A Mutant Manifesto

Jackie

Born from the need for breaking out of stuck cycles, AMM does so by thinking through and with cultural texts, existential quandaries, critical theory, interpersonal relationships, and more. Each episode we present ourselves and guests with the opportunity to mutate our manifesto, seeking something adaptive and generative for us to connect with.

  1. 33: Love Under Will Beyond the Signs of Harm and Abuse ft. V of SaturnVox

    May 20

    33: Love Under Will Beyond the Signs of Harm and Abuse ft. V of SaturnVox

    Read V’s essays at ⁠https://www.saturnvox.com/autobiography⁠ ; listen to their podcast Khimaira ; follow them ⁠https://www.instagram.com/saturnvox/⁠  The difficulty of disclosing abuse to someone who sees themselves as good; Simone Weil and Badness as contradiction; Garmeting, costuming, and creaturing as disguising vs revealing; Performance beyond acting; remaining with uncertainty; instability of self thru Heidegger’s Fallenness and Sartre’s nausea; Anne Carson’s staying with time Against accelerationism; Erotics as intervention in intellectual hegemony; Empathy vs care; idea vs embodiment; icon vs real; abuse in occulture; Philip K Dick, VALIS, and the disturbance of contemporary visionaries; call out and cancel culture making response and dialogue impossible; harm as reduction to stable image; Neoliberal care vs ethics of intra-relationality; Codependent arising; rejecting OTO’s Will as independent; Volcano as destroyer and creatrix; Love as non-fixing, as a matrix of relation The cicadas terrify me. They sing themselves outside history. They no longer hunger. They no longer wait. They no longer suffer the humiliation of distance. They pop out of the ground and they sing, they sing, they sing. What an ecstasy.  The song feels sacred so nothing interrupts it. Nothing interrupts it. Nothing interprets it. Nothing reaches them anymore. They can’t be bothered to stop singing. Their little bodies become sealed cathedrals of sound. After three days of forgetting to eat they pass away, still singing. A teenager from Asheville will collect their bodies from the ground and attach their wings to jewelry she sells on etsy.  At least they were never hungry.  — The heart understands long before philosophy does. It contracts. It releases. It contracts again. A pause lives inside every proof of life. When I flatline, does life disappear, or only the interval through which I learned to move through it? I can’t make a sound unless there is inhale, exhale. If I cannot make a sound, surely the screaming will turn itself inside out and eat me for breakfast. It is only in the interval I am given strength to beat my chest, cries of pride. I exist perhaps as something holy only through time. Keeping rhythm to mark my duration—infinity as eternal recurrence. Every living thing I have ever loved moves by meeting in the corner spaces where inside-outside meet: tides, lungs, language, grief, migration patterns, menstrual blood, sleep. Even stars survive by tearing themselves apart. I think this is why lovers touch each other with such terror. To touch requires two surfaces remaining strange to one another. Repetition, difference. Repetition, difference. Repetition, difference. Dissatisfied when the top stops humming; alienated from my own pleasures once it’s secured in my back pocket. Let them keep spinning. I’m curious, so, the skin must continue translating.

    2h 26m
  2. 32: Quantum Sublime, Scale, and Self Art feat. Ahnika Berg

    Apr 15

    32: Quantum Sublime, Scale, and Self Art feat. Ahnika Berg

    Ahnika's hand-bound book comes out in June. Follow her on her website https://ahnikabergphotography.com/ or ig https://www.instagram.com/theriverunsdeep Buzzing inspiration and nature photography; quantum physics, T-duality, inverted strings as containing identical physical properties as the string itself; curation and authenticity; spring forest qi gong: the universe is in me and I am in the universe; books as portals; scale and alignment in spirituality; anxiety and breakthrough as sides of a coin; cyclical rest and inspiration; ecological selfhood; boundary-crossing interdisciplinary art/philosophy/political theory; feminism and living in the body; lifestyle as art and praxis; animism, emotion, and existing in context; non-innocence, sovereignty, and dissonance as related to harmony; devising containers to hold joy; void as life-force ___ if I punch at the machine will it make a dent ,, Before I crack my hand open on the titanium steel and my blood slides off leaving no stains? If I scream into the void, who are you that listens? After the fires, will I know how to leave what’s dead? Sometimes it feels like something went wrong and that’s why we’re here, in some kind of cosmic cage or projected reality. But we become in the face of simulations and psy-ops, and from wrongness spring. syncretism is for the honorable and dishonorable alike. In thought and in body, no one, not two, in sky and seed sewn, we dream up shadows to love through and hold their calloused hands, shaping change in the nether-pool from breath to breath and coming up again and again seeking vistas of freedom. We ground ourselves and study the chaos. The mutant spirit still lives among us! There should be no attempt to fix man, since it is our destiny to be unleashed! Learn from the labyrinths in breathing mountains. Record before flight. And when you plummet back to the mud, how does it feel to dissolve, decay with me? Like the process of radioactive decay in unstable atoms, degeneration yields a more sustainable future. Destruction wages her war to lay with creation.

    1h 12m
  3. 31H: Frozen Rhizome: Hauntological Thick-Present Absence

    Mar 31

    31H: Frozen Rhizome: Hauntological Thick-Present Absence

    Haunted spaces in America and the ICE occupation; deadliness of immigration enforcement in the US; Derrida’s Hauntology as present absence; Occlusion vs erasure; fugitivity and elision; Haraway’s thick present; disturbed spirits and collectivism; "Unheimlich": the home that is not the home and the uncanny; mutual aid, direct action, workplace organizing, and historicity as practical steps for resistance; the need for care and breaks; corruption as motivation; Summary of Frozen Rhizome;

    22 min
  4. 31G: Art, Activism, and the Erotics of Attunement ft. Ahnika Berg

    Mar 8

    31G: Art, Activism, and the Erotics of Attunement ft. Ahnika Berg

    Follow Ahnika https://www.instagram.com/theriverunsdeep/ Art as necessary for activism; third spaces and activation as a political subject; ICE response in Duluth; queerness, cringe, and resistance; the resistance as multivalent; confidence despite impostor syndrome; radicalization from collectives; mass protagonization in conversation with collective sentiment; ice photography; audre lorde’s “uses of the erotic”

    1h 7m
  5. 31F: Frozen Rhizome: Sound from the Ground Up ft. D of The People’s Sound

    Mar 1

    31F: Frozen Rhizome: Sound from the Ground Up ft. D of The People’s Sound

    Sound systems in resistance movements; school of the americas protests; anarchist principles at play in community aid and defense; ICE changing tactics in Minneapolis; Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed and direct democracy in education; in-person activation; the interconnectedness of various episodes of resistance; dance as praxis; People’s Way, People’s Closet, and The People’s Sound Listen to D at https://soundcloud.com/davlux  Follow the people’s sound at https://www.instagram.com/peoplessoundmpls/ www.gofundme.com/f/support-twin-cities-direct-action-against-ice

    1h 11m
  6. 31E: Frozen Rhizome: Bodywork in Resistance Movement ft. Raye

    Feb 21

    31E: Frozen Rhizome: Bodywork in Resistance Movement ft. Raye

    The experience of detainment; how to describe violence?; the relative safety of white people in ICE custody; guilt, empathy, and radicalism; bodywork as mutual aid and praxis; sympathetic experiences of pain; the commodification and bureaucracy of care work; suicidal ideation and the will to resist; operation metro surge changing form; persistence and burnout in activism; gaining comfort with physical touch; this revolution as neurodivergent

    1h 7m
  7. 31D: Frozen Rhizome: Mutual Aid ft. Rosie

    Feb 13

    31D: Frozen Rhizome: Mutual Aid ft. Rosie

    Recorded 2.1.26 with Rosie – her substack at https://substack.com/@fatnsappy Mutual aid in potentially revolutionary times; the boomerang theory of empire; palestine and minneapolis; persistence past the ICE occupation in Minneapolis; Charity vs mutual aid; disability and empathy Trans Mutual Aid MN: https://tctma.org Smitten Kitten links: https://linktr.ee/smittenkittenmn

    51 min
  8. 31C: Frozen Rhizome: Between Abject Care and Atomized Hedonism in the Murderous Occupation of Minneapolis

    Jan 26

    31C: Frozen Rhizome: Between Abject Care and Atomized Hedonism in the Murderous Occupation of Minneapolis

    ICE murder of Alex Pretti; Don’t believe your lying eyes; the crime of caring; the american tension between personal hedonism and collective liberation; Julia Kristeva’s abjection and the labor of bodily care; the responsibility to go out and engage in direct action; the desire and need for self-care in activist contexts Music: Zachary Paul

    16 min
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Born from the need for breaking out of stuck cycles, AMM does so by thinking through and with cultural texts, existential quandaries, critical theory, interpersonal relationships, and more. Each episode we present ourselves and guests with the opportunity to mutate our manifesto, seeking something adaptive and generative for us to connect with.

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  • Creator
    Jackie
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    48
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Jackie
  • Show Website
    A Mutant Manifesto