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Phil is out today, so Jake talks with Michael Lind about his book, The New Class War, as well as Auden's The Fall of Rome Manifesto: Michael Lind, The New Class War https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/607661/the-new-class-war-by-michael-lind/ Art: Auden, The Fall of Rome https://poets.org/poem/fall-rome Works mentioned: Dustin Guastella, White collar populism https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/11/white-collar-populism/ Zach Goldberg, America's White Saviors https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/284875/americas-white-saviors Auden, Lullaby https://poets.org/poem/lullaby-0

Jake and Phil are joined by Alex Brook Lynn to discuss the Stuckists’ Manifesto and Julio Cortázar’s The Pursuer Manifesto: The Stuckists Manifesto http://www.stuckism.com/stuckistmanifesto.html#manifest Art: Julio Cortázar, The Pursuer https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/32198/blow-up-by-julio-cortazar/ References: Jakes’s sartorial splendor https://www.instagram.com/p/B1otkYalkBM/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link The Stuckists, “An Open Letter to Sir Nicolas Serota” https://www.stuckism.com/serotaletter.html Jonathan Jones, "The Stuckists Are Enemies of Art" https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2009/oct/01/art-stuckist-manifesto Damien Hirst, For the Love of God https://www.reuters.com/article/us-arts-hirst-skull-idUSL3080962220070830 Damien Hirst, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living http://www.damienhirst.com/the-physical-impossibility-of Stuckists, Critique of Damien Hirst https://391.org/manifestos/2000-stuckist-critique-of-damien-hirst-childish-thomson/ Gordon Matta Clark, Anarchitect http://m.bronxmuseum.org/exhibitions/gordon-matta-clark-anarchitect Arthur Danto, “The Appreciation and Interpretation of Works of Art,” “The End of Art” http://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-philosophical-disenfranchisement-of-art/9780231132268 Yoyoi Kasuma https://images2.minutemediacdn.com/image/upload/c_crop,h_562,w_1000,x_0,y_52/f_auto,q_auto,w_1100/v1555002285/shape/mentalfloss/kusama.jpg Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/32202/hopscotch-by-julio-cortazar/ Sonny Rollins, The Real Charlie Parker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeTgXnD7bGc Stanley Crouch, Kansas City Lightning https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062005595/kansas-city-lightning Ralph Ellison, “On Bird, Bird-Watching, and Jazz” https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/46135/shadow-and-act-by-ralph-ellison/ St. Augustine, Confessions https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3296/3296-h/3296-h.htm Bernard d’Espagnat, Reality and the Physicist: Knowledge, Duration, and the Quantum World https://www.amazon.com/Reality-Physicist-Knowledge-Duration-Quantum/dp/0521338468 Charlie Parker, Loverman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJrhOjvDbtg Rowan Williams, On Augustine https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/on-augustine-9781472925299/ David Jones, “Art and Sacrament” https://www.faber.co.uk/9780571339501-epoch-and-artist.html Paul Klee https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/Klee,_paul,_angelus_novus,_1920.jpg Mondrian http://www.theartstory.org/images20/works/mondrian_piet_4.jpg Julio Cortázar, Literature Class https://www.ndbooks.com/book/literature-class/

Jake and Phil are joined by Thomas Chatterton Williams to discuss Albert Murray’s The Omni-Americans and Thomas’ new memoir, Self-Portrait in Black and White Manifesto: Albert Murray, The Omni-Americans https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/543160/the-omni-americans-by-albert-murray--with-a-foreword-by-henry-louis-gates-jr/ Art: Thomas Chatterton Williams, Self-Portrait in Black and White https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/617884/self-portrait-in-black-and-white-by-thomas-chatterton-williams/9780393608861 References: Stanley Crouch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Crouch Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray, Trading Twelves https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/46140/trading-twelves-by-edited-by-albert-murray-and-john-f-callahan-preface-by-albert-murray-introduction-by-john-f-callahan/ Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man http://www.randomhousebooks.com/books/46131/ J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4666 James Baldwin, Everybody’s Protest Novel http://faculty.gordonstate.edu/lsanders-senu/Everybody's%20Protest%20Novel%20by%20James%20Baldwin.pdf Albert Murray, Stomping the Blues https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/stomping-the-blues Thomas Chatterton Williams, A Blues for Albert Murray https://www.thenation.com/article/blues-for-murray/ Reverend Eugene Rivers, On the Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Crack http://bostonreview.net/reverend-eugene-rivers-on-the-responsiblity-of-intellectuals-in-the-age-of-crack Gordon Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/193550/the-radicalism-of-the-american-revolution-by-gordon-s-wood/ The William and Mary Quarterly, Forum: How Revolutionary Was the Revolution? A Discussion of Gordon S. Wood's The Radicalism of the American Revolution https://www.jstor.org/stable/i348499 Nikole Hannah-Jones, The 1619 Project, “Our democracy’s founding ideals were false when they were written. Black mericans have fought to make them true.” https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/black-history-american-democracy.html Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/ethics/de-beauvoir/ambiguity/ Ralph Ellison, Shadow and Act https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/46135/shadow-and-act-by-ralph-ellison/ Coleman Hughes, The Case for Black Optimism https://quillette.com/2019/09/28/the-case-for-black-optimism/ Coleman Hughes, Kanye West and the Future of Black Conservatism https://quillette.com/2018/04/24/kanye-west-future-black-conservatism/ Zadie Smith, Fascinated to Presume: In Defense of Fiction https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/10/24/zadie-smith-in-defense-of-fiction/ The Glenn Show, Black American Culture and the Racial Wealth Gap with Glenn Loury and Coleman Hughes https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/black-american-culture-racial-wealth-gap-glenn-loury/id505824976?i=1000444070055 The Fifth Column Podcast, On Anti-Racism with Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, Coleman Hughes, Thomas Chatterton Williams, and Kmele Foster http://wethefifth.com/episodes/121 Tobi Haslett, Irrational Man https://www.bookforum.com/print/2603/thomas-chatterton-williams-s-confused-argument-for-a-post-racial-society-23610 Ralph Ellison, “The Novel as a Function of American Democracy” https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/46137/the-collected-essays-of-ralph-ellison-by-ralph-ellison/ Zadie Smith, Getting In and Getting Out https://harpers.org/archive/2017/07/getting-in-and-out/ Corey D. Fields, Black Elephants in the Room https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520291904/black-elephants-in-the-room Ralph Ellison, “Brave Words for A Startling Occasion” https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/46137/the-collected-essays-of-ralph-ellison-by-ralph-ellison/

Jake and Phil talk with Jake Hanrahan of Popular Front (https://www.popularfront.co/) about Ted Kaczynski’s Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and It’s Future and Radiohead’s OK Computer. The Manifesto: Ted Kaczynski, “Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and It’s Future” https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unabomber/manifesto.text.htm The Art: Radiohead, OK Computer Works Referenced: Matt Taibbi, “The American Left’s Silly Victim Complex” http://theneweditor.com/index.php?/archives/6352-The-American-Lefts-Silly-Victim-Complex.html Heidegger, “The Question Concerning Technology” https://monoskop.org/images/4/44/Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf Charles Taylor, A Secular Age https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674026766&content=reviews Jacob Siegel, Send Anarchists, Guns and Money https://thebaffler.com/salvos/anarchists-guns-and-money-siegel Omeros, Derek Walcott https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781466880405 Don Carpenter, Hard Rain Falling https://www.nyrb.com/products/hard-rain-falling?variant=1094929809 Sam Harris with Jordan Peterson, What Is True? https://samharris.org/podcasts/what-is-true/ Tim Kreider, "Cycle of Fear" https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/07/fear-and-cycling/ The Georgia Guidestones https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/georgia-guidestones Popular Front's Indigogo campaign https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/popular-front-10k#/ Audio Clips: Monty Python and the Holy Grail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtYU87QNjPw Putney Swope https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPgId7RgQ2E Bill Burr on Chain Restaurants https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWCINJ8uvIc Radiohead, Karma Police https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uYWYWPc9HU Marshall McLuhan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijeMM-NXvus

Jake and Phil are joined by essayist and fiction-writer Victoria Brown of Rollins College to discuss Derek Walcott’s The Muse of History alongside Mavis Gallant’s The Latehomecomer The Manifesto: Derek Walcott, The Muse of History http://www.worldcat.org/title/what-the-twilight-says-essays/oclc/38976188&referer=brief_results The Art: Mavis Gallant, “The Latehomecomer” https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1974/07/08/the-latehomecomer Works Cited: Derek Walcott, “Bleecker Street, Summer” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57109/bleecker-street-summer Derek Walcott, “Hic Jacet” https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374537579 Derek Walcott, “Air” http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/2640/air.html VS Naipaul, A House for Mr. Biswas https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/119600/a-house-for-mr-biswas-by-v-s-naipaul VS Naipaul, Miguel Street https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/119625/miguel-street-by-vs-naipaul Derek Walcott, “The Bounty” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48318/the-bounty Clive James on Sartre, from Cultural Amnesia https://www.amazon.com/Cultural-Amnesia-Necessary-Memories-History/dp/039333354X Vico, The New Science https://www.amazon.com/Science-Penguin-Classics-Giambattista-Vico/dp/0140435697 Derek Walcott, The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1992/walcott/lecture/ Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place https://www.amazon.com/Small-Place-Jamaica-Kincaid/dp/0374527075 The novellas of Joseph Roth https://www.amazon.com/Joseph-Roth/e/B001HNKTLE Apogee Journal https://apogeejournal.org/ Audio Clips Eddie Izzard, Dressed to Kill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9W1zTEuKLY Derek Walcott reading from The Bounty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCIMvohjODY Walcott on his life and work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_6mgbRSUzo&list=PLfngbdaGfrrM7IziPezFDTsgxeShxysMt

Jake and Phil discuss Hugo Ball's 1916 Dada Manifesto, as well as Public Enemy's 1988 album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back. The Manifesto: Hugo Ball, Dada Manifesto https://t.co/ZpW3qN32KO The Art: Public Enemy, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back Works Referenced: Photo of Hugo Ball in his costume at the Cabaret Voltaire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Ball#/media/File:Hugo_Ball_Cabaret_Voltaire.jpg Hugo Ball, Karawane https://poets.org/poem/karawane Marcel Duchamp, Fountain https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/duchamp-fountain-t07573 Tristan Tzara, Dada Manifesto 1918 http://writing.upenn.edu/library/Tzara_Dada-Manifesto_1918.pdf Philip Mann, Hugo Ball: An Intellectual Biography Debbie Lewer, Hugo Ball, Iconoclasm, and the Birth of Dada https://www.jstor.org/stable/25650841 Walter Laqueur, Weimar: A Cultural History Jacob Siegel and Angela Nagle, Internet Trolls, Online Cesspools, and Their Real-World Effects https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/247110/internet-alt-right-fascists Josef Pieper, No One Could Have Known Adam Bradley and Andrew DuBois, The Anthology of Rap Luigi Russolo, The Art of Noises https://monoskop.org/images/0/09/Russolo_Luigi_The_Art_of_Noises.pdf Terminator X interview with Will Hernandez of WHO?MAG TV http://www.whomag.net/terminator-x/

A new episode of Manifesto! A Podcast with special guest Michael Brendan Dougherty Jake, Phil and Michael discuss three new conservative manifestos and Michael’s memoir, My Father Left Me Ireland. The Manifestos: First Things, Against the Dead Consensus https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2019/03/against-the-dead-consensus Gladden Pappin, Toward a Party of the State https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/02/toward-a-party-of-the-state/ Daniel McCarthy, A New Conservative Agenda https://www.firstthings.com/article/2019/03/a-new-conservative-agenda The Art: Michael Brendan Dougherty, My Father Left Me Ireland https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/591812/my-father-left-me-ireland-by-michael-brendan-dougherty/9780525538653/ Works: Tim Carney, Alienated America https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062797100/alienated-america/ Jean Amery, How Much Home Does a Person Need https://rosswolfe.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/jean-amery-at-the-minds-limits-contemplations-by-a-survivor-on-auschwitz-and-its-realities.pdf People's Policy Project, The Family Fun Pack https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2019/02/15/the-family-fun-pack-makes-parenting-easy-for-everyone/ Dan Torday, Boomer1 https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250191793 Joshua Meyrowitz, No Sense of Place https://global.oup.com/academic/product/no-sense-of-place-9780195042313?cc=us&lang=en& Christopher Lasch, Haven in a Heartless World https://books.wwnorton.com/books/detail.aspx?id=13016 Horkheimer and Adorno, The Dialectic of Enlightenment https://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~randall/Readings%20W2/Horkheimer_Max_Adorno_Theodor_W_Dialectic_of_Enlightenment_Philosophical_Fragments.pdf Jacob Siegel, Dissent vs American Affairs https://thejacobsiegel.com/2017/06/03/on-the-dissent-vs-american-affairs-debate-and-summing-up-some-feelings-about-the-state-of-the-world/ John Gray, Two Faces of Liberalism https://thenewpress.com/books/two-faces-of-liberalism Thomas Chatterton Williams, Self-Portrait in Black and White https://books.wwnorton.com/books/detail.aspx?ID=4294998793 Henry Louis Gates, Jr., "Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars" https://global.oup.com/academic/product/loose-canons-9780195083507?cc=us&lang=en& Joan Didion, The White Album https://www.thejoandidion.com/the-white-album Jacob Siegel, "The Vicious Static" Sean O'Casey, The Plough and the Stars Ruby Namdar https://www.rubynamdar.com/about Isaiah Berlin, Two Enemies of Enlightenment http://berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/lists/nachlass/hamann.pdf Azar Gat, Nations https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/nations/15A0C502D17FD36C38A52449CDBA7757

Jake and Phil discuss America's greatest poets named Frank, with Frank O’Hara’s "Personism Manifesto" and Frank Bidart’s “Ellen West” Frank O’Hara, “Personism” http://opencourses.uoa.gr/modules/document/file.php/ENL9/Instructional%20Package/Texts//Readings/Week%203%3A%20Pop%20art%3A%20breaking%20down%20the%20boundaries%20between%20high%20and%20low/Frank%20O%27Hara%20Personism-2.pdf Reuben Brower, The Fields of Light https://books.google.com/books/about/The_fields_of_light.html?id=AuhYAAAAMAAJ Kenneth Koch, “Fresh Air” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52929/fresh-air Daniel Clowes, Art School Confidential https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364955/ The Collected Poems of Frank O’Hara https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520201668/the-collected-poems-of-frank-ohara Steven Burt, “Okay I’ll Call You/Yes Call Me: Frank O’Hara’s Personism” https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/text/okay-ill-call-you-yes-call-me-frank-oharas-personism Frank O’Hara, “Meditations in an Emergency” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/26538/meditations-in-an-emergency Frank O’Hara, “Having a Coke With You” https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/having-coke-you Sloterdijk, Rules for the Human Zoo https://rekveld.home.xs4all.nl/tech/Sloterdijk_RulesForTheHumanZoo.pdf Frank O’Hara, “My Heart” https://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/poetry/poetry_in_motion/atlas/newyork/my_heart/ Czeslaw Milosz, The Captive Mind https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/115135/the-captive-mind-by-czeslaw-milosz/9780679728566/ Geoffrey Hill, “Language, Suffering, and Silence” https://academic.oup.com/litimag/article/1/2/240/958441 Frank O’Hara, “Ave Maria” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42670/ave-maria Frank Bidart, “Ellen West” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48284/ellen-west Tom Sleigh, Interview with a Ghost https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/interview-ghost Frank Bidart, “Writing Ellen West” https://frame-tales.tumblr.com/post/67714978473/frank-bidart-writing-ellen-west Frank Bidart, Half-Light: Collected Poems https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374125950 De Maistre, as quoted in Isaiah Berlin’s Two Enemies of Enlightenment http://berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/lists/nachlass/maistre.pdf David Jones, Epoch and Artist https://www.faber.co.uk/9780571339501-epoch-and-artist.html Audio Clips: The Stranglers, No More Heroes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gfIgA-PYyQ John Ashberry reading a letter from O’Hara https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oacw2wX5nac Frank O’Hara reading Having a Coke With You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDLwivcpFe8 Style Wars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BdlXqBXm2o Pocahontas, Colors of the Wind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9MvdMqKvpU

The hosts explore accelerationism, its contradictory meanings, and the role of human agency. They discuss leftist critiques of global challenges and the use of tools like social network analysis. The goals of accelerationism are examined, including media reform and reconstituting class power. They analyze a video of a faceless sex symbol in Myrtle Beach and discuss objectification and dehumanization. They explore the thin veneer of civilization and the influence of collective intelligence on human behavior.