Aesthetic Resistance Podcast John Steppling

Participants: John Steppling, Shaenah Batterson, Johan Eddebo, Hiroyuki Hamada, Max Parry, Dennis Riches.
Theme: A vast regression in public consciousness, sleepwalking to full war in Europe.

This is the first in a series of lectures, or educational video and audio programs, that will cover art, philosophy, culture, psychology, sociology and history. The learners we have in mind for these lectures are not only the familiar readership and listeners of John’s Aesthetic Resistance blog and podcast but also they are the younger everyman and everywoman who is struggling to make sense of the strange, unmoored times we are living through. These lectures are also for people who work in different fields of knowledge and people who are busy with their work in other fields.

Participants: John Steppling, Lex Steppling, Varun Mather, Shaenah Batterson, Cory Morningstar, Max Parry, Hiroyuki Hamada, Johan Eddebo, Dennis Riches. Topics covered: the slave revolt in Palestine, the financialization of the economy (case study: the live concert business), the individual's alienation from consumed cultural products, alienation from the founding mythology of Western civilization, sleepwalking to war with Russia

Participants: John Steppling, Lex Steppling, Shaenah Batterson, Johan Eddebo, Hiroyuki Hamada, Varun Mathur, Max Parry, Dennis Riches.
Topics discussed: a week of assassination attempts, coups and suspicious deaths, Wikipedia censorship, Swedish Nazi "war heroes" in Ukraine, the clown world of Western leadership, Anthony Blinken rocking Kiev, the ICC case against Israel, education reform and neo-liberalism, the uses and abuses of bilingual education, educational philosophy, the foundational mythology of education systems

Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, Max Parry, Cory Morningstar, Dennis Riches.
In this episode: Gaza, Palestine, Trump derangement syndrome (2024 version), educational decline, True Detective (season one), the environmental and cultural impact of lawns and lawn mowing, two varieties of family reunions in Canada and Thailand.

Participants: John Steppling, Johan Eddebo, Dennis Riches, Cory Morningstar, Shaenah Batterson, and Max Parry. Discussed in this episode: 1. The FBI tells Americans to prepare for a “heightened threat environment.” 2. Reactionary responses to the protests on American campuses 3. Echoes of 1968 in student protests—including the Democratic convention taking place in Chicago. 4. France ready to send troops to fight in Ukraine, provoking dire warning from Russia, France’s lost skepticism about American power. 5. Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID), how neo-liberalism leads to chronic illness and depression, then to the conclusion that assisted suicide is the solution. 6. Corporate capture of social movements. 7. Capitalism’s short-term solutions for the environmental problems.