On Pain and on Fallujah Revisited

About this Episode

Jake and Phil are joined by Elliot Ackerman to discuss Ernst Junger’s 1934 essay On Pain, alongside Elliot’s A Battle in Fallujah, Revisited, an excerpt of his memoir, Places and Names.

The Manifesto
Ernst Junger, On Pain
https://www.amazon.com/Pain-Ernst-J%C3%BCnger/dp/0914386409

The Art
Elliot Ackerman, A Battle in Fallujah, Revisted
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/25/opinion/memorial-day-falluja.html
(adapted from Places and Names)
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/580119/places-and-names-by-elliot-ackerman/

Works cited

Junger, Storm of Steel

Junger, Battle as an Inner Experience

Junger, Total Mobilization

Junger, The Worker

Junger, Eumeswil

Junger, On the Marble Cliffs

Karl Marlantes, What It Is Like to Go to War
https://groveatlantic.com/book/what-it-is-like-to-go-to-war/

Sam Adler-Bell, Surviving Amazon
https://logicmag.io/bodies/surviving-amazon/

Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society

Jacob Siegel, Send Anarchists, Guns and Money
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/anarchists-guns-and-money-siegel

Elliot Ackerman, Red Dress in Black and White
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/576747/red-dress-in-black-and-white-by-elliot-ackerman/