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March 16, 2021 Episode 32: Repressive Tolerance and The Judgement
Jake and Phil are joined by Geoff Shullenberg of Outsider Theory to discuss Herbert Marcuse's "Repressive Tolerance" and Franz Kafka's "The Judgement".
The Manifesto:
Herbert Marcuse, "Repressive Tolerance"
https://www.marcuse.org/herbert/publications/1960s/1965-repressive-tolerance-fulltext.html
The Art:
Franz Kafka, "The Judgement"
https://www.kafka-online.info/-the-judgement.html
2 hr 8 min
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/
1 hr 54 min
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
1 hr 15 min
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
2 hr 3 min
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/
1 hr 41 min
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
2 hr 2 min
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/
1 hr 33 min
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
1 hr 40 min
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.
56 min
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/
1 hr 19 min

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