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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

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

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

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.

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

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/

Jake and Phil talk about the political and social obligations of art. To set the stage they discuss W.E.B. Du Bois' "Criteria for Negro Art" originally delivered as a speech to the 1926 Conference of the NAACP in Chicago. The main event is a consideration of James Baldwin's famous 1949 essay "Everybody's Protest Novel." For the finale, the gents talk about James Thurber's 1931 short story, "The Greatest Man in the World." Other works referenced in this episode: Paul C. Taylor, Black is Beautiful: A Philosophy of Black Aesthetics https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Black+is+Beautiful%3A+A+Philosophy+of+Black+Aesthetics-p-9781405150620 Ta-Nehisi Coates, I'm Not Black, I'm Kanye https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/05/im-not-black-im-kanye/559763/ Francois Mauriac's Nobel Prize Speech https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1952/mauriac-speech.html Edward P. Jones, The Known World https://www.harpercollins.com/9780060557546/the-known-world

Discussing the impact of the Elliot Rodger manifesto and the incel subculture, media coverage on violent acts, obsession with materialism and misogyny, exploration of characters with dangerous ideologies, the nature of cruelty, societal challenges, violence triggers, and Elliot Rodger's disturbing views on intimacy. Also comparing dark themes in 'Taxi Driver' to the manifesto.