Book Club from Hell

By Jack Cuthbertson and CapitalisimoComedy Society & Culture

Book Club from Hell episodes

July 02, 2023 #52 Storm of Steel - Ernst Jünger
Storm of Steel, written by Ernst Jünger and first published in 1920, is based on the author's experiences of World War I. It is, at once, a deeply disturbing, but also strangely beautiful and ambivalent description of one of the deadliest conflicts in human history.
VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Jack has published a novel!
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1 hr 32 min
June 25, 2023 #51 A Brief Explanation of the Cathedral - Curtis Yarvin
Curtis Yarvin, neo-reactionary blogger extraordinaire, developed the concept of 'the cathedral,' a merging of journalism and academia that has captured key positions in Western society. We read his 2021 blog post 'A Brief Explanation of the Cathedral' to see what all the fuss is about.

A Brief Explanation of the Cathedral
https://graymirror.substack.com/p/a-brief-explanation-of-the-cathedral
Vipra (our listener who made the outro music to this episode has a solo project)
https://vipra.bandcamp.com/
VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Jack has published a novel!
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheet
Apple Books: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6466733671
Jack's website: www.jackbc.me
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2 hr 9 min
June 11, 2023 #50 Feminist Glaciology - Mark Carey, M. Jackson, Alessandro Antonello, Jaclyn Rushing
'Glaciers, gender, and science: A feminist glaciology framework for global environmental change research' is an academic paper, first published in 2016 in Progress in Human Geography. The title of this paper says more about it than any description I could give.
VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Jack has published a novel!
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheet
Apple Books: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6466733671
Jack's website: www.jackbc.me
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2 hr 14 min
June 04, 2023 #49 The Sovereign Individual (Part 2) - James Dale Davidson and Lord Willian Rees-Mogg
This is our second episode about The Sovereign Individual, an impassioned paean about freedom from government.
VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Masticate (the band):
https://masticate.bandcamp.com/album/power-through-bloodshed
https://open.spotify.com/artist/7IGCjYU2yCFoY339yLQiwL?si=3rdLU5a1SGic6in9lFfjjw
https://masticate-store.creator-spring.com/
Jack has published a novel!
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheet
Apple Books: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6466733671
Jack's website: www.jackbc.me
Levi's website: www.levioutloud.com
www.thebookclubfromhell.com
Our Patreon: www.patreon.com/TheBookClubfromHell
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2 hr 14 min
May 28, 2023 #48 The Sovereign Individual (Part 1) - James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg
Beloved by Bitcoin maxis, The Sovereign Individual (1997) is a book which details the collapse of nation states and rise of a self-sovereign, extranational class of optimised individuals. The cause of all this? Microprocessors.
VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Jack has published a novel!
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheet
Apple Books: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6466733671
Jack's website: www.jackbc.me
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2 hr 58 min
May 21, 2023 #47 The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct - Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay
In 2017, Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay wrote a hoax gender studies paper named 'The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct.' This paper was published in the pay-to-publish journal Cogent Social Sciences which, at least according to the paper's authors, demonstrated that the field of gender studies wasn't rigorous and shouldn't be taken seriously.
The fact that they could pay a shabby academic journal to publish their paper says less about gender studies than it does about the state of academic publishing. Their paper is, nonetheless, a very funny piece of satire, capturing the word-vomit style of many social sciences papers. We read through the paper and offer a (mostly on-topic) running commentary.
VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Jack has published a novel!
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheet
Apple Books: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6466733671
Jack's website: www.jackbc.me
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www.thebookclubfromhell.com
Our Patreon: www.patreon.com/TheBookClubfromHell
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1 hr 45 min
May 14, 2023 #46 Crash - J.G Ballard
"Crash is, hands-down, the most repulsive book I've yet to come across." So said a book reviewer in The New York Times. Published in 1973 to widespread critical revulsion, Crash is a book about the relationship between humans and their technology, the role of symbols and simulation. These themes are explored through the metaphor of people crashing their cars and having sex with their wounds. I expected to hate this book, but actually loved it. It's a wild ride.
VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Jack has published a novel!
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheet
Apple Books: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6466733671
Jack's website: www.jackbc.me
Levi's website: www.levioutloud.com
www.thebookclubfromhell.com
Our Patreon: www.patreon.com/TheBookClubfromHell
Join our Discord (the best place to interact with us): discord.gg/ZMtDJ9Hscr
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Twitter: @bookclubhell666
1 hr 17 min
May 07, 2023 #45 Heaven's Gate
Heaven's Gate is the second-deadliest cult in US history. In 1997, 39 of them killed themselves in Santa Fe, California, while wearing Nikes, which I'm sure the Nike PR department really appreciated. Their aim was to catch a ride on the Hale-Bopp comet, which was actually a spaceship of light, sent by 'The Next Level', an interdimensional organisation which you definitely want to be part of.
The cult's leaders, Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles, secluded themselves and their 'students' for 17 years form the rest of the world, subjecting each other to 'lessons'. Eventually, the cult members were so dedicated that nine of them underwent voluntary surgical castration, which I assume was some sort of team-building activity.
Heaven's Gate still maintains a crispy, 1990s-style website, where they have published numerous theological and advertising materials for the cult. So, like any well-adjusted Earthlings, we decided to read them.
Heaven's Gate's website: https://heavensgate.com/
VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Jack has published a novel!
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheet
Apple Books: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6466733671
Jack's website: www.jackbc.me
Levi's website: www.levioutloud.com
www.thebookclubfromhell.com
Our Patreon: www.patreon.com/TheBookClubfromHell
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2 hr 1 min
April 30, 2023 #44 Malleus Maleficarum - Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger
I'm tired of people talking about metaphorical witch hunts. Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger, Inquisitors and authors of this episode's book, had a much better idea. The Malleus Maleficarum (translated as 'The Hammer of the Witches) is a witchhunting manual, first published in 1486, in part because Kramer led an unsuccessful Inquisition in Innsbruck, where he was prevented from condemning a number of women to death. Rather than learn from his mistakes, Kramer doubled down and wrote a 700-page tome about why basically every woman is probably a witch, and why they should be executed.
If the combination of rabid misogyny and wonky scholastic philosophy sounds like fun (or not), then listen on.
VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Jack has published a novel!
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheet
Apple Books: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6466733671
Jack's website: www.jackbc.me
Levi's website: www.levioutloud.com
www.thebookclubfromhell.com
Our Patreon: www.patreon.com/TheBookClubfromHell
Join our Discord (the best place to interact with us): discord.gg/ZMtDJ9Hscr
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1 hr 59 min
April 23, 2023 #43 Behead all Satans - MNM-DR
A work of 4chan metafiction by the (presumably) pseudonymous 'Master Necro Mega-Damage Rapeface', 'Behead all Satans' is a middle-aged child's idea of edgy humour. Its author claims to have been an influence of Mike Ma's, but I'm not so sure.
VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Jack has published a novel!
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheet
Apple Books: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6466733671
Jack's website: www.jackbc.me
Levi's website: www.levioutloud.com
www.thebookclubfromhell.com
Our Patreon: www.patreon.com/TheBookClubfromHell
Join our Discord (the best place to interact with us): discord.gg/ZMtDJ9Hscr
Watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0n7r1ZTpsUw5exoYxb4aKA/featured
Twitter: @bookclubhell666
1 hr 46 min