Jake and Phil are joined by Thomas Chatterton Williams to discuss Albert Murray’s The Omni-Americans and Thomas’ new memoir, Self-Portrait in Black and White

Manifesto:

Art:

References:

Stanley Crouch

Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray, Trading Twelves

Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer

James Baldwin, Everybody’s Protest Novel

Albert Murray, Stomping the Blues

Thomas Chatterton Williams, A Blues for Albert Murray

Reverend Eugene Rivers, On the Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Crack

Gordon Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution

The William and Mary Quarterly, Forum: How Revolutionary Was the Revolution? A Discussion of Gordon S. Wood's The Radicalism of the American Revolution

Nikole Hannah-Jones, The 1619 Project, “Our democracy’s founding ideals were false when they were written. Black mericans have fought to make them true.”

Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity

Ralph Ellison, Shadow and Act

Coleman Hughes, The Case for Black Optimism

Coleman Hughes, Kanye West and the Future of Black Conservatism

Zadie Smith, Fascinated to Presume: In Defense of Fiction

The Glenn Show, Black American Culture and the Racial Wealth Gap with Glenn Loury and Coleman Hughes

The Fifth Column Podcast, On Anti-Racism with Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, Coleman Hughes, Thomas Chatterton Williams, and Kmele Foster

Tobi Haslett, Irrational Man

Ralph Ellison, “The Novel as a Function of American Democracy”

Zadie Smith, Getting In and Getting Out

Corey D. Fields, Black Elephants in the Room

Ralph Ellison, “Brave Words for A Startling Occasion”

Jake and Phil talk with Jake Hanrahan of Popular Front (https://www.popularfront.co/) about Ted Kaczynski’s Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and It’s Future and Radiohead’s OK Computer.

The Manifesto:

Ted Kaczynski, “Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and It’s Future”

The Art:

Radiohead, OK Computer

Works Referenced:

Matt Taibbi, “The American Left’s Silly Victim Complex”

Heidegger, “The Question Concerning Technology”

Charles Taylor, A Secular Age

Jacob Siegel, Send Anarchists, Guns and Money

Omeros, Derek Walcott

Don Carpenter, Hard Rain Falling

Sam Harris with Jordan Peterson, What Is True?

Tim Kreider, "Cycle of Fear"

The Georgia Guidestones

Popular Front's Indigogo campaign

Audio Clips:

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Putney Swope

Bill Burr on Chain Restaurants

Radiohead, Karma Police

Marshall McLuhan

Jake and Phil are joined by essayist and fiction-writer Victoria Brown of Rollins College to discuss Derek Walcott’s The Muse of History alongside Mavis Gallant’s The Latehomecomer

The Manifesto:

The Art:

Works Cited:

Derek Walcott, “Bleecker Street, Summer”

Derek Walcott, “Hic Jacet”

Derek Walcott, “Air”

VS Naipaul, A House for Mr. Biswas

VS Naipaul, Miguel Street

Derek Walcott, “The Bounty”

Clive James on Sartre, from Cultural Amnesia

Vico, The New Science

Derek Walcott, The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory

Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place

The novellas of Joseph Roth

Apogee Journal

Audio Clips

Derek Walcott reading from The Bounty

Walcott on his life and work

Jake and Phil discuss Hugo Ball's 1916 Dada Manifesto, as well as Public Enemy's 1988 album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back.

The Manifesto:

The Art:

Works Referenced:

Photo of Hugo Ball in his costume at the Cabaret Voltaire.

Hugo Ball, Karawane

Marcel Duchamp, Fountain

Tristan Tzara, Dada Manifesto 1918

Philip Mann, Hugo Ball: An Intellectual Biography

Debbie Lewer, Hugo Ball, Iconoclasm, and the Birth of Dada

Walter Laqueur, Weimar: A Cultural History

Jacob Siegel and Angela Nagle, Internet Trolls, Online Cesspools, and Their Real-World Effects

Josef Pieper, No One Could Have Known

Adam Bradley and Andrew DuBois, The Anthology of Rap

Luigi Russolo, The Art of Noises

Terminator X interview with Will Hernandez of WHO?MAG TV

A new episode of Manifesto! A Podcast with special guest Michael Brendan Dougherty

The Manifestos:

The Art:

Works:

Jean Amery, How Much Home Does a Person Need

People's Policy Project, The Family Fun Pack

Dan Torday, Boomer1

Joshua Meyrowitz, No Sense of Place

Christopher Lasch, Haven in a Heartless World

Horkheimer and Adorno, The Dialectic of Enlightenment

Jacob Siegel, Dissent vs American Affairs

John Gray, Two Faces of Liberalism

Thomas Chatterton Williams, Self-Portrait in Black and White

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., "Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars"

Joan Didion, The White Album

Jacob Siegel, "The Vicious Static"

Sean O'Casey, The Plough and the Stars

Ruby Namdar

Isaiah Berlin, Two Enemies of Enlightenment

Azar Gat, Nations

Jake and Phil discuss America's greatest poets named Frank, with Frank O’Hara’s "Personism Manifesto" and Frank Bidart’s “Ellen West”

Frank O’Hara, “Personism”

Reuben Brower, The Fields of Light

Kenneth Koch, “Fresh Air”

Daniel Clowes, Art School Confidential

The Collected Poems of Frank O’Hara

Steven Burt, “Okay I’ll Call You/Yes Call Me: Frank O’Hara’s Personism”

Frank O’Hara, “Meditations in an Emergency”

Frank O’Hara, “Having a Coke With You”

Sloterdijk, Rules for the Human Zoo

Frank O’Hara, “My Heart”

Czeslaw Milosz, The Captive Mind

Geoffrey Hill, “Language, Suffering, and Silence”

Frank O’Hara, “Ave Maria”

Frank Bidart, “Ellen West”

Tom Sleigh, Interview with a Ghost

Frank Bidart, “Writing Ellen West”

Frank Bidart, Half-Light: Collected Poems

De Maistre, as quoted in Isaiah Berlin’s Two Enemies of Enlightenment

David Jones, Epoch and Artist

Audio Clips:

The Stranglers, No More Heroes

John Ashberry reading a letter from O’Hara

Frank O’Hara reading Having a Coke With You

Style Wars

Pocahontas, Colors of the Wind

Jake and Phil discuss several accelerationist manifestos along with the video American Reflexxx, by Alli Coates and Signe Pierce.

Works referenced:

Nick Land, A Quick and Dirty Introduction to Accelerationism

Joseph Lawrence, “A Fable”

Lewis Thomas, “On Societies as Organisms”

Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek, #accelerate Manifesto

William James, “The Will to Believe”

Ethan Kapstein, “Workers and the World Economy: Breaking the Post-War Bargain”

Jacob Siegel, “Fully Automated Culture War”

Adam Curtis, HyperNormalization

Friedrich Hayek, “The Use of Knowledge in Society”

The Economist, “Slowbalisation”

Karl Bunker, “They Have All One Breath” (this is the Clarkesworld story whose title Phil couldn’t recall)

Joseph Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

AltWoke Manifesto

Aria Dean, Notes on Blacceleration

Toure Reed, “Between Obama and Coates”

Jacob Siegel, “Send Anarchists, Guns, and Money”

Alli Coates and Signe Pierce, American Reflexxx

Helen Andrews, “Shame Storm”

Video Clips

Hail, Caesar!

Christina Aguilera, “Accelerate”

3D Printed Guns

Robert Pinsky reciting "Shirt"

Park MacDougald joins Phil and Jake to discuss Virginia Woolf’s “The Modern Essay” and VS Naipaul’s “Jacques Soustelle and the Decline of the West.”

Works referenced:

Virginia Woolf, “The Modern Essay” “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown”

Max Beerbohm, “A Relic,” “Laughter”

Daniel Clowes

Eliot Weinberger, An Elemental Thing

Anatole Broyard, Kafka Was the Rage

Hegel, The Phenomenology Of Spirit, Terry Pinkard translation

woketoddler

Claas Relotius’ In Eigener Sache

(For those interested in Relotius’ lies about Fergus Falls, this is from Michele Anderson and Jake Krohn, residents of the town he fictionalized https://medium.com/@micheleanderson/der-spiegel-journalist-messed-with-the-wrong-small-town-d92f3e0e01a7)

Flannery O’Connor, “The Nature and Aim of Fiction”

Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West

Naipaul, The Writer and the World (essays mentioned: “Jacques Soustelle and the Decline of the West,” “A Second Visit,” “Michael X and the Black Power Killings in Trinidad,” “Heavy Manners in Grenada,” “Our Universal Civilization”)

Mario Vargas Llosa, “El Odio y El Amor”

Naipaul, A Bend in the River

Naipaul, Guerrillas

Edward Said, “Intellectuals in the Post-Colonial World.”

Derek Walcott, Nobel Lecture: “The Antilles: Fragments Of Epic Memory”

Pablo Mukherjee, “Doomed to Smallness: Violence, VS Naipaul, and the Global South”

Anatole Broyard, “What the Cystoscope Said”

Lewis Thomas, “The Lives of a Cell”

Wesley Yang, “The Face of Seung-Hui Cho”

Audio clips:

Excerpt from Kirsten Wever's Librivox recording of Max Beerbohm's "A Relic"

Snowpiercer

Edward Said - A Critique of Naipaul

Jake and Phil discuss Hannah Arendt's "Reflections on Violence" and Frank Miller's "The Dark Knight Returns."

Works referenced

Hannah Arendt, “Reflections on Violence”

Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (with introduction by Jean-Paul Sartre)

Albert Camus, “Camus at ‘Combat’”

Martin van Creveld, “The Transformation of War”

Francis Fukuyama, “The Origins of Political Order”

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, The Next Step for #MeToo is Into the Gray Areas

Frank Miller, The Dark Knight Returns

Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian

Audio Clips

Dr. Strangelove

The Return of the Jedi

Brazil

A Clockwork Orange

Jake and Phil are joined by Olivia Garard (@teaandtactics) of The Strategy Bridge (https://thestrategybridge.org/editorial-team/2016/8/16/olivia-a-garard) to discuss Oulipo member Anne Garréta's "On Bookselves" and Guy Debord’s “The Naked City”

Works cited:

R.O. Kwon, In Defense of Keeping Books Spine In

Anne Garréta, On Bookselves

Wittgenstein's private language argument

Borges, The Library of Babel

Daniel Dennett, Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking

Phil Klay, What We're Fighting For

Michel Houellebecq's face

Guy Debord, The Naked City

Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle

Michel de Certeu, The Practice of Everyday Life

Marc Auge, Non-Places: An Introduction to Supermodernity

Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation

Isaac Babel, Guy de Maupaussant

Audio Clip: