Manifesto!

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:

The Art:

Works cited:

Amy Hungerford, Postmodern Belief: American Literature and Religion Since 1960

Genesis 38, Judah and Tamar

Isaiah Berlin, Hume and the Sources of German Anti-Rationalism

Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Baba Metzia, page 59-a

Soren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

E.M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel

John Miles, Laughing at the Bible, Jonah as Parody

The Book of Job

The Book of Nahum

They Will Have to Die Now, James Verini, “Sennacherib’s boast“

The Book of Esther

St. Augustine on Jonah

Anonymous, Patience, translation by Richard Scott-Robinson

Charles Portis, True Grit

Daniel Torday, Boomer1

Daniel Torday, The Last Flight of Poxl West

Phil is out today, so Jake talks with Michael Lind about his book, The New Class War, as well as Auden's The Fall of Rome

Manifesto:

Art:

Works mentioned:

Dustin Guastella, White collar populism

Zach Goldberg, America's White Saviors

Auden, Lullaby

Jake and Phil are joined by Alex Brook Lynn to discuss the Stuckists’ Manifesto and Julio Cortázar’s The Pursuer

Manifesto:

Art:

References:

The Stuckists, “An Open Letter to Sir Nicolas Serota”

Jonathan Jones, "The Stuckists Are Enemies of Art"

Damien Hirst, For the Love of God

Damien Hirst, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living

Stuckists, Critique of Damien Hirst

Gordon Matta Clark, Anarchitect

Arthur Danto, “The Appreciation and Interpretation of Works of Art,” “The End of Art”

Yoyoi Kasuma

Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch

Sonny Rollins, The Real Charlie Parker

Stanley Crouch, Kansas City Lightning

Ralph Ellison, “On Bird, Bird-Watching, and Jazz”

St. Augustine, Confessions

Bernard d’Espagnat, Reality and the Physicist: Knowledge, Duration, and the Quantum World

Charlie Parker, Loverman

Rowan Williams, On Augustine

David Jones, “Art and Sacrament”

Paul Klee

Mondrian

Julio Cortázar, Literature Class

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