Jamming Their Transmission
Talk show featuring innovative artists, writers, musicians, and more in conversation with John Madera.
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Jamming Their Transmission, Episode 21: A Conversation About Interconnectedness
Today’s episode features Big Other‘s editor John Madera moderating a discussion at the opening of Interconnectedness, an exhibition of fourteen works by Lydia Dona, Nicole Parcher, and Stephen Pusey—three brilliant artists, each of whom reenvisions abstraction in dynamic and exceptional ways. The show in New York City is open for public viewing at New York Insight Meditation Center until January 31, 2026.
From the Archives: Jamming Their Transmission, Episode 12: Eugene Lim
Happy birthday, Eugene Lim! Celebrate by listening to our podcast conversation with him, which we posted in 2019! This episode features writer Eugene Lim reading from and discussing his short fiction, his novel Dear Cyborgs, and his novel-in-progress; not to mention writing and literature, reading, books, editing, editors, libraries, librarians, experimental fiction, Jorge Luis Borges, publishing, Ellipsis Press, Third Space Theory, Renee Gladman, Miranda Mellis, Joanna Ruocco, Evelyn Hampton, Tom Whalen, dialogue, monologue, Karen An-hwei Lee, Jean Echenoz, Jonas Mekas, Tehching Hsieh, Adrian Tomine, and more. Eugene Lim is the author of the novels Fog & Car, The Strangers, and Dear Cyborgs. His writings have appeared in Granta, Dazed, Fence, Little Star, The Denver Quarterly, The Brooklyn Rail, Jacket2, Gigantic, Your Impossible Voice, The Coming Envelope, Everyday Genius, Vestiges and elsewhere. He’s house librarian at the Charles Xavier School for the Greatly Responsibled. He runs Ellipsis Press, and lives in Jackson Heights, NY, with Joanna and Felix.
From the Archives: Jamming Their Transmission, Episode 3: Samuel R. Delany
Happy 83rd birthday, Samuel R. Delany! Celebrate by listening to our 2019 podcast conversation with the literary giant (and Big Other contributor)! Also celebrate by reading a compendium of quotes from Delany’s writing we published in celebration of his 78th birthday. This episode features Samuel R. Delany reading “A Night in the Lonesome October,” an as-yet unpublished short fiction. We talk about this and about some of Delany’s recently published books: Voyage, Orestes, The Atheist in the Attic, and Letters from Amherst. Some other topics/people discussed: writing, technology, cities, Roger Zelazny, Joanna Russ, Thomas Disch, Henry James, Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education, Alan Moore, From Hell, Karl Marx, André Gide, graphic novels, Nalo Hopkinson, Ursula K. Le Guin, Dhalgren, William Gaddis, The Recognitions, The Fall of the Towers, Amazon, Jean Vigo, The Jewels of Aptor, and more besides. “A novelist and critic who taught literature and creative writing at the University of Massachusetts and Temple University, Samuel R. Delany had won four Nebula Awards and a Hugo Award by the time he was 27. He was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2002, by which time he’d also been chosen by the Lambda Literary Report as one of the 50 people who had done the most to change our view of gayness in the last half-century. In 2013, he was named the 31st Damon Knight Memorial Foundation Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Samuel R. Delany’s science fiction and fantasy tales are available in Aye and Gomorrah and Other Stories. His collection Atlantis: Three Tales and Phallos are experimental fiction. His novels include science fiction such as the Nebula-Award winning Babel-17 and The Einstein Intersection, as well as Nova and Dhalgren. His four-volume series Return to Nevèrÿon is sword-and-sorcery. Most recently, he has written the SF novel Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders. His 2007 novel Dark Reflections won the Stonewall Book Award. Other novels include Equinox, Hogg, and The Mad Man. Delany was the subject of a 2007 documentary, The Polymath, by Fred Barney Taylor, and he has written a popular creative writing textbook, About Writing. He is the author of the widely taught Times Square Red / Times Square Blue, and his book-length autobiographical essay, The Motion of Light in Water, won a Hugo Award in 1989. All are available as both e-books and in paperback. Delany is the author of several collections of critical essays. His interview in the Paris Review’s ‘Art of Fiction’ series appeared in spring 2012. In 2015 he was the recipient of the Nicolas Guillén Award for philosophical fiction. His novella The Atheist in the Attic appeared in February 2018. Professor Delany retired from teaching at the end of 2015. He lives in Philadelphia with his partner, Dennis Rickett.”
Jamming Their Transmission, Episode 20: A Conversation About Post-Post Human
Today’s episode features Big Other‘s editor John Madera in conversation with Daniel Hill, William Lamson, Daria Panichas, Taney Roniger, and Jim Toia, five artists whose work was featured in Post-Posthuman, the art exhibition in New York City that marvelously foregrounded materiality, interconnectedness, and contingency, each piece in the show deeply informed by deep ecology, a vital philosophy of ecological harmony and equilibrium. (Image: Xavi Bou’s Ornithography 172)
Jamming Their Transmission, Episode 19: Conversation with Jasmine Syedullah
Today’s episode features Big Other‘s editor John Madera in conversation with Professor Jasmine Syedullah, black feminist political theorist of abolition. Among the things discussed: system racism, the origins of modern policing, the current nationwide of protests against police brutality, the ways policing as an institution reinforces race and class inequalities by design, police and […]
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