51 episodes
Manifesto! Manifesto! A Podcast
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- Society & Culture
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4.9 • 103 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 51: A Public Address, A Colloquium, or Maybe Just a Q&A
Jake and Phil answer questions from our listeners.
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Episode 50: El Greco, Picasso, and The Pleasures of Ignorance
Jake and Phil discuss Aldous Huxley's "Meditation on El Greco", and Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.
The Manifesto:
Aldous Huxley - "Meditation on El Greco"
https://cooperative-individualism.org/huxley-aldous_meditation-on-el-greco-pleasure-that-comes-from-ignorance.pdf
The Art:
Picasso - Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79766?sov_referrer=theme&theme_id=5135 -
Episode 49: Angry Popes and Architecture
Jake and Phil are joined by John Davis, an environmental and architectural historian at the Knowlton School at Ohio State, to discuss Pascendi Dominici Gregis, Pope Pius X's encyclical against the modernists, and Antoni Gaudí’s La Sagrada Familia basilica in Barcelona, Spain.
The Manifesto:
Pascendi Dominici Gregis, Pope Pius X
https://www.vatican.va/content/pius-x/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-x_enc_19070908_pascendi-dominici-gregis.html
Basílica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família
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Episode 48: The Ultimate Revolution
Jake and Phil are joined by Becca Rothfeld (https://www.beccarothfeld.com/) to discuss Shulamith Firestone's The Dialectic of Sex and Sheila Heti's That Longing for a Holy Completeness (from her novel MOTHERHOOD)
Shulamith Firestone, The Dialectic of Sex
http://biopolitics.kom.uni.st/Shulamith%20Firestone/The%20Dialectic%20of%20Sex_%20The%20Case%20for%20Feminist%20Revolution%20(139)/The%20Dialectic%20of%20Sex_%20The%20Case%20for%20Feminis%20-%20Shulamith%20Firestone.pdf
Sheila Heti, That Longing for a Holy Completeness
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/that-longing-for-a-holy-completeness/ -
Episode 47: The Democracy Engineering Complex
Phil is joined by Sam Kimbriel, the founding director of Aspen's Philosophy & Society Initiative, to discuss Sam's essay "What the Democracy Engineering Complex Misses"
The Manifesto:
Sam Kimbriel, What the Democracy Engineering Complex Misses
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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
https://undpress.nd.edu/9780268023782/theo-poetics/
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.
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