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#49 - Author: Kanae Minato

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"There is no syllable one can speak that is not filled with tenderness and terror, that is not, in one of those languages, the mighty name of a god." - Jorge Luis Borges. Confessions - 2010 - Tetsuya Nakashima Penance - 2012 - Kiyoshi Kurosawa Sponsor: peoplewatching.ca Email: allunitspodcast@gmail.com Subscribe on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/all-units/id1241776225?mt=2

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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
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#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
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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
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Calling All Units - LA Takedown, Kansas City Confidential and a Unifying Theory Of Art by SFULTRA
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#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
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#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
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#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
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
#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
38 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
#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
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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
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Calling All Units - Top Of The Heap, "Post Horror" by SFULTRA
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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
Calling All Units - We Have Always Been Here: It is happening again. Sponsor: subnormality.ca twitter: twitter.com/comeinallunits facebook: facebook.com/comeinallunits email: allunitspodcast@gmail.com by SFULTRA
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Calling All Units - You Fail Me: A harddrive is dead. Sponsor: subnormality.ca twitter: twitter.com/comeinallunits facebook: facebook.com/comeinallunits email: allunitspodcast@gmail.com by SFULTRA
27 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
#15 - Navigation: The Self: “On the screen, love was having its difficulties, its reversals, but it persevered or at least metamorphosed.” - The Quick And The Dead, Joy Williams The Man Without A Map - 1968 - Hiroshi Teshigahara Remember My Name - 1978 - Alan Rudolph ... by SFULTRA
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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
#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
#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
#19 - Navigation: Purgatory: "I went in; I closed the door. I sat down on the bed. Blackest space extended before me. I was not in this blackness, but at the edge of it, and I confess that it is terrifying. It is terrifying because there is something in it which scorns man and... by SFULTRA
41 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
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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
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 - Vigilante, John Carpenter's Command Of Space, Crime Fiction: I talk a little about a grim Bill Lustig classic before discussing what information struck me anew while embarking on a John Carpenter marathon last weekend. Then I talk a little about crime fiction and the obligation of crime non-fiction. ... by SFULTRA
44 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
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#16 - Navigation: Reputation: “-I'm reviewing it, the stooped man said, and started to plod off. -You read it? -No, he said over his shoulder, but I know the son of a bitch who wrote it.” - William Gaddis, The Recognitions The Small World Of Sammy Lee - 1963 - Ken Hughes... by SFULTRA
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#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
#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

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