web01.fireside.fm Thu, 26 Mar 2026 02:05:25 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) ex.haust - Episodes Tagged with “911” https://exhaust.fireside.fm/tags/911 Wed, 23 Mar 2022 12:15:00 -0700 Co-hosts Emmet and John plumb the depths of history, culture, and philosophy to understand why it is that despite calamities and rapid change nothing feels possible anymore. Guests include artists, scholars, and thinkers from all over the world. Subscribe to our Patreon to receive 2 extra exclusive episodes a month: https://www.patreon.com/exhaust en-us episodic A podcast about political, cultural, and psychological exhaustion and why nothing feels possible. Emmet Penney Co-hosts Emmet and John plumb the depths of history, culture, and philosophy to understand why it is that despite calamities and rapid change nothing feels possible anymore. Guests include artists, scholars, and thinkers from all over the world. Subscribe to our Patreon to receive 2 extra exclusive episodes a month: https://www.patreon.com/exhaust yes politics, culture, history, philosophy Emmet Penney emmetmpenney@gmail.com Episode 83: The Dying Bird of Authentic Humanness ft. Default Friend https://exhaust.fireside.fm/83 e2d82a1c-616c-4463-9fa8-79a4d930af30 Wed, 23 Mar 2022 12:15:00 -0700 Emmet Penney full Emmet Penney DF and Emmet take a look at Phillip K Dick's 1972 lecture "The Android and the Human." They dive into his idea that we can learn about our inner lives by looking at the world of machines, the integration of man and machine, empathy, rebellion, totalitarianism, and weirdly hanging out with teenage girls getting late term abortions. 54:46 yes DF and Emmet take a look at Phillip K Dick's 1972 lecture "The Android and the Human." They dive into his idea that we can learn about our inner lives by looking at the world of machines, the integration of man and machine, empathy, rebellion, totalitarianism, and weirdly hanging out with teenage girls getting late term abortions. Here's the lecture (https://sporastudios.org/mark/courses/articles/Dick_the_android.pdf). Subscribe to Default Wisdom. (https://defaultfriend.substack.com/) Subscribe to our patreon to get 2 exclusive episodes a month. (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust) Closing Song: Dream Evil - The Chosen Ones x Xavier Wulf - Fort Woe (KEIFFERGR33N Remix) (https://www.keifergr33n.com/music) pkd, silicon valley, gen z, energy crisis, totalitarianism, covid, agamben, crisis, 911, phillip k dick, science fiction, scifi, posthuman, cancel culture, tumblr DF and Emmet take a look at Phillip K Dick's 1972 lecture "The Android and the Human." They dive into his idea that we can learn about our inner lives by looking at the world of machines, the integration of man and machine, empathy, rebellion, totalitarianism, and weirdly hanging out with teenage girls getting late term abortions.

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]]> DF and Emmet take a look at Phillip K Dick's 1972 lecture "The Android and the Human." They dive into his idea that we can learn about our inner lives by looking at the world of machines, the integration of man and machine, empathy, rebellion, totalitarianism, and weirdly hanging out with teenage girls getting late term abortions.

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Closing Song: Dream Evil - The Chosen Ones x Xavier Wulf - Fort Woe (KEIFFERGR33N Remix)

]]> Episode 40: "We all saw that idea come home": The Imperial Vampire Castle and Its Fixed Ideas https://exhaust.fireside.fm/40 b421a6f0-bb1e-42f1-9819-ca47803d6136 Tue, 25 May 2021 20:00:00 -0700 Emmet Penney full Emmet Penney Emmet and John use three articles to talk about our woke empire and how much it feels like the neocon heyday of the early 2000s. 1:06:04 yes Emmet and John use three articles to talk about our woke empire and how much it feels like the neocon heyday of the early 2000s. We talk about the major cultural resonances between the post-Trump era and the aftermath of 9/11, how the Greater War in the Middle East disabused us of optimism, why in the next few years there will be American Sniper but about an activist, and more! The essays: Fixed Opinions (https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2003/01/16/fixed-opinions-or-the-hinge-of-history/?lp_txn_id=1250122) by Joan Didion Exiting the Vampire's Castle (https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/exiting-vampire-castle/) by Mark Fisher Feminism, the Taliban and the Politics of Counterinsurgency (http://fathom.lib.uchicago.edu/1/777777190136/) by Mahmood and Hirschkind Bibliography (https://exhaust.fireside.fm/articles/ep40bib). Twitter (https://twitter.com/ex_haustpodcast). Closing Song: "Good Bass Lines, Really Good Bass Lines (https://mans.bandcamp.com/track/good-bass-lines-really-good-bass-lines)" by MANS. Subscribe to our Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust) for 2 exclusive episodes a month! Episode Image (https://unsplash.com/photos/7VHsb9sGBKs). iraq war, joan didion, neoconservatism, 911, woke, cancel culture, cia, afghanistan, mark fisher, mujahideen, cold war, empire, liberalism Emmet and John use three articles to talk about our woke empire and how much it feels like the neocon heyday of the early 2000s. We talk about the major cultural resonances between the post-Trump era and the aftermath of 9/11, how the Greater War in the Middle East disabused us of optimism, why in the next few years there will be American Sniper but about an activist, and more!

The essays:

Fixed Opinions by Joan Didion
Exiting the Vampire's Castle by Mark Fisher
Feminism, the Taliban and the Politics of Counterinsurgency by Mahmood and Hirschkind

Bibliography.

Twitter.

Closing Song: "Good Bass Lines, Really Good Bass Lines" by MANS.

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Episode Image.

]]> Emmet and John use three articles to talk about our woke empire and how much it feels like the neocon heyday of the early 2000s. We talk about the major cultural resonances between the post-Trump era and the aftermath of 9/11, how the Greater War in the Middle East disabused us of optimism, why in the next few years there will be American Sniper but about an activist, and more!

The essays:

Fixed Opinions by Joan Didion
Exiting the Vampire's Castle by Mark Fisher
Feminism, the Taliban and the Politics of Counterinsurgency by Mahmood and Hirschkind

Bibliography.

Twitter.

Closing Song: "Good Bass Lines, Really Good Bass Lines" by MANS.

Subscribe to our Patreon for 2 exclusive episodes a month!

Episode Image.

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