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Aesthetic Resistance Podcast

John Steppling

Podcast by John Steppling

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01:30:09

PODCAST 164

Aesthetic Resistance Podcast ·

2025/06/07

Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Palestine, US backtracks on General Langley’s hostile rhetoric about Burkina Faso, US plays dumb while Ukraine provokes Russia toward nuclear war, Lindsay Graham grandstanding on another trip to Ukraine, Sartre’s theory of “bad faith,” Freud vs. evolutionary psychology on the unconscious and self-deception. Kenyans fight against an imposed carbon capture scheme, Hollywood’s turn toward fascist narratives. Music track:

01:29:02

PODCAST 163

Aesthetic Resistance Podcast ·

2025/05/31

Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: A.I. apocalypse or A.I. decline? Who still sees a purpose in art? Ann Carson, OSLO Freedom Forum, the mayor of Hamburg asks for “living space” for Israel. Do all podcasts have to converge into the same format of book reports and interviews? Was Carlos Castaneda run by MK-ULTRA? Why do spies wannabe novelists and why are some of them great novelists? Music track: “Bemsha Swing” by Thelonius Monk (public domain).

01:30:25

PODCAST 162

Aesthetic Resistance Podcast ·

2025/05/25

Participants: John Steppling, Roger Johnson, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Normalization of punishment of dissidents, the end of free speech protections, A.I. companions, Chicago Sun Times lets A.I. make its summer reading list and the result is non-existent titles, why is Israel in Eurovision and why can’t its team be jeered? What happened to the Carlos Castaneda cult? Music track: “Just a Mood” by Reed Norvo Sextet (public domain).

01:46:23

PODCAST 161

Aesthetic Resistance Podcast ·

2025/05/17

Participants: John Steppling, Roger Johnson, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Ann Carson’s lecture on handwriting, poetry and living with Parkinson's, Trump’s whirlwind Middle East tour, Burkina Faso and Congo, Yemen damages the US Navy, New Zealand emigration, sign of the times: a sculpture of “someone just like us” for Times Square, Andy Warhol and the creation of artistic taste, Nikolai Petro’s book “The Tragedy of Ukraine”. Music track: “Pine Top’s Boogie Woogie “by Pine Top

01:33:31

PODCAST #160

Aesthetic Resistance Podcast ·

2025/05/10

Participants: John Steppling, Roger Johnson, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Ann Carson’s lecture on cursive writing, poetry and living with Parkinsons, plans, structure and improvisation in the creative process, the brazen, shameless attitude of Israel in its attacks on Gaza, why satirists shouldn’t get close to politicians. Bonus track: Partial interview with John Steppling on Press TV, May 6, 2025 (5-minute segment).

01:37:08

PODCAST #159

Aesthetic Resistance Podcast ·

2025/05/03

Participants: John Steppling, Cory Morningstar, Roger Johnson, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Ibrahim Traoré, Canadian federal election, is entertainment being made for profit or pacification? April 30th—50th anniversary of Vietnam’s liberation, May Day, US and French officials speaking openly about the need to rule Africa again, recycling when we know the material is not being recycled, willful self-deception, pro sports culture driving athletes to bodily ruin, and no, your old

01:38:47

PODCAST #158

Aesthetic Resistance Podcast ·

2025/04/26

Participants: John Steppling, Roger Johnson, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: The history of Israel’s nuclear weapons program, Seymour Hersh’s “The Samson Option” (1991), death of the Pope and the conclave, Italy marks the annual date of the end of fascism—April 25th, Schwab dethroned at the WEF, Ibrahim Traoré, Jon Hamm: from “Mad Men” to “Your Friends and Neighbors”—same show, different decades? Music track: “How Long Blues” by Leroy Carr (public domain).

01:13:43

PODCAST #157

Aesthetic Resistance Podcast ·

2025/04/19

Participants: John Steppling, Roger Johnson, Hiroyuki Hamada, Cory Morningstar and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: A.I. promoters want an expansion of nuclear energy, the use and abuse of youth “to save the world”, dealing with despair during a genocide that seems unstoppable, tariff wars and the end of brand value on luxury goods made in China, lost culture: journeys to family reunions, Kafka’s aphorisms. Music track “Jim Jackson’s Kansas City Blues, Part 1” by Jim Jackson (public domain).

01:37:57

PODCAST #156

Aesthetic Resistance Podcast ·

2025/04/12

Participants: John Steppling, Roger Johnson, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: The “hands off NATO” protests against Trump, anti-NATO protests in Belgrade, tariff shocks, Japan’s US T-bill selloff, the power of blackmail, or lack thereof, the decline of movie theaters/going out to the movies, editing movies for television (films of the 40s vs. films of the 80s) the films of Val Lewton, Jacques Tourneur, Ed Wood, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Jean Genet for Palestine. Music track “Motherless

01:42:29

PODCAST #155

Aesthetic Resistance Podcast ·

2025/04/06

Participants: John Steppling, Roger Johnson, Cory Morningstar, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Palestine, war fever in Europe while the US turns away, Norway’s surrender of neutrality, tariffs, the Inquisition (13th to 19th century) and anti-communism (19th-21st century), feudal Japan’s anti-Christian inquisition (15th-19th century), Ernst Bloch on Marx and surplus value. Music track “Blue in Green” by Miles Davis (public domain).

01:44:11

PODCAST #154

Aesthetic Resistance Podcast ·

2025/03/28

Participants: John Steppling, Kajsa Ekis Ekman, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Palestine, war fever in Europe while the US turns away (dog wags the tail, tail wags the dog, now the tail wags itself), Sweden’s surrender of neutrality, reification, commodification, the normalization of prostitution and surrogate pregnancy. BONUS FEATURE at the end of the podcast: John Steppling’s interview on Press TV about the ongoing genocide in Gaza, recorded on March 26, 2025 (7.5

01:36:01

PODCAST #153

Aesthetic Resistance Podcast ·

2025/03/23

Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Newly released information in the JFK assassination files, the normalization of scriptwriting by A.I., writers who describe E.U. governance as “communism”, Elon Musk’s grandfather’s connection to Technocracy and its resemblance to the Trump plan to establish a North American sphere of control, Errol Morris’ new documentary about Tom O’Neil’s book CHAOS (on the Manson murders and their connection to MK-ULTRA.) BONUS

01:29:16

PODCAST #152

Aesthetic Resistance Podcast ·

2025/03/15

Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: the ceasefire arrangement made by the US and Ukraine, driving cab in New York and Vancouver, youthful naivete, the lasting impact of toxic people, art influenced by the censorious grant application process. Music track “Match Box Blues” by Blind Lemon Jefferson (public domain).

00:42:51

Lecture 8 Fascism, Communism, Liberalism

Aesthetic Resistance Podcast ·

2025/03/15

This track consists of excerpts from a previous podcast episode. Edited together, these excerpts form the second lecture that attempts to sort out the confusion in contemporary discourse about fascism, communism, capitalism and liberalism. Participants: John Steppling, Max Parry, Shaenah Batterson, Hiroyuki Hamada and Dennis Riches.

01:34:13

PODCAST #151

Aesthetic Resistance Podcast ·

2025/03/08

Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, Shaenah Batterson and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: The Trump-Zelenski feud, Freud and the working class, Russell Jacoby and psychoanalysis, Brecht, Film: A Complete Unknown—are biopics performed by actors or re-enactors? Who will save Europe from itself this time? RFK Jr.’s chances of success, in reforming Health and Human Services, Music track “The St. Louis Blues” by Bessie Smith (public domain).

01:30:15

PODCAST #150

Aesthetic Resistance Podcast ·

2025/03/01

Participants: John Steppling, Max Parry, Hiroyuki Hamada, Shaenah Batterson and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: the death of sports under capitalism with American characteristics, every athlete is a mercenary, cultural franchises vanish in corporate transactions, American citizens flee to greener pastures, pushing the message that there is no alternative, the philistinism that leads to political and moral decay. Music track “Crazy Blues” by Mamie Smith and Her Jazz Hounds (public domain).

01:34:10

PODCAST #149

Aesthetic Resistance Podcast ·

2025/02/26

Participants: John Steppling (writer of “Rambo III”), Max Parry, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Phase 2 of the American war against Europe, documentary film “No Other Land”, Adorno on “adults acting like the adults they never became,” why our present leaders don’t even rise to the level of mediocrity (rhetorical question), celebrity activists who fall silent or fall for dubious causes, politicians as effigies for global financial interests, writing “Rambo III” in 1988. Music

01:52:05

PODCAST #148

Aesthetic Resistance Podcast ·

2025/02/15

Participants: John Steppling, Max Parry, Hiroyuki Hamada, Shaenah Batterson and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Trump Derangement Syndrome: the sequel. Liberals hating Trump for all the wrong reasons. Clinging to illusions of the potential for progressive victories. The right calls liberals “commies”, liberals describe themselves as anti-communist capitalists. The Gnosticism of some conspiracy obsessions. The downfall of USAID and NED. Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) in athletes. Persistent

01:36:48

PODCAST #147

Aesthetic Resistance Podcast ·

2025/02/09

Participants: John Steppling, Shaenah Batterson, Max Parry, Hiroyuki Hamada, Lex Steppling and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Gaza to be under “new ownership”, rebuilding on blood-soaked Gazan soil, early Zionist atheists, Zionism’s religious piety as a worn-out mask over conventional imperialism and US power projection, duopoly as a distraction, how Hollywood films solidify and perpetuate historical narratives that were proven false long ago (narratives about Serbia and Rwanda, for example), why

01:40:18

PODCAST #146

Aesthetic Resistance Podcast ·

2025/01/31

Participants: John Steppling, Shaenah Batterson, Max Parry, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Do the Democrats understand why they lost? Does Trump understand why he won? Trump’s tariffs and economic warfare on allies. RFK Jr. faces an inquisition by Democrats. Why don’t billionaires spend money a good tailor? 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz. Music track “Desafinado” by Stan Getz (public domain).

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