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Co-hosts Emmet and John plumb the depths of history, culture, and philosophy to understand why it is that despite calamities and rapid change nothing feels possible anymore. Guests include artists, scholars, and thinkers from all over the world.
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- Update frequency
- every 4 days
- Average duration
- 52 minutes
- Episodes
- 129
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2023
Episode 9: The Lasch Files: Revolt of the Elites Pt. II: Martyrs Don't Run the Church
Emmet and John continue their reading of Lasch's The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy. This time, they talk about democratic subjectivity, double-standards as a threat to democratic…
Episode 8: The Lasch Files: The Revolt of the Elites Pt. I
Emmet and John begin their investigation of Christopher Lasch's last book, The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy. They take Lasch as a jumping off point to talk about RAND Corp, "the…
Episode 7: Animalization, Anglo-Saxon Masochism, and Entrepreneurbrain
John and Emmet have a sprawling conversation about narcissism, how efficiency maximization can encourage pleasure obsession, how we're all entrepreneurs of the self now, and end by talking about bull…
Episode 6: Pacific Rim: Blockchain, Techno-Utopianism, and American Soft-Power ft. Olivier Jutel
Olivier Jutel, a research of political theorist from the University of Otago, joins Emmet and John to talk about blockchain, techno-utopianism, and American soft-power in the Pacific. They talk about…
Episode 5: The Parasocial Music Marketing Machine ft. Ian Cory (Pt. II)
The Lads finish up talking to Ian about the question of newness in music and whence artistic innovation comes. The song you year at the end is from the Lamniformes album Sisyphean. Our references can…
Episode 4: The Parasocial Music Marketing Machine ft. Ian Cory (Pt. I)
The Lads to talk Ian Cory of the band Lamniformes about being a musician, the shape of the music industry, and how the internet has changed over our lifetimes. We had a great time with this one, so m…
Episode 3: Two Piece: Dumbbells and the Death of Lucent Technologies
We talk about two articles: one from Vox about why no one in American can buy dumbbells, the other from American Affairs about the death of Lucent technologies and the American telecom equipment indu…
Episode 2: American Dharma ft. Canada Mike
Our friend Canada Mike joins us to review Errol Morris's American Dharma, his movie about Steven Bannon. It was disappointing to all of us, who loved Morris's movies about MacNamara and Rumsfeld. Onc…
Episode 1: Ground Zero
We discuss the major themes of the podcast and what brought us to create it.