Tender Subject

011 - Buddhism, Chöd, and Cannibalism as Compassion

This week, Jay tells Kayte about the Vajrayana Buddhist practice of chöd, where a person visualizes sacrificing their body for a feast of buddhas and demons. Through this, we explore death, the use of human remains in ritual, and the liberatory potentials of this kind of practice.
 
Jay also talks about this practice a little on the Empty Man episode of Horror Vanguard: https://soundcloud.com/user-317910500/181-the-empty-man-with-jay-from-librarypunk
 
And here's a Buddhist ambient black metal band: https://sadhaka108.bandcamp.com/
 
Sources:
Jigme Lingpa (2006). "The Longchen Nyingthig Chöd Practice: "The Loud Laugh of the Dakini"" (PDF). Zangthal.co.uk.
Stott, David (1989). "Offering the Body: the Practice of gCod in Tibetan Buddhism". Religion. 19 (3): 221–226. 10.1016/0048-721x(89)90021-3.
 
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010 - Tender is the Flesh/Meat Love

This week, Kayte and Jay discuss two books about the relationship between capitalism, the meat industry, and the exploitation of both human and non-human animals. We also talk about how people involved with cannibal media keep going vegetarian: Guillermo del Toro, Bryan Fuller, Agustina Bazterrica, and now Kayte!
 
Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
Meat Love: An Ideology of the Flesh by Amber Husain
 
Clip at the end from Episode 01 of John Berger's Ways of Seeing
 
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009 - The Texas Chain Saw Massacre w/ Johanna Isaacson

Did somebody order head cheese? If you did, you're in luck! This week, we're joined by Johanna Isaacson, author of Stepford Daughters: Weapons for Feminists in Contemporary Horror, to talk about the one, the only, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre! We ask the important questions, such as, "does Leatherface represent feminized labor?" and "is Leatherface trapped in an MLM?"
(We worry about Leatherface's wellbeing a lot.)
 
Readings:
“Blood for Oil,” Chuck Jackson
Men, Women, and Chain Saws, Carol Clover
Splatter Capital, Mark Steven
“The American Nightmare,” Robin Wood
“Cannibalism, Class, and Power: A foodways analysis of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” Mark Bernard
“Horrible Form,” Evan Calder Williams
“Headcheese and a Side of Benjamin,” Jerry D Metz
“Film Bodies: Genre, Gender and Excess,” Linda Williams
 
Jo’s links: 
Twitter handle @StepfordDotter
Stepford Daughters link 
Facebook horror group
Blind Field Journal
Precarious Souls (a super DIY movie they're making with friends)
 
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Art by Anya R. Hueing
Music by @coffin_flops

008 - Hannibal Season 1 w/ Leon from The Left Page

Strike Information:
https://www.sagaftrastrike.org/
https://www.wgacontract2023.org/
 
Leon from The Left Page and Here Be Media joins us to discuss season 1 of everyone's favorite queer cannibal show: Hannibal! And what is a podcast? Is it not when people come together and forge a connection? The boundaries between the Self and the Other merging like so many sound waves?
Tell me, Will...is your Self so different from my Other?
 
Additional music:
Prelude in B Minor, BWV 923 - J.S. Bach
Agrippina, Act 2 Prelude - G.F. Handel
 
Find Leon (and Frank) wherever you get your podcasts: https://linktr.ee/leftpagehbm
 
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007 - Cannibalism and Early Christianity w/ Justin from librarypunk

We're finally gonna talk about cannibalism and The ChurchTM...but probably not in the way you expect! Justin from the librarypunk podcast joins us to discuss such things as the existential paranoias of 2nd century Christians, whatever happened to Jesus' foreskin, and the reason gay sex is so cosmologically threatening.
Articles and books mentioned:
Cohn, Norman. The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages, Revised and Expanded Edition. Revised edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 1970.
Douglas, Mary. Leviticus As Literature. Oxford University Press, 1999.
Federici, Silvia. Caliban and the Witch. Second revised ed. Autonomedia, 2014.
McGowan, Andrew. "Eating People: Accusations of Cannibalism Against Christians in the Second Century." Journal of Early Christian Studies, vol. 2 no. 4, 1994, p. 413-442. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/earl.0.0202.
Moss, Candida R. "Infant Exposure and the Rhetoric of Cannibalism, Incest, and Martyrdom in the Early Church." Journal of Early Christian Studies, vol. 29 no. 3, 2021, p. 341-369. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/earl.2021.0023.
 
Listen to Justin (and Jay!) on the librarypunk podcast, wherever fine podcasts are distributed. You can find them at librarypunk.gay, or on Bluesky and Twitter @librarypunk.
 
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006 - Manifesto Antropófago w/ Frank from The Left Page

We're due a good manifesto, don't you agree? This week, we're joined by Frank from The Left Page/Here Be Media podcasts to discuss the Manifesto Antropófago, or the Cannibalist Manifesto, by Brazilian poet Oswald de Andrade.
 
The translation we're working from: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20119601
Frank's references:
"Cem anos da Semana de Arte Moderna: O gabinete paulista e a conjuração das vanguardas" by Lena Tenório da Motta ("100 years of the Modern Art Week: The São Paulo Cabinet and the Conjuration of the Vanguards")
"A Ideologia Modernista: A Semana de 22 e sua Consagração", by Luís Augusto Fischer ("The Modernist Ideology: The Week of 22 and its Consecration")
06 - Baya episode of Imaginarium : An Alternate History of Art
 
Find Frank on Twitter and Bluesky as FrankGothic.
Find their podcasts The Left Page & Here Be Media wherever you get your podcasts: https://linktr.ee/leftpagehbm
 
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005 - Antiviral (2012) w/ Jon aka TheLitCritGuy

Jon aka TheLitCritGuy, one of the two co-ghosts of Horror Vanguard, joins us to discuss Brandon Cronenberg's debut film Antiviral. Make sure you get your vaccine series of celebrity and the Spectacle, and don't forget your boosters of radical collectivity and the importance of being a weird little guy.
 
You can find Jon on Twitter and Bluesky as thelitcritguy.
Listen to Horror Vanguard wherever you get your podcasts!

004 - Raw (2016) w/ Jake Flores

You asked, we delivered. Comedian and podcaster Jake Flores joins us to talk about Julia Ducournau's 2016 film Raw.
 
You can find Jake everywhere @feraljokes.
Listen to his podcasts Pod Damn America and Why You Mad.
 
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Art by Anya R. Hueing
Music by @coffin_flops

003 - Motel Hell (1980) w/ Ashley Darrow

We're joined by our very first guest, Ashley Darrow from the Horror Vanguard podcast, to talk about the 1980 horror film Motel Hell. This movie has everything: class politics, eco-Christofascism, chainsaw fights, swingers. It also sparked a great discussion about the ethics of meat production and the politics of total liberation.
You can find Ash here:
@darrowvania on Twitter
@darrowscope on Instagram
darrow.media
@HorrorVanguard on Twitter and Instagram
horrorvanguard.com
patreon.com/horrorvanguard
 
And for a more in-depth discussion about total liberation politics and "post-veganism", make sure to check out Ash's appearance on episode 96 of the Total Liberation podcast!
 
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Art by Anya R. Hueing
Music by @coffin_flops

002 - Art is Eating Itself

This week, we talk about a very hot-button issue: art! Our main course is the Spectator article Art is Eating Itself by Emma Webb. This discussion leads us through a delectable buffet of Modernism, Feminism, Marxism...and Hannah Gadsby.
NOTES FROM THE EDITOR:
We sometimes use incorrect pronouns for Hannah Gadsby. This was not intentional, and we apologize for the error.
We recorded an update about Gadsby's museum show, and it is included at the end of the episode after a brief music transition.
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