31 episodes
Manifesto! Manifesto! A Podcast
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- Society & Culture
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4.9 • 82 Ratings
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Your regular visit to the archives of vanity, where men who had 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, the indefatigable Adam Chimera.
May you continue to be a person.
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Episode 31: Everything is Broken
Jake and Phil are joined by Alana Newhouse to discuss her essay “Everything Is Broken” and the Ani DiFranco live album “Living in Clip.”
The Manifesto:
Alana Newhouse, Everything is Broken
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/everything-is-broken
The Art:
Ani DiFranco, Living in Clip
https://anidifranco.bandcamp.com/album/living-in-clip
Works Mentioned:
Eugene McCarraher, Comrade Ruskin - How a Victorian visionary can save communism from Marx
https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/comrade-ruskin
Rowan Williams – Interiority and Epiphany
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1468-0025.00030
Fiona Williams MTV speech
https://hiddenremote.com/2016/08/11/mtv-vmas-tbt-fiona-apples-blunt-speech-still-matters/
Philip Roth, Sabbath's Theater
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/158029/sabbaths-theater-by-philip-roth/ -
Episode 30: King Lear or Endgame or Psalm
Jake and Phil discuss Jan Kott's "King Lear or Endgame" and George Oppen's "Psalm."
The Manifesto:
Jan Kott, "King Lear or Endgame"
https://t.co/L9FRGoRD3L?amp=1
The Art:
George Oppen's "Psalm"
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/29449/psalm-56d212ff620c5 -
Episode 29: What Were We Thinking
Jake and Phil are joined by Carlos Lozada to discuss his new book, What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era, and the chapter "Decent People" from Garth Greenwell's Cleanness.
The Manifesto:
Carlos Lozada, What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/What-Were-We-Thinking/Carlos-Lozada/9781982145620
The Art:
Garth Greenwell, "Decent People"
https://thesewaneereview.com/articles/decent-people -
Episode 28: They Will Eat the CIA Men First
This week Jake and Phil are joined by special guest Jesse Walker of Reason Magazine to discuss William S. Burroughs The Revised Boy Scout Manual and Charles Ridley's short anti-Nazi propaganda film, Schichlegruber Doing the Lambeth Walk (assisted by the Gestapo 'Hep-Cats')
The Manifesto: William S. Burroughs, The Revised Boy Scout Manual
https://ohiostatepress.org/books/titles/9780814254899.html
The Art: Charles Ridley, 1941, Schichlegruber Doing the Lambeth Walk (assisted by the Gestapo 'Hep-Cats')
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYdmk3GP3iM
Works discussed
Jesse Walker, The Sultan of Sewers: William Burroughs' anti-authoritarian vision
https://reason.com/2014/06/04/the-sultan-of-sewers/
Naked Lunch
https://groveatlantic.com/book/naked-lunch/
Hunter S. Thompson, The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved
https://grantland.com/features/looking-back-hunter-s-thompson-classic-story-kentucky-derby/
Jacob Siegel, Digital fascism: anti-PC idol-smashing isn’t just a joke
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/internet-alt-right-fascists
Susan Sontag, Fascinating Fascism
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1975/02/06/fascinating-fascism/
Jack Kerouac, On The Road
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/300451/on-the-road-by-jack-kerouac/
Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain, Please Kill Me
https://pleasekillme.com/shop/autographed-paperback-20-anniversary-edition-please-kill-me/
Jacob Siegel, Send Anarchists, Guns and Money
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/anarchists-guns-and-money-siegel
Jon Baskin, The Unbearable: Toward an Antifascist Aesthetic
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/08/14/the-unbearable-toward-an-antifascist-aesthetic/ -
Episode 27: The Owl of Minerva Trots at Dusk
Phil and Jake are joined by Ian Marcus Corbin to discuss Joseph Conrad's Preface and Saul Bellow's "Mosby's Memoirs"
The Manifesto:
Conrad, The Preface
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/17731/17731-h/17731-h.htm#link2H_PREF
The Art:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1968/07/20/mosbys-memoirs -
Episode 26: On Pain and on Fallujah Revisited
Jake and Phil are joined by Elliot Ackerman to discuss Ernst Junger’s 1934 essay On Pain, alongside Elliot’s A Battle in Fallujah, Revisited, an excerpt of his memoir, Places and Names.
The Manifesto
Ernst Junger, On Pain
https://www.amazon.com/Pain-Ernst-J%C3%BCnger/dp/0914386409
The Art
Elliot Ackerman, A Battle in Fallujah, Revisted
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/25/opinion/memorial-day-falluja.html
(adapted from Places and Names)
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/580119/places-and-names-by-elliot-ackerman/
Works cited
Junger, Storm of Steel
Junger, Battle as an Inner Experience
Junger, Total Mobilization
Junger, The Worker
Junger, Eumeswil
Junger, On the Marble Cliffs
Karl Marlantes, What It Is Like to Go to War
https://groveatlantic.com/book/what-it-is-like-to-go-to-war/
Sam Adler-Bell, Surviving Amazon
https://logicmag.io/bodies/surviving-amazon/
Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society
Jacob Siegel, Send Anarchists, Guns and Money
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/anarchists-guns-and-money-siegel
Elliot Ackerman, Red Dress in Black and White
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/576747/red-dress-in-black-and-white-by-elliot-ackerman/
Customer Reviews
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My brain has sex to this podcast!
Discussing ideas I can’t stop thinking about
Interesting perspectives met with qualified, well thought out opinions and topics worth talking about. I have been completely won over by these conversations. There is more in each episode than I found in any of my college literature or philosophy classes. Would love to hear an episode on the book Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton if it is considered a manifesto.
Great hosts and subjects
Great listen. Some of the writing/art featured is short and freely accessible, so I try to read/look up their subjects whenever the new episodes come out. But, even when I can’t do the homework prior to listening, the hosts do a great job of contextualizing the material into a broader philosophical and cultural context. That makes each episode interesting, even if I’m not up on the material. If you’re a reader or a deep thinker, this podcast may compel you to pick up some new books or essays, even if you’re mostly a passive consumer of scripted television and digital media, like me.