145. - A Podcast Against The Spoken Word - Ian Svenonious (The Make-Up, Nation of Ulysees)

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For full 2 hour episode, archive, bonuses, and general support please consider supporting the show here Contain Interview w/ Ian Svenonious (Nation of Ulysees, The Make-Up, Escape-ism, Soft Focus) about his new book, an anti-literacy polemic entitled Against The Written Word, 'the book to end all books'. From advocating for universal illiteracy to banning the phonetic alphabet, I.S takes us through an odyssey of the written word and all its consequences.... Lil Yachty as the new Little Richard, pioneering the conceptual talk-show, nostalgia Mcluhan, journalists: scribes of the oligarchs, lip syncing, analog sacrifice, covert op counter-enlightenment, digital photography disasters, Maoist anti intellectualism, slogans, how art has become the art critique, being (small s) 'conservative', and more. “What happens when you reduce the world to words…art can’t exist in this environment, it reduces the world to legalese”