Aug 20 2023 41 mins
What happens when you rhyme apocalypses with irises? With Jac Common in conversation with Ian Macartney and Maria Sledmere, we take a ride on the moody tributaries of anthropocene lyric to encounter Samantha Walton’s Bad Moon: a 2020 SPAMphlet which explores multiple ends of the world through its critical poethics.
Note:
This podcast is haunted by issues with audio due to the boat wifi being intercepted by some bad omens. Nae fear, it’s still listenable! And we did our best to navigate the channelz :’)
Jac Common is a writer and recovering scientist from Nottingham, UK. Their poetic and critical work has been published and is forthcoming boh online and in print. Their debut pamphlet, Wetbulb, is coming out with Osmosis in 2023/24. They were also shortlisted for the 2022 Magma Pamphlet competition, which was nice. They are currently driving a boat between cities at walking pace in the wrong direction.
https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/our-people/samantha-walton/
Buy Bad Moon for £5 here:
https://www.spamzine.co.uk/product-page/bad-moon-samantha-walton
Editing and introduction: Ian Macartney
Further reading:
Un Chien Andalou, Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí (1929).
Galina Rymbu, Life in Space (New York: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2020, trans. Joan Brooks).
William Blake, Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793) public domain.
William Shakespeare, The Tempest, ii.I
Aiskhylos, Agamemnon in An Oresteia (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, trans. Anne Carson)
Derek Jarman, Modern Nature (London: Vintage, 1992).
Daisy Hildyard, The Second Body (London: Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2017).
Fred Carter (2022) ‘`Crude Oil Shaping Forms of Writing`: Galina Rymbu’s Life in Space, Ecoes, 4, 56-65.
Esther Leslie, Fog, Froth and Foam: Insubstantial Matters in Substantive Atmospheres in Electric Brine (Berlin: Archive Books, 2021, ed. Jennifer Teets).
Sophie Lewis (2017) ‘Amniotechnics’, The New Enquiry, link
Max Liboiron, Pollution is Colonialism (New York, London: Duke University Press, 2021).
Stacey Alaimo, Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self (Bloomington: Indiana University Press).
Lauren Berlant (2007) ‘Slow Death (Sovereignty, Obesity, Lateral Agency)’, Critical Inquiry, 33(4), 754–780.
Futher noise:
Funeralopolis - Electric Wizard
Copy of A - Nine Inch Nails
Sulfur - Slipknot
THE PERPETUAL FLAME OF CENTRALIA - Lingua Ignota
Pet - The Perfect Circle
Welcome To My Island - Caroline Polachek
Save The Dream, Kill Your Friends - Pupil Slicer
Autoimmune - Pharmakon
Land Disasters - Blanck Mass
Enjoy The Silence - Depeche Mode
Official Bad Moon playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2mgmUCgMuf2VEknRfFHfpf?si=c933c4c871f04961