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Jan 26, 2023 • 1h 34min

Episode 49: Angry Popes and Architecture

Jake and Phil are joined by John Davis, an environmental and architectural historian at the Knowlton School at Ohio State, to discuss Pascendi Dominici Gregis, Pope Pius X's encyclical against the modernists, and Antoni Gaudí’s La Sagrada Familia basilica in Barcelona, Spain. The Manifesto: Pascendi Dominici Gregis, Pope Pius X https://www.vatican.va/content/pius-x/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-x_enc_19070908_pascendi-dominici-gregis.html Basílica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família https://sagradafamilia.org/en/
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Nov 22, 2022 • 1h 56min

Episode 48: The Ultimate Revolution

Jake and Phil are joined by Becca Rothfeld (https://www.beccarothfeld.com/) to discuss Shulamith Firestone's The Dialectic of Sex and Sheila Heti's That Longing for a Holy Completeness (from her novel MOTHERHOOD) Shulamith Firestone, The Dialectic of Sex http://biopolitics.kom.uni.st/Shulamith%20Firestone/The%20Dialectic%20of%20Sex_%20The%20Case%20for%20Feminist%20Revolution%20(139)/The%20Dialectic%20of%20Sex_%20The%20Case%20for%20Feminis%20-%20Shulamith%20Firestone.pdf Sheila Heti, That Longing for a Holy Completeness https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/that-longing-for-a-holy-completeness/
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Oct 18, 2022 • 58min

Episode 47: The Democracy Engineering Complex

Phil is joined by Sam Kimbriel, the founding director of Aspen's Philosophy & Society Initiative, to discuss Sam's essay "What the Democracy Engineering Complex Misses" The Manifesto: Sam Kimbriel, What the Democracy Engineering Complex Misses https://wisdomofcrowds.live/the-democracy-engineering-complex/
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Sep 19, 2022 • 1h 12min

Episode 46: Sunday Morning and God's Grandeur

Jake and Phil discuss Wallace Stevens' "Sunday Morning" and Gerard Manley Hopkins' "God's Grandeur." The Manifesto: Wallace Stevens' "Sunday Morning" https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/13261/sunday-morning The Art: Gerard Manley Hopkins' "God's Grandeur." https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44395/gods-grandeur Works referenced: Wallace Stevens, The Idea of Order at Key West https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43431/the-idea-of-order-at-key-west Wallace Stevens, Anecdote of the Jar https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/14575/anecdote-of-the-jar Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45236/thirteen-ways-of-looking-at-a-blackbird Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Windhover https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44402/the-windhover Gerard Manley Hopkins, No Worst https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44398/no-worst-there-is-none-pitched-past-pitch-of-grief Anne Carpenter, Theo-Poetics: Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Risk of Art and Being https://undpress.nd.edu/9780268023782/theo-poetics/
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Jul 21, 2022 • 1h 59min

Episode 45: Spielberg and Roxy Music

Jake and Phil are joined by culture critic Armond White to discuss Make Spielberg Great Again and Roxy Music's 1979 album Manifesto The Manifesto: Make Spielberg Great Again (specifically focusing on the chapters "The Wailing Wall" and "Steven Spielberg's Obama"), Armond White https://www.amazon.com/Make-Spielberg-Great-Again-Chronicles/dp/0984215913 The Art: Roxy Music, Manifesto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjkVYOArUQM
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Jun 17, 2022 • 1h 39min

Episode 44: We're All Stars Now In the Dope Show

Jake and Phil are joined by James Poulos, author of Human Forever: The Digital Politics of Spiritual War, to discuss Jacques Ellul and Marilyn Manson. The Manifesto: Jacques Ellul, Propaganda - Chapter 5 (The Socio-Political Effects”), Part 3 (“Propaganda and Grouping), section “Effects on the Churches.” https://monoskop.org/images/4/44/Ellul_Jacques_Propaganda_The_Formation_of_Mens_Attitudes.pdf The Art: Marilyn Manson, Mechanical Animals https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6ogdCG3tAWinzV1alDntKEi3uO9Mq5ES
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May 28, 2022 • 1h 18min

Episode 43: Tradition and the Individual Talent

Jake and Phil discuss T.S. Eliot's "Tradition and the Individual Talent", and James Joyce's "A Mother" The Manifesto: T.S. Eliot, "Tradition and the Individual Talent" https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/69400/tradition-and-the-individual-talent The Art: James Joyce, "A Mother" http://www.online-literature.com/james_joyce/963/
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Apr 11, 2022 • 1h 10min

Episode 42: The Transmogrifications of Gary Leib

Phil is joined by Peter Catapano, of the New York Times, and graphic novelist Jess Ruliffson to discuss Peter's essay on the life and work of cartoonist Gary Leib The Manifesto: Peter Catapano, “I’m Going to Make a Fire”: The Transmogrifications of Gary Leib https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/im-going-to-make-a-fire-the-transmogrifications-of-gary-leib/ The Art: Gary Leib's animation for The Stone https://vimeo.com/148232540 Leib's animations for the Times https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/01/opinion/01leib_bio.html Other: Pre-order Peter's forthcoming book, Question Everything https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324091837 Pre-order Jess' forthcoming graphic novel, Invisible Wounds. https://jessruliffson.com/home.html
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Mar 5, 2022 • 1h 45min

Episode 41: To Be Incarnational

Jake and Phil are joined by the great poet Tom Sleigh to discuss his essay "To Be Incarnational," on the World War I poetry of David Jones, as well as Tom's poem "In Which a Spider Weaves a Web on My Computer Screen" The Manifesto: Tom Sleigh, To Be Incarnational https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/articles/70066/to-be-incarnational The Art: Tom Sleigh, "In Which a Spider Weaves a Web on My Computer Screen" https://vimeo.com/669317283
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Feb 4, 2022 • 1h 28min

Episode 40: Flannery O'Connor versus Andre Dubus II

Jake and Phil (finally) discuss Flannery O'Connor's Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction, alongside Andre Dubus II's short story Killings The Manifesto: Flannery O'Connor, Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction https://bscc.instructure.com/courses/4608/files/434937/download?download_frd=1 Audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMrveIu0DdE The Art: Andre Dubus II, Killings https://www.uww.edu/documents/library/ersearch/er/moore_g/moore_101/dubuskillings_101_moore.pdf

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