Manifesto!

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:

Jake and Phil overcome audio difficulties to discuss Jean Amery's "Resentments" and Andre Dubus II's short story "A Father's Story."

Works cited:

Camus on Scheller’s definition of resentment: The Rebel

Portraits of Reconciliation

Rwanda and the NY Times

Derrida, ‘To Forgive: The Unforgivable and the Imprescriptible’

GK Chesterton, “The Chief Mourner of Marne”

Fred Alford, “Jean Amery: Resentment as Ethic and Ontology”

Andre Dubus II, “A Father’s Story”

Audio Clips:

Joel Osteen, “Living Guilt Free”

Brian Stevenson interview

You should know the final one.

Jake and Phil discuss Alasdair MacIntyre's "Is Patriotism a Virtue?" and the story of the November 11, 1921 burial of the Unknown Soldier, as told by Jonathan Ebel in his book GI Messiahs

Works referred to in this episode:

Alasdair MacIntyre, “Is Patriotism A Virtue”

Abu Bakr ibn Tufayl, Hayy ibn Yaqzan

Peter Singer, “The Drowning Child and the Expanding Circle”

Bernard Williams, “A Critique of Utilitarianism”

Ralph Ellison “The Little Man at Chehaw Station”

Vasily Grossman, A Writer at War

John Gray, Two Faces of Liberalism

Ta-Nehesi Coates, I’m Not Black, I’m Kanye

George Orwell, “Notes on Nationalism”

Gregory Pardlo, Air Traffic

Aris Roussinos

Valeria Luiselli, Difficult Forgiveness

Jonathan Ebel, GI Messiahs

Jesus Christ and the American Soldier 2nd version Bumper Sticker

Peter Lucier, Not Your Messiah

Anatole Broyard, Kafka Was the Rage

Audio clips:

Independence Day (1996)

Charles Olson, Maximus to Gloucester, Letter 27 [withheld]

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)

Jake and Phil side with the madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels and skeptics on this episode, discussing Yevgeny Zamyatin's “On Literature, Revolution, Entropy, and Other Matters,” alongside the paintings Composition VI and Composition VII, by Vasily Kandinsky.

Works referenced in Episode 6

Yevgeny Zamyatin, “On Literature, Revolution, Entropy, and Other Matters”

Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

Alistair Hamilton, The Appeal of Fascism

Isaiah Berlin, Russian Thinkers

Lawrence Joseph, So Where Are We?

Paul Scharre, Army of None

Kenneth Payne, Strategy, Evolution, and War

Mitch Hedburg, Tennis

Isaiah Berlin, The Origins of Cultural History: Vico versus Descartes

Vasily Kandinsky, Composition VI, 1913

Vasily Kandinsky, Composition VII, 1913

Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way

Vasily Kandinsky, Point and Line to Plane

Vasily Kandinsky, The Spiritual in Art

Jake and Phil talk about the political and social obligations of art. To set the stage they discuss W.E.B. Du Bois' "Criteria for Negro Art" originally delivered as a speech to the 1926 Conference of the NAACP in Chicago. The main event is a consideration of James Baldwin's famous 1949 essay "Everybody's Protest Novel." For the finale, the gents

Other works referenced in this episode:

Paul C. Taylor, Black is Beautiful: A Philosophy of Black Aesthetics

Ta-Nehisi Coates, I'm Not Black, I'm Kanye

Francois Mauriac's Nobel Prize Speech

Edward P. Jones, The Known World