DB10 - Unhinged, obscene, and disruptive -

Premature ejaculation, tradie funk, Barbara Kruger, Chatroulette, and the crisis that never ends. Thisepisode tackles the sweaty aesthetics of masculinity and the violence of straight male desire. From schoolyards to sports fields, from public confrontations to the digital shadows of webcam sex, Melletios and Tim wade through the rituals that shape, perform, and deny straight male identity. In this unhinged, wandering conversation, we ask why straight men are so obsessed with policing queerness while secretly building homosocial bonds. What’s the function of denial? What’s the cost of repetition? And what does it mean to critique masculinity while still playing in the bleached band? We unpack the gendering of public and private space, the difference between care and protection, and why the so-called "crisis of masculinity" has dragged on for nearly two centuries. With Mogwai as our unofficial soundtrack and the bleached stain of privilege as both costume and curse, we stumblethrough misreadings, microaggressions, aggression, and the awkward joy of getting it wrong.InstaChapters: 0:00 - Fixing mics and Redfern slang2:32 - Trucks, dinosaurs, and fascist aesthetics5:01 - Tradie funk and “smelling like a man”8:38 - The violent tradie on Enmore Road11:21 - Tradies get the ladies: stereotypes and spectacle13:13 - Cops, soldiers, and homoerotic structures14:19 - Webcam sex, Chatroulette, and male-to-male desire17:23 - Straightness, violence, and denial22:04 - Barbara Kruger and the skin of other men23:25 - Boys’ schools and shared adolescent rituals26:02 - Football, scrums, and the spectacle of straightness29:01 - Mogwai marries Sabrina Carpenter30:59 - Masculinity is the problem33:27 - The fake crisis of masculinity36:49 - Protection vs care: gendered politics and power38:14 - The politician, the family, and unwaged labour40:58 - Being read as brown and living inside violence44:39 - Everyday friction and white presentation47:32 - The joy of getting it wrong48:50 - Podcast form as gendered medium49:40 - Disobedience, discomfort, and speaking from within

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/MDzofQhiZUE?si=0I0KCJSpfbu7xkEoA wild seal, an aquarium visit, and a postmodern critique of Hamilton—this episode plunges into the absurd, the obscene, and the unhinged. From aggressive counter-readings of musicals to the uncanny parallels between porn and theatre, Melletios and Tim unravel the tangled web of leisure, labour, and the spectacle of postmodern desire. With anarchists on holiday, obscene morsels, and accidental encounters shaping the discourse, expect a sprawling, irreverent exploration of contemporary art, politics, and the capitalist dilemma of culture.⁠Instagram ⁠This is a long episode, so below is a chapter list with timestamps—so you can easily return to where you left off.Chapters:Chapter 1: Melletios goes to an aquarium 0:00-8:12Chapter 2: Manly, Manly Racism 8:12-9:50Chapter 3: The Real Seal? 9:50-16:40Chapter 4: Let’s start (Melletios gets spiritual) 16:40-18:36Chapter 5: What does an Italian Anarchist do on holiday? 18:36-27:10Chapter 6: Melletios predicts the future 27:10-30:26Chapter 7: Tim goes to a musical 30:26-36:34Chapter 8: “I’m not interested in the plot”…proceeds to talk about plot 36:34-49:55Chapter 9: Aggressive counter reading of Hamilton 49:55-1:02:26Chapter 10: Melletios doesn’t analyse Shek and the Napolitana Wars (yum) 1:02:26-1:08:50Chapter 11: Two men discuss what 19th-century French women want 1:08:50-1:14:48Chapter 12: Silent pornos… awkward 1:14:48-1:19:01Chapter 13: Why musicals and pornos are the same 1:19:01-1:27:11Chapter 14: The curse of the supporting cast 1:27:11-1:38:34Chapter 15: The song and dance of precariat labour 1:38:34-1:44:56Chapter 16: Bonanno, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no 1:44:56-1:50:50Chapter 17: Tim tries to invert Bonanno… onnanoB? 1:50:50-1:54:30Chapter 18: The problem of leisure 1:54:30-2:03:04Chapter 19: You have to kill the kid. Obscene/Off-scene 2:03:04-2:07:45Chapter 20: Melletios feeds Tim a morsel. Obsessing about the obscene 2:07:45-2:08:53Chapter 21: Making leisure time opaque even to ourselves 2:08:53-2:14:47Chapter 22: Melletios is a DB clown 2:14:47-2:17:44

Straightness collapses in on itself, the gallery becomes a scene of violence, and PornHub statistics replace national identity? This episode dives into queer public sex, Mona Hatoum’s electrified domesticity, the failures of heterosexuality as both ideology and kink, and the lingering scent of burnt patriarchy in art spaces that still smell like bleach. A lecture, a glitch, a beat you won’t be the same after.Db10 insta0:00 DB10 begins in chaos: failing audio, artist manifestos, and being an artist by saying you are one 1:29 Coercive networking, follower-capture, and saying “I do this now” as art 2:40 Spelling DB10 wrong, dumb fuckers, and uninvited comedy 3:36 Visual arts are dead: the Gregorian calendar and imagination as practice 5:01 Creation myths, AI entropy, and the horror of accurate reproduction 6:46 AI’s subtle sabotage, fuller lips, face swaps, and algorithmic seduction 8:46 Labour of glitching, Haraway, ontology, and AI’s colonised learning curves 10:01 Mona Hatoum’s Homebound: domestic space, electricity, and dinner table dread 12:15 Art galleries are hospitals: nostalgia, smells, Greek backyards, and cultural erasure 16:00 Structural vs personal trauma, sparking jets, and the colonial conduit 17:08 Is it the spark or the state? Domestic violence as state violence 18:42 Kids hate galleries: forced field trips and the dead museum problem 20:24 Columbia, student protest, collapsing the structure from within 21:23 Heterosexual failure, emotional bricolage, and the shelf-science of the nation 25:17 Fucking monuments: failure in public and the white male artist’s flaccid attempt 31:42 Garbled norms and straightness as elastic propaganda 36:14 Pornhub’s nationalism, cuckold bags, and identity by fantasy algorithm 41:30 Sexuality as transitive, cousin logic, and fucking your nationality

Youtube link with slides Clowns and Dildos collide in a provocative exploration of the autonomy of art. The dildo, historically maligned and fetishised, emerges as a tool of resistance—a postmodern weapon wielded against patriarchal control and violence. Detached from the oppressive gaze, it embodies fluidity, rebellion, and empowerment, challenging the constructs of male dominance.In this Christmas AF special, we delve into the radical art practices of the Beijing East Village, where performance, endurance, and the body became sites of protest and reinvention—tying together the absurdity of the clown, the history of the dildo, and the autonomy of art.Anarchist

Sonic Subversion: The Undead Cargo of Cries -Dr Tim Gregory and artist/shoplifter Melletios Kyriakidis explore how screaming has evolved into a language of resistance. They trace its journey from the harrowing cries of slavery to contemporary forms of sonic protest.Improvisational music as a descendant of historical screams, debating notions of "art boredom" and "laborious discord". The synthesise of these ideas into a theory of screaming as resistance, drawing parallels between past and present forms of sonic rebellion.Using the undead as a metaphor, Tim and Melletios position the oppressed as zombies whose screams carry both historical trauma and the power of ongoing resistance, challenging the conventional understanding of language, music, and dissent in patriarchal systems.Anarchist