Living in the End Times

Living in the End Times

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Living in the End Times episodes

  • First Reformed
    The gents chat Paul Schrader's First Reformed (2017), Taxi Driver (1976), and The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) as a way into the poverty of the contemporary Christian church, Zizek, and "apocalypse" as the object of late capitalism.
    1 hr 42 min
  • The Florida project
    Shortly before the collapse of the condo in Miami, Fla., A&E discussed at great length the degree to which Florida is the future. In so doing we focused on two Florida-based films making radical/theological arguments -- Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers and Sean Baker's The Florida Project -- in an effort to examine the horrors of the political economy we'd been discussing elsewhere.
    1 hr 44 min
  • Your gay dad
    Part 2 of our discussion of French philosopher Michel Foucault's late "neoliberal" thought and Dean's and Zamora's book The Last Man takes LSD.
    1 hr 28 min
  • A theme park trying to be a cathedral
    Speaking of one of the Indiana Jones films, Richard Corliss somewhere wrote that we shouldn't fault a theme park for not being a cathedral. With this critique in mind, A&E discuss the latest from filmmaker Adam Curtis -- the six-part BBC series "Can't get you out of my head: An emotional history of the modern world."
    1 hr 41 min
  • Jonathan Franzen’s Thanos
    The second half of our discussion of the new Andreas Malm book on pipelines, the climate movement, and violence. Spoiler: the climate fatalism current among some Western elites is the new Malthusianism.
    41 min
  • How to stop a game
    So, like, a bunch of gamers almost crashed the U.S. economy, yes? And this is bad or something? A&E discuss. And speaking of stopping games, we begin our reading of the new Andreas Malm book on pipelines, climate change, and violence.
    1 hr 35 min
  • Just a political party
    Riot? Insurrection? Gathering of the Juggalos? We're still trying to figure out what exactly happened at the Capitol building in Washington, which feels, after the fact, less like a riot and more like a psyop of some sort. Plus: Social media bans not only Trump but many voices on the left and right. And you're next.
    1 hr 34 min
  • No men for old country
    It's a New Year and yr handsome hosts kick it off with a discussion of aesthetics and the "autistic" character of America's culture industry. Topics covered include Fred Jameson, Banksy, Michel Foucault, the Marvel and DC universe films, the Mandalorian, and Cormac McCarthy.
    1 hr 58 min

About Living in the End Times

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Whether the subject in question is democracy, climate change, biomedical engineering, or the American university, it is clear that the society we have known will soon no longer be. As humankind stares into an abyss the bottom of which we cannot yet see, the producers of Living in The End Times thought it prudent to discuss the tumult around us and our species’ prospects for the future. We hope you will join in the conversation.