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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. Subscribe to our Patreon to receive 2 extra exclusive episodes a month: https://www.patreon.com/exhaust

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11:49

[teaser] Don't Say Disney ft. Geoff Shullenberger

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2022/04/30

Geoff came onto the pod to talk about what's going on with conservatives and Disney, though it's really a conversation about cultural power, Lasch, the family, ideology, political anemia, and more. We're going on hiatus until July. Geoff's piece for Unherd: https://unherd.com/2022/04/disney-has-always-spread-propaganda/

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Episode 84: Why Do Movies Suck Now? ft. Will Tavlin

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2022/03/30

Will Tavlin (https://twitter.com/wtavlin) joins Emmet to talk about how the democratic promise of digital filmmaking turned into the current top-down Marvel hellscape we all live in. They talk about the insanity of the original multiplex model of screening, why digital is so hard to archive, the deadness of major blockbuster films, the importance of forming aesthetic communities to preserve cultural memory, and more! Digital Rocks: How Hollywood Killed Celluloid

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54:46

Episode 83: The Dying Bird of Authentic Humanness ft....

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2022/03/23

DF and Emmet take a look at Phillip K Dick's 1972 lecture "The Android and the Human." They dive into his idea that we can learn about our inner lives by looking at the world of machines, the integration of man and machine, empathy, rebellion, totalitarianism, and weirdly hanging out with teenage girls getting late term abortions. Here's the lecture (https://sporastudios.org/mark/courses/articles/Dick_the_android.pdf). Subscribe to Default Wisdom. (https://defaultfriend.substack.com/) Subscribe to

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Episode 82: A time to build, but what? And how?...

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2022/03/16

Recording times got bungled to do travel constraints, but here's an hour-long preview of Emmet's appearance on the Ryan Research podcast (the whole thing runs two hours). Peter Ryan (https://twitter.com/_PeterRyan) invited him on to talk about nuclear energy, why nothing feels possible, what happened to the left, financial brain poisoning, and more! Follow the Ryan Research podcast to hear the rest when it comes out! (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfRArvBl7O7AuQFtTTKaUCw) Subscribe to our Patreon

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1:05:27

Episode 81: The Religious Cult of Fandom ft. Monia Ali

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2022/03/09

Monia Ali (https://twitter.com/momovolution) of the Exiled Fan Substack sits down with Emmet to talk about the cultic aspects of fandom, how marketers think about hijacking our need for love, attention, and community, what the world of fandom means for our future and much, much more. Love Beyond Reason: the consecration of fandom by Monia Ali (https://exiledfan.substack.com/p/love-beyond-reason-the-consecration?r=iqrwx&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=url&s=r), The Exiled Fan. Subscribe

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[teaser] Futures Past: On the Relation of Past and...

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2022/03/06

Emmet and John began their reading of Koselleck's Futures Past. They situate his context, layout his questions and method, and then open the first essay. They discuss the transition into modernity, the nature of historical time, the waning of eschaton, the secularization of the political and thus the future, and medieval eschatological tradition, and way more. This is a teaser. To hear the rest and get the rest of our exclusive episodes, become a Patron! (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust)

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Episode 80: Did the Industrial Revolution even...

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2022/03/02

Scholar John Constable joins Emmet to discuss his recent lecture given at the Mont Pelerin Society last year entitled, "Misconceptions of the 'Industrial Revolution': Prospects for Individual Liberty in the Post-Pandemic Era." They discuss the discursive fiction of the "industrial revolution" and its uses, the green energy transition's misguidedness, economics' backwardness, why energy is the key to societal wealth and freedom, and more! Subscribe to our Patreon to get 2 exclusive episodes a month

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Episode 79: What's Wrong With American Cities? ft....

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2022/02/23

Xander (https://twitter.com/xandeaux) sits down with Emmet to talk about what's going on with American cities. What happened to them? Why won't congestion die? Do we have to get in the pod and eat the bugs? What makes a city beautiful? Why is it so hard to figure out what's going on in your city? Emmet harasses Xander with these questions and more. Become a patron to get two exclusive episodes a month and our entire paywalled back catalog, including our After Virtues and Christopher Lasch reading

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9:21

The True And Only Heaven 11: Right-Wing Populism and...

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2022/02/21

Emmet and John finish Lasch's book and reflect on it as a whole. They considered some Roman historians at the top, summarize this final chapter, and weigh Lasch's contribution. What does it mean for us? What has he left us to endeavor that he did or could not? Become a patron to hear the rest and get two exclusive episodes a month! (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust)

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Episode 78: The Political Biography of a Zoomer ft....

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2022/02/16

James Lynch (https://twitter.com/jameslynch32), a producer at Breaking Points and contributor to Newsweek, sat down with Emmet to talk about what it was like to politically come of age as a zoomer, the deficits and merits of left and right, what the "crisis of masculinity" really means, what to do about Big Tech, and more! The Mainstream Media Is Attacking Joe Rogan Instead of Admitting Its Own Failures

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[teaser] The True and Only Heaven 10: The Politics of...

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2022/02/14

Canada Mike joins Emmet to talk about the second to last chapter of Lasch's book. They talk about how liberalism went from a political position to an alleged psychological framework and culture. And how HL Mencken was a pioneer of lectureporn. Special Guest: Mike.

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Episode 77: When You Die Online You Die in Real Life...

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2022/02/09

DF and Emmet had such a good time talking about early internet history they decided to do it again. This time, they're looking at humdog's seminal but half-forgotten essay "pandora's vox." DF and Emmet try to work through the internet as a form, it's incredible liquidity, how physical space has transubstantiated into the internet, things like the Slaves of Gor fandom as a substructure of the internet, what it means that humdog seems to have committed suicide over exactly the kind of relationship she

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Episode 76: A Rape in Cyberspace ft. Default Friend

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2022/02/02

Default Friend (https://twitter.com/default_friend) returns to talk with Emmet about Julian Dibbel's famous essay, A Rape in Cybserpace (http://www.juliandibbell.com/texts/bungle_vv.html), which presaged our digital social experience back in 1993. DF and Emmet talk about etiquette, digital governance, the weirdness of online life, the "distributed self," what it would mean to take the internet seriously, and more! Subscribe to our Patreon to get two exclusive episodes a month

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Episode 75: The Shock of the New pt. 1: The...

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2022/01/26

Emmet and John begin their new series on Robert Hughes's documentary series The Shock of the New. This first installment takes on early modernism. The lads contemplate the impact of WWI, think on what really separates the modern experience from previous eras, and what makes our era different from early modernism. Shock of the New (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3ne7Udaetg). Subscribe to our Patreon to get 2 exclusive episodes a month! (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust) Nuclear Barbarians

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Episode 74: Welcome to the Desert of the Political...

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2022/01/19

Anton Jager (https://twitter.com/AntonJaegermm) sits down with Emmet to talk about how we moved from the post-political age of technocratic consensus to the noisy stasis of our current hyper-political present. They talk about whether the right and left descriptors handed down from French parliament hold today, politics as fandom, the death of political responsibility, and more! How the World Went from Post-Politics to Hyper-Politics

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[teaser] The True and Only Heaven 9: The Spiritual...

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2022/01/17

Emmet and John take on the ideas of Reinhold Niebuhr and his impact on neocons and MLK. Then they look at Lasch's interpretation of MLK's intellectual life and political career. They compare the Southern and Northern Civil Rights campaigns and contemplate the deadlock, in part created by King himself, left in his wake. They close by discussing resentment and its politics. This is a teaser, subscribe to the Patreon to hear the rest! (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust)

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Episode 73: American Canon: Joan Didion's "Insider...

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2022/01/12

Luke Thompson (https://twitter.com/ltthompso) returns to talk with Emmet about Joan Didion, who recently passed. They focus on her essay "Insider Baseball," her coverage of the 1988 presidential primary season, and discuss the nature of American presidential campaigns, the campaign press, the nature of Didion's insights, what made 2016 so weird, and more! Insider Baseball by Joan Didion (https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1988/10/27/insider-baseball/). Closing Song: "Journey to the Darkened Empires"

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Episode 72: The Art of Forgetting

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2022/01/05

Emmet and Mike discuss medieval techniques of memory and forgetting. They discuss Cornelius Agrippa's assault on those techniques as an assault on the corrupted scholastic world. In Agrippa's thought we see the germs of modernity. The discuss opens up into a contemplation of ancient science and tech, the propaganda of the Enlightenment, the disciplining of the mind and the gaze, recovering tradition, and more. Feel free to email or DM us for pdfs of the sources we used for this episode. Subscribe

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[teaser] The True and Only Heaven 8: Work and Loyalty

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2022/01/02

Emmet and John work through questions of the democratization of work and culture in the era of mass production and mass culture. They also trace the relationship between cultural bohemians and elites with the workers' movement, including the forgotten legacy of Mabel Dodge Luhan. The close by talking about national loyalty, the repeat of debates from 100 years ago, another look at property as a political concern, and more! Subscribe to our Patreon to hear the rest and get two exclusive episodes a

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Episode 71: Closing Your Loop ft. Josh Bregman

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2021/12/29

Emmet and returning guest Josh Bregman sit down to talk about the movie Looper. They look back at what makes it such a successful film, but also what it captured about the year it was released, 2012. They talk about Mark Fisher, life before social media, "the slow cancellation of the future," what kind of interregnum we're in, and what Looper had to tell us about our future. Subscribe to our Patreon for two exclusive episodes a month! (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust) Closing Song: Free Nation -

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