Manifesto!

The Art: Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5658/5658-h/5658-h.htm Other works discussed: Thomas Nagel, The Absurd https://philosophy.as.uky.edu/sites/default/files/The%20Absurd%20-%20Thomas%20Nagel.pdf Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan, The I That Tells Itself: A Bakhtinian Perspective on Narrative Identity https://www.jstor.org/stable/30219268 The Sacred and Profane Love Podcast https://thevirtueblog.com/category/podcast-sacred-and-profane-love/

Jake and Phil are joined by novelist Daniel Torday to discuss Robert Alter's “A Literary Approach to the Bible,” alongside The Book of Jonah. The Manifesto: Robert Alter, “A Literary Approach to the Bible,” from The Art of Biblical Narrative https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/robert-alter/the-art-of-biblical-narrative/9780465022557/ The Art: The Book of Jonah https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jonah+1&version=KJV Works cited: Amy Hungerford, Postmodern Belief: American Literature and Religion Since 1960 https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691145754/postmodern-belief Genesis 38, Judah and Tamar https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+38&version=KJV Isaiah Berlin, Hume and the Sources of German Anti-Rationalism http://berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/published_works/ac/hume.pdf Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Baba Metzia, page 59-a http://www.ravhanan.org/uploads/6/5/6/4/65649719/defeating-god-and-defeating-ones-fellow-man-.pdf Soren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling https://www.religion-online.org/book-chapter/prelude/ E.M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel https://www.amazon.com/ASPECTS-NOVEL-M-Forster/dp/0156091801 John Miles, Laughing at the Bible, Jonah as Parody https://www.jstor.org/stable/1454356 The Book of Job https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Job+1&version=KJV The Book of Nahum https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Nahum+1&version=KJV They Will Have to Die Now, James Verini, “Sennacherib’s boast“ https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393652475 The Book of Esther https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Esther+1&version=KJV St. Augustine on Jonah http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/1102102.htm Anonymous, Patience, translation by Richard Scott-Robinson http://www.eleusinianm.co.uk/middle-english-literature-retold-in-modern-english/religious-poetry/patience Charles Portis, True Grit https://www.amazon.com/True-Grit-Novel-Charles-Portis/dp/B008PIC86I Daniel Torday, Boomer1 https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250191793 Daniel Torday, The Last Flight of Poxl West https://www.amazon.com/Last-Flight-Poxl-West-Novel/dp/1250081602

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