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Episode 20: The Conversation

Episode 19: Stuckists and Bebop

Jake and Phil are joined by Alex Brook Lynn to discuss the Stuckists’ Manifesto and Julio Cortázar’s The Pursuer Manifesto: The Stuckists Manifesto http://www.stuckism.com/stuckistmanifesto.html#manifest Art: Julio Cortázar, The Pursuer https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/32198/blow-up-by-julio-cortazar/ References: Jakes’s sartorial splendor https://www.instagram.com/p/B1otkYalkBM/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link The Stuckists, “An Open Letter to Sir Nicolas Serota” https://www.stuckism.com/se...

Episode 18: Omni-Americans and Unlearning Race

Jake and Phil are joined by Thomas Chatterton Williams to discuss Albert Murray’s The Omni-Americans and Thomas’ new memoir, Self-Portrait in Black and White Manifesto: Albert Murray, The Omni-Americans https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/543160/the-omni-americans-by-albert-murray--with-a-foreword-by-henry-louis-gates-jr/ Art: Thomas Chatterton Williams, Self-Portrait in Black and White https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/617884/self-portrait-in-black-and-white-by-thomas-chatterton-will...

Episode 17: The Unabomber and OK Computer

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/in...

Episode 16: Walcott's New Adam and Gallant's Latehomecoming

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:/...

Episode 15: Dadism and Public Enemy

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,...

Episode 14: New Conservative Manifestos and My Father Left Me Ireland

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://w...

Episode 13: Personism and Ellen West

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 Ke...

Episode 12: Accelerationism and Big Sex Object Mirrorfaces

Jake and Phil discuss several accelerationist manifestos along with the video American Reflexxx, by Alli Coates and Signe Pierce. Works referenced: Nick Land, A Quick and Dirty Introduction to Accelerationism https://jacobitemag.com/2017/05/25/a-quick-and-dirty-introduction-to-accelerationism/ Joseph Lawrence, “A Fable” https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/01/25/a-fable-poems-lawrence-joseph Lewis Thomas, “On Societies as Organisms” https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJM197107082850207 Ale...

Episode 11: The Modern Essay and the Decline of Civilization

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.co...

Episode 10: Violence according to Hannah Arendt and Frank Miller

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 Tran...

Episode 9: The Oulipo and the Naked City

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/entr...

Episode 8: Resentments, Justice, and the Sins of the Father

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://w...

Episode 7: Patriotism and the Unknown Soldier

Jake and Phil discuss Alasdair MacIntyre's "Is Patriotism a Virtue?" and the story of the November 11, 1921 burial of the Unknown Soldier, as told by Jonathan Ebel in his book GI Messiahs Works referred to in this episode: Alasdair MacIntyre, “Is Patriotism A Virtue” https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/bitstream/handle/1808/12398/Is%20Patriotism%20a%20Virtue-1984.pdf Abu Bakr ibn Tufayl, Hayy ibn Yaqzan http://www.marcresource.org/ibn-tufayls-hayy-ibn-yaqzan/ Peter Singer, “The Drowning Child and the ...

Episode 6: Revolution, Entropy, and Abstract Art

Jake and Phil side with the madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels and skeptics on this episode, discussing Yevgeny Zamyatin's “On Literature, Revolution, Entropy, and Other Matters,” alongside the paintings Composition VI and Composition VII, by Vasily Kandinsky. Works referenced in Episode 6 Yevgeny Zamyatin, “On Literature, Revolution, Entropy, and Other Matters” http://evildrclam.blogspot.com/2008/11/on-literature-revolution-entropy-and.html Yevgeny Zamyatin, We https://www.penguin.co.u...

Episode 5: Everybody's Protest Novel and the Responsibilities of Art

Jake and Phil talk about the political and social obligations of art. To set the stage they discuss W.E.B. Du Bois' "Criteria for Negro Art" originally delivered as a speech to the 1926 Conference of the NAACP in Chicago. The main event is a consideration of James Baldwin's famous 1949 essay "Everybody's Protest Novel." For the finale, the gents talk about James Thurber's 1931 short story, "The Greatest Man in the World." Other works referenced in this episode: Paul C. Taylor, Black is Beautiful...

Episode 4: My Twisted World and Martin Scorcese's Taxi Driver

Episode 3: Schiller's Aesthetic Letters and and Ian McEwan's The Use of Poetry

Episode 2: SCUM, Intercourse, and Cat Person

Episode 1: Humanism and Bloody Myths