Matt Kelly rejoins the boys to talk about Fukuyama's weird liberalism, econ theory, the triumphalism of the 90s, Fukuyama as an OG anti-Islamic type, and more!
Check out Matt's Stuff:
Substack: https://trapzoid.substack.com
Twitter: @DJDeepThought1
Closing Song: RiFF RAFF - Double Cup 2 Cups (KEIFER GR33N Remix)
John returns and they finish out the show by finishing Fukuyama's book and reflecting on the experience of working on the show.
Thanks to all of our listeners! It was a great run and we were overjoyed to have you with us.
Emmet and John begin their series on Fukuyama's seminal The End of History and the Last Man. They talk through its context, Fukuyama's background, trouble some of his assumptions, and kick the tires of his liberal triumphalism in the opening 50 pages.
Closing Song: https://godshate.bandcamp.com/album/gods-hate
Phil Cunliffe joins Emmet to talk about his opposition to the UK's sanctions against Russia, the politics of self-interest, what happened to the nation-state, and more.
Phil's piece on the sanctions: https://unherd.com/thepost/its-time-to-end-gas-sanctions-on-russia/
Phil's piece on ChatGPT: https://unherd.com/thepost/chatgpt-a-morbid-symptom-of-our-declining-universities/
Phil's Twitter: https://twitter.com/thephilippics
Bungacast: https://www.patreon.com/bungacast
Closing song: https://chatpile.bandcamp.com/album/gods-country
Mark Nelson returns to the pod to talk with Emmet about becoming an engineer. They talk about the history of the profession in America, how engineers think, what they study, and how they look at the world.
Check out Mark Nelson (@energybants): https://twitter.com/energybants
Closing Song: https://willkraus.bandcamp.com/album/eye-escapes
Alex Priou from the New Thinkery podcast sits down with Emmet to talk about Leo Strauss and his posthumously published lecture "The Three Waves of Modernity. They talk about the split between the ancients and the moderns, what Strauss was really after, the tasks modernity presents us with today, whether or not we can recover lessons from the ancients, and more!
Check out the New Thinkery: https://thenewthinkery.com/listen/
The essay: https://archive.org/details/LeoStrauss3WavesOfModernityocr
Brett and Thomas from PsyOp cinema join Emmet to talk about the school shooter movie The Dirties (2013). They talk about Columbine, the role media plays in "traumatizing" its audiences, social engineering, media saturation as grand social atomizer, the figure of the "outsider," and more!
Closing Song: Do Not Reply by Stuck
Geographer and author Jacob Shell joined me to talk about his obituary of the late Bruno Latour who rose to prominence critiquing science and then turned his back on his most influential works of critical theory in 2004. We discuss the postmodern turn, science as ideology, the problem of critical theory, epistemic authority, "trusting the science," and more!
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How Critical Theory Learned to Trust the Science by Jacob Shell, Compact
Why Has Critique Run out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern by Bruno Latour
Check out Jacob's books:
Transportation and Revolt: Pigeons, Mules, Canals, and the Vanishing Geographies of Subversive Mobility
Giants of the Monsoon Forest: Living and Working with Elephants
Author Michael Lind joins Emmet to talk about his research speech on democratic pluralism in the 21st century. They discuss regime type, managerialism and technocracy, sector bargaining, the beauty of big, dumb, and simple, his forthcoming book on labor called Hell to Pay, and more.
You can read Michael Lind's speech here: https://compactmag.com/article/democratic-pluralism-for-the-21st-century
You can pre-order Hell to Pay here: https://www.amazon.com/Hell-Pay-Conspiracy-Destroying-America/dp/0593421256/ref=sr_1_4?crid=2UXB8BXFRBDMY&keywords=michael+lind&qid=1666400635&qu=eyJxc2MiOiIzLjU4IiwicXNhIjoiMy4wNCIsInFzcCI6IjMuMDUifQ%3D%3D&sprefix=michael%2520lind%2Caps%2C103&sr=8-4
Journalist Leighton Woodhouse joins Emmet to talk about the New Left of the 1960s and the values of the managerial class. They talk about progressive libertarianism, the difference between the old managerial order of the immediate postwar era and the post-70s era, cultural path dependency, the Port Huron statement, and more.
"The Cult of the Individual: The Origins of the Nihilistic Left," by Leighton Woodhouse.
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Closing Song: Rollin & Tubmlin by RL Burnside.
Kat Dee joins Emmet to talk about movies they couldn't stop texting each other about which they think define, in part, the millennial vibe. They talk about movies that give a shit that you're watching them, what happened to music as part of identity formation, the sexual weirdness of all three movies, being awkward as an early millennial meme, what millennials did to language, and more!
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Emmet and Josh wrap up their series on the Shock of the New.
They discuss the modern art museum, Hughes's sick burns on everyone and everything, Superbowl Commericals as art appreciation ritual, Don Draper, and mourning the death of painting.
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Essayist Michael Cuenco joins Emmet to talk about the totalizing permanence of the culture war. They talk about Ross Perot, Pat Buchanan, liberty, republicanism, oligarchy, living in a post-literate tribal world, and more!
Check out some of Michael's Work:
How Culture War Trumped Class War, Compact Magazine
America's New Post-Literate Epistemology, Palladium
"Victory Is Not Possible": A Theory of the Culture War, American Affairs
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Closing Song: Slower Hell by Money
Josh and Emmet talk over episodes 6 and 7 of Robert Hughes's The Shock of the New. They get into Van Gogh, Edvard Munch, Rothko, and the dawn of the Weak Universal Forms.
They discuss art as a window into the past and the schizo-world of television. And if painting can't matter in the way it used to, why did Hughes bother with the series?
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King of The Work and co-host of What's Left, Oliver Bateman joins Emmet to talk about the illustrious career of pro-wrestling mogul Vince McMahon after he stepped down from WWE. They talk about the hustler and con man as American architects, the intimacy of kayfabe, what people get wrong about their stale "politics as pro wrestling" takes, and more!
"Exit Vince McMahon, World Builder," Oliver Bateman, The Washington Examiner.
What's Left?
Oliver's website.
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Closing Song: Moth-Eaten Deer Head by The Locust
Matt Kelly rejoins the boys to talk about Fukuyama's weird liberalism, econ theory, the triumphalism of the 90s, Fukuyama as an OG anti-Islamic type, and more!
To hear the rest, subscribe to our Patreon!
Check out Matt's Stuff:
Substack: https://trapzoid.substack.com
Twitter: @DJDeepThought1
Emmet and John begin their series on Fukuyama's seminal The End of History and the Last Man. They talk through its context, Fukuyama's background, trouble some of his assumptions, and kick the tires of his liberal triumphalism in the opening 50 pages.
To hear the rest of this episode, subscribe to our Patreon and get 2 exclusive episodes a month!
6-time author and host of the Power Hungry Podcast Robert Bryce sits down with Emmet to talk about the downfall of California, his time covering the Branch Davidian trials, our troubled electric grid, the balkanization of America, and more!
"California's Energy War on the Poor" by Robert Bryce (Quillette)
The Power Hungry Podcast
Juice: How Electricity Explains the World
A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations by Robert Bryce
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Closing Song: California Uber Alles by the Dead Kennedys
We're back!
This one opens with some housekeeping, then we move on to talk about the energy crisis, regionalism, localism, PMC intermediation, American political tradition, and more!
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Special Guest: Mike.
Emmet sits Geoff Shullenberger and Default Friend to talk about their respective articles on the Uvalde shooting, school shootings in general, "zeitgeist killers," the spiritual hole in our society, and more!
"The Faith of Mass Shooters" by Geoff Shullenberger, Compact Magazine.
"Mass Shootings and the World Liberalism Made," by Katherine Dee, Contra
Closing Song: Lowered by Greg Puciato ft. Reba Meyers.