Manifesto!

By Manifesto! A Podcast

Your regular visit to the archives of vanity, where men and women who stopped making myths turned to issuing commandments.

Your guides for this journey are the writers Phil Klay and Jacob Siegel, alon... more

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Manifesto! episodes:

February 12, 2021 Episode 31: Everything is Broken
Jake and Phil are joined by Alana Newhouse to discuss her essay “Everything Is Broken” and the Ani DiFranco live album “Living in Clip.”
The Manifesto:
Alana Newhouse, Everything is Broken
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/everything-is-broken
The Art:
Ani DiFranco, Living in Clip
https://anidifranco.bandcamp.com/album/living-in-clip
Works Mentioned:
Eugene McCarraher, Comrade Ruskin - How a Victorian visionary can save communism from Marx
https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/comrade-ruskin
Rowan Williams – Interiority and Epiphany
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1468-0025.00030
Fiona Williams MTV speech
https://hiddenremote.com/2016/08/11/mtv-vmas-tbt-fiona-apples-blunt-speech-still-matters/
Philip Roth, Sabbath's Theater
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/158029/sabbaths-theater-by-philip-roth/
...more
1h 54min
January 04, 2021 Episode 30: King Lear or Endgame or Psalm
Jake and Phil discuss Jan Kott's "King Lear or Endgame" and George Oppen's "Psalm."
The Manifesto:
Jan Kott, "King Lear or Endgame"
https://t.co/L9FRGoRD3L?amp=1
The Art:
George Oppen's "Psalm"
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/29449/psalm-56d212ff620c5
...more
1h 15min
December 03, 2020 Episode 29: What Were We Thinking
Jake and Phil are joined by Carlos Lozada to discuss his new book, What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era, and the chapter "Decent People" from Garth Greenwell's Cleanness.
The Manifesto:
Carlos Lozada, What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/What-Were-We-Thinking/Carlos-Lozada/9781982145620
The Art:
Garth Greenwell, "Decent People"
https://thesewaneereview.com/articles/decent-people
...more
2h 3min
September 29, 2020 Episode 28: They Will Eat the CIA Men First
This week Jake and Phil are joined by special guest Jesse Walker of Reason Magazine to discuss William S. Burroughs The Revised Boy Scout Manual and Charles Ridley's short anti-Nazi propaganda film, Schichlegruber Doing the Lambeth Walk (assisted by the Gestapo 'Hep-Cats')
The Manifesto: William S. Burroughs, The Revised Boy Scout Manual
https://ohiostatepress.org/books/titles/9780814254899.html
The Art: Charles Ridley, 1941, Schichlegruber Doing the Lambeth Walk (assisted by the Gestapo 'Hep-Cats')
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYdmk3GP3iM
Works discussed
Jesse Walker, The Sultan of Sewers: William Burroughs' anti-authoritarian vision
https://reason.com/2014/06/04/the-sultan-of-sewers/
Naked Lunch
https://groveatlantic.com/book/naked-lunch/
Hunter S. Thompson, The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved
https://grantland.com/features/looking-back-hunter-s-thompson-classic-story-kentucky-derby/
Jacob Siegel, Digital fascism: anti-PC idol-smashing isn’t just a joke
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/internet-alt-right-fascists
Susan Sontag, Fascinating Fascism
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1975/02/06/fascinating-fascism/
Jack Kerouac, On The Road
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/300451/on-the-road-by-jack-kerouac/
Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain, Please Kill Me
https://pleasekillme.com/shop/autographed-paperback-20-anniversary-edition-please-kill-me/
Jacob Siegel, Send Anarchists, Guns and Money
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/anarchists-guns-and-money-siegel
Jon Baskin, The Unbearable: Toward an Antifascist Aesthetic
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/08/14/the-unbearable-toward-an-antifascist-aesthetic/
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1h 41min
August 13, 2020 Episode 27: The Owl of Minerva Trots at Dusk
Phil and Jake are joined by Ian Marcus Corbin to discuss Joseph Conrad's Preface and Saul Bellow's "Mosby's Memoirs"
The Manifesto:
Conrad, The Preface
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/17731/17731-h/17731-h.htm#link2H_PREF
The Art:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1968/07/20/mosbys-memoirs
...more
2h 2min
July 06, 2020 Episode 26: On Pain and on Fallujah Revisited
Jake and Phil are joined by Elliot Ackerman to discuss Ernst Junger’s 1934 essay On Pain, alongside Elliot’s A Battle in Fallujah, Revisited, an excerpt of his memoir, Places and Names.
The Manifesto
Ernst Junger, On Pain
https://www.amazon.com/Pain-Ernst-J%C3%BCnger/dp/0914386409
The Art
Elliot Ackerman, A Battle in Fallujah, Revisted
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/25/opinion/memorial-day-falluja.html
(adapted from Places and Names)
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/580119/places-and-names-by-elliot-ackerman/
Works cited
Junger, Storm of Steel
Junger, Battle as an Inner Experience
Junger, Total Mobilization
Junger, The Worker
Junger, Eumeswil
Junger, On the Marble Cliffs
Karl Marlantes, What It Is Like to Go to War
https://groveatlantic.com/book/what-it-is-like-to-go-to-war/
Sam Adler-Bell, Surviving Amazon
https://logicmag.io/bodies/surviving-amazon/
Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society
Jacob Siegel, Send Anarchists, Guns and Money
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/anarchists-guns-and-money-siegel
Elliot Ackerman, Red Dress in Black and White
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/576747/red-dress-in-black-and-white-by-elliot-ackerman/
...more
1h 33min
June 06, 2020 Episode 25: The Plague
Jake and Phil are joined by Paul Berman to discuss The Plague, by Albert Camus.
The Manifesto:
Albert Camus, The Plague (the second half of Part II)
The Art:
Albert Camus, The Plague (the second half of Part II)
Works Discussed
Paul Berman, "Modern Times"
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/paul-berman-modern-times-1
Paul Berman, Terror and Liberalism
https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393325553
Albert Camus, The Rebel
Iris Murdoch, "The Existentialist Hero"
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/330442/existentialists-and-mystics-by-iris-murdoch/
Dostoevsky, The Underground Man
Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
...more
1h 40min
April 20, 2020 Episode 24: Vietnam Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry
Jake and Phil are joined by novelist, essayist, and Penthouse Magazine national security columnist Matt Gallagher to discuss Gustav Hasford’s June 1987 article in Penthouse Magazine, Vietnam Means Never Having to Say Your Sorry. Due to coronavirus-related time constraints (we all have children who need minding), we are departing from our usual format and will just be discussing the manifesto.
The Manifesto:
Gustaf Hasford, Vietnam Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry
http://gustavhasford.blogspot.com/2013/01/vietnam-means-never-having-to-say-youre.html
The Art:
Rambo, I guess?
Works mentioned:
Matt Gallagher and Roy Scranton, Fire and Forget
https://www.dacapopress.com/titles/matt-gallagher/fire-and-forget/9780306821776/
Matt Gallagher, Empire City
https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781501177798
Gustav Hasford, The Short Timers
https://www.amazon.com/Short-Timers-Gustav-Hasford/dp/0553267396
Full Metal Jacket
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093058/
Rambo: First Blood Part II
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089880/
Grover Lewis The Several Battles of Gustav Hasford
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-06-28-tm-430-story.html
Matt Gallagher, Welcome to the Age of the Commando
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/opinion/sunday/welcome-to-the-age-of-the-commando.html?ref=opinion
Favorite War Films:
Gallagher: Kelly’s Heroes.
Jake: The Great Escape. Paths of Glory. The Big Red One.
Phil: Come and See. The Battle of Algiers.
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56min
April 04, 2020 Episode 23: Lord Jim and the Absurd
The Art:
Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5658/5658-h/5658-h.htm
Other works discussed:
Thomas Nagel, The Absurd
https://philosophy.as.uky.edu/sites/default/files/The%20Absurd%20-%20Thomas%20Nagel.pdf
Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan, The I That Tells Itself: A Bakhtinian Perspective on Narrative Identity
https://www.jstor.org/stable/30219268
The Sacred and Profane Love Podcast
https://thevirtueblog.com/category/podcast-sacred-and-profane-love/
...more
1h 19min
March 04, 2020 Episode 22: Reluctant Prophets
Jake and Phil are joined by novelist Daniel Torday to discuss Robert Alter's “A Literary Approach to the Bible,” alongside The Book of Jonah.
The Manifesto:
Robert Alter, “A Literary Approach to the Bible,” from The Art of Biblical Narrative
https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/robert-alter/the-art-of-biblical-narrative/9780465022557/
The Art:
The Book of Jonah
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jonah+1&version=KJV
Works cited:
Amy Hungerford, Postmodern Belief: American Literature and Religion Since 1960
https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691145754/postmodern-belief
Genesis 38, Judah and Tamar
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+38&version=KJV
Isaiah Berlin, Hume and the Sources of German Anti-Rationalism
http://berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/published_works/ac/hume.pdf
Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Baba Metzia, page 59-a
http://www.ravhanan.org/uploads/6/5/6/4/65649719/defeating-god-and-defeating-ones-fellow-man-.pdf
Soren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling
https://www.religion-online.org/book-chapter/prelude/
E.M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel
https://www.amazon.com/ASPECTS-NOVEL-M-Forster/dp/0156091801
John Miles, Laughing at the Bible, Jonah as Parody
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1454356
The Book of Job
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Job+1&version=KJV
The Book of Nahum
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Nahum+1&version=KJV
They Will Have to Die Now, James Verini, “Sennacherib’s boast“
https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393652475
The Book of Esther
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Esther+1&version=KJV
St. Augustine on Jonah
http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/1102102.htm
Anonymous, Patience, translation by Richard Scott-Robinson
http://www.eleusinianm.co.uk/middle-english-literature-retold-in-modern-english/religious-poetry/patience
Charles Portis, True Grit
https://www.amazon.com/True-Grit-Novel-Charles-Portis/dp/B008PIC86I
Daniel Torday, Boomer1
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250191793
Daniel Torday, The Last Flight of Poxl West
https://www.amazon.com/Last-Flight-Poxl-West-Novel/dp/1250081602
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1h 30min

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