ex.haust - Episodes Tagged with “Cold War”

Episode 58: American Canon: John Milius

Emmet Penney — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 20:00:00 -0700

Emmet and John discuss the life and times of writer and director John Milius, looking specifically at his movies The Wind and the Lion and Conan the Barbarian. We talk about the Cold War, changes in the film industry, Milius' atavism, what makes Conan such a surprisingly beautiful an lyric film, and much, much more.

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Closing Song: "The Rain in Spain Drains Mainly From the Main Vein" by MANS.

Episode 53: The Lasch Files: The True and Only Heaven pt. I

Emmet Penney — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 20:15:00 -0700

Emmet and John begin their series on Lasch's book The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics." They lay out the general premise, debate whether or not Lasch was a degrowther, reflect on the impact of the 70s energy crisis, and more!

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Song: "Playpen of Dissent" by Stuck.

Episode 50: Real Eyes Realize Real Pfize Ft. Canada Mike

Emmet Penney — Tue, 03 Aug 2021 22:00:00 -0700

Emmet and Canada Mike return to their bread and butter: vaccine supply chains. People have been asking for a vaccine update, so Mike and Emmet hashed it out. They talk about Pfizer's insane contracts, DARPA's involvement in Operation Warp Speed, Foucault, Agamben, Plato, Taleb, and more!

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Closing Song: [Pop Smoke - Paranoia feat. Young Thug & Gunna - Paranoia x Travis Scott - Stargazing (KEIFERGR33n Remix)](Wapo source for unvaccinated hospitalizations assumes efficacy (check “Methodology” section)- https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/interactive/2021/covid-rates-unvaccinated-people/)

Episode 40: "We all saw that idea come home": The Imperial Vampire Castle and Its Fixed Ideas

Emmet Penney — Tue, 25 May 2021 20:00:00 -0700

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

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

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Episode 39: Energiewendon't and the Nordstream Connection ft. Mark Nelson

Emmet Penney — Tue, 18 May 2021 20:00:00 -0700

Mark Nelson returns to the pod to explain Germany's Energiwende policy and its dependence on Nordstream 2 pipeline from Russia. Emmet and Mark talk about American green Malthusianism's influence on the Energiwende, Germany vs. American traditions of government-market relations, how the rest of Europe should respond to the pipeline, and more!

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Closing Song: "Sniper Song" by Naked Raygun

Special Guest: Mark Nelson.

Episode 34: Long Live the New Flesh!: Getting Videodromed with Geoff Shullenberger

Emmet Penney — Wed, 14 Apr 2021 01:00:00 -0700

Emmet and Geoff Shullenberger talk about a mutual favorite film: Cronenberg's Videodrome. They talk about how it pre-empted our fractured digital lives and the inscrutable, parapolitical world we inhabit.

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Eratta: Emmet states that Videodrome came out in 1985, but it did not. It came out in 1983.

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Closing Song: "La Flamme dell' Est (Fabio Brienza Remix)" by Lamniformes

Special Guest: Geoff Shullenberger .

Episode 32: The Lasch Files: The Cultural Cold War and the Birth of Psychopolitics

Emmet Penney — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 20:45:00 -0700

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.

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Closing Song: "checkin out" by blasted diplomats.

[teaser] Understanding SolarWinds, Cybersecurity, and Attribution ft. CyberCharles

Emmet Penney — Sun, 14 Mar 2021 18:00:00 -0700

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.

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

Photo by Kvistholt Photography on Unsplash.

Episode 17: The Eclipse of the Demos ft. Kyong-Min Son

Emmet Penney — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 20:45:00 -0800

We speak with scholar Kyong-Min Son about his book The Eclipse of the Demos: The Cold War and the Crisis of Democracy before Neoliberalism. We cover some of the major themes of the book, but also discuss consumerism, populism, Carl Schmitt's legacy, and why democracy can't just be radical action from below, but needs to become a public institution.

You should buy Kyong-Min's book.

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Closing song: "Old Connecticut Money" by Landowner.

Special Guest: Kyong-Min Son.