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April 13, 2023 Episode 52: True Believers and the Case of the Writer Turned Congressman
Jake and Phil are joined by former Michigan Congressman Peter Meijer to discuss longshoreman philosopher Eric Hoffer’s 1951 book, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, and the poem “On Reading Crowds and Power,” by Geoffrey Hill.
The Manifesto (an edition with some very cool cover art):
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
https://archive.org/details/truebelieverthou0000hoff/mode/2up
The Art:
On Reading Crowds and Power
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/49285/on-reading-crowds-and-power
1 hr 52 min
March 21, 2023 Episode 51: A Public Address, A Colloquium, or Maybe Just a Q&A
Jake and Phil answer questions from our listeners.
1 hr 10 min
February 22, 2023 Episode 50: El Greco, Picasso, and The Pleasures of Ignorance
Jake and Phil discuss Aldous Huxley's "Meditation on El Greco", and Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.
The Manifesto:
Aldous Huxley - "Meditation on El Greco"
https://cooperative-individualism.org/huxley-aldous_meditation-on-el-greco-pleasure-that-comes-from-ignorance.pdf
The Art:
Picasso - Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79766?sov_referrer=theme&theme_id=5135
1 hr 8 min
January 26, 2023 Episode 49: Angry Popes and Architecture
Jake and Phil are joined by John Davis, an environmental and architectural historian at the Knowlton School at Ohio State, to discuss Pascendi Dominici Gregis, Pope Pius X's encyclical against the modernists, and Antoni Gaudí’s La Sagrada Familia basilica in Barcelona, Spain.
The Manifesto:

Pascendi Dominici Gregis, Pope Pius X
https://www.vatican.va/content/pius-x/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-x_enc_19070908_pascendi-dominici-gregis.html
Basílica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família
https://sagradafamilia.org/en/
1 hr 34 min
November 22, 2022 Episode 48: The Ultimate Revolution
Jake and Phil are joined by Becca Rothfeld (https://www.beccarothfeld.com/) to discuss Shulamith Firestone's The Dialectic of Sex and Sheila Heti's That Longing for a Holy Completeness (from her novel MOTHERHOOD)
Shulamith Firestone, The Dialectic of Sex
http://biopolitics.kom.uni.st/Shulamith%20Firestone/The%20Dialectic%20of%20Sex_%20The%20Case%20for%20Feminist%20Revolution%20(139)/The%20Dialectic%20of%20Sex_%20The%20Case%20for%20Feminis%20-%20Shulamith%20Firestone.pdf
Sheila Heti, That Longing for a Holy Completeness
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/that-longing-for-a-holy-completeness/
1 hr 57 min
October 18, 2022 Episode 47: The Democracy Engineering Complex
Phil is joined by Sam Kimbriel, the founding director of Aspen's Philosophy & Society Initiative, to discuss Sam's essay "What the Democracy Engineering Complex Misses"
The Manifesto:
Sam Kimbriel, What the Democracy Engineering Complex Misses
https://wisdomofcrowds.live/the-democracy-engineering-complex/
59 min
September 19, 2022 Episode 46: Sunday Morning and God's Grandeur
Jake and Phil discuss Wallace Stevens' "Sunday Morning" and Gerard Manley Hopkins' "God's Grandeur."
The Manifesto:
Wallace Stevens' "Sunday Morning"
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/13261/sunday-morning
The Art:
Gerard Manley Hopkins' "God's Grandeur."
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44395/gods-grandeur
Works referenced:
Wallace Stevens, The Idea of Order at Key West
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43431/the-idea-of-order-at-key-west
Wallace Stevens, Anecdote of the Jar
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/14575/anecdote-of-the-jar
Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45236/thirteen-ways-of-looking-at-a-blackbird
Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Windhover
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44402/the-windhover
Gerard Manley Hopkins, No Worst
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44398/no-worst-there-is-none-pitched-past-pitch-of-grief
Anne Carpenter, Theo-Poetics: Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Risk of Art and Being
https://undpress.nd.edu/9780268023782/theo-poetics/
1 hr 13 min
July 21, 2022 Episode 45: Spielberg and Roxy Music
Jake and Phil are joined by culture critic Armond White to discuss Make Spielberg Great Again and Roxy Music's 1979 album Manifesto
The Manifesto:
Make Spielberg Great Again (specifically focusing on the chapters "The Wailing Wall" and "Steven Spielberg's Obama"), Armond White
https://www.amazon.com/Make-Spielberg-Great-Again-Chronicles/dp/0984215913
The Art:
Roxy Music, Manifesto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjkVYOArUQM
1 hr 59 min
June 17, 2022 Episode 44: We're All Stars Now In the Dope Show
Jake and Phil are joined by James Poulos, author of Human Forever: The Digital Politics of Spiritual War, to discuss Jacques Ellul and Marilyn Manson.
The Manifesto:
Jacques Ellul, Propaganda - Chapter 5 (The Socio-Political Effects”), Part 3 (“Propaganda and Grouping), section “Effects on the Churches.”
https://monoskop.org/images/4/44/Ellul_Jacques_Propaganda_The_Formation_of_Mens_Attitudes.pdf
The Art:
Marilyn Manson, Mechanical Animals
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6ogdCG3tAWinzV1alDntKEi3uO9Mq5ES
1 hr 39 min
May 28, 2022 Episode 43: Tradition and the Individual Talent
Jake and Phil discuss T.S. Eliot's "Tradition and the Individual Talent", and James Joyce's "A Mother"
The Manifesto:
T.S. Eliot, "Tradition and the Individual Talent"
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/69400/tradition-and-the-individual-talent
The Art:
James Joyce, "A Mother"
http://www.online-literature.com/james_joyce/963/
1 hr 18 min

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