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Jake and Phil talk with Jake Hanrahan of Popular Front (https://www.popularfront.co/) about Ted Kaczynski’s Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and It’s Future and Radiohead’s OK Computer. The Manifesto: Ted Kaczynski, “Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and It’s Future” https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unabomber/manifesto.text.htm The Art: Radiohead, OK Computer Works Referenced: Matt Taibbi, “The American Left’s Silly Victim Complex” http://theneweditor.com/index.php?/archives/6352-The-American-Lefts-Silly-Victim-Complex.html Heidegger, “The Question Concerning Technology” https://monoskop.org/images/4/44/Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf Charles Taylor, A Secular Age https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674026766&content=reviews Jacob Siegel, Send Anarchists, Guns and Money https://thebaffler.com/salvos/anarchists-guns-and-money-siegel Omeros, Derek Walcott https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781466880405 Don Carpenter, Hard Rain Falling https://www.nyrb.com/products/hard-rain-falling?variant=1094929809 Sam Harris with Jordan Peterson, What Is True? https://samharris.org/podcasts/what-is-true/ Tim Kreider, "Cycle of Fear" https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/07/fear-and-cycling/ The Georgia Guidestones https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/georgia-guidestones Popular Front's Indigogo campaign https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/popular-front-10k#/ Audio Clips: Monty Python and the Holy Grail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtYU87QNjPw Putney Swope https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPgId7RgQ2E Bill Burr on Chain Restaurants https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWCINJ8uvIc Radiohead, Karma Police https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uYWYWPc9HU Marshall McLuhan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijeMM-NXvus

Jake and Phil are joined by essayist and fiction-writer Victoria Brown of Rollins College to discuss Derek Walcott’s The Muse of History alongside Mavis Gallant’s The Latehomecomer The Manifesto: Derek Walcott, The Muse of History http://www.worldcat.org/title/what-the-twilight-says-essays/oclc/38976188&referer=brief_results The Art: Mavis Gallant, “The Latehomecomer” https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1974/07/08/the-latehomecomer Works Cited: Derek Walcott, “Bleecker Street, Summer” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57109/bleecker-street-summer Derek Walcott, “Hic Jacet” https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374537579 Derek Walcott, “Air” http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/2640/air.html VS Naipaul, A House for Mr. Biswas https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/119600/a-house-for-mr-biswas-by-v-s-naipaul VS Naipaul, Miguel Street https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/119625/miguel-street-by-vs-naipaul Derek Walcott, “The Bounty” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48318/the-bounty Clive James on Sartre, from Cultural Amnesia https://www.amazon.com/Cultural-Amnesia-Necessary-Memories-History/dp/039333354X Vico, The New Science https://www.amazon.com/Science-Penguin-Classics-Giambattista-Vico/dp/0140435697 Derek Walcott, The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1992/walcott/lecture/ Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place https://www.amazon.com/Small-Place-Jamaica-Kincaid/dp/0374527075 The novellas of Joseph Roth https://www.amazon.com/Joseph-Roth/e/B001HNKTLE Apogee Journal https://apogeejournal.org/ Audio Clips Eddie Izzard, Dressed to Kill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9W1zTEuKLY Derek Walcott reading from The Bounty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCIMvohjODY Walcott on his life and work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_6mgbRSUzo&list=PLfngbdaGfrrM7IziPezFDTsgxeShxysMt

Jake and Phil discuss Hugo Ball's 1916 Dada Manifesto, as well as Public Enemy's 1988 album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back. The Manifesto: Hugo Ball, Dada Manifesto https://t.co/ZpW3qN32KO The Art: Public Enemy, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back Works Referenced: Photo of Hugo Ball in his costume at the Cabaret Voltaire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Ball#/media/File:Hugo_Ball_Cabaret_Voltaire.jpg Hugo Ball, Karawane https://poets.org/poem/karawane Marcel Duchamp, Fountain https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/duchamp-fountain-t07573 Tristan Tzara, Dada Manifesto 1918 http://writing.upenn.edu/library/Tzara_Dada-Manifesto_1918.pdf Philip Mann, Hugo Ball: An Intellectual Biography Debbie Lewer, Hugo Ball, Iconoclasm, and the Birth of Dada https://www.jstor.org/stable/25650841 Walter Laqueur, Weimar: A Cultural History Jacob Siegel and Angela Nagle, Internet Trolls, Online Cesspools, and Their Real-World Effects https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/247110/internet-alt-right-fascists Josef Pieper, No One Could Have Known Adam Bradley and Andrew DuBois, The Anthology of Rap Luigi Russolo, The Art of Noises https://monoskop.org/images/0/09/Russolo_Luigi_The_Art_of_Noises.pdf Terminator X interview with Will Hernandez of WHO?MAG TV http://www.whomag.net/terminator-x/

A new episode of Manifesto! A Podcast with special guest Michael Brendan Dougherty Jake, Phil and Michael discuss three new conservative manifestos and Michael’s memoir, My Father Left Me Ireland. The Manifestos: First Things, Against the Dead Consensus https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2019/03/against-the-dead-consensus Gladden Pappin, Toward a Party of the State https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/02/toward-a-party-of-the-state/ Daniel McCarthy, A New Conservative Agenda https://www.firstthings.com/article/2019/03/a-new-conservative-agenda The Art: Michael Brendan Dougherty, My Father Left Me Ireland https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/591812/my-father-left-me-ireland-by-michael-brendan-dougherty/9780525538653/ Works: Tim Carney, Alienated America https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062797100/alienated-america/ Jean Amery, How Much Home Does a Person Need https://rosswolfe.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/jean-amery-at-the-minds-limits-contemplations-by-a-survivor-on-auschwitz-and-its-realities.pdf People's Policy Project, The Family Fun Pack https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2019/02/15/the-family-fun-pack-makes-parenting-easy-for-everyone/ Dan Torday, Boomer1 https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250191793 Joshua Meyrowitz, No Sense of Place https://global.oup.com/academic/product/no-sense-of-place-9780195042313?cc=us&lang=en& Christopher Lasch, Haven in a Heartless World https://books.wwnorton.com/books/detail.aspx?id=13016 Horkheimer and Adorno, The Dialectic of Enlightenment https://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~randall/Readings%20W2/Horkheimer_Max_Adorno_Theodor_W_Dialectic_of_Enlightenment_Philosophical_Fragments.pdf Jacob Siegel, Dissent vs American Affairs https://thejacobsiegel.com/2017/06/03/on-the-dissent-vs-american-affairs-debate-and-summing-up-some-feelings-about-the-state-of-the-world/ John Gray, Two Faces of Liberalism https://thenewpress.com/books/two-faces-of-liberalism Thomas Chatterton Williams, Self-Portrait in Black and White https://books.wwnorton.com/books/detail.aspx?ID=4294998793 Henry Louis Gates, Jr., "Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars" https://global.oup.com/academic/product/loose-canons-9780195083507?cc=us&lang=en& Joan Didion, The White Album https://www.thejoandidion.com/the-white-album Jacob Siegel, "The Vicious Static" Sean O'Casey, The Plough and the Stars Ruby Namdar https://www.rubynamdar.com/about Isaiah Berlin, Two Enemies of Enlightenment http://berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/lists/nachlass/hamann.pdf Azar Gat, Nations https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/nations/15A0C502D17FD36C38A52449CDBA7757

Jake and Phil discuss America's greatest poets named Frank, with Frank O’Hara’s "Personism Manifesto" and Frank Bidart’s “Ellen West” Frank O’Hara, “Personism” http://opencourses.uoa.gr/modules/document/file.php/ENL9/Instructional%20Package/Texts//Readings/Week%203%3A%20Pop%20art%3A%20breaking%20down%20the%20boundaries%20between%20high%20and%20low/Frank%20O%27Hara%20Personism-2.pdf Reuben Brower, The Fields of Light https://books.google.com/books/about/The_fields_of_light.html?id=AuhYAAAAMAAJ Kenneth Koch, “Fresh Air” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52929/fresh-air Daniel Clowes, Art School Confidential https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364955/ The Collected Poems of Frank O’Hara https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520201668/the-collected-poems-of-frank-ohara Steven Burt, “Okay I’ll Call You/Yes Call Me: Frank O’Hara’s Personism” https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/text/okay-ill-call-you-yes-call-me-frank-oharas-personism Frank O’Hara, “Meditations in an Emergency” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/26538/meditations-in-an-emergency Frank O’Hara, “Having a Coke With You” https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/having-coke-you Sloterdijk, Rules for the Human Zoo https://rekveld.home.xs4all.nl/tech/Sloterdijk_RulesForTheHumanZoo.pdf Frank O’Hara, “My Heart” https://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/poetry/poetry_in_motion/atlas/newyork/my_heart/ Czeslaw Milosz, The Captive Mind https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/115135/the-captive-mind-by-czeslaw-milosz/9780679728566/ Geoffrey Hill, “Language, Suffering, and Silence” https://academic.oup.com/litimag/article/1/2/240/958441 Frank O’Hara, “Ave Maria” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42670/ave-maria Frank Bidart, “Ellen West” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48284/ellen-west Tom Sleigh, Interview with a Ghost https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/interview-ghost Frank Bidart, “Writing Ellen West” https://frame-tales.tumblr.com/post/67714978473/frank-bidart-writing-ellen-west Frank Bidart, Half-Light: Collected Poems https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374125950 De Maistre, as quoted in Isaiah Berlin’s Two Enemies of Enlightenment http://berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/lists/nachlass/maistre.pdf David Jones, Epoch and Artist https://www.faber.co.uk/9780571339501-epoch-and-artist.html Audio Clips: The Stranglers, No More Heroes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gfIgA-PYyQ John Ashberry reading a letter from O’Hara https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oacw2wX5nac Frank O’Hara reading Having a Coke With You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDLwivcpFe8 Style Wars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BdlXqBXm2o Pocahontas, Colors of the Wind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9MvdMqKvpU

The hosts explore accelerationism, its contradictory meanings, and the role of human agency. They discuss leftist critiques of global challenges and the use of tools like social network analysis. The goals of accelerationism are examined, including media reform and reconstituting class power. They analyze a video of a faceless sex symbol in Myrtle Beach and discuss objectification and dehumanization. They explore the thin veneer of civilization and the influence of collective intelligence on human behavior.

Park MacDougald joins Phil and Jake to discuss Virginia Woolf’s “The Modern Essay” and VS Naipaul’s “Jacques Soustelle and the Decline of the West.” Works referenced: Virginia Woolf, “The Modern Essay” “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown” https://www.thoughtco.com/the-modern-essay-by-virginia-woolf-1690207 http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/MrBennettAndMrsBrown.pdf Max Beerbohm, “A Relic,” “Laughter” http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1956/1956-h/1956-h.htm#link2H_4_0001 Daniel Clowes http://www.fantagraphics.com/artists/daniel-clowes/#/category/967 Eliot Weinberger, An Elemental Thing https://www.ndbooks.com/book/an-elemental-thing/ Anatole Broyard, Kafka Was the Rage https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/20086/kafka-was-the-rage-by-anatole-broyard/9780679781264/ Hegel, The Phenomenology Of Spirit, Terry Pinkard translation https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel-the-phenomenology-of-spirit/6FEDB42FDEF2E5FF97FEAE0EEEDABE8E woketoddler Claas Relotius’ In Eigener Sache https://magazin.spiegel.de/SP/2017/13/150231550/index.html (For those interested in Relotius’ lies about Fergus Falls, this is from Michele Anderson and Jake Krohn, residents of the town he fictionalized https://medium.com/@micheleanderson/der-spiegel-journalist-messed-with-the-wrong-small-town-d92f3e0e01a7) Flannery O’Connor, “The Nature and Aim of Fiction” https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374508043 Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West http://people.duke.edu/~aparks/Spengler.html Naipaul, The Writer and the World (essays mentioned: “Jacques Soustelle and the Decline of the West,” “A Second Visit,” “Michael X and the Black Power Killings in Trinidad,” “Heavy Manners in Grenada,” “Our Universal Civilization”) https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/119643/the-writer-and-the-world-by-v-s-naipaul-edited-with-an-introduction-by-pankaj-mishra/9780375707308/ Mario Vargas Llosa, “El Odio y El Amor” https://elpais.com/diario/1991/12/30/opinion/694047611_850215.html Naipaul, A Bend in the River https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/v-s-naipaul/a-bend-in-the-river/9780330522991 Naipaul, Guerrillas https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/v-s-naipaul/guerrillas/9780330522915 Edward Said, “Intellectuals in the Post-Colonial World.” https://www.jstor.org/stable/40547786 Derek Walcott, Nobel Lecture: “The Antilles: Fragments Of Epic Memory” https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1992/walcott/lecture/ Pablo Mukherjee, “Doomed to Smallness: Violence, VS Naipaul, and the Global South” https://www.jstor.org/stable/20479287 Anatole Broyard, “What the Cystoscope Said” https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/20085/intoxicated-by-my-illness-by-anatole-broyard/9780449908341/ Lewis Thomas, “The Lives of a Cell” https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/535043/lives-of-a-cell-by-lewis-thomas/9780140047431/ Wesley Yang, “The Face of Seung-Hui Cho” https://nplusonemag.com/issue-6/essays/face-seung-hui-cho/ Audio clips: Excerpt from Kirsten Wever's Librivox recording of Max Beerbohm's "A Relic" https://librivox.org/and-even-now-by-max-beerbohm/ Snowpiercer https://youtu.be/3AIQdfW2Pds Edward Said - A Critique of Naipaul https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrcv3DbiIqQ

Jake and Phil discuss Hannah Arendt's "Reflections on Violence" and Frank Miller's "The Dark Knight Returns." Works referenced Hannah Arendt, “Reflections on Violence” https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1969/02/27/a-special-supplement-reflections-on-violence/ Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (with introduction by Jean-Paul Sartre) http://home.ku.edu.tr/~mbaker/CSHS503/FrantzFanon.pdf Albert Camus, “Camus at ‘Combat’” https://press.princeton.edu/titles/8020.html Martin van Creveld, “The Transformation of War” http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Transformation-of-War/Martin-Van-Creveld/9780029331552 Francis Fukuyama, “The Origins of Political Order” https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374533229 Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, The Next Step for #MeToo is Into the Gray Areas https://jezebel.com/the-next-step-for-metoo-is-into-the-gray-areas-1829269384 Frank Miller, The Dark Knight Returns https://www.dccomics.com/graphic-novels/the-dark-knight-returns-1986/batman-the-dark-knight-returns-0 Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian https://www.cormacmccarthy.com/works/blood-meridian/ Audio Clips Dr. Strangelove https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuP6KbIsNK4&t=1s The Return of the Jedi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F4qzPbcFiA Brazil https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSQ5EsbT4cE A Clockwork Orange https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI-mDTdeKR8

Jake and Phil are joined by Olivia Garard (@teaandtactics) of The Strategy Bridge (https://thestrategybridge.org/editorial-team/2016/8/16/olivia-a-garard) to discuss Oulipo member Anne Garréta's "On Bookselves" and Guy Debord’s “The Naked City” Works cited: R.O. Kwon, In Defense of Keeping Books Spine In https://lithub.com/in-defense-of-keeping-books-spine-in/ Anne Garréta, On Bookselves http://oulipo.net/fr/on-bookselves Wittgenstein's private language argument https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/private-language/ Borges, The Library of Babel https://libraryofbabel.info/libraryofbabel.html Daniel Dennett, Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking http://books.wwnorton.com/books/Intuition-Pumps-And-Other-Tools-for-Thinking/ Phil Klay, What We're Fighting For https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/10/opinion/sunday/what-were-fighting-for.html Michel Houellebecq's face https://s1.lemde.fr/image/2015/01/07/534x0/4550663_7_8cd6_michel-houellebecq-en-septembre-2014_68730539b00035181bbb264f4a38e9e9.jpg Guy Debord, The Naked City https://paulwalshphotographyblog.wordpress.com/2013/07/08/the-naked-city/ Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/society.htm Michel de Certeu, The Practice of Everyday Life https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520271456/the-practice-of-everyday-life Marc Auge, Non-Places: An Introduction to Supermodernity https://www.amazon.com/Non-Places-Introduction-Supermodernity-Marc-Auge/dp/1844673111 Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation https://www.press.umich.edu/9900/simulacra_and_simulation Isaac Babel, Guy de Maupaussant https://rosswolfe.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/isaak-babel-complete-works.pdf Audio Clip: Method Man at Def Jam offices in 1994 https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=BWml7yoFwHA

Jake and Phil overcome audio difficulties to discuss Jean Amery's "Resentments" and Andre Dubus II's short story "A Father's Story." Works cited: Jean Amery, At the Mind’s Limits https://rosswolfe.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/jean-amery-at-the-minds-limits-contemplations-by-a-survivor-on-auschwitz-and-its-realities.pdf Camus on Scheller’s definition of resentment: The Rebel https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/23475/the-rebel-by-albert-camus/9780679733843 Portraits of Reconciliation https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/04/06/magazine/06-pieter-hugo-rwanda-portraits.html Rwanda and the NY Times https://africasacountry.com/2014/04/rwanda-the-genocide-must-live-on Derrida, ‘To Forgive: The Unforgivable and the Imprescriptible’ https://eclass.uoa.gr/modules/document/file.php/PPP668/%CE%97%20%CF%83%CF%85%CE%B3%CF%87%CF%8E%CF%81%CE%B7%CF%83%CE%B7/Derrida%2C%20J.%2C%20To%20Forgive.%20The%20Unforgivable%20%26%20the%20Imprescrible%2C%20pp.%2021-51.pdf GK Chesterton, “The Chief Mourner of Marne” https://harpers.org/archive/1925/05/the-chief-mourner-of-marne/ Fred Alford, “Jean Amery: Resentment as Ethic and Ontology” https://philpapers.org/rec/ALFJAR Andre Dubus II, “A Father’s Story” http://www.mbird.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/AndreDubus_AFathersStory.pdf Audio Clips: Joel Osteen, “Living Guilt Free” Brian Stevenson interview You should know the final one.