web02.fireside.fm Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:35:25 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) ex.haust - Episodes Tagged with “Cancel Culture” https://exhaust.fireside.fm/tags/cancel%20culture 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.

Here's the lecture.

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

]]> 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.

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

]]> Episode 76: A Rape in Cyberspace ft. Default Friend https://exhaust.fireside.fm/76 5b9a3cac-3efa-4b55-8b25-1a616f3f116d Tue, 01 Feb 2022 20:00:00 -0800 Emmet Penney full Emmet Penney Default Friend returns to talk with Emmet about Julian Dibbel's famous essay, A Rape in Cybserpace, which presaged our digital social experience back in 1993. DF and Emmet talk about etiquette, digital governance, the weirdness of online life, the "distributed self," what it would mean to take the internet seriously, and more! 1:02:20 yes Default Friend (https://twitter.com/default_friend) returns to talk with Emmet about Julian Dibbel's famous essay, A Rape in Cybserpace (http://www.juliandibbell.com/texts/bungle_vv.html), which presaged our digital social experience back in 1993. DF and Emmet talk about etiquette, digital governance, the weirdness of online life, the "distributed self," what it would mean to take the internet seriously, and more! Subscribe to our Patreon to get two exclusive episodes a month! (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust) Closing Song: The End of Love by Wimeanancas Cambodian Band. (https://littleaxerecords.bandcamp.com/album/wimeanacas-cambodian-band) rape, cancel culture, metoo, second life, internet culture, culture, internet, history, cyberpunk, 90s, metaverse Default Friend returns to talk with Emmet about Julian Dibbel's famous essay, A Rape in Cybserpace, which presaged our digital social experience back in 1993. DF and Emmet talk about etiquette, digital governance, the weirdness of online life, the "distributed self," what it would mean to take the internet seriously, and more!

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Closing Song: The End of Love by Wimeanancas Cambodian Band.

]]> Default Friend returns to talk with Emmet about Julian Dibbel's famous essay, A Rape in Cybserpace, which presaged our digital social experience back in 1993. DF and Emmet talk about etiquette, digital governance, the weirdness of online life, the "distributed self," what it would mean to take the internet seriously, and more!

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Closing Song: The End of Love by Wimeanancas Cambodian Band.

]]> Episode 68: All That Is Culture Melts Into Porn ft. Mary Harrington https://exhaust.fireside.fm/68 41ec93ea-6c96-47c4-b897-0d66220c0c40 Tue, 07 Dec 2021 23:00:00 -0800 Emmet Penney full Emmet Penney Contributing editor at Unherd Mary Harrington joins Emmet to talk about why everything feels like porn, the smooth hell of life online, the culture of fear in the time of COVID, how women get forgotten, and more! 1:00:25 yes Contributing editor at Unherd Mary Harrington (https://twitter.com/moveincircles) joins Emmet to talk about why everything feels like porn, the smooth hell of life online, the culture of fear in the time of COVID, how women get forgotten, and more! Read Mary Harrington's work at Unherd. (https://unherd.com/author/mary-harrington/) Mary's website. (https://reactionaryfeminist.com/) Subscribe to our Patreon to get two exclusive episodes a month! (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust) cancel culture, feminism, porn, pornography, fear, covid, privacy, free speech, social media, culture Contributing editor at Unherd Mary Harrington joins Emmet to talk about why everything feels like porn, the smooth hell of life online, the culture of fear in the time of COVID, how women get forgotten, and more!

Read Mary Harrington's work at Unherd.

Mary's website.

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]]> Contributing editor at Unherd Mary Harrington joins Emmet to talk about why everything feels like porn, the smooth hell of life online, the culture of fear in the time of COVID, how women get forgotten, and more!

Read Mary Harrington's work at Unherd.

Mary's website.

Subscribe to our Patreon to get two exclusive episodes a month!

]]> 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.

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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.

]]> Episode 38: The Culture of Confession ft. Default Friend https://exhaust.fireside.fm/38 b4b3ed30-0ced-4d3f-8b2f-6f9ab591218a Tue, 11 May 2021 22:00:00 -0700 Emmet Penney full Emmet Penney Emmet sits down with Default Friend to talk about the culture of confession, the emotional history of the internet, millenial blues, and more. 1:03:10 yes Emmet sits down with Default Friend (https://twitter.com/default_friend)of After the Orgy (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/after-the-orgy/id1560522568)about her piece on the Culture of Confession (https://defaultfriend.substack.com/p/48-the-culture-of-confession), the emotional history of the internet, millenial blues, how tumblr turned the academy woke, and more. Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust). Twitter (https://twitter.com/ex_haustpodcast). Closing Song: "Juliette's Window" by Black Print. (https://dupagecountyhardcore.bandcamp.com/album/black-print-demo) millennial culture, paris hilton, myspace, tao lin, alt lit, xo jane, cancel culture, tumblr, woke, zoomers, sjw Emmet sits down with Default Friend of After the Orgy about her piece on the Culture of Confession, the emotional history of the internet, millenial blues, how tumblr turned the academy woke, and more.

Patreon.

Twitter.

Closing Song: "Juliette's Window" by Black Print.

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Patreon.

Twitter.

Closing Song: "Juliette's Window" by Black Print.

]]> Episode 20: We Are the Information Supervisors https://exhaust.fireside.fm/20 0c1ad9d5-e4fb-4cf5-a2c3-42b90663ae72 Tue, 12 Jan 2021 20:45:00 -0800 Emmet Penney full Emmet Penney We offer a brief obit for Flash animation and then discuss two documentaries that deal with the problem of social media. 1:10:21 yes We offer a brief obit for Flash animation and then discuss how we watched social media take shape over the course of their lives. Then, using the documentaries We Live in Public (2009) and The Social Dilemma (2020) as jumping off points, we talk about the nature of the new epistocracy. This episode was recorded in 2020, before the storming of the capitol, Trump's banning from every social media platform, and the quiet but obvious and opaque purge of accounts on Twitter, etc. We Live in Public can be found here (https://www.interloperfilms.com/wlip). The Social Dilemma can be found on Netflix. Closing song: "Only in America (https://nakedraygun.bandcamp.com/track/only-in-america)" by Naked Raygun. Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/ex_haustpodcast). Bibliography (https://exhaust.fireside.fm/articles/eptwentybib). social media, facebook, joshua harris, tristan harris, twitter, flash animation, cancel culture We offer a brief obit for Flash animation and then discuss how we watched social media take shape over the course of their lives. Then, using the documentaries We Live in Public (2009) and The Social Dilemma (2020) as jumping off points, we talk about the nature of the new epistocracy. This episode was recorded in 2020, before the storming of the capitol, Trump's banning from every social media platform, and the quiet but obvious and opaque purge of accounts on Twitter, etc.

We Live in Public can be found here. The Social Dilemma can be found on Netflix.

Closing song: "Only in America" by Naked Raygun.

Follow us on Twitter.

Bibliography.

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We Live in Public can be found here. The Social Dilemma can be found on Netflix.

Closing song: "Only in America" by Naked Raygun.

Follow us on Twitter.

Bibliography.

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