Frantz Fanon was an anticolonial theorist and psychiatrist from Martinique, who wrote The Wretched of the Earth (1961) as an account of colonialism in Algeria. In it, he describes the therapeutic potential of violence and the psychology of the colonisers and colonised. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheet Apple Books: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6466733671 Our Patreon: www.patreon.com/Th...
Mar 17, 2024•3 hr 13 min•Ep. 87
Chuck Tingle is a pseudonymous author of (mostly) gay erotic literature and, occasionally, non erotic literature. In a rare occurrence, Levi and Jack are in the same room for this episode. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheet Apple Books: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6466733671 Our Patreon: www.patreon.com/TheBookClubfromHell Jack's website: www.jackbc.me Levi's website: www.levioutloud.c...
Mar 10, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 86
Mark Fisher, an English philosopher, teacher, blogger and co-founder of the CCRU, published Capitalist Realism in 2009. A work of more accessible anti-capitalism, Fisher hoped to sell 500 copies. Capitalist Realism went on to sell over 100,000 copies, and became an important work in 21st-century anti-capitalist thought. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheet Apple Books: http://books.apple.com/...
Mar 03, 2024•3 hr 42 min•Ep. 85
The Breatharian Institute of America was founded by Wiley Brooks. You might be familiar with boring breatharianism, where people don't need to eat in order to survive. Brooks' breatharianism, on the other hand, is dense, complex and exciting. It involves fixing the global matrix with urine, giving birth to super galaxies, avoiding three-dimensional food, and paying $10,000 for a bottle of water (the Elixir of Life). VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel! Amazon: https://www.amazo...
Feb 25, 2024•1 hr 36 min•Ep. 84
Comrade Kim Goes Flying (2012) is a North Korean romantic comedy, described as "a girl-power fairy tale about dreaming to fly," by one of its co-directors, Nicholas Bonner. The film follows Kim Yong Mi, a plucky coal miner from rural North Korea, who dreams of becoming a trapeze artist in Pyongyang. The film is as odd, but not in the ways you would perhaps expect; a smoulderingly Oedipal relationship casts a shadow over the entire plot. Enjoy! VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Isaac Bell Holmström's po...
Feb 18, 2024•1 hr 50 min•Ep. 83
The Tate Bible is a compilation of former kickboxer and social media influencer Andrew Tate's online footprint, put together by G Slim during the covid lockdowns. If, for some perverse reason, you'd prefer to read Andrew Tate's views rather than consume them in a more high-stimulus format, then this is the book for you. Camgirls, Bugattis and the Nietzschean Übermensch's ascent out of The Matrix await. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Masticate: https://masticate.bandcamp.com/ The Aftermath: https://t...
Feb 11, 2024•3 hr 8 min•Ep. 82
Triumph of the Will is a Nazi propaganda film, documenting the 1934 Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg, and released in 1935. Directed, edited, produced and co-written by Leni Riefenstahl, the film remains highly influential due to Riefenstahl's innovative approach to film-making. It also stars Adolf Hitler as himself. Most importantly, this episode stars Edward as a co-host, standing in for Levi. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-e...
Feb 04, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 81
Effective accelerationism ('e/acc') is a largely online movement seeking to promote technological optimism. Their evangelism mostly takes the form of shitposting and memes, but something more substantial will occasionally appear. Two such pieces of more substantial e/acc thought are 'What the f* is e/acc?' (authorship unclear) and 'Notes on e/acc principles and tenants,' by @basedbeffjezos and @bayeslord. As it happens, if we just keep building, keep funding tech startups, and keep our chins up,...
Jan 28, 2024•2 hr 54 min•Ep. 80
Terry Davis was a schizophrenic computer programmer who wrote an operating system by himself. TempleOS, as this creation came to be known, was intended to be the Third Temple, with which Davis could talk to God. Davis achieved a degree of obscure internet fame from, among other things, his streams, where he would show off features of TempleOS, talk to God, play hymns, browse the internet, and shout racial slurs to fend off psychological attacks by the BBC and CIA. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Temp...
Jan 21, 2024•2 hr 4 min•Ep. 79
This episode isn't on a particular book, but is on a movement: furries. For the few of you who aren't aware, furries are those who appreciate depictions of anthropomorphic animals. From this central point, furdom has generated a huge amount of culture - and not simply the furry porn that I'm sure you've accidentally stumbled upon on the internet. Generative and passionate, the furry rabbithole (heh) goes deep. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/...
Dec 31, 2023•2 hr 27 min•Ep. 78
This week's episode is on the Female Dating Strategy Handbook, a collection of the best, highest-value posts from the Female Dating Strategy subreddit and website. Female Dating Strategy is a movement aiming to improve the dating market, by teaching women how to distinguish low- and high-value men, how to cultivate queen energy (that is, how to have standards and self-confidence), and how to evaluate if a date was good or not. The MGTOWs and red pillers mightn't like it, but I take that as a plu...
Dec 24, 2023•2 hr 25 min•Ep. 77
Lord Timothy Dexter was an 18th century American businessman, who made a great deal of money through a series of bizarre, lucky and, probably, stupid ventures. Shipping coal to Newcastle, selling hot water bottles in the West Indies, speculating on Continental Currency at the end of the American Civil War: Dexter managed to keep turning profits, despite having left school at age eight. A Pickle for the Knowing Ones (1802) was his gift to the world: an almost entirely unpunctuated and misspelled ...
Dec 17, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 76
Marvin Heemeyer was a resident of Grand Lake, Colorado. After a series of planning disputes with his neighbours, as well as arguments with the administration in the nearby town of Granby, he took the only reasonable course of action: armour-plating a Komatsu D355A bulldozer, and destroying the property of those he disagreed with. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheet Apple Books: http://books....
Dec 10, 2023•1 hr 55 min•Ep. 75
You've heard of Donald Trump, I don't need to introduce him. In 1987, 'Trump: The Art of the Deal' was released, apparently co-written by Donald Trump and journalist Tony Schwartz; part autobiography, part business advice, The Art of the Deal details several of Trump's favourite deals. Schwartz would later claim that Trump contributed nothing to the book, expressing remorse over having contributed positively to Trump's public image. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel! Amazon: ...
Dec 03, 2023•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 74
This is the third episode on the first volume of The Decline of the West, by Oswald Spengler. We cover chapters six and seven, called 'Music and Plastic (I) - The Arts of Form' and 'Music and Plastic (II), Act and Portrait,' respectively. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheet Apple Books: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6466733671 Jack's website: www.jackbc.me Levi's website: www.levioutloud....
Nov 26, 2023•2 hr•Ep. 73
Rhonda Byrne, in her 2006 book 'The Secret,' promises to teach you a method to get literally anything. All you have to do is ask the universe (sorry, capital-U Universe ) in a special way, and the Universe will deliver. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheet Apple Books: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6466733671 Jack's website: www.jackbc.me Levi's website: www.levioutloud.com Our Patreon: ww...
Nov 19, 2023•2 hr 14 min•Ep. 72
Filippo Tomasso Marinetti was a 20th-Century Italian poet who founded the Futurist movement. In The Futurist Manifesto (1909), Marinetti lays out the tenants of Futurism: a complete rejection of the past, nationalism, contempt for women, veneration of technology and a love of speed. In his endless quest to go fast, Marinetti comes to resemble the archetype of Sonic the Hedgehog, albeit in an Italian form: Super Mario. Both Nintendo and Sega are sending Marinetti's corpse cease and desist letters...
Nov 12, 2023•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 71
Jack has published a novel called ' Tower.' As such, this is a very special episode, wherein Jack hawks his book and talks to Levi about it. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheet Apple Books: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6466733671 Jack's website: www.jackbc.me Levi's website: www.levioutloud.com Our Patreon: www.patreon.com/TheBookClubfromHell www.thebookclubfromhell.com Join our Discord ...
Nov 05, 2023•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 70
The Water of Life (a Treatise on Urine Therapy) is, expectedly, a treatise on urine therapy, published by John W Armstrong in 1944. In it, he traces his journey in Biblically-inspired urine therapy, offering advice on how to make women more beautiful and fertile, how to make farm animals healthier, how to cure every disease (except 'mechanical disease') and how to survive for long periods adrift at sea, all using urine. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel! Amazon: https://www.a...
Oct 29, 2023•1 hr 58 min•Ep. 69
This week, we cover chapters four, five and six of Oswald Spengler's The Decline of the West, Volume I. Spengler has mindbroken Jack into understanding him; Levi remains intact. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheet Apple Books: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6466733671 Jack's website: www.jackbc.me Levi's website: www.levioutloud.com Our Patreon: www.patreon.com/TheBookClubfromHell www.theb...
Oct 22, 2023•2 hr 35 min•Ep. 68
Christopher Dorner was an officer in the Los Angeles Police Department. He was fired from the LAPD after a workplace dispute in 2008, and in 2013 he declared war on his former employer, vowing to hunt down and kill police officers and their families. In the course of his brief war, he killed five people: two officers, two civilians, and himself. As justification for his actions, he released a manifesto on Facebook, which is what we read for this episode. We never realised how important shoutouts...
Oct 15, 2023•2 hr 12 min•Ep. 67
This week, we answer pressing questions from our Patreon subscribers. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheet Apple Books: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6466733671 Jack's website: www.jackbc.me Levi's website: www.levioutloud.com Our Patreon: www.patreon.com/TheBookClubfromHell www.thebookclubfromhell.com Join our Discord (the best place to interact with us): discord.gg/ZMtDJ9Hscr Watch us on...
Oct 08, 2023•2 hr 11 min•Ep. 66
Oswald Spengler's 'The Decline of the West' is a two-volume work, which lays out a model of morphological history, whereby each culture is the result of the actualisation of its own great soul. These souls have their own life cycles, their own youth, adulthood, decline and death, which can be compared and predicted using Spengler's model. This week, we cover the first three chapters of the first volume of The Decline of the West, first published in 1918. We'll do future episodes on subsequent ch...
Oct 01, 2023•2 hr•Ep. 65
This week's episode is on 'Anatomy of the State,' a primer on anarcho-capitalism by Murray Rothbard, published in 1974. If you're interested in selling heroin and human organs to 12-year-olds outside of their workplaces (child labour laws are no longer cool), then this is your ideology. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheet Apple Books: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6466733671 Jack's websit...
Sep 24, 2023•2 hr 39 min•Ep. 64
Nick Land is an English philosopher who smashes together Deleuze, Guattari, Kant, Nietzsche, William Gibson's cyberpunk, HP Lovecraft's cosmic horror, and much, much more. Out of this collision has arisen Land's particular brand of accelerationism, as well as his contributions to the neo-reactionary movement. The subject of this episode, Land's 2013 essay 'The Dark Enlightenment,' marks one of Land's most significant works of neo-reaction. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel! A...
Sep 17, 2023•3 hr 13 min•Ep. 63
In 1936, Peter Kemp, a recent graduate of Cambridge University, decided to fight for the Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War. In 1957, he published 'Mine Were of Trouble,' an account of his wartime experiences. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheet Apple Books: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6466733671 Jack's website: www.jackbc.me Levi's website: www.levioutloud.com Our Patreon: www.patre...
Sep 10, 2023•1 hr 59 min•Ep. 62
Otherkin are those who have human bodies, but identify as non-human animals, fictional creatures, and, depending on some definitions of otherkinity, inanimate objects or concepts. NORCO http://norcogame.com/ https://geographyofrobots.com/ All About the Weird Feeling by Steampunk Skygod https://drive.google.com/file/d/15oAF-cVMuwTzrrrfsyBpCgTr1SqEUH09/view VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheet ...
Sep 03, 2023•2 hr•Ep. 61
The Order of Nine Angles is a left-hand path occultist, satanist, neo-Nazi organisation with sprinkles of hermeticism and terrorism. The Black Book of Satan is their primary ritual text, and the subject of today's episode. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheet Apple Books: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6466733671 Jack's website: www.jackbc.me Levi's website: www.levioutloud.com Our Patreon:...
Aug 27, 2023•2 hr 10 min•Ep. 60
Jack is an ongoing furry webcomic, first published in March 2001, by David Hopkins. Using an ensemble cast of furry angels, demons, souls trapped in purgatory and those living on Earth, it explores the author's Christian faith, his problems with women, theological dilemmas and his disgust at the state of the world. If that's not enough, it's also extremely violent, and manages to fit in almost every brand of NSFW you could desire (or not). VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Masticate Bandcamp: https://m...
Aug 20, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 59
A classic of anarcho-communist theory, The Conquest of Bread (1892) is not merely the original breadpost, but also outlines how an anarchist revolution can be successful, the problems with Marxism, the problems with pre-Kropotkinite anarchism, why wages are always bad, and the wonders of intensive farming. VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION Jack has published a novel! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Tower-Jack-BC-ebook/dp/B0CM5P9N9M/ref=monarch_sidesheet Apple Books: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6466...
Aug 13, 2023•2 hr 50 min•Ep. 58
