Manifesto!
Manifesto! A Podcast
Your regular visit to the archives of vanity, where men and women who stopped making myths turned to issuing commandments.
Your guides for this journey are the writers Phil Klay and Jacob Siegel, along with their trusty engineer, Jacqui Rigazio
May you continue to be a person.
Manifesto! Is now sponsored by Fairfield University, a Jesuit University in Fairfield Connecticut. Fairfield’s mission is to develop the creative intellectual potential of students and to foster in them ethical and religious values and a sense of social responsibility. Phil also teaches at Fairfield, in both their undergraduate English department and in their Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program. We’re very pleased to be associated with Fairfield, and thank them for their sponsorship.
Your guides for this journey are the writers Phil Klay and Jacob Siegel, along with their trusty engineer, Jacqui Rigazio
May you continue to be a person.
Manifesto! Is now sponsored by Fairfield University, a Jesuit University in Fairfield Connecticut. Fairfield’s mission is to develop the creative intellectual potential of students and to foster in them ethical and religious values and a sense of social responsibility. Phil also teaches at Fairfield, in both their undergraduate English department and in their Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program. We’re very pleased to be associated with Fairfield, and thank them for their sponsorship.
Episodes
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Jul 10, 2018 • 1h 29min
Episode 5: Everybody's Protest Novel and the Responsibilities of Art
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
Jun 12, 2018 • 1h 12min
Episode 4: My Twisted World and Martin Scorcese's Taxi Driver
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.
May 29, 2018 • 1h 6min
Episode 3: Schiller's Aesthetic Letters and and Ian McEwan's The Use of Poetry
May 14, 2018 • 1h 25min
Episode 2: SCUM, Intercourse, and Cat Person
Apr 28, 2018 • 1h 16min
