Strange Exiles

19/01/2025

Strange Exiles host Bram E. Gieben on shame and masculinity for Glasgow Review of Books, reviewing 'Clown World' - the thrilling exposé of Andrew Tate's 'War Room' by journalists Matt Shea and Jamie Tahsin.

From Mussolini's statuary to Tate's sports cars, to the halls of power in our democracies... how does shame drive misogyny, making masculinity toxic?

🔗 glasgowreviewofbooks.com
📚 Quercus Books
📸 LexScope

16/01/2025

Our second 'Redux' episode from 2021 features Ian 'Cat' Vincent, a Fortean Times journalist and practicing Combat Magician. We talked comics, chaos magic and the time he cursed Boris Johnson... Out now exclusively on S💣bstack

🎧 http://bit.ly/sx02redux
📸 Almos Bechtold

09/01/2025

⛏️ EPISODE 32 OUT NOW ⛏️ Steve Toase, field archaeologist and author of the short story collection 'Dirt Upon My Skin' joins me to discuss homelessness, folk horror, falling through the cracks, and digging up the past...

🎧 http://bit.ly/strangex32
📚 http://strangeexiles.substack.com

06/01/2025

EPISODE 1: REDUX 🕑 Revisit our first episode, a conversation with Dutch philosopher Peter Sas about nondualism, absolute idealism, and the wisdom of the Upanishads. Now exclusive to Substack subscribers 🕉️

🎧 http://bit.ly/sx01redux
📚 http://strangeexiles.substack.com

27/12/2024

FINAL EPISODE OF 2024! Author, broadcaster and activist Darren McGarvey returns to discuss identity politics, working class culture, and his final rap album under the name Loki.

🎧 http://bit.ly/strangex31
🔍 http://darrenmcgarvey.com
📸 Blair Kelly

27/11/2024

New out now! I speak with author, podcaster and political scientist Matt McManus, who says the time has come to revisit Liberal Socialism. Link in comments 🔗

13/11/2024

Why is it a problem when we try and ‘fix’ people? Meet JULIE RESHE, pioneer of Negative Psychoanalysis: A more realistic, pessimistic, and ultimately compassionate view of human suffering.

🧠 NEW EPISODE: bit.ly/strangex30

28/10/2024

Episode 29 of Strange Exiles is a deep dive into the thrilling, controversial and critically misunderstood 'SCUM Manifesto' by Valerie Solanas, via the plays of Sarah Kane ✨

💣 https://bit.ly/strangex29
📚 https://strangeexiles.substack.com

16/10/2024

👾 NEW ESSAY! 👾 Our collective faith in the AI singularity may be like the third-act twist in a bad movie… nothing but cheap deus ex machina, and a barrier to real progress.

Thoughts on the narrative of "the singularity" - from John Gray to Naomi Klein, to Patrick Shyu and Slavoj Žižek, via Neuromancer, Iain M. Banks Culture saga, and Westworld.

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13/10/2024

💫 NEW EPISODE! 💫 Cadell Last of Philosophy Portal joins me to discuss his new course on Christian Atheism, and the future of underground theory.

🎧 bit.ly/strangex28
📚 strangeexiles.substack.com
🤔 https://philosophyportal.online

30/09/2024

On Saturday 5 October Strange Exiles host Bram will be presenting a talk on General AI, storytelling and deus ex machina at the Rosy Cross conference online.

👾 philosophyportal.online/rosy-cross
👾 Saturday 5 October, 19.30 CEST, 18.30 UK
👾 linktr.ee/bramegieben

27/09/2024

Happy publication day to Mike Watson! Read about his book over at the Strange Exiles blog, or order a copy today at revolpress.com

21/08/2024

Author, critic and Revol Press founder Mike Watson discusses his new book Hungry Ghosts in the Machine: Digital Capitalism and the Search for Self.

🎧 http://bit.ly/strangex27
📚 http://strangeexiles.substack.com

25/07/2024

Episode 26 out now! An interview with media theorist, hip-hop journalist and zine kid ROY CHRISTOPHER, author of DEAD PRECEDENTS (Repeater Books) and BOOGIE DOWN PREDICTIONS (Strange Attractor). Listen at bit.ly/strangex26

14/07/2024

Fredric Jameson believed cyberpunk was the "supreme literary expression if not of postmodernism, then of late capitalism itself."

Strange Exiles presents an introduction to some classics of the genre (and less-visited nodes) across literature, film, manga and TV.

From Neuromancer and Ghost in the Shell to Kaleidoscope Century and The Shockwave Rider, this is MAXIMUM REZ.

Read now at http://strangeexiles.substack.com



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10/07/2024

Going live right now on You Call That Radio? to discuss drones, apocalypse, sim theory, aliens and more with Mark McGhee. Come over to the darkest timeline 🔥🌍

this week Bram launches his first ever novel called 'The Darkest Timeline' which includes everything from cyberpunk consciousness to climate hacking , social...

09/07/2024

Before Friday's event Glasgow launch: The Darkest Timeline by Bram E. Gieben, hear an extract from the book on the liminal horrors that haunt our corporate city centres. Plus! An interview with Revol Press founder Mike Watson.

13/06/2024

🎭 EPISODE 24 OUT NOW 🎭 Kieran Hurley discusses his breakthrough Scottish rave culture classic Beats, how to kick off a career in the arts, and his life as an acclaimed writer for stage and screen.

🎧 http://bit.ly/strangex24
📖 http://strangeexiles.substack.com