46 episodes
Manifesto! Manifesto! A Podcast
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4.9 • 102 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.
April 22: Join us for a special live episode of Manifesto! A Podcast with special guest Vinson Cunningham to discuss Pope Francis’ Fratelli Tutti and Jackie Sibblies Drury’s play Fairview. Event held virtually through the Fairfield University MFA program’s Inspired Writers series.
For more information: https://quickcenter.fairfield.edu/spring-2021-season-calendar/lectures/manifesto-a-podcast.html
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Episode 46: Sunday Morning and God's Grandeur
Jake and Phil discuss Wallace Stevens' "Sunday Morning" and Gerard Manley Hopkins' "God's Grandeur."
The Manifesto:
Wallace Stevens' "Sunday Morning"
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/13261/sunday-morning
The Art:
Gerard Manley Hopkins' "God's Grandeur."
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44395/gods-grandeur
Works referenced:
Wallace Stevens, The Idea of Order at Key West
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43431/the-idea-of-order-at-key-west
Wallace Stevens, Anecdote of the Jar
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/14575/anecdote-of-the-jar
Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45236/thirteen-ways-of-looking-at-a-blackbird
Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Windhover
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44402/the-windhover
Gerard Manley Hopkins, No Worst
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44398/no-worst-there-is-none-pitched-past-pitch-of-grief
Anne Carpenter, Theo-Poetics: Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Risk of Art and Being
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Episode 45: Spielberg and Roxy Music
Jake and Phil are joined by culture critic Armond White to discuss Make Spielberg Great Again and Roxy Music's 1979 album Manifesto
The Manifesto:
Make Spielberg Great Again (specifically focusing on the chapters "The Wailing Wall" and "Steven Spielberg's Obama"), Armond White
https://www.amazon.com/Make-Spielberg-Great-Again-Chronicles/dp/0984215913
The Art:
Roxy Music, Manifesto
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Episode 44: We're All Stars Now In the Dope Show
Jake and Phil are joined by James Poulos, author of Human Forever: The Digital Politics of Spiritual War, to discuss Jacques Ellul and Marilyn Manson.
The Manifesto:
Jacques Ellul, Propaganda - Chapter 5 (The Socio-Political Effects”), Part 3 (“Propaganda and Grouping), section “Effects on the Churches.”
https://monoskop.org/images/4/44/Ellul_Jacques_Propaganda_The_Formation_of_Mens_Attitudes.pdf
The Art:
Marilyn Manson, Mechanical Animals
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6ogdCG3tAWinzV1alDntKEi3uO9Mq5ES -
Episode 43: Tradition and the Individual Talent
Jake and Phil discuss T.S. Eliot's "Tradition and the Individual Talent", and James Joyce's "A Mother"
The Manifesto:
T.S. Eliot, "Tradition and the Individual Talent"
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/69400/tradition-and-the-individual-talent
The Art:
James Joyce, "A Mother"
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Episode 42: The Transmogrifications of Gary Leib
Phil is joined by Peter Catapano, of the New York Times, and graphic novelist Jess Ruliffson to discuss Peter's essay on the life and work of cartoonist Gary Leib
The Manifesto:
Peter Catapano, “I’m Going to Make a Fire”: The Transmogrifications of Gary Leib
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/im-going-to-make-a-fire-the-transmogrifications-of-gary-leib/
The Art:
Gary Leib's animation for The Stone
https://vimeo.com/148232540
Leib's animations for the Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/01/opinion/01leib_bio.html
Other:
Pre-order Peter's forthcoming book, Question Everything
https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324091837
Pre-order Jess' forthcoming graphic novel, Invisible Wounds.
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Episode 41: To Be Incarnational
Jake and Phil are joined by the great poet Tom Sleigh to discuss his essay "To Be Incarnational," on the World War I poetry of David Jones, as well as Tom's poem "In Which a Spider Weaves a Web on My Computer Screen"
The Manifesto:
Tom Sleigh, To Be Incarnational
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/articles/70066/to-be-incarnational
The Art:
Tom Sleigh, "In Which a Spider Weaves a Web on My Computer Screen"
https://vimeo.com/669317283
Customer Reviews
Very good
A lot of intellectual and informative media these days is overly nihilistic, depressing, and politically extremist. This is none of those.
A Banquet for the Mind
May I be forgiven for considering Jake and Phil two of my best friends, even though we’ve never met? I’ve been working my way steadily through the episodes for about two months now, and I can confidently say there is no other podcast I’d rather listen to. Full stop. The breadth, depth, intelligence, integrity, insight, and rugged humor of these conversations is unmatched. Subscription to the Patreon and access to the bonus episodes is well worth the cost of admission. All this podcast was lacking was a public episode on Flannery O’Connor, and now, lo and behold, it has landed. Praise the Lord and pass the biscuits.
Jazz, Murray, Crouch, etc.
The discussion of jazz and American democratic life is outstanding. Thank you, Jake and Phil.