesuvius, baptism and Christian conversion of volcanoes, "Vamp" aesthetics, Milo Rau: Theater of Democracy, Sakura…
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176. 2024 DesertIslandmaxx - Best Of *Preview*
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175. Archive Fever - Ruby Justice Thelot *Unlocked*
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The internet is tedious, impersonal, rarely goes anywhere. Cyber-ethnographer/professor Ruby Justice Thelot comes on to talk about Checkpoints--a new book which charts the 10 + year history of an extended forum beneath a Youtube video loop of the Donkey Kong Country 2 soundtrack full of personal stories of tragedy, triumph, and major life events th…
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*Preview* 174. Free Time III: Dissonance, Leisure, and Change in Showa-era Japanese Art, Post-War Satellites, and Today
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FULL EP* ON PATREONOk, we are back—this episode comes live from Osaka Japan, where we explore the free-time lost space age culture of the Showa era, the dissonance of post-WWII art, technology, Expo 70’, and how some of the lessons from the recent past can be applied to the present moment.Parthenogenesis, cultural reform and the Showa era, artistic…
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01 - Prologue and the First Chapter - Of four degrees of Christian men's living; and of the course of his calling that this book was made unto.
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02 - The Second Chapter - A short stirring to meekness, and to the work of this book.
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03 - The Third Chapter - How the work of this book shall be wrought, and of the worthiness of it before all other works.
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04 - The Fourth Chapter - Of the shortness of this word, and how it may not be come to by curiosity of wit, nor by imagination.
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05 - The Fifth Chapter - That in the time of this word all the creatures that ever have been, be now, or ever shall be, and all the works of those same creatures, should be hid under the cloud of forgetting ...
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06 - The Sixth Chapter - A short conceit of the work of this book, treated by question.
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07 - The Seventh Chapter - How a man shall have him in this work against all thoughts, and specially against all those that arise of his own curiosity, of cunning, and of natural wit.
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08 - The Eighth Chapter - A good declaring of certain doubts that may fall in this word treated by question, in destroying of a man's own curiosity, of cunning, and of natural wit, and in distinguishing ...
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09 - The Ninth Chapter - That in the time of this work the remembrance of the holiest Creature that ever God made letteth more than it profiteth.
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10 - The Tenth Chapter - How a man shall know when his thought is no sin; and if it be sin, when it is deadly and when it is venial.
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11 - The Eleventh Chapter - That a man should weigh each thought and each stirring after that it is, and always eschew recklessness in venial sin.
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12 - The Twelfth Chapter - That by Virtue of this word sin is not only destroyed, but also Virtues begotten.
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13 - The Thirteenth Chapter - What meekness is in itself, and when it is perfect and when it is imperfect.
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14 - The Fourteenth Chapter - That without imperfect meekness coming before, it is impossible for a sinner to come to the perfect Virtue of meekness in this life.
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15 - The Fifteenth Chapter - A short proof against their error that say, that there is no perfecter cause to be meeked under, than is the knowledge of a man's own wretchedness.
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16 - The Sixteenth Chapter - That by Virtue of this work a sinner truly turned and called to contemplation cometh sooner to perfection than by any other work; and by it soonest may get of God forgiveness ...
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17 - The Seventeenth Chapter - That a Very contemplative list not meddle him with active life, nor of anything that is done or spoken about him, nor yet to answer to his blamers in excusing of himself ...
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18 - The Eighteenth Chapter - How that yet unto this day all actives complain of contemplatives as Martha did of Mary. Of the which complaining ignorance is the cause.
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19 - The Nineteenth Chapter - A short excusation of him that made this book teaching how all contemplatives should have all actives fully excused of their complaining words and deeds.
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20 - The Twentieth Chapter - How Almighty God will goodly answer for all those that for the excusing of themselves list not leave their business about the love of Him.
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21 - The One and Twentieth Chapter - The true exposition of this gospel word, 'Mary hath chosen the best part.'
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22 - The Two and Twentieth Chapter - Of the wonderful love that Christ had to man in person of all sinners truly turned and called to the grace of contemplation.
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23 - The Three and Twentieth Chapter - How God will answer and purvey for them in spirit, that for business about His love list not answer nor purvey for themselves.
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24 - The Four and Twentieth Chapter - What charity is in itself, and how it is truly and perfectly contained in the work of this book.
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*Unlocked* 172. The Future's Not What It Used To Be Pt. 2
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Continuation of Part 1. on Google architecture with a focus on the architectural history of McDonalds, Byung Chul Han’s Pais Interview: living life backwards, storyselling vs. story-telling: the death of narrative, and Ray Kroc’s corporate takeover, fast food political statements on genocidal conflict, private land-holding companies and cutting cor…
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25 - The Five and Twentieth Chapter - That in the time of this work a perfect soul hath no special beholding to any one man in this life.
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26 - The Six and Twentieth Chapter - That without full special grace, or long use in common grace, the work of this book is right travailous; and in this work, which is the work of the soul helped by grace ...
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27 - The Seven and Twentieth Chapter - Who should work in the gracious work of this book.
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28 - The Eight and Twentieth Chapter - That a man should not presume to work in this work before the time that he be lawfully cleansed in conscience of all his special deeds of sin.
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29 - The Nine and Twentieth Chapter - That a man should bidingly travail in this work, and suffer the pain thereof, and judge no man.
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30 - The Thirtieth Chapter - Who should blame and condemn other men's defaults.
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31 - The One and Thirtieth Chapter - How a man should have him in beginning of this work against all thoughts and stirrings of sin.
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32 - The Two and Thirtieth Chapter - Of two ghostly devices that be helpful to a ghostly beginner in the work of this book.
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