Manifesto!
A Podcast
About the show
Your regular visit to the archives of vanity, where men and women who stopped making myths turned to issuing commandments.
Your guides for this journey are the writers Phil Klay and Jacob Siegel, along with their trusty engineer, Jacqui Rigazio
May you continue to be a person.
Manifesto! Is now sponsored by Fairfield University, a Jesuit University in Fairfield Connecticut. Fairfield’s mission is to develop the creative intellectual potential of students and to foster in them ethical and religious values and a sense of social responsibility. Phil also teaches at Fairfield, in both their undergraduate English department and in their Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program. We’re very pleased to be associated with Fairfield, and thank them for their sponsorship.
Episodes
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Episode 10: Violence according to Hannah Arendt and Frank Miller
December 6th, 2018 | 1 hr 23 mins
Jake and Phil discuss Hannah Arendt's "Reflections on Violence" and Frank Miller's "The Dark Knight Returns."
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Episode 9: The Oulipo and the Naked City
November 8th, 2018 | 1 hr 28 mins
Jake and Phil are joined by Olivia Garard (@teaandtactics) of The Strategy Bridge (https://thestrategybridge.org/editorial-team/2016/8/16/olivia-a-garard) to discuss Oulipo member Anne Garréta's "On Bookselves" and Guy Debord’s “The Naked City”
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Episode 8: Resentments, Justice, and the Sins of the Father
October 10th, 2018 | 1 hr 28 mins
Jake and Phil overcome audio difficulties to discuss Jean Amery's "Resentments" and Andre Dubus II's short story "A Father's Story."
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Episode 7: Patriotism and the Unknown Soldier
September 10th, 2018 | 1 hr 39 mins
Jake and Phil discuss Alasdair MacIntyre's "Is Patriotism a Virtue?" and the story of the November 11, 1921 burial of the Unknown Soldier, as told by Jonathan Ebel in his book GI Messiahs
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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."
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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
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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.