https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-xrypu-16e1e72 On tradwives, influencers, and boys. [Patreon Exclusive] Amber is back on the pod, talking to Alex and George about her forthcoming piece on neo-traditionalism and women, in Damage issue 3, which will be on Mothers. We discuss: What are the…
Read More /440/ Dear Tradmother, Why Are You Sad? ft. Amber A’Lee Frost (sample)
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-2n4a6-1690080 On Julien Benda's famous 1927 work. [Patreon Exclusive] We continue on the theme of 'Intellectuals and the Public' by discussing the often cited by little read The Treason of the Clerks. We ask: If Benda was responding to the…
Read More /429/ Reading Club: Treason of the Intellectuals (sample)
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-2nm82-16838f9 On emotional capitalism + Israeli politics. Renowned sociologist Eva Illouz joins us to talk about her recent book on the emotions of populism, and her work on the sociology of emotions in general. We discuss: Why have emotions become…
Read More /427/ Why Do We Make Our Emotions Match the Market? ft. Eva Illouz
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-f683v-1677557 On the disaster of the culture wars. [Patreon Exclusive] Regular contributor Catherine Liu is back on to talk about her essay in Damage, issue 2, "Professional Populists in the Culture Wars". We discuss: What were the original 'culture wars' and…
Read More /426/ Expropriate the Canon ft. Catherine Liu (sample)
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-pf73r-1623428 On Futuromania and closing and opening of musical horizons. We talk to renowned music critic Simon Reynolds about his new book. A counterpart of sorts to his famous Retromania (2011), Futuromania looks at the exciting futuristic music of the past and…
Read More /412/ No Future But Future Music ft. Simon Reynolds
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-i8kdf-15e33b3 On melodrama and the bourgeois subject. [Patreon Exclusive] We're back with the next installment of our series on the "emotional turn". Alex talks to Catherine Liu about whether politics is staged in a "melodramatic" fashion today. What…
Read More /404/ Emotion Sickness: The Politics of Feelings (IV) ft. Catherine Liu (sample)
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-6iewe-15887af On the politics of emotions and emotionalism. Philosopher Nina Power (an editor and columnist at Compact Magazine) kicks off this series by talking to us about anger, hate, and evil. Do we complain too little or too much?…
Read More /393/ Emotion Sickness: The Politics of Feelings (I) ft. Nina Power
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-n54fh-1565bbe On how to respond to conformity. Lias Saoudi, frontman of the British band Fat White Family, joins us to talk about rock, popular culture and contemporary unfreedom. We discuss: Why are the kids taking less drugs? Can we…
Read More /387/ Get Fungal to Save Culture ft. Lias Saoudi (Fat White Family)
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-emrrv-1536e35 FROM THE VAULT: GEORGE'S PICK (1) On “culture”. We discuss who produces culture and who consumes it – and what those inequalities reveal about culture today. Also, we ask what’s the ploblem with culture anyway and end up…
Read More [FROM THE VAULT] /161/ Culture is Bad for You ft. Mark Taylor
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-eq8m2-152c002 On contemporary art. Critic and editor at Art Review, JJ Charlesworth, joins us to talk about why so much contemporary art is bad. We discuss: Why is art no longer about beauty? Are we stuck between art that…
Read More /381/ Contemporary Art: Inane Spectacle & Pompous Discourse, ft. JJ Charlesworth
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