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Being in the World Podcast 087: Dulcinée DeGuere on Bombay Beach, Acéphale, and the Leaderless Crowd

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In this evocative and wide-ranging conversation, Tao Ruspoli is joined by artist, filmmaker, and systems architect Dulcinée DeGuere to unravel the conceptual fabric of Bombay Beach, Convivium, and the radical politics of community. From the ghostly traces of Georges Bataille’s Acéphale to the practical realities of water systems and website menus, the episode oscillates between myth and infrastructure, utopia and desert dust.

Together, they trace the emergence of The Bombay Beach Institute for Industrial Espionage & Post-Apocalyptic Studies, interrogating the role of systems in anarchic spaces and the necessity of form even in acts of resistance. Dulcinée offers a compelling meditation on leadership, queer futurity, the politics of occupation, and why structure—when wielded with love—can be liberating rather than oppressive.

The conversation becomes a lived example of “social sculpture,” as they discuss Convivium—a seasonal gathering and philosophical feast—where intimacy replaces spectacle and a new kind of aesthetic polity emerges. From critiques of neo-colonial utopias to a defense of being a “corporate bitch” in the service of radical imagination, this episode is both a blueprint and a love letter for those seeking alternatives to the dominant order.

Topics include: Acéphale and regicide, Bombay Beach as a post-capitalist petri dish, decentralized art-making, systemic insurgency, the queering of public space, and what it means to retire—if only briefly—from capitalism.

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In this evocative and wide-ranging conversation, Tao Ruspoli is joined by artist, filmmaker, and systems architect Dulcinée DeGuere to unravel the conceptual fabric of Bombay Beach, Convivium, and the radical politics of community. From the ghostly traces of Georges Bataille’s Acéphale to the practical realities of water systems and website menus, the episode oscillates between myth and infrastructure, utopia and desert dust.

Together, they trace the emergence of The Bombay Beach Institute for Industrial Espionage & Post-Apocalyptic Studies, interrogating the role of systems in anarchic spaces and the necessity of form even in acts of resistance. Dulcinée offers a compelling meditation on leadership, queer futurity, the politics of occupation, and why structure—when wielded with love—can be liberating rather than oppressive.

The conversation becomes a lived example of “social sculpture,” as they discuss Convivium—a seasonal gathering and philosophical feast—where intimacy replaces spectacle and a new kind of aesthetic polity emerges. From critiques of neo-colonial utopias to a defense of being a “corporate bitch” in the service of radical imagination, this episode is both a blueprint and a love letter for those seeking alternatives to the dominant order.

Topics include: Acéphale and regicide, Bombay Beach as a post-capitalist petri dish, decentralized art-making, systemic insurgency, the queering of public space, and what it means to retire—if only briefly—from capitalism.

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