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The Thin Veneer of Civilization
Exploring frustrations and reflections on the delicate balance between civilization and barbarism, as well as the consequences of unleashing one's anger.
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
https://jacobitemag.com/2017/05/25/a-quick-and-dirty-introduction-to-accelerationism/
Joseph Lawrence, “A Fable”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/01/25/a-fable-poems-lawrence-joseph
Lewis Thomas, “On Societies as Organisms”
https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJM197107082850207
Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek, #accelerate Manifesto
http://criticallegalthinking.com/2013/05/14/accelerate-manifesto-for-an-accelerationist-politics/
William James, “The Will to Believe”
https://www.mnsu.edu/philosophy/THEWILLTOBELIEVEbyJames.pdf
Ethan Kapstein, “Workers and the World Economy: Breaking the Post-War Bargain”
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/1996-05-01/workers-and-world-economy-breaking-postwar-bargain
Jacob Siegel, “Fully Automated Culture War”
https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/279430/fully-automated-culture-war
Adam Curtis, HyperNormalization
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04b183c
Friedrich Hayek, “The Use of Knowledge in Society”
https://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/hykKnw.html
The Economist, “Slowbalisation”
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2019/01/24/the-steam-has-gone-out-of-globalisation
Karl Bunker, “They Have All One Breath” (this is the Clarkesworld story whose title Phil couldn’t recall)
http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_01_19f/
Joseph Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
https://www.amazon.com/Capitalism-Socialism-Democracy-Perennial-Thought/dp/0061561614
AltWoke Manifesto
http://tripleampersand.org/alt-woke-manifesto/
Aria Dean, Notes on Blacceleration
https://www.e-flux.com/journal/87/169402/notes-on-blacceleration/
Toure Reed, “Between Obama and Coates”
https://catalyst-journal.com/vol1/no4/between-obama-and-coates
Jacob Siegel, “Send Anarchists, Guns, and Money”
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/anarchists-guns-and-money-siegel
Alli Coates and Signe Pierce, American Reflexxx
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXn1xavynj8
Helen Andrews, “Shame Storm”
https://www.firstthings.com/article/2019/01/shame-storm
Video Clips
Hail, Caesar!
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/b1cfd96f-c637-4005-a42b-b3a108e67306
Christina Aguilera, “Accelerate”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSRSgMp5X1w
3D Printed Guns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DconsfGsXyA&t=917s
Robert Pinsky reciting "Shirt"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI8DvfM0VCs
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