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"I am the idiot who will not be himself: fuck it" - Marilyn Manson, Irresponsible Hate Anthem Keyhole - 2011 - Guy Maddin The Incident - 1967 - Larry Peerce Sponsor: subnormality.ca twitter: twitter.com/comeinallunits facebook: facebook.com/comeinallunits email: allunitspodcast@gmail.com

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Feb 22, 2018

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SFUltra is my attempt as a lifetime science fiction skeptic's attempt to get into the genre by reading 100 science fiction books I purchased in Wales one time. It gets published every two weeks.

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#0 - Introduction: A brief introduction to the series and the thinking behind it. by SFULTRA
11 min listen
#2 - Work: Uniform: "From this point of view, the key element in the evolution of machinery is not its size, complexity, or speed of operation, but the manner in which its operations are controlled" - Harry Braverman, Labor and Monopoly Capital A Man in Uniform... by SFULTRA
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#13 - Intoxication: Sex: “ Christ is dead and the monks are in ecstasy” - Sarah Kane, 4:48 Psychosis Tightrope - 1984 - Richard Tuggle In The Cut - 2003 - Jane Campion Sponsor: subnormality.ca twitter: twitter.com/comeinallunits facebook:... by SFULTRA
51 min listen
#9 - Work: Career Opportunities: "Various disguises are regrettable but necessary if you're going to make it through the day. " - Rob Wright, Nomeansno Perfect Blue - 1997 - Satoshi Kon Chameleon Street - 1989 - Wendall B Harris Sponsor: subnormality.ca twitter:... by SFULTRA
43 min listen
#4 - Work: Work/Life Balance: "In the end, they may submit to the strongest and most brutal individuals, simply because they cannot organize and plan their actions by themselves" - Max Horkheimer, Critical Theory Sponsor: subnormality.ca twitter: twitter.com/comeinallunits... by SFULTRA
41 min listen
Calling All Units - Horrorthon Recap: Capsule reviews of all of the films, around 23?, I managed to catch at this year's horrorthon. Sponsor: subnormality.ca twitter: twitter.com/comeinallunits facebook: facebook.com/comeinallunits email: allunitspodcast@gmail.com by SFULTRA
61 min listen
#5 - Work: Technology: “A microphone which responds unevenly or to less than the full range will alter the sound of the instrument, though this effect may be desirable in some cases” - Microphone Techniques For Music, Sound Reinforcement 711 Ocean Drive - 1950 - Joseph... by SFULTRA
39 min listen
#10 - Work: Office Culture: “Boredom is the desire for happiness left in its pure state”. —Giacomo Leopardi Outrage - 2010 - Takeshi Kitano Investigation Of A Citizen Above Suspicion - 1970 - Elio Petri Sponsor: subnormality.ca twitter:... by SFULTRA
43 min listen
Calling All Units - LA Takedown, Kansas City Confidential and a Unifying Theory Of Art by SFULTRA
34 min listen
#1 - Work: Project Management: The Hole - 1960 - Jacques Becker Accident - 2009 - Soi Cheang https://www.facebook.com/ComeInAllUnits/ https://twitter.com/comeinallunits allunitspodcast@gmail.com Sponser: subnormality.ca by SFULTRA
37 min listen
Calling All Units - Focus, Hidden City, What Archives Are For: I cover a couple of loose units: Focus and Hidden City. Both provide different angles on surveillance and recording equipment on Dossier 51's take on surveillance. Then I answer some questions and admit to using a fidget spinner. by SFULTRA
37 min listen
#11 - Intoxication: Drugs: "The style of this film is not that of a thriller. Using image and sound, the filmmaker strives to express the nightmare of a young man whose weaknesses lead him to commit acts of theft for which nothing destined him." - Robert Bresson, Pickpocket ... by SFULTRA
44 min listen
#24 - Navigation: Source Material: "Vernacular postmodernism has dealt with the 'crisis of symbolic efficiency' in a far less intense way than Nick Land, through metafictional anxieties about the function of the author, and in television programs or films which expose the mecha- nisms... by SFULTRA
108 min listen
#7 - Work: Start-Ups: "Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks." - Stokely Carmichael The Enforcer - 1951 - Bretaigne Windust [Raoul Walsh] The Spook Who Sat By The Door - 1973 - Ivan Dixon Sponsor: subnormality.ca twitter:... by SFULTRA
43 min listen
#8 - Work: Peter Yates Special: "That is to say: Toward the accomplishment of an aim which in wantonness of atrocity would seem to partake of the insane, he will direct a cool judgment sagacious and sound. These men are madmen, and of the most dangerous sort…" Herman Melville,... by SFULTRA
45 min listen
Calling All Units - A Near Miss: “But what would be our readers’ reaction if we simply refused to get to the bottom of that question?” - Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain Sponsor: subnormality.ca twitter: twitter.com/comeinallunits facebook: facebook.com/comeinallunits... by SFULTRA
34 min listen
#3 - Work: Office Politics: "that which is neurotic in the individual is, in capitalism, normal and socially desirable for functioning society" - Harry Braverman, Labour and Monopoly Capital Election - 2005 - Johnnie To Election 2 - 2006 - Johnnie To Human Factor - 1979 - Otto... by SFULTRA
42 min listen
Calling All Units - Haunting Maleness, Pervasive Misogyny, Some Nudity Required: A listener's question about the role of masculinity in the thriller and much of the media I tend to cover lead to this episode. As part of the question I also cover permissiveness around misogyny in the genre film community and review the... by SFULTRA
45 min listen
Calling All Units - Top Of The Heap, "Post Horror" by SFULTRA
39 min listen
#14 - Intoxication: Guns: “Since this war was won in advance, we will never know what it would have been like had it existed” - Jean Baudrillard, The Gulf War Did Not Take Place The Hard Way - 1974 - Michael Dryhurst (Richard Ryan) Handgun - 1984 - Tony Garnett... by SFULTRA
42 min listen
Calling All Units - They Are Sitting In A Room: Similar to the one I am sitting in now. Sponsor: subnormality.ca Email: allunitspodcast@gmail.com Subscribe on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/all-units/id1241776225?mt=2 by SFULTRA
46 min listen
Calling All Units - Depressing Media, Keeping Up, Depicting Fists Connecting: I answer some questions about depressing media, watching habits and ways to watch before discussing the technology that is the fight scenes in Destruction Babies. Sponsor: subnormality.ca twitter: twitter.com/comeinallunits facebook:... by SFULTRA
45 min listen
#6 - Work: Mergers, Acquisitions, and Takeovers: The Nickle Ride - 1974 - Robert Mulligan The Bad Sleep Well - 1960 - Akira Kurosawa Sponsor: subnormality.ca twitter: twitter.com/comeinallunits facebook: facebook.com/comeinallunits email: allunitspodcast@gmail.com by SFULTRA
41 min listen
#12 - Intoxication: Alcohol: “All of us, in some part or another, are loathsome. We all harbour a crime we’ve committed, or a crime our soul is begging us to commit” - The Book Of Disquiet, Fernando Pessoa Small Back Room - 1949 - Michael Powell Emeric Pressburger... by SFULTRA
46 min listen
Calling All Units - TV VS ADHD, Book Recommendations, Favourite Non-All Units Films: I answer questions about dream logic, adhd impacting on working habits, book recommendations, my favourite films of all time that don't fit into All Units Sponsor: subnormality.ca twitter: twitter.com/comeinallunits facebook:... by SFULTRA
42 min listen
#17 - Navigation: Trauma: "Tragedy is only a way of assembling human misfortune, of subsuming it, and thus of justifying it by putting it in the form of a necessity, of a kind of wisdom, or of a puriﬁcation. To reject this regeneration and to seek the technical means of not... by SFULTRA
38 min listen
Calling All Units - Manifestation Of Your Sickness: A YouTuber who caters exclusively to children posted a video of himself giggling beside the corpse of someone who had recently committed suicide. Sponsor: subnormality.ca twitter: twitter.com/comeinallunits facebook: facebook.com/comeinallunits... by SFULTRA
36 min listen
Calling All Units - Abuse Of Power Comes As No Surprise, Tarantinocore, Green Room: I talk about the Harvey Weinstein stories coming to light, the uselessness of ranked lists, my final ever comment about Tarantino and why I think green room is intellectual counterfeit money. by SFULTRA
47 min listen
Calling All Units - Romero, The Word "Influence", Pacing/Duration: I briefly eulogize genuine legend George Romero before talking about how the word "influence" and the way talking about film can be engineered to be inaccessible. Then I answer a listener question about thrillers and pacing. by SFULTRA
41 min listen
#23 - Navigation: Imprisonment: “But it must not be forgotten that ‘politics’ has been conceived as a continuation, if not exactly and directly of war, at least of the military model as a fundamental means of preventing civil disorder.” - Michel Foucault Sponsor:... by SFULTRA
46 min listen

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