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Writer Gideon Jacobs joins to discuss ontological literacy among other things in the wake of the assassination of American Christian Nationalist Charlie Kirk, which in our assessment was not actually a political assassination. 

Names Cited: Alexander Dugan, Amanda Askell, Alain Badiou, Jean Baudrillard, Becoming Press, Byung-Chul Han, CERN, Charlie Kirk, Donald Trump, Kevin Munger, Elon Musk, Eric Davis, Grok, Felix Guattari, Jay Springet, Jesus Christ, Jezebel, Keith Johnstone, Kamala Harris, Larry Ellison, Luigi Mangione, Marshall McLuhan, Mara McKevitt, Mark Zuckerberg, Peter Carroll, Vladamir Putin, RFK Jr., René Girard, Theo Anthony, Tyler Robinson, UnitedHealthcare, Walter Ong

See also:

https://www.instagram.com/gideon___jacobs

NM Talkcore: Gideon Jacobs on Trump as Image (Nov 2024)

NM Talkcore: Gideon Jacobs on Musk, Trump, and Fiction (2025)

Gideon Jacobs, “Player One and Main Character,” (Apr. 2025)

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/player-one-and-main-character/

Gideon Jacobs, “Trump l’Oeil,” (LARB, Nov 2024)

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/trump-loeil/

Jay Springett: https://thejaymo.net/permanentlymoved/

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