Today's theme: Gnosticism! After beginning with a discussion of Greil Marcus's transcendent book Lipstick Traces, the boys talk punk, secret histories, "fake news," COVID, and film as late examples of late gnostic thinking. Plus Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing.

We’re all gnostic now

Whether the subject in question is democracy, climate change, biomedical engineering, or the American university, it is clear that the society we have known will soon no longer be. As humankind stares into an abyss the bottom of which we cannot yet see, the producers of Living in The End Times thought it prudent to discuss the tumult around us and our species’ prospects for the future. We hope you will join in the conversation.

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The first of two episodes on the BAP book Bronze Age Mindset (2018).

Bronze age perversions 1

A&E use Juel Taylor's 2023 film They Cloned Tyrone as a way into talking 21st century biopolitics, necropolitics, Haiti, and revolution.

Once a clone, always a clone

Found this lost episode from June 2023 while scrounging the couch cushions deep for change wherein A&E discuss the political scene as it had been unfolding to that point in World History. Plus: the neoliberalism of Cormac McCarthy's fiction.

Cormac McCarthy and neoliberalism

Time to chat the next of several selections in this season of the mass market communist film: Chris Nolan's Oppenheimer, wherein labor organizing gets more screen time than quantum physics.

Chain reaction

A&E chat Maria Demopoulos's and Jodi Wille's 2012 doc The Source Family, discussing how state agencies were always-already part of the American counterculture.

We’re all gnostic now

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