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Black Ibis Social Club

Written and produced by Alexandru Constantin

Esoteric discussions on art, literature, and culture in a decadent world. blackibissocialclub.substack.com

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136:57

S2E1: Sad Boy Party

Black Ibis Social Club ·

2024/12/12

Lisa Kuznak, Phisto Sobanii, and Alexandru Constantin kick off the second season of The Deceneus Review with a great conversation about a variety of topics such as the post-election cultural vibe shift, failed cancelation attempts on Substack, teaching history to high schoolers, the disappearance of Sad Boy scenes, sex and sexuality in literature and film, and a semi-coherent rant about Millennial Hipster culture. So once again, brew yourself a dark cup of coffee and enjoy another episode of the

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105:48

Episode 29: The End is the Beginning is the End

Black Ibis Social Club ·

2024/11/14

I look around, leaves are brown now, and the sky is a hazy shade of winter. This is it, the end of Season One. The Deceneus Review has gone on for 29 episodes and 1 introduction, a total of 262 hours. This means that if you enjoy our conversation, our discussions, our ideas, you can start listening right now and if you listen straight through it will take you about 10 days to listen to the whole thing. I started this podcast on January 13th of this year. I’ve wanted to fill a lack in my own life, an

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141:10

Episode 28: The Collapsing World

Black Ibis Social Club ·

2024/11/08

On this interesting episode recorded two days prior to the American election Ahnaf Ibn Qais, Phisto Sobanii, and Alexandru Constantin (oh hey thats me) chat about the political, economic, and cultural, state of the West. This weeks guest, Ahnaf Ibn Qais has some interesting ideas you can read on his substack and listen to on his own podcast or the many other podcasts he graciously engages with. While him and I don’t agree on everything and todays episode had a bit of a friendly adversarial back and

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109:43

Episode 27: Dr. Monzo

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2024/11/06

Mason Mohon aka Dr. Monzo, writer of the excellent Substack After the Hour of Decision, joined me in the digital studio for a wonderful conversation about everything from the state of Substack, the philosophy of Nick Land, Mark Fisher and Byung Chul Han, to the cultural stagnation visible in such popular works pop entertainment like the videogame Starfield. I’ve personally been looking forward to sitting down, drinking a few cups of coffee, and chatting with Mason for awhile now. His Substack has

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167:25

Episode 26: Pilum Press Crew

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2024/11/04

The Pilum Press crew, Founding Editor Swing Thoughts and Roundabouts and star author of Shagduk and Ursula of Ulm JB Jackson join Phisto Sobanii and myself for a great conversation about small press publishing, music, culture, literature, and the art of writing. This might be one of the more insightful conversations about these topics on the podcast to date. We also chat about Jacksons Shagduk and the recently released sequel Ursula of Ulm. Like tradition demands we go off on conversational tangents

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129:49

Episode 25: Halloween 2024

Black Ibis Social Club ·

2024/10/31

You are about to enter another dimension, a dimension not only of sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land of aural intellectual stimulation. Next stop, The Deceneus Review!Lisa Kuznak joins me for a special Halloween episode where we chat about everything terrifying. We go over the themes of horror, discuss our favorite supernatural novels and film, and go in depth about ideas such as Mark Fishers Weird and Eerie. Of course, in the fine tradition of the DReview we spend a decent amount of

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118:51

Episode 24: Six Novels

Black Ibis Social Club ·

2024/10/25

Inspired by Librarian of Celaeno’s recent post The Librarian of Celaeno’s Top 20 Book Recommendations, I decided to pull out my journals and make my own list. This episode opens up with a discussion about Low Brow, High Brow, and Middle Brow literature. The six novels I chose to recommend are High Middle Brow and one of them even overlaps with Librarian’s choices. This is not a list of the greatest novels. It’s not even ranked. The books I chose are the novels I find stylistically, thematically, and

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180:40

Episode 23: Queen of Cups

Black Ibis Social Club ·

2024/10/08

Sudana Krasniqi joins me and the always irreverent Phisto Sobanii Ah.E for an epic East Coast vs West Coast conversation. We spit magnificent about the experience of being a young immigrant from Eastern Europe growing up in Los Angeles and New York. The vibe difference between the metropolitan dense New York and the widespread and much chiller vibes of Los Angeles. Sudana talks about here recent trip to Los Angeles and how great Venice Beach and Malibu is. Of course, like usual we go down random

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102:24

Episode 22: Hellene Redux

Black Ibis Social Club ·

2024/10/07

My boy Alexander Hellene, the honorable first guest and first Greek to grace this esteemed digital gathering comes back for a casual chat about all sorts of stuff that popped into my mind. We ended up talking about videogames, growing up, Total Recall, why modern movies and so much fiction sucks, and a bunch of other stuff I’ve already forgotten. Like always I had a great time and now you get to enjoy the conversation yourself. I even do a bit a opening monologue for all of you monologue

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122:22

Episode 21: Hardly Working with Caleb

Black Ibis Social Club ·

2024/09/19

On another fantastic episode of everyone’s favorite podcast author and Substacker Caleb Caudell joins me and Phisto Sobanii to talk about his new novel Hardly Working, his upcoming reading in New York, and a lot of other topics that interest us and came up during our relaxed conversation. So, grab yourself a black cup of coffee and join us for this excellent conversation. Once again I want to encourage all of you to listen to this podcast on your favorite platform, so please use the RSS feed to

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141:58

Episode 20: Historical Illiteracy

Black Ibis Social Club ·

2024/09/12

Well, here we are, the 20th episode of The Deceneus Review. I couldn’t have done it without all of my great guests, permanent squatters, and fantastic listeners. This project of having an open forum discussion about topics that interest me in the same way I used to have in my younger coffee shop days is coming along even better than I imagined. Thank you for all the support and know that I have some great plans for the future. More episodes, more guests, and most of all more interesting

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38:36

Episode 19: Belles & Beasts

Black Ibis Social Club ·

2024/09/01

I was going to write an essay on this subject but for some reason I just don’t have the energy and drive to sit down and write but I did get some new recording equipment so I decided to record a short episode updating everyone on my return from North Carolina, a quick review of Honor Levys book, and my opinion on the Geston meme debate that has come to the shores of Substackistan. The Deceneus Review is a listener-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a

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133:42

Episode 18: Decay State

Black Ibis Social Club ·

2024/08/21

On another beautiful afternoon in South Carolina Phisto Sobanii and I are joined by Isaiah Evanson for another episode of the most interesting podcast on Substack. This time we go off on a bit of a side conversation about the state of decay that seem to permeate our society. A sort of cultural enshitification of everything around us, a plastic cheapening. The Deceneus Reviewis a listener-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid

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173:28

Episode 17: TechnoGaijin Thoughts

Black Ibis Social Club ·

2024/08/09

After making it through a wet and windy hurricane I return to hosting Substack most cyberpsycosis inducing podcast with my ever present unofficially official perma-guest Phisto Sobanii. We return to Cyberpunk and talk about Asian influences on the genre, but first we talk about the weather, hurricane and typhoon weather, earthquakes, and a bit about reading. I also discuss the Japanese culture from my Gaijin perspective and go over my eventful climb of Mt. Fuji. Finally we get serious and discuss

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117:43

Episode 16: Neuromancing the Substack

Black Ibis Social Club ·

2024/08/02

Uploaded rawdog style straight into your neuroplexes the latest episode of Dogtown’s most infamous podcast has dropped like a piece of new Arasaka cybergear. In this episode my and my main Choom Phisto Sobanii toss back ideas about my favorite literary subgenre Cyberpunk. So sit back, put on your best sensoft gear and let us upload our thoughts straight to your harddrive via your aural interface. Thank you for listening to The Deceneus Review. Share this or you will flatline choom!TODAYS EPISODE:* I

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154:29

Episode 15: Substackistanian Cyberpsychosis

Black Ibis Social Club ·

2024/07/03

Substack’s most eloquent and sophisticated podcast, The Deceneus Review, returns for another episode of Shirestackian discussion just in time for America’s Birthday. So, grill yourself a 100% beef meat stick, crack open a corporate brewski, and listen to me have a free wielding conversation with and . The Deceneus Review is a listener-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Todays Episode:* We start off with letting us know about

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137:46

Episode 14: Incoming Substack Transmission

Black Ibis Social Club ·

2024/06/26

Substacks fastest growing and most intelligent podcast whose listeners are men and women of wealth and taste has adopted a weekly discussion format. From now on, every Tuesday afternoon I will be recording a relaxed informal conversation between myself and friends, and by friends I mostly mean because you guys seem to like him. Fear not, while the Codename: Shirestack Project will be weekly, you will also receive one on one interviews with writers, artists, and social pariahs of all sorts on a

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120:04

Episode 13: Shirestack Discourse

Black Ibis Social Club ·

2024/06/19

We are doing something different this week, something that might get adopted for good. When I started the podcast it was strictly a fun experiment, and I had no desire to commit to any sort of schedule, therefore the focus was one on one interviews. But, I also want this to be a sort of discourse cafe, where we don’t focus on the guest but on topics that interest me. So, I’m going to try get friends on a weekly basis for discussion in addition to the regular interviews. I’m kicking ideas around and

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130:48

Episode 12: Phisto Sobanii

Black Ibis Social Club ·

2024/06/06

Educator, Commentator, and fellow Substacker known to all, joined me for a fantastic casual conversation about his role as a History teacher, education in America, his favorite historical subjects, the Spanish Civil War, and many other topics that we derailed the conversation. Get full access to The Deceneus Journal at deceneus.substack.com/subscribe

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125:42

Episode 11: Neal Durando

Black Ibis Social Club ·

2024/05/28

Founder and Editor of Pilum Press, my favorite independent publisher, Mr. Neal Durando joins me for a fascinating conversation about literature, writing, the traditional publishing industry, and the place of the novel in today’s world. Get full access to The Deceneus Journal at deceneus.substack.com/subscribe

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