Revolution, Entropy, and Abstract Art

About this Episode

Jake and Phil side with the madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels and skeptics on this episode, discussing Yevgeny Zamyatin's “On Literature, Revolution, Entropy, and Other Matters,” alongside the paintings Composition VI and Composition VII, by Vasily Kandinsky.

Works referenced in Episode 6

Yevgeny Zamyatin, “On Literature, Revolution, Entropy, and Other Matters”
http://evildrclam.blogspot.com/2008/11/on-literature-revolution-entropy-and.html

Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/17201/we/

Alistair Hamilton, The Appeal of Fascism
https://www.amazon.com/Appeal-Fascism-Study-Intellectuals-1919-45/dp/0218514263/

Isaiah Berlin, Russian Thinkers
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/13561/russian-thinkers/

Lawrence Joseph, So Where Are We?
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374266677

Paul Scharre, Army of None
http://books.wwnorton.com/books/Army-of-None/

Kenneth Payne, Strategy, Evolution, and War
http://press.georgetown.edu/book/georgetown/strategy-evolution-and-war

Mitch Hedburg, Tennis
https://twitter.com/M_Hedberg/status/174677445432188928

Isaiah Berlin, The Origins of Cultural History: Vico versus Descartes
https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/origins-cultural-history-2-geisteswissenschaft-and-natural-sciences-vico-versus-descartes

Vasily Kandinsky, Composition VI, 1913
https://www.wassilykandinsky.net/work-35.php

Vasily Kandinsky, Composition VII, 1913
https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/composition-vii/CQHOKgpWcL_UPA?hl=en

Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/292003/swanns-way-by-marcel-proust/9780142437964/

Vasily Kandinsky, Point and Line to Plane
https://www.wassilykandinsky.net/book-117.php

Vasily Kandinsky, The Spiritual in Art
https://librivox.org/concerning-the-spiritual-in-art-by-wassily-kandinsky/