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Jul 3, 2019 • 1h 41min

Episode 15: Dadism and Public Enemy

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/
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Jun 4, 2019 • 2h 31min

Episode 14: New Conservative Manifestos and My Father Left Me Ireland

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
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May 6, 2019 • 1h 28min

Episode 13: Personism and Ellen West

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
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Feb 28, 2019 • 1h 33min

Episode 12: Accelerationism and Big Sex Object Mirrorfaces

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.
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Jan 5, 2019 • 1h 49min

Episode 11: The Modern Essay and the Decline of Civilization

Park MacDougald joins Phil and Jake to discuss Virginia Woolf’s “The Modern Essay” and VS Naipaul’s “Jacques Soustelle and the Decline of the West.” Works referenced: Virginia Woolf, “The Modern Essay” “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown” https://www.thoughtco.com/the-modern-essay-by-virginia-woolf-1690207 http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/MrBennettAndMrsBrown.pdf Max Beerbohm, “A Relic,” “Laughter” http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1956/1956-h/1956-h.htm#link2H_4_0001 Daniel Clowes http://www.fantagraphics.com/artists/daniel-clowes/#/category/967 Eliot Weinberger, An Elemental Thing https://www.ndbooks.com/book/an-elemental-thing/ Anatole Broyard, Kafka Was the Rage https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/20086/kafka-was-the-rage-by-anatole-broyard/9780679781264/ Hegel, The Phenomenology Of Spirit, Terry Pinkard translation https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel-the-phenomenology-of-spirit/6FEDB42FDEF2E5FF97FEAE0EEEDABE8E woketoddler Claas Relotius’ In Eigener Sache https://magazin.spiegel.de/SP/2017/13/150231550/index.html (For those interested in Relotius’ lies about Fergus Falls, this is from Michele Anderson and Jake Krohn, residents of the town he fictionalized https://medium.com/@micheleanderson/der-spiegel-journalist-messed-with-the-wrong-small-town-d92f3e0e01a7) Flannery O’Connor, “The Nature and Aim of Fiction” https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374508043 Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West http://people.duke.edu/~aparks/Spengler.html Naipaul, The Writer and the World (essays mentioned: “Jacques Soustelle and the Decline of the West,” “A Second Visit,” “Michael X and the Black Power Killings in Trinidad,” “Heavy Manners in Grenada,” “Our Universal Civilization”) https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/119643/the-writer-and-the-world-by-v-s-naipaul-edited-with-an-introduction-by-pankaj-mishra/9780375707308/ Mario Vargas Llosa, “El Odio y El Amor” https://elpais.com/diario/1991/12/30/opinion/694047611_850215.html Naipaul, A Bend in the River https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/v-s-naipaul/a-bend-in-the-river/9780330522991 Naipaul, Guerrillas https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/v-s-naipaul/guerrillas/9780330522915 Edward Said, “Intellectuals in the Post-Colonial World.” https://www.jstor.org/stable/40547786 Derek Walcott, Nobel Lecture: “The Antilles: Fragments Of Epic Memory” https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1992/walcott/lecture/ Pablo Mukherjee, “Doomed to Smallness: Violence, VS Naipaul, and the Global South” https://www.jstor.org/stable/20479287 Anatole Broyard, “What the Cystoscope Said” https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/20085/intoxicated-by-my-illness-by-anatole-broyard/9780449908341/ Lewis Thomas, “The Lives of a Cell” https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/535043/lives-of-a-cell-by-lewis-thomas/9780140047431/ Wesley Yang, “The Face of Seung-Hui Cho” https://nplusonemag.com/issue-6/essays/face-seung-hui-cho/ Audio clips: Excerpt from Kirsten Wever's Librivox recording of Max Beerbohm's "A Relic" https://librivox.org/and-even-now-by-max-beerbohm/ Snowpiercer https://youtu.be/3AIQdfW2Pds Edward Said - A Critique of Naipaul https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrcv3DbiIqQ
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Dec 6, 2018 • 1h 24min

Episode 10: Violence according to Hannah Arendt and Frank Miller

Jake and Phil discuss Hannah Arendt's "Reflections on Violence" and Frank Miller's "The Dark Knight Returns." Works referenced Hannah Arendt, “Reflections on Violence” https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1969/02/27/a-special-supplement-reflections-on-violence/ Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (with introduction by Jean-Paul Sartre) http://home.ku.edu.tr/~mbaker/CSHS503/FrantzFanon.pdf Albert Camus, “Camus at ‘Combat’” https://press.princeton.edu/titles/8020.html Martin van Creveld, “The Transformation of War” http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Transformation-of-War/Martin-Van-Creveld/9780029331552 Francis Fukuyama, “The Origins of Political Order” https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374533229 Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, The Next Step for #MeToo is Into the Gray Areas https://jezebel.com/the-next-step-for-metoo-is-into-the-gray-areas-1829269384 Frank Miller, The Dark Knight Returns https://www.dccomics.com/graphic-novels/the-dark-knight-returns-1986/batman-the-dark-knight-returns-0 Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian https://www.cormacmccarthy.com/works/blood-meridian/ Audio Clips Dr. Strangelove https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuP6KbIsNK4&t=1s The Return of the Jedi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F4qzPbcFiA Brazil https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSQ5EsbT4cE A Clockwork Orange https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI-mDTdeKR8
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Nov 8, 2018 • 1h 28min

Episode 9: The Oulipo and the Naked City

Jake and Phil are joined by Olivia Garard (@teaandtactics) of The Strategy Bridge (https://thestrategybridge.org/editorial-team/2016/8/16/olivia-a-garard) to discuss Oulipo member Anne Garréta's "On Bookselves" and Guy Debord’s “The Naked City” Works cited: R.O. Kwon, In Defense of Keeping Books Spine In https://lithub.com/in-defense-of-keeping-books-spine-in/ Anne Garréta, On Bookselves http://oulipo.net/fr/on-bookselves Wittgenstein's private language argument https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/private-language/ Borges, The Library of Babel https://libraryofbabel.info/libraryofbabel.html Daniel Dennett, Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking http://books.wwnorton.com/books/Intuition-Pumps-And-Other-Tools-for-Thinking/ Phil Klay, What We're Fighting For https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/10/opinion/sunday/what-were-fighting-for.html Michel Houellebecq's face https://s1.lemde.fr/image/2015/01/07/534x0/4550663_7_8cd6_michel-houellebecq-en-septembre-2014_68730539b00035181bbb264f4a38e9e9.jpg Guy Debord, The Naked City https://paulwalshphotographyblog.wordpress.com/2013/07/08/the-naked-city/ Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/society.htm Michel de Certeu, The Practice of Everyday Life https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520271456/the-practice-of-everyday-life Marc Auge, Non-Places: An Introduction to Supermodernity https://www.amazon.com/Non-Places-Introduction-Supermodernity-Marc-Auge/dp/1844673111 Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation https://www.press.umich.edu/9900/simulacra_and_simulation Isaac Babel, Guy de Maupaussant https://rosswolfe.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/isaak-babel-complete-works.pdf Audio Clip: Method Man at Def Jam offices in 1994 https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=BWml7yoFwHA
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Oct 10, 2018 • 1h 28min

Episode 8: Resentments, Justice, and the Sins of the Father

Jake and Phil overcome audio difficulties to discuss Jean Amery's "Resentments" and Andre Dubus II's short story "A Father's Story." Works cited: Jean Amery, At the Mind’s Limits https://rosswolfe.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/jean-amery-at-the-minds-limits-contemplations-by-a-survivor-on-auschwitz-and-its-realities.pdf Camus on Scheller’s definition of resentment: The Rebel https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/23475/the-rebel-by-albert-camus/9780679733843 Portraits of Reconciliation https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/04/06/magazine/06-pieter-hugo-rwanda-portraits.html Rwanda and the NY Times https://africasacountry.com/2014/04/rwanda-the-genocide-must-live-on Derrida, ‘To Forgive: The Unforgivable and the Imprescriptible’ https://eclass.uoa.gr/modules/document/file.php/PPP668/%CE%97%20%CF%83%CF%85%CE%B3%CF%87%CF%8E%CF%81%CE%B7%CF%83%CE%B7/Derrida%2C%20J.%2C%20To%20Forgive.%20The%20Unforgivable%20%26%20the%20Imprescrible%2C%20pp.%2021-51.pdf GK Chesterton, “The Chief Mourner of Marne” https://harpers.org/archive/1925/05/the-chief-mourner-of-marne/ Fred Alford, “Jean Amery: Resentment as Ethic and Ontology” https://philpapers.org/rec/ALFJAR Andre Dubus II, “A Father’s Story” http://www.mbird.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/AndreDubus_AFathersStory.pdf Audio Clips: Joel Osteen, “Living Guilt Free” Brian Stevenson interview You should know the final one.
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Sep 10, 2018 • 1h 39min

Episode 7: Patriotism and the Unknown Soldier

Jake and Phil discuss Alasdair MacIntyre's "Is Patriotism a Virtue?" and the story of the November 11, 1921 burial of the Unknown Soldier, as told by Jonathan Ebel in his book GI Messiahs Works referred to in this episode: Alasdair MacIntyre, “Is Patriotism A Virtue” https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/bitstream/handle/1808/12398/Is%20Patriotism%20a%20Virtue-1984.pdf Abu Bakr ibn Tufayl, Hayy ibn Yaqzan http://www.marcresource.org/ibn-tufayls-hayy-ibn-yaqzan/ Peter Singer, “The Drowning Child and the Expanding Circle” https://www.utilitarian.net/singer/by/199704--.htm Bernard Williams, “A Critique of Utilitarianism” http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/political-philosophy/utilitarianism-and-against?format=PB&isbn=9780521098229 Ralph Ellison “The Little Man at Chehaw Station” https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/46137/the-collected-essays-of-ralph-ellison-by-ralph-ellison/9780812968262/ Vasily Grossman, A Writer at War https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/72422/a-writer-at-war-by-vasily-grossman-edited-and-translated-by-antony-beevor-and-luba-vinogradova/9780307275332/ John Gray, Two Faces of Liberalism https://thenewpress.com/books/two-faces-of-liberalism Ta-Nehesi Coates, I’m Not Black, I’m Kanye https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/05/im-not-black-im-kanye/559763/ George Orwell, “Notes on Nationalism” http://orwell.ru/library/essays/nationalism/english/e_nat Gregory Pardlo, Air Traffic http://www.pardlo.net/books Aris Roussinos https://www.vice.com/en_us/contributor/aris-roussinos Valeria Luiselli, Difficult Forgiveness https://www.guernicamag.com/difficult-forgiveness/ Jonathan Ebel, GI Messiahs https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300176704/gi-messiahs Jesus Christ and the American Soldier 2nd version Bumper Sticker https://www.zazzle.com/jesus_christ_and_the_american_soldier_2nd_version_bumper_sticker-128506846244291909 Peter Lucier, Not Your Messiah https://therevealer.org/not-your-messiah/ Anatole Broyard, Kafka Was the Rage https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/20086/kafka-was-the-rage-by-anatole-broyard/9780679781264/ Audio clips: Independence Day (1996) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t1IK_9apWs Charles Olson, Maximus to Gloucester, Letter 27 [withheld] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAYxpSjkyAg Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmW0SF5gYEk
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Aug 7, 2018 • 1h 20min

Episode 6: Revolution, Entropy, and Abstract Art

Jake and Phil side with the madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels and skeptics on this episode, discussing Yevgeny Zamyatin's “On Literature, Revolution, Entropy, and Other Matters,” alongside the paintings Composition VI and Composition VII, by Vasily Kandinsky. Works referenced in Episode 6 Yevgeny Zamyatin, “On Literature, Revolution, Entropy, and Other Matters” http://evildrclam.blogspot.com/2008/11/on-literature-revolution-entropy-and.html Yevgeny Zamyatin, We https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/17201/we/ Alistair Hamilton, The Appeal of Fascism https://www.amazon.com/Appeal-Fascism-Study-Intellectuals-1919-45/dp/0218514263/ Isaiah Berlin, Russian Thinkers https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/13561/russian-thinkers/ Lawrence Joseph, So Where Are We? https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374266677 Paul Scharre, Army of None http://books.wwnorton.com/books/Army-of-None/ Kenneth Payne, Strategy, Evolution, and War http://press.georgetown.edu/book/georgetown/strategy-evolution-and-war Mitch Hedburg, Tennis https://twitter.com/M_Hedberg/status/174677445432188928 Isaiah Berlin, The Origins of Cultural History: Vico versus Descartes https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/origins-cultural-history-2-geisteswissenschaft-and-natural-sciences-vico-versus-descartes Vasily Kandinsky, Composition VI, 1913 https://www.wassilykandinsky.net/work-35.php Vasily Kandinsky, Composition VII, 1913 https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/composition-vii/CQHOKgpWcL_UPA?hl=en Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/292003/swanns-way-by-marcel-proust/9780142437964/ Vasily Kandinsky, Point and Line to Plane https://www.wassilykandinsky.net/book-117.php Vasily Kandinsky, The Spiritual in Art https://librivox.org/concerning-the-spiritual-in-art-by-wassily-kandinsky/

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