Cracks in Postmodernity

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Cracks in Postmodernity episodes

December 04, 2021 Closing the loop
My brother is back again (by popular demand) to discuss The Secret History, Dark Academia, the Red Scare x Alex Jones hookup, Kanye, James Dean, and the Smiths.
53 min
December 03, 2021 Closing the loop
My brother is back again (by popular demand) to discuss The Secret History, Dark Academia, the Red Scare x Alex Jones hookup, Kanye, James Dean, and the Smiths.
53 min
November 26, 2021 You must have a cigarette
Dr. Michael P. Foley joins the pod to discuss the philosophical significance of smoking tobacco and weed.
Check out his article on smoking at First Things: https://www.firstthings.com/article/1997/04/tobacco-and-the-soul
and his books: https://michaelpfoley.info/my-writings
46 min
November 19, 2021 Filosofy of Funk
Music journalist GG Albuquerque joins the pod to talk about the history and cultural significance of Brazilian Funk and other afrodiasporic art forms.
45 min
November 13, 2021 Saving the world, one Netflix series at a time
Leticia Ochoa Adams and Destiny Herndon-De La Rosa join the pod to knock on social activists who take themselves too seriously, and to discuss how being lazy and watching Netflix are more important than fighting for human rights (which is also mildly important). Follow Destiny @destinynwf of @newwavefeminists and Leticia @leticiaoadams on IG
1 hr 8 min
November 05, 2021 Perform for your life
@bodylessorgans joins the pod to discuss Paglia's take on Madonna and Gaga, the vapidness of performative social media posturing, and whether modern art is beautiful (it is not).
1 hr 8 min
October 29, 2021 Your opinion really matters*
Listen to me engage in a riveting interview with myself about the (ir)relevance of irony, propaganda that poses as art, the new wave of emo reggaetoneros, and other really important opinions that I am right about.
*I am being sarcastic...it actually does not
32 min
October 23, 2021 To Prime or not to Prime?
Am I going to hell for using Amazon Prime? Probably. Dr. William T. Cavanaugh joins the pod to discuss the moral and social implications of using the largest retail company in the universe, as well as brand fetishism and the iron cage of modernity.
42 min
October 15, 2021 Liberté, égalité, frat parté
Joseph Schafer (@zizekonawiredbrain) joins in for an incomprehensible word salad session on the Manichaean hysteria over vaxxing, the campy cultural commentary of Trump, and whether or not Hegel was right that we are eternally screwed.
45 min
October 08, 2021 Make America Sinful Again
The hosts of Contra Gentiles come on the pod to discuss whether or not homosexuality exists (no), if it's a mortal sin for women to smoke (yes), if Milo is the new Oscar Wilde (no), and the general banality of our puritanical culture.
Follow Contra Gentiles on Twitter @contra_gentiles, and follow Grant on Twitter and IG @basedsodomite.
1 hr 9 min

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Subverting subversiveness through pretentious and ironic cultural commentary that gives precedence to aesthetics and ontology over ethics and politics.