web02.fireside.fm Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:43:58 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) ex.haust - Episodes Tagged with “Cia” https://exhaust.fireside.fm/tags/cia Tue, 30 Nov 2021 23:00:00 -0800 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 67: The Imperial Vampire Castle II: Standpoint Bureaucracy and the CIA's New Dialect of Power ft. River Page https://exhaust.fireside.fm/67 8518d5c0-5cd0-48b7-bf1e-88442eb1edf8 Tue, 30 Nov 2021 23:00:00 -0800 Emmet Penney full Emmet Penney River Page joins Emmet to talk about the new woke institutions and how they reify previously existing class structures. They go into standpoint theory, identity politics, the CIA's relationship to the New Left, PMC projections of the working class's soul, and much more. They close by contemplating the possibility of a better left populism. 1:06:54 yes River Page (https://twitter.com/river_is_nice) joins Emmet to talk about the new woke institutions and how they reify previously existing class structures. They go into standpoint theory, identity politics, the CIA's relationship to the New Left, PMC projections of the working class's soul, and much more. They close by contemplating the possibility of a better left populism. The Standpoint Bureaucracy (https://twinkrev.com/2021/02/the-standpoint-bureaucracy/) by River Page, Twink Revolution The CIA and the New Dialect of Power (https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2021/11/the-cia-and-the-new-dialect-of-power/) by River Page, American Affairs River's Substack. (https://riverpage.substack.com/) Subscribe to our Patreon to get two exclusive episodes a month! (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust) pmc, working class, populism, cia, woke, wokeism, wokeness, identity politics, idpol, mental illness, tucker carlson, queer River Page joins Emmet to talk about the new woke institutions and how they reify previously existing class structures. They go into standpoint theory, identity politics, the CIA's relationship to the New Left, PMC projections of the working class's soul, and much more. They close by contemplating the possibility of a better left populism.

The Standpoint Bureaucracy by River Page, Twink Revolution
The CIA and the New Dialect of Power by River Page, American Affairs

River's Substack.

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The Standpoint Bureaucracy by River Page, Twink Revolution
The CIA and the New Dialect of Power by River Page, American Affairs

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]]> 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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]]> 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 32: The Lasch Files: The Cultural Cold War and the Birth of Psychopolitics https://exhaust.fireside.fm/32 36de0a99-1be3-457f-ada9-e58ed36a4428 Tue, 30 Mar 2021 20:45:00 -0700 Emmet Penney full Emmet Penney Emmet and John discuss Christopher Lasch's essay, "The Cultural Cold War: A Short History of the Congress for Cultural Freedom." 1:06:58 yes In a brief addition to the Lasch Files, we discuss his essay, "The Cultural Cold War: A Short History of the Congress for Cultural Freedom (https://www.joelwhitney.net/christopherlasch.html)." We go through the Alger Hiss case, the ACCF, the Korean War as it played out uring McCarthyism, why everything's a psyop, and how Lasch saw psychopolitics coming. Bibliography (https://exhaust.fireside.fm/articles/ep32bib). Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust). Twitter (https://twitter.com/ex_haustpodcast). Closing Song: "checkin out (https://blasteddiplomats.bandcamp.com/album/blasted-diplomats-self-titled-plustape)" by blasted diplomats. christopher lasch, congress for cultural freedom, cold war, cia, psyop, korean war, nixon, mccarthyism, cultural cold war In a brief addition to the Lasch Files, we discuss his essay, "The Cultural Cold War: A Short History of the Congress for Cultural Freedom." We go through the Alger Hiss case, the ACCF, the Korean War as it played out uring McCarthyism, why everything's a psyop, and how Lasch saw psychopolitics coming.

Bibliography.

Patreon.

Twitter.

Closing Song: "checkin out" by blasted diplomats.

]]> In a brief addition to the Lasch Files, we discuss his essay, "The Cultural Cold War: A Short History of the Congress for Cultural Freedom." We go through the Alger Hiss case, the ACCF, the Korean War as it played out uring McCarthyism, why everything's a psyop, and how Lasch saw psychopolitics coming.

Bibliography.

Patreon.

Twitter.

Closing Song: "checkin out" by blasted diplomats.

]]> [teaser] Understanding SolarWinds, Cybersecurity, and Attribution ft. CyberCharles https://exhaust.fireside.fm/patreon2 05f42dcb-c517-49a6-92c8-db9b502f6735 Sun, 14 Mar 2021 18:00:00 -0700 Emmet Penney full Emmet Penney For our second Patreon episode, Emmet talks with a cybersecurity expert about the SolarWinds attack. 4:27 yes Last month, CyberCharles joined Emmet to break down what happened with the big SolarWinds hack, how digital supply chains work, how citizens should think about these issues, and much more. This is a sample of their talk. Listen to the full episode by subscribing to the Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust). Bibliography (https://exhaust.fireside.fm/articles/patreon2). Closing song: "Bingo! Dino DNA (https://mans.bandcamp.com/track/bingo-dino-dna)" by MANS. Photo by Kvistholt Photography on Unsplash. solarwinds, cybersec, cybersecurity, russia, cold war, supply chains, cia, nsa, fsb, national defense, natsec, national security Last month, CyberCharles joined Emmet to break down what happened with the big SolarWinds hack, how digital supply chains work, how citizens should think about these issues, and much more.

This is a sample of their talk. Listen to the full episode by subscribing to the Patreon.

Bibliography.

Closing song: "Bingo! Dino DNA" by MANS.

Photo by Kvistholt Photography on Unsplash.

]]> Last month, CyberCharles joined Emmet to break down what happened with the big SolarWinds hack, how digital supply chains work, how citizens should think about these issues, and much more.

This is a sample of their talk. Listen to the full episode by subscribing to the Patreon.

Bibliography.

Closing song: "Bingo! Dino DNA" by MANS.

Photo by Kvistholt Photography on Unsplash.

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