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ex.haustEpisode 96: [UNLOCKED] The End of History and the Last Man: Our PessimismEmmet 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-hate2023-01-281h 13
ex.haustEpisode 95: [UNLOCKED] Sanctions and Self-Interest ft. Phil CunliffePhil 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-country2023-01-2059 min
ex.haustEpisode 94: Engineering Engineers ft. Mark NelsonMark 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-escapes2022-12-111h 21
ex.haust[teaser] Leo Strauss and the Three Waves of Modernity ft. Alex PriouAlex 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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ex.haustEpisode 92: The Dirties ft. PsyOp CinemaBrett 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!
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Closing Song: Do Not Reply by Stuck2022-11-181h 23
ex.haust[teaser]Democratic Pluralism ft. Michael LindAuthor 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.
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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=sr_1_4?crid=2UXB8BXFRBDMY...2022-10-2220 min
ex.haustEpisode 89: The Agony of the New Left ft. Leighton WoodhouseJournalist Leighton Woodhouse 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," by Leighton Woodhouse.
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Closing Song: Rollin & Tubmlin by RL Burnside.2022-10-141h 21
ex.haust[teaser] Millennial Canon: Napoleon Dynamite, Juno, and Scott PilgrimKat Dee joins Emmet to talk about movies they couldn't stop texting each other about which they think define, in part, the millennial vibe. They talk about movies that give a shit that you're watching them, what happened to music as part of identity formation, the sexual weirdness of all three movies, being awkward as an early millennial meme, what millennials did to language, and more!
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ex.haust[teaser] Shock of the New: The Future That WarEmmet and Josh wrap up their series on the Shock of the New.
They discuss the modern art museum, Hughes's sick burns on everyone and everything, Superbowl Commericals as art appreciation ritual, Don Draper, and mourning the death of painting.
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ex.haustEpisode 88: Oceania Has Always Been At Culture War With Eastasia ft. Michael CuencoEssayist Michael Cuenco joins Emmet to talk about the totalizing permanence of the culture war. They talk about Ross Perot, Pat Buchanan, liberty, republicanism, oligarchy, living in a post-literate tribal world, and more!
Check out some of Michael's Work:
How Culture War Trumped Class War, Compact Magazine
America's New Post-Literate Epistemology, Palladium
"Victory Is Not Possible": A Theory of the Culture War, American Affairs
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Closing Song: Slower Hell by Money2022-09-241h 13
ex.haust[teaser] Shock of the New: From Munch to WarholJosh and Emmet talk over episodes 6 and 7 of Robert Hughes's The Shock of the New. They get into Van Gogh, Edvard Munch, Rothko, and the dawn of the Weak Universal Forms.
They discuss art as a window into the past and the schizo-world of television. And if painting can't matter in the way it used to, why did Hughes bother with the series?
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ex.haustEpisode 87: The King and the Duke: So Long, Vince McMahon ft. Oliver BatemanKing of The Work and co-host of What's Left, Oliver Bateman joins Emmet to talk about the illustrious career of pro-wrestling mogul Vince McMahon after he stepped down from WWE. They talk about the hustler and con man as American architects, the intimacy of kayfabe, what people get wrong about their stale "politics as pro wrestling" takes, and more!
"Exit Vince McMahon, World Builder," Oliver Bateman, The Washington Examiner.
What's Left?
Oliver's website.
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Closing Song: Moth-Eaten Deer Head by The Locust2022-08-1958 min
ex.haust[teaser] The End of History and the Last Man: Our PessimismEmmet 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.
To hear the rest of this episode, subscribe to our Patreon and get 2 exclusive episodes a month!2022-07-2816 min
ex.haustEpisode 86: California Uber Alles ft. Robert. Bryce6-time author and host of the Power Hungry Podcast Robert Bryce sits down with Emmet to talk about the downfall of California, his time covering the Branch Davidian trials, our troubled electric grid, the balkanization of America, and more!
"California's Energy War on the Poor" by Robert Bryce (Quillette)
The Power Hungry Podcast
Juice: How Electricity Explains the World
A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations by Robert Bryce
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Closing Song: California Uber Alles by the...2022-07-2558 min
ex.haustEpisode 85: School Shooters, Nihilism, and Child Sacrifice ft. Geoff Shullenberger and Default FriendEmmet sits Geoff Shullenberger and Default Friend to talk about their respective articles on the Uvalde shooting, school shootings in general, "zeitgeist killers," the spiritual hole in our society, and more!
"The Faith of Mass Shooters" by Geoff Shullenberger, Compact Magazine.
"Mass Shootings and the World Liberalism Made," by Katherine Dee, Contra
Closing Song: Lowered by Greg Puciato ft. Reba Meyers.2022-06-301h 06
ex.haustEpisode 84: Why Do Movies Suck Now? ft. Will TavlinWill Tavlin 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 by Will Tavlin, n+1
Closing Song: Storyteller by Broadside. 2022-03-3055 min
ex.haustEpisode 83: The Dying Bird of Authentic Humanness ft. Default FriendDF 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.
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Closing Song: Dream Evil - The Chosen Ones x Xavier Wulf - Fort Woe (KEIFFERGR33N Remix)2022-03-2354 min
ex.haustEpisode 82: A time to build, but what? And how? (cross-post with the Ryan Research podcast)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 invited him on to talk about nuclear energy, why nothing feels possible, what happened to the left, financial brain poisoning, and more!
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ex.haustEpisode 81: The Religious Cult of Fandom ft. Monia AliMonia Ali 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, The Exiled Fan.
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Closing Song: Jiggalate by Dro Man (KEIFER GR33N Remix)2022-03-091h 05
ex.haust[teaser] Futures Past: On the Relation of Past and Future in Modern History p. IEmmet 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.
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ex.haustEpisode 80: Did the Industrial Revolution even happen? ft. John ConstableScholar 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!
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Closing song: Migos - Walk It Talk It (KEIFERGR33N Remix)2022-03-0253 min
ex.haustEpisode 79: What's Wrong With American Cities? ft. XanderXander 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.
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Closing Song: God's Bathroom Floor by Atmosphere.2022-02-231h 04
ex.haustThe True And Only Heaven 11: Right-Wing Populism and the Revolt Against LiberalismEmmet 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?
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ex.haustEpisode 78: The Political Biography of a Zoomer ft. James LynchJames Lynch, 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 by James Lynch, Newsweek
The Working Class Is Up For Grabs. Which Party Will Claim It? by James Lynch, Newsweek
How Progressive Theatrics Benefit the Elites by James Lynch...2022-02-161h 07
ex.haust[teaser] The True and Only Heaven 10: The Politics of the Civilized MinorityCanada 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.2022-02-1411 min
ex.haustEpisode 77: When You Die Online You Die in Real Life ft. Default FriendDF 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 warned about and more!
"pandora's vox: on community in cyberspace" by humdog.
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ex.haustEpisode 76: A Rape in Cyberspace ft. Default FriendDefault Friend returns to talk with Emmet about Julian Dibbel's famous essay, A Rape in Cybserpace, 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!
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Closing Song: The End of Love by Wimeanancas Cambodian Band.2022-02-021h 02
ex.haustEpisode 75: The Shock of the New pt. 1: The Mechanical ParadiseEmmet 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.
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Nuclear Barbarians.
Closing Song: Chlorine by Buffalo Buffalo.2022-01-2651 min
ex.haustEpisode 74: Welcome to the Desert of the Political ft. Anton JagerAnton Jager 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 by Anton Jaegar, Tribune.
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ex.haust[teaser] The True and Only Heaven 9: The Spiritual Discipline Against ResentmentEmmet 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.
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ex.haustEpisode 73: American Canon: Joan Didion's "Insider Baseball" ft. Luke ThompsonLuke Thompson 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.
Closing Song: "Journey to the Darkened Empires" by Forlorn Kingdom.2022-01-121h 15
ex.haustEpisode 72: The Art of ForgettingEmmet 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.
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Closing...2022-01-0559 min
ex.haust[teaser] The True and Only Heaven 8: Work and LoyaltyEmmet 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!
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ex.haustEpisode 71: Closing Your Loop ft. Josh BregmanEmmet 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.
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Closing Song: Free Nation - Naked Raygun.2021-12-291h 01
ex.haustEpisode 70: Where Are We Now?: Thinking with AgambenEmmet and Mike talk about Agamben's book, Where Are We Now?: The Epidemic as Politics, and reflect on life since the pandemic. They discuss Carl Schmitt, security theater, anti-social civics, the cultic gnosticism of scientific faith, the need for physical practices and spiritual mentors, bare life, their own intellectual failings during the pandemic, and more.
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Closing Song: Leprosy - Death. 2021-12-221h 06
ex.haustEpisode 69: Brain Smart: Common Core and The Downfall of the Humanities ft. Catherine LiuProfessor of film and media studies and author of Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class, Catherine Liu joins Emmet to talk about the death of the humanities in higher ed, the meritocratic nightmare of Common Core, why the humanities are important, the HRification of everything, and more!
The Apotheosis of the Professional Class by Catherine Liu, Catalyst.
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Closing Song: Shimmering Neck by Landowner.2021-12-151h 05
ex.haustEpisode 68: All That Is Culture Melts Into Porn ft. Mary HarringtonContributing editor at Unherd Mary Harrington joins Emmet to talk about why everything feels like porn, the smooth hell of life online, the culture of fear in the time of COVID, how women get forgotten, and more!
Read Mary Harrington's work at Unherd.
Mary's website.
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ex.haust[teaser] MacIntyre - Human Dignity: A Puzzling and Possibly Dangerous Idea?Emmet and Mike hash out MacIntyre's provocative lecture at Notre Dame's conference on the idea of human dignity in the secular age last month.
They go through the essentials of MacIntyre's argumentation, reflect on its implications, then consider Abrahamic Law more broadly. Mike brings a Muslim perspective to bear and they both ask how we are to live with fidelity in a world where nothing feels possible.
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ex.haustEpisode 67: The Imperial Vampire Castle II: Standpoint Bureaucracy and the CIA's New Dialect of Power ft. River PageRiver Page joins Emmet to talk about the new woke institutions and how they reify previously existing class structures. They go into standpoint theory, identity politics, the CIA's relationship to the New Left, PMC projections of the working class's soul, and much more. They close by contemplating the possibility of a better left populism.
The Standpoint Bureaucracy by River Page, Twink Revolution
The CIA and the New Dialect of Power by River Page, American Affairs
River's Substack.
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ex.haustEpisode 66: Guns, Coal, and Power: Three Takes on Human Development and the Illusion of ProgressCanada Mike and Emmet take a look at three pieces to consider different lenses for human development. The first is an essay on Engels by Wolfgang Streeck, the second is a lecture on thermoeconomics by John Constable, and the third is an overview of arguments for human evolution by Michael E. Mann. Emmet and Mike touch on the Meiji restoration, why we should read old thinkers, British coal, why Steven Pinker sucks, what kind of revolution was the Industrial Revolution, civilizational skillsets, and more!
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ex.haust[teaser] The True and Only Heaven 6: "No Answer But An Echo"Emmet and John forge ahead through the longest and most difficult chapter in Lasch's The True And Only Heaven. They question his use of Thomas Carlyle, delve into the Calvinism in both Carlyle and Emerson, what it means for America to have an anti-progressive tradition, Boethius's Wheel of Fortune, appreciating fate, and more!
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ex.haustEpisode 65: The High Church of Wokeism ft. Joseph KeeginEmmet sat down with Joseph Keegin to talk about his pice for Tablet, The High Church of Wokeism, which traces certain elements of woke ideology back to Unitarian Universalism. They talk about the unacknowledged power of divinity schools in shaping American progressivism, repairing the "broken middle," identity talk as soul talk, and much more.
The High Church of Wokeism by Joseph Keegin, Tablet.
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Closing Song: Memorial by Moss Icon.2021-11-171h 03
ex.haustEpisode 64: Solving the Opioid Crisis ft. Percy MenziesEmmet sits down with Percy Menzies of Assisted Recovery Centers of America to talk about the opioid epidemic in America. Percy walks through the history of opioids, how OxyContin changed everything, and how fentanyl has changed everything again. He and Emmet discuss misunderstandings about addiction, the forces aligned against solving the crisis--including the methadone lobby--treating the whole person, and more.
If you'd like to get in touch with Percy with questions, comments, or support, you can reach him here: pmenzies [at] arcamidwest.com.
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ex.haust[teaser] The True and Only Heaven 5: The Populist Campaign Against "Improvement"Emmet and John dive into Lasch's overview of populism. They start to get glimpses of Lasch's commitments here. Touring classical conceptions of republicanism to people like Paine, Cobbett, and Brownson, Emmet and John track how they frustrate our contemporary interpretations of republicanism and liberalism can't or don't apply to them. Thinking with Lasch on historiography, they close the chapter discussing 19th-century artisans, populism, the New Deal, and the triumph of Taylorism.
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ex.haustEpisode 63: Public Writing, Public Thinking ft. Oliver TraldiWriter and philosopher Oliver Traldi sits down with Emmet to talk about what it means to be a public intellectual today, what being a writer's really like, CRT, how woke politicization has homogenized every other endeavor in the humanities, and more!
Clean Rooms and Dirtbags by Oliver Traldi, American Affairs.
What's In A Name? by Oliver Traldi, Arc Digital
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Closing Song: Garbage Man by Chat Pile.2021-11-031h 03
ex.haustEpisode 61: Two Piece: Resigning from Being SuperfluousEmmet, John, and Canada Mike talk through two pieces: one on the superfluous men of history by Alex Gendler and another about bullshit jobs and people quitting the workforce by John Michael Greer. They talk about the Great Resignation, the strivewave, why men have been historically superluous, incels, and ponder if we need new ways to think of being modern.
The New Superfluous Men by Alex Gendler
That Untraversed Land by John Michael Greer
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ex.haust[teaser] The True and Only Heaven 4: The Sociological Tradition and the Idea of CommunityEmmet and John forge ahead in the Lasch reading. This time they watch Lasch take on Burke, Marx, Weber, Tonnies, and more. They discuss development theory, the systematic view of history's progress, what they think Lasch is up to, what Schopenhauer did for them, and more.
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ex.haustEpisode 60: Double Feature '84: The Terminator and A Nightmare on Elm Street ft. Josh BregmanIt's Halloween season. To help celebrate, Emmet and frequent guest Josh Bregman sit down to talk about two favorites: The Terminator and A Nightmare on Elm Street. They talk about the slasher genre, collapse of American confidence, the terror of the past, the horror of the future, and more.
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Closing Song: Copper & Stars by Planes Mistaken for Stars.2021-10-131h 17
ex.haustEpisode 59: Political Ossification ft. Luke ThompsonPolitical consultant and podcaster Luke Thompson joins Emmet to talk through the problem of political ossification. They talk through realignment theory, conceptions of political time, how party coalitions have changed over time, the shifting nature of American political institutions, and, of course, why nothing feels possible.
Check out Luke's podcast with Jay Cost, Constitutionally Speaking.
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Closing Song: "Talk Anyway" by Found Footage.2021-10-061h 15
ex.haust[teaser] The True and Only Heaven 3: Nostalgia ft. Canada MikeCanada Mike fills in for John for the third installment of our series on Lasch's True and Only Heaven. Mike and Emmet detail Lasch's argument and consider the necessary relationship between progressive ideology and nostalgia. They talk about living in an eternal present, Cormac McCarthy as subverter of American tropes, the frontier as a "zone of innocence" and more.
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ex.haustEpisode 58: American Canon: John MiliusEmmet and John discuss the life and times of writer and director John Milius, looking specifically at his movies The Wind and the Lion and Conan the Barbarian. We talk about the Cold War, changes in the film industry, Milius' atavism, what makes Conan such a surprisingly beautiful an lyric film, and much, much more.
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Closing Song: "The Rain in Spain Drains Mainly From the Main Vein" by MANS.2021-09-291h 26
ex.haustEpisode 57: Into the Fairy Castle ft. Sam BiagettiEmmet sits down with historian, podcaster, and writer Sam Biagetti to talk about his latest piece for American Affairs, "Into the Fairy Castle: The Persistence of Victorian Liberalism." They about Gilbert and Sullivan, Borgen, the downfall of the Bernie movement, meritocracy and more.
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["Into the Fairy Castle: The Persistence of Victorian Liberalism" by Sam Biagetti](Into the Fairy Castle: The Persistence of Victorian Liberalism).
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Closing Song: Rusty Cage by Soundgarden (Live at the Omaha Civic Auditorium Music Hall, 1992)2021-09-2258 min
ex.haustEpisode 56: This Film Is Dedicated to the Brave Mujahideen Fighters of Afghanistan ft. Phil CunliffeEmmet talks with author and cohost of Aufhebunga Bunga Phil Cunliffe about the bungled evac of Kabul, the Afghanistan War's aimlessness, historical amnesia, and more!
The Fall of an American Empire by Phill Cunliffe
Whatever Happened to the Good War? by Phil Cunliffe
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Closing Song: Dig It A Hole by The U-Men2021-09-1558 min
ex.haustEpisode 55: Ex.haust Birthday Q & ATo celebrate ex.haust's one year anniversary, Emmet and John respond to listener questions. This one was really fun to do. Thank you all so much for your support. Getting to work on this podcast is a true joy. We wouldn't be able to do this without you, listener.
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Closing Song: "jean skirts" by the blasted diplomats2021-09-081h 22
ex.haust[teaser] The MILF Hitler Theory ft. Canada MikeThis is a teaser. To hear the full episode subscribe to our Patreon.
In this one, Emmet and Mike discuss cultural narcissism, Mike's MILF Hitler theory, the societal threat unguided young men pose, Sheller's abortive USMC protest videos about the Afghanistan exit, the officer corps as a societal bellwether, and more!
Sheller: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/marine-commander-relieved-of-duty-over-video-slamming-senior-leaders-in-wake-of-kabul-attack/
A Generation of American Men Give Up on College: https://www.wsj.com/articles/college-university-fall-higher-education-men-women-enrollment-admissions-back-to-school-11630948233?st=r5jiboojtgreuap&reflink=share_mobilewebshare
Closing Song: Check (KEIFERGR33N REMIX) - Young Thug2021-09-0703 min
ex.haustEpisode 54: "My Hand Is A Fleshgun": Culture Without Context Ft. Alexi and Sam from Nymphet AlumniEmmet sits down with Alexi and Sam from the fashion and culture podcast Nymphet Alumni to talk about how culture does or doesn't get handed down, our contextless existence, the state of fashion, the absolute state of zoomers and more!
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Closing Song: "Please Respect Out Decadence" by Algebra Suicide.2021-09-011h 09
ex.haustEpisode 53: The Lasch Files: The True and Only Heaven pt. IEmmet and John begin their series on Lasch's book The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics." They lay out the general premise, debate whether or not Lasch was a degrowther, reflect on the impact of the 70s energy crisis, and more!
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Song: "Playpen of Dissent" by Stuck. 2021-08-251h 19
ex.haustEpisode 52: American Canon: HP Lovecraft and Harlan Ellison ft. Canada MikeCanada Mike, Emmet, and John discuss HP Lovecraft's "Call of Cthulu" and Harlan Ellison's "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream." They situate each of them in history and talk about the concept of the weird, the weird tale as an American contribution, Lovecraft's modernism vs. Ellison's post-modernism, non-time and post-time, and a whole lot more!
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"I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" by Harlan Ellison.
"Call of Cthulhu" by HP Lovecraft.
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Closing Song: "With the Sun"...2021-08-181h 12
ex.haustEpisode 51: Strength Is Never a Weakness ft. Bill CoyneStrength coach and powerlifter Bill Coyne joins Emmet to talk about his pilgrimage to Westside Barbell, the strongest gym in the world, the history of weight lifting, getting strong as an antidote to despair, and more!
If you want to learn more about weightlifting, feel free to DM Bill or Emmet on Twitter.
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Closing Song: "Rip and Tear" by L.A. Guns.
Twitter.2021-08-111h 11
ex.haustEpisode 50: Real Eyes Realize Real Pfize Ft. Canada MikeEmmet and Canada Mike return to their bread and butter: vaccine supply chains. People have been asking for a vaccine update, so Mike and Emmet hashed it out. They talk about Pfizer's insane contracts, DARPA's involvement in Operation Warp Speed, Foucault, Agamben, Plato, Taleb, and more!
If you're new, you can listen to our first ep on vaccines here and here. Otherwise, you'll have to subscribe to our Patreon.
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Closing Song: [Pop Smoke - Paranoia feat. Young Thug & Gunna...2021-08-041h 02
ex.haustEpisode 49: The DENNIS System for Death Cults: Degrowth, Consumerism, and the Environmental Movement ft. Space CommuneAlex and Fox (a return guest) from Space Commune join Emmet to talk about their new documentary--Consumerism: Can We Buy a Better World?
What Happens When a Buffet Buys Your Town? by Sean Cooper
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Closing Song: "Summer of Hate" by Chemlab2021-07-281h 08
ex.haustEpisode 48: What We Talk About When We Talk About Conservatism ft. Micah MeadowcroftEmmet sits down with Micah Meadowcroft, an editor at The American Conservative, to talk about some of his recent writing, a view of the right from the right, what conservatism should mean, ending America's imperial posture, and much more.
"We Are Going to Win" by Micah Meadowcroft
"Roman Rhetoric And Florentine Politics: A Reply To Yarvin" by Micah Meadowcroft
The piece of Emmet's mentioned:
"Nuclear Power Plants: Our Industrial Cathedrals" by Emmet Penney
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Closing...2021-07-2156 min
ex.haustEpisode 47: How Did We Get Here? Ft. Sterling BartlettEmmet sits down with comic book artist Sterling Bartlett to talk about his comics "How Did We Get Here?" and "Kali, Yuga, Eschaton." They talk about how recycling is a scam, the late-period Matisse to moralizing infographic pipeline, the death of boredom, the age of the filthy casual., and more!
Check out Sterling's work: https://www.sterlingbartlett.com/
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Closing Song: "A Three Year Old Could Do That" by the U-Men.2021-07-1457 min
ex.haustEpisode 45: I Make An Honest Living!: Pain & Gain, Wolf of Wall Street, and the Financial CrashJosh Bregman comes back on the pod to talk with Emmet about two movies that came out in the same summer that sought to capture post-crash America: Pain & Gain and Wolf of Wall Street. They talk about what a shitty director Michael Bay is, analyze the main characters of each movie, and try to figure out just why it was so hard to narrativize a financial crash that almost ended the world economy over night.
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Closing Song: "Look At...2021-06-301h 17
ex.haustEpisode 44: Astroturfing the Thunderdome ft. Fox GreenEmmet sits down with Fox Green of Space Commune to talk about how his town is being astroturfed by billionaire-funded NGOs, political fandom, the revolt against adulthood, and much, much more.
"The NPIC" by Space Commune
"Political Fandom" by Space Commune
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Closing Song: The Union Underground - Across the Nation x 21 Savage - Heathens (KEIFERGR33N remix)2021-06-231h 16
ex.haustEpisode 43: American Hardball: Scorsese's GoodFellas and McKay's ViceEmmet and John talk about America's delight in self-serving, cruel narcissists via the movies Vice and GoodFellas in addition to an essay by Jim Shepard. The conversation ranges from the political culture during the Iraq War, the uncanny similarities between Dick Cheney and Henry Hill, what it means for the American government to be normatively strong, but administratively weak, and more!
"No Regrets: Goodfellas and American Hardball" by Jim Shepard.
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Closing Song: "Dallas Beltway" by Chat Pile.2021-06-161h 02
ex.haustEpisode 42: "It All Ends in Pizza": Brazilianization and Life in the Undeveloping World ft. Alex HochuliWriter and co-host of the Aufhebungabunga podcast Alex Hochuli joins Emmet and John to talk about his latest article in American Affairs: "The Brazilianization of the World." They talk about Alex's article, the alleged end of the "End of History," anti-politics, and more!
"The Brazilianization of the World" by Alex Hochuli.
Pre-order Aufhebungabunga's book here.
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Closing Song: "Black Sea" by The Farmers.
Photo by Gustavo Leighton on Unsplash.2021-06-091h 04
ex.haust[teaser] After Virtue III: WTF Is a Fact?John and Emmet talk about facts, bureaucracy, science as a social process, the social telos of internet moderation as a culture, and more.
This is a teaser. To hear the rest, subscribe!
Emmet's essay on Alien Covenant: https://dumbaristotle.medium.com/who-wrote-ozymandias-creativity-fallibility-and-mystery-in-art-34ffd6f8d5da
Bibliography: https://exhaust.fireside.fm/articles/p7
Closing Song: "Little Dead Bodies" by Algebra Suicide2021-06-0703 min
ex.haustEpisode 41: A Brief History of the American Electricity Grid From the 1920s to Closure of Indian Point ft. Edgardo SepulvedaEmmet sits down with economic historian Edgardo Sepulveda to talk about the history of the electrical grid in America from the 1920s until the closure of Indian Point. They talk vertical integration, the dawn of public utilities, the rise of monetarism and neoliberalism, the birth of the RTO system, and whether or not it's feasible to reform this precious infrastructure in an age of diminishing expecations and possibilities.
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Closing Song: "OK FM DOA" by the Dillinger Four2021-06-021h 07
ex.haustEpisode 40: "We all saw that idea come home": The Imperial Vampire Castle and Its Fixed IdeasEmmet and John use three articles to talk about our woke empire and how much it feels like the neocon heyday of the early 2000s. We talk about the major cultural resonances between the post-Trump era and the aftermath of 9/11, how the Greater War in the Middle East disabused us of optimism, why in the next few years there will be American Sniper but about an activist, and more!
The essays:
Fixed Opinions by Joan Didion
Exiting the Vampire's Castle by Mark Fisher
Feminism, the Taliban and the Politics of Counterinsurgency by Mahmood...2021-05-261h 06
ex.haustEpisode 39: Energiewendon't and the Nordstream Connection ft. Mark NelsonMark Nelson returns to the pod to explain Germany's Energiwende policy and its dependence on Nordstream 2 pipeline from Russia. Emmet and Mark talk about American green Malthusianism's influence on the Energiwende, Germany vs. American traditions of government-market relations, how the rest of Europe should respond to the pipeline, and more!
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Closing Song: "Sniper Song" by Naked RaygunSpecial Guest: Mark Nelson.2021-05-191h 04
ex.haustEpisode 38: The Culture of Confession ft. Default FriendEmmet sits down with Default Friend of After the Orgy about her piece on the Culture of Confession, the emotional history of the internet, millenial blues, how tumblr turned the academy woke, and more.
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Closing Song: "Juliette's Window" by Black Print. 2021-05-121h 03
ex.haustEpisode 37: Based and Nukepilled ft. Madison CzerwinskiFounder of the Campaign for a Green Nuclear Deal, [Madison Czerwinski](@Madi_Czerwinski), sits down with Emmet to talk about the closure of the Indian Point nuclear plant in New York, the status of the US nuclear fleet, and what a nuclear future could look like.
Campaign for a Green Nuclear Deal.
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Closing Song: "Saint Pepsi - Mac Tonight x Mannie Fresh - Real Big (KEIFERGR33N Remix)"2021-05-0554 min
ex.haust[teaser] American Canon: TS Eliot's "Tradition and Individual Talent"Emmet and John talk about Eliot's essay on what it means for a writer to fit into a tradition. We talk about what that means for us, how we shape the past as we make our present, the confessional poets as a response to Eliot, and Borges on Kafka.
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The essay: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/69400/tradition-and-the-individual-talent
Bibliography: https://exhaust.fireside.fm/articles/p5
Closing Song: "White Jesus" by Rittz2021-05-0302 min
ex.haustEpisode 36: I Went Down to the Piraeus Yesterday with Robert Downey Jr.: Watching RDJ's Cocaine '92 Election Doc ft. Josh BregmanToken Gen-Xer Josh Bregman joins Emmet to discuss Robert Downey Jr.'s documentary about the '92 election, The Last Party. They discuss the NGO Industrial Complex, why the culture war is built to be endless, the handoff from the New Left to Gen X, and how RDJ accidentally made Twitter: The Movie in 1992.
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Closing Song: System of a Down - Lost in Hollywood x Young Thug - Power (KEIFERGR33N Remix)2021-04-281h 37
ex.haustEpisode 35: Two-Piece: Gentry Elites, Dead WASPs, and the End of Fair Play CultureEmmet and John discuss two articles and try to fine-tune their understanding of who the American elites are and how they've changed over time. Do elites have the same interes? The same culture? Do they even believe in their own institutions?
"American Gentry" by Patrick Wyman
"Rediscovering E. Digby Baltzell’s Sociology of Elites" by Aaron M Renn
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Closing Song: "Slipknot - Wait and Bleed x Chrono Trigger OST - At the Bottom of the Night (KEIFERGR33N REMIX)"2021-04-211h 09
ex.haustEpisode 34: Long Live the New Flesh!: Getting Videodromed with Geoff ShullenbergerEmmet and Geoff Shullenberger talk about a mutual favorite film: Cronenberg's Videodrome. They talk about how it pre-empted our fractured digital lives and the inscrutable, parapolitical world we inhabit.
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Eratta: Emmet states that Videodrome came out in 1985, but it did not. It came out in 1983.
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Closing Song: "La Flamme dell' Est (Fabio Brienza Remix)" by Lamniformes Special Guest: Geoff Shullenberger .2021-04-141h 29
ex.haustEpisode 33: Shorting the Grid: The Hidden Fragility of the American Electric Grid ft. Meredith AngwinEmmet and John sit down to speak with Meredith Angwin about her new book, Shorting the Grid, on America's fragile electric grid. We talk about how and why the grid became fragile, energy auctions, renewables and fragility, the glories of nuclear energy, and much more!
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Closing song: "Vermont" by Tiny Deserts.2021-04-071h 07
ex.haustEpisode 31: Thinking Through Happiness, Misery and Freedom ft. Ashley FrawleyEmmet sits down with Ashley Frawley to talk about her work on the semiotics of happiness, the knowledge class, and the how to think about freedom. Ashley was a great guest and we hope to have her return to the pod.
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Closing Song: "Ceiling" by Stuck
Episode image: Photo by Maximilian Scheffler on UnsplashSpecial Guest: Ashley Frawley.2021-03-2453 min
ex.haustEpisode 30: TFW NO GF: A Pro-Friendship, Anti-FUDposting Movie ReviewWe review Alex Lee Moyer's documentary TFW NO GF. We talk about loneliness, the shitty American media class, the value of friendship, and a whole lot else. This one's a chiller.
You can watch the movie here.
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Closing song: "Kerosene" by Big Black.2021-03-171h 17
ex.haust[teaser] Understanding SolarWinds, Cybersecurity, and Attribution ft. CyberCharlesLast month, CyberCharles joined Emmet to break down what happened with the big SolarWinds hack, how digital supply chains work, how citizens should think about these issues, and much more.
This is a sample of their talk. Listen to the full episode by subscribing to the Patreon.
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Closing song: "Bingo! Dino DNA" by MANS.
Photo by Kvistholt Photography on Unsplash.2021-03-1504 min
ex.haustEpisode 29: After Virtue Pt. I: Emotivism and Its DiscontentsEmmet and John begin their reading series on Alisdair MacIntyre's classic work After Virtue. This episode's a more granular look at MacIntyre's argument to make sure we've fully grasped its fundamentals before moving forward. The episode closes with a discussion of mourning in Anglo-Saxon poetry and Borges' "Borges and I."
"Any Oligarchy of Sob Stories" by Emmet Penney.
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Closing Song: "Limp Bizkit - Take A Look Around x The Roots - Step Into the...2021-03-101h 17
ex.haustEpisode 28: What Happened In Texas?: Grading Without a Curve ft. Mark NelsonEmmet talks with energy analyst Mark Nelson about how the Texas grid almost completely collapsed in mid-February and what that means for our future. Mark is sharp as hell and was a joy to speak with.
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Closing Song: "Scapegoat" by Atmosphere.Special Guest: Mark Nelson.2021-03-031h 06
ex.haustEpisode 27: [teaser] Vax Traxx III: Medical Nihilism, mRNA Production Rundown, and the Downfall of the CDC ft. Canada MikeThis is a teaser from our first Patreon episode. Subscribe here to listen to the full thing!
We talk with Canada Mike about the stastical efficacy of vaccine success studies, how mRNA vaccines are produced, and the downfall of the CDC.
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Twitter. Special Guest: Mike.2021-03-0103 min
ex.haustEpisode 26: Line Go Down: A GameStop Debrief ft. Matt StonksOur dear friend Matt Stonks joins us to talk about the whole GameStop thing. Matt helps us with some Markets 101 terminology, and then we talk about the politics of the r/WallStreetBets moment before we close with three different views of what it all means.
Matt has some corrections he wanted to issue and some extensive resources he wanted to provide all of which are in the bibliography. Emmet mentioned Matt Taibbi's take on all this, which Taibbi clarified a couple hours after recoring on Feb 6.
Closing Song: "Houseplants" by Squid.
Follow us...2021-02-241h 13
ex.haustEpisode 25: Democracy Under Siege ft. Frank FurediEmmet sits down with Frank Furedi to discuss his latest book, Democracy Under Siege: Don't Let Them Lock It Down! They discuss Athenian Democracy, the role of expertise in society, how technocrats need wokeness to make their anti-democratic aims palatable, Brexit, and so much more!
Buy the book here. Buy his other book, Why Borders Matter, here.
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Closing Song: "Never Follow" by Naked Raygun.Special Guest: Frank Furedi.2021-02-171h 00
ex.haustEpisode 24: The Self-Design of American NihilismWe talk through three pieces: Leo Strauss's lecture on German Nihilism, Bradley Troemel's (recently banned from YouTube) video essay on QAnon, and Boris Groys's essay Self-Design and Aesthetic Responsibility to understand the current state of American Nihilism. This one was fun to record, so we hope it's fun to listen to.
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Closing Song by Tom Inhaler off of the album Distilled.
Cover image: Gustave Doré's illustration to Dante's Inferno. Plate IX: Canto I...2021-02-101h 20
ex.haustEpisode 23: Vaccine Breakdown II: Decentralization Boogaloo ft. Canada MikeCanada Mike joins us to talk about why America's vaccine rollout plan doesn't make sense and why it's not going well. First, Emmet talks about watching Erin Brokovich for the first time and Gabor Mate. Then we get into the nitty gritty with Mike while historically contextualizing the US response and the shaping of the Federal Government via crises. Towards the end, it all comes full circle as we talk about our duties as citizens (and parents) in a very based and trad conclusion.
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Closing song: "Help Desk" by Wobbly.
Follow us...2021-02-031h 07
ex.haustEpisode 22: Poe, Emerson, and Literary National IdentityWe conclude (for now) our readings of Poe and Emerson by taking a look at how they conceived of American literary nationalism. John goes deep into Emerson's influences, while Emmet brings in some historical background.
Errata: Where Emmet says "John Henry" he meant to say "John Brown."
To get updates on Emmet's upcoming lecture on Book I of Plato's Republic, download his free ebook on the Republic here.
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Closing Song: "Work" by Pickpocket.
Cover image: Thomas Cole (1801–1848), The Oxbow, View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, af...2021-01-271h 08
ex.haustEpisode 21: Two Piece: Anger And Its LimitsWe muse on two articles listed just below and try to think through the problem of anger in politics and in personal life. Does anger corrupt? Is it clarifying? A useful political catalyst or liability? What do we do now that anger is fully commoditized in the digital media sphere in which we live? We stake out our turf as semi-Aristotelians and make our way through these questions and conclude by deciding to do a reading series on After Virtue by Alisdair McIntyre this year.
There are the pieces we read.
Grin and Bear It...2021-01-201h 04
ex.haustEpisode 20: We Are the Information SupervisorsWe offer a brief obit for Flash animation and then discuss how we watched social media take shape over the course of their lives. Then, using the documentaries We Live in Public (2009) and The Social Dilemma (2020) as jumping off points, we talk about the nature of the new epistocracy. This episode was recorded in 2020, before the storming of the capitol, Trump's banning from every social media platform, and the quiet but obvious and opaque purge of accounts on Twitter, etc.
We Live in Public can be found here. The Social Dilemma can be found on Netflix.
2021-01-131h 10
ex.haustEpisode 19: Who Will Entertain In America?In our first episode of 2021 we speak with Ian Corey about his series of articles on art and entertainment in the age of COVID. We talk about Twitch streaming live performances, platform dominance, the NBA bubble, UFC's Fight Island, and why the band Code Orange is the future.
Read Ian's pieces here:
Who Will Entertain in America? Pt 1: Live Streaming
Who Will Entertain in America? Pt 2: NBA - The Return
Who Will Entertain in America? Pt. 3 - Code Orange
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Closing song: "I Have Been A Flame" by Lamniformes.2021-01-061h 16
ex.haustEpisode 18: Single Use System Shock: Vaccine Production Problems ft. Canada MikeIn our end of year recap, we first talk reflect on the year before discussing how vaccines are made, how that's changed, and what that will mean for COVID vaccine distribution. Canada Mike guides us through a deep dive into how single use systems have fragilized large scale vaccine development. This was recorded a few weeks ago, which is why we don't discuss new COVID strains or Fauci's goalpost shifting.
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Closing song: "Change Is Bad" by Stuck.
Complaints Department: ex.haustpodcast [at] gmail [dot] com.Special Guest: Mike.2020-12-301h 19
ex.haustEpisode 17: The Eclipse of the Demos ft. Kyong-Min SonWe speak with scholar Kyong-Min Son about his book The Eclipse of the Demos: The Cold War and the Crisis of Democracy before Neoliberalism. We cover some of the major themes of the book, but also discuss consumerism, populism, Carl Schmitt's legacy, and why democracy can't just be radical action from below, but needs to become a public institution.
You should buy Kyong-Min's book.
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Closing song: "Old Connecticut Money" by Landowner.Special Guest: Kyong-Min Son.2020-12-231h 00
ex.haustEpisode 16: American Canon: Poe's "Fall of the House of Usher" and "Masque of the Red Death"In the second installment in our American canon series, we look at our beloved failson Edgar Allan Poe. We discuss his life, legacy (especially his impact on Borges), and what set him apart from his peers. We look at two stories: Fall of the House of Usher and Masque of the Red Death, the second especially relevant during COVID. It was our first time talking literature for the show, and we had a great time. We hope you enjoy it.
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Closing song: "Nothing...2020-12-161h 02
ex.haustEpisode 15: The Jesus Campening of American PoliticsWe revisit the 2006 documentary Jesus Camp, a film about a pentecostal Christian summer camp, to re-evaluate their perspective on the movie and to understand our current political moment. Unlike our experience when it first came out, we were more disturbed by the film makers than the documentary's content. We talk about how everything feels like Jesus Camp now--both form and content--and then talk about the deadlock of victimhood and moral license in American politics.
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Complaints Department: ex.haustpodcast [at] gmail [dot] com.2020-12-0951 min
ex.haustEpisode 9: The Lasch Files: Revolt of the Elites Pt. II: Martyrs Don't Run the ChurchEmmet 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 culture, the Citizens United decision, and where Lasch disappointed them.
Bibliography here.
Email: ex.haustpodcast [at] gmail [dot] com.2020-10-2854 min
ex.haustEpisode 8: The Lasch Files: The Revolt of the Elites Pt. IEmmet 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 best and the brightest," metritocracy braindraining the working class, and more.
You can find the bibliography here.
Email us at: ex.haustpodcast [at] gmail [dot] com.2020-10-211h 14
ex.haustEpisode 7: Animalization, Anglo-Saxon Masochism, and EntrepreneurbrainJohn 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 bullshit jobs and how the American worker got fleeced. This episode serves as an introduction to some of the issues and concepts we want to take on later on.
Bibliography can be found here.
Comments, questions, criticisms: ex.haustpodcast [at] gmail [dot] com. 2020-10-141h 10
ex.haustEpisode 6: Pacific Rim: Blockchain, Techno-Utopianism, and American Soft-Power ft. Olivier JutelOlivier 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 post-politics, blockchain sashimi, Fijian international politics, Bikini Island, Kim Dotcom, the Palantir IPO filing, and more. You can check out the references from this episode in the bibiliography.
And you can follow Olivier on Twitter here.
Questions, comments, complaints? Email us at ex.haustpodcast [at] gmail [dot] com.Special Guest: Olivier Jutel.2020-10-071h 10