Manifesto!

Episode 6: Revolution, Entropy, and Abstract Art

August 7th, 2018  |  1 hr 20 mins

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.

Episode 5: Everybody's Protest Novel and the Responsibilities of Art

July 10th, 2018  |  1 hr 29 mins

du bois, james baldwin, james thurber, political art, protest

Jake and Phil talk about the political and social obligations of art. They discuss W.E.B. Du Bois' "Criteria for Negro Art," James Baldwin's famous 1949 essay "Everybody's Protest Novel," and James Thurber's short story, "The Greatest Man in the World."

Episode 4: My Twisted World and Martin Scorcese's Taxi Driver

June 12th, 2018  |  1 hr 11 mins

Jake and Phil have their first guest, Harry Siegel, senior editor at the Daily Beast and columnist at the New York Daily News. Harry has picked the Isla Vista killer's manifesto My Twisted World, as well as Martin Scorcese's 1976 film Taxi Driver.

Episode 3: Schiller's Aesthetic Letters and and Ian McEwan's The Use of Poetry

May 29th, 2018  |  1 hr 6 mins

Jake and Phil discuss Letters XIV and XV from Friedrich Schiller's Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man, as well as the Ian McEwan short story "The Use of Poetry."

Episode 2: SCUM, Intercourse, and Cat Person

May 14th, 2018  |  1 hr 25 mins

Jake and Phil discuss Valerie Solanas' S.C.U.M. Manifesto, as well as Andrea Dworkin's Intercourse, and Kristen Roupenian's Cat Person

Episode 1: Humanism and Bloody Myths

April 28th, 2018  |  1 hr 15 mins

Jake and Phil discuss the Humanist Manifestos and the poem “Genesis” by Geoffrey Hill.