The first of two discussions about your co-hosts' respective book projects. Today we discuss Ex's punk and postpunk's literary history Lusty Scripts (Indiana University Press, 2017), which connects punk music to not only Hegel, Nietzsche, and Freud, but Dostoevsky, Burroughs, Henry Miller, Kafka, Genet, and Philip K. Dick. In detailing the punk bookshelf, Ex contends that punk’s literary and intellectual interests can be traced to the sense of shame and horror its advocates feel in the face of a shameless market economy that not only preoccupied many of punks' favorite writers but in many ways generated the entire punk polemic as neoliberalism reared its ugly head in the middle-1970s.
