Barrett Avner, host of the excellent Contain podcast, joins Adam and Ben to talk all about a buncha shit. Man, too much happened this week. All horrible, of course. More riots. More shootings. More incoherent response from the dense as rocks American left. The NBA players are revolutionaries now, and Keeanga thinks the labor movement needs to stop working to "end racism," and the labor movement responds with, "um, is that possible?" Oh, also 13-year-olds apparently have more agency than 20-year-olds now. So that's cool. Much props to Aaron Coleman, stay with it brother.
Contain podcast: https://soundcloud.com/containcontaincontain
The Whitney cancels a woke art show for buying woke art unethically: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/25/arts/design/whitney-museum-exhibition-canceled.html
Walter Benn Michaels 'Who Gets Ownership of Pain and Victimhood?': https://mondediplo.com/2018/05/14race-class
Glenn Greenwald talks to Aaron Coleman: https://theintercept.com/2020/08/21/aaron-coleman-the-19-year-old-progressive-who-won-his-kansas-primary-speaks-about-his-troubled-past-and-promising-present/
Adam on the art work of Hanna Liden: https://www.adamlehrer.com/blog/2020/8/26/an-ode-to-artist-hanna-liden-transcendence-of-urban-decay-through-the-piercing-of-unreality