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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Episode 96: [UNLOCKED] The End of History and the Last Man: Our Pessimism
Saturday, January 28, 2023 • Duration 01:13:14
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
Episode 97: [UNLOCKED] The End of History and the Last Man pt. II: The Old Age of Mankind
Saturday, January 28, 2023 • Duration 01:38:16
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
https://sociolegalfictions.wordpress.com
Twitter: @DJDeepThought1
Closing Song: RiFF RAFF - Double Cup 2 Cups (KEIFER GR33N Remix)
https://www.keifergr33n.com/
Episode 98: THE END OF THE SHOW AND THE END OF HISTORY
Saturday, January 28, 2023 • Duration 01:22:50
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.
Episode 95: [UNLOCKED] Sanctions and Self-Interest ft. Phil Cunliffe
Friday, January 20, 2023 • Duration 59:49
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
Episode 94: Engineering Engineers ft. Mark Nelson
Sunday, December 11, 2022 • Duration 01:21:57
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
[teaser] Leo Strauss and the Three Waves of Modernity ft. Alex Priou
Saturday, November 26, 2022 • Duration 20:01
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
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Episode 92: The Dirties ft. PsyOp Cinema
Friday, November 18, 2022 • Duration 01:23:13
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!
Check out PsyOp cinema here! (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/psyop-cinema/id1584525928)
Closing Song: Do Not Reply by Stuck (https://stuckchi.bandcamp.com/track/do-not-reply)
[teaser] Latour and the Problem of Science ft. Jacob Shell
Friday, October 28, 2022 • Duration 15:03
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 (https://compactmag.com/article/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 (http://www.bruno-latour.fr/sites/default/files/89-CRITICAL-INQUIRY-GB.pdf) by Bruno Latour
Check out Jacob's books:
Transportation and Revolt: Pigeons, Mules, Canals, and the Vanishing Geographies of Subversive Mobility (https://www.amazon.com/Transportation-Revolt-Vanishing-Geographies-Subversive/dp/0262029332/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=)
Giants of the Monsoon Forest: Living and Working with Elephants (https://www.amazon.com/Giants-Monsoon-Forest-Working-Elephants/dp/0393247767/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1ZZ3KUSLAF66R&keywords=jacob+shell&qid=1666973760&qu=eyJxc2MiOiIwLjk3IiwicXNhIjoiMC45OSIsInFzcCI6IjEuMDAifQ%3D%3D&sprefix=jacob%2520shell%2Caps%2C96&sr=8-1)
[teaser]Democratic Pluralism ft. Michael Lind
Saturday, October 22, 2022 • Duration 20:10
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.
To hear the rest, subscribe to our Patreon to get 2 exclusive episodes and bonus content every month! (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust)
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=sr14?crid=2UXB8BXFRBDMY&keywords=michael+lind&qid=1666400635&qu=eyJxc2MiOiIzLjU4IiwicXNhIjoiMy4wNCIsInFzcCI6IjMuMDUifQ%3D%3D&sprefix=michael%2520lind%2Caps%2C103&sr=8-4
Episode 89: The Agony of the New Left ft. Leighton Woodhouse
Friday, October 14, 2022 • Duration 01:21:54
Journalist Leighton Woodhouse (https://twitter.com/lwoodhouse) 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 (https://leightonwoodhouse.substack.com/p/the-cult-of-the-individual?r=u0rd)," by Leighton Woodhouse.
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Closing Song: Rollin & Tubmlin by RL Burnside (https://rlburnside.bandcamp.com/album/mr-wizard).
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