web01.fireside.fm Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:22:54 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) ex.haust - Episodes Tagged with “Conspiracy Theory” https://exhaust.fireside.fm/tags/conspiracy%20theory Fri, 23 Sep 2022 15:00:00 -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 88: Oceania Has Always Been At Culture War With Eastasia ft. Michael Cuenco https://exhaust.fireside.fm/88 c56d957f-7fc1-4bf2-bdf1-124b907baee3 Fri, 23 Sep 2022 15:00:00 -0700 Emmet Penney full Emmet Penney Essayist Michael Cuenco joins Emmet to talk about the totalizing permanence of the culture war. They talk about Ross Perot, Pat Buchanan, liberty, republicanism, oligarchy, living in a post-literate tribal world, and more! 1:13:01 yes Essayist Michael Cuenco joins Emmet to talk about the totalizing permanence of the culture war. They talk about Ross Perot, Pat Buchanan, liberty, republicanism, oligarchy, living in a post-literate tribal world, and more! Check out some of Michael's Work: How Culture War Trumped Class War (https://compactmag.com/article/how-culture-war-trumped-class-war), Compact Magazine America's New Post-Literate Epistemology (https://www.palladiummag.com//2021/04/17/americas-new-post-literate-epistemology/), Palladium "Victory Is Not Possible": A Theory of the Culture War (https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2022/02/victory-is-not-possible-a-theory-of-the-culture-war/#notes), American Affairs Subscribe to our Patreon to get two exclusive episodes a month! (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust) Closing Song: Slower Hell by Money culture war, populism, trump, oligarchy, marshall mccluhan, neoliberalism, conspiracy theory, end of history Essayist Michael Cuenco joins Emmet to talk about the totalizing permanence of the culture war. They talk about Ross Perot, Pat Buchanan, liberty, republicanism, oligarchy, living in a post-literate tribal world, and more!

Check out some of Michael's Work:

How Culture War Trumped Class War, Compact Magazine
America's New Post-Literate Epistemology, Palladium
"Victory Is Not Possible": A Theory of the Culture War, American Affairs

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

Closing Song: Slower Hell by Money

]]> Essayist Michael Cuenco joins Emmet to talk about the totalizing permanence of the culture war. They talk about Ross Perot, Pat Buchanan, liberty, republicanism, oligarchy, living in a post-literate tribal world, and more!

Check out some of Michael's Work:

How Culture War Trumped Class War, Compact Magazine
America's New Post-Literate Epistemology, Palladium
"Victory Is Not Possible": A Theory of the Culture War, American Affairs

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

Closing Song: Slower Hell by Money

]]> Episode 24: The Self-Design of American Nihilism https://exhaust.fireside.fm/24 28f3a9cf-0611-4f60-b8f9-76da7eaf4383 Tue, 09 Feb 2021 20:45:00 -0800 Emmet Penney full Emmet Penney We talk through three pieces: Strauss's lecture on German Nihilism, Bradley Troemel's video essay on QAnon, and Boris Groys's essay Self-Design and Aesthetic Responsibility to understand the current state of American Nihilism. 1:20:05 yes We talk through three pieces: Leo Strauss's lecture on German Nihilism (https://archive.org/stream/LeoStraussGermanNihilismIntegral1941/Leo%20Strauss%20-%20%27%27German%20Nihilism%27%27%20%5BIntegral%2C%201941%5D_djvu.txt), Bradley Troemel (https://www.patreon.com/bst)'s (recently banned from YouTube) video essay on QAnon, and Boris Groys's essay Self-Design and Aesthetic Responsibility (https://www.e-flux.com/journal/07/61386/self-design-and-aesthetic-responsibility/) to understand the current state of American Nihilism. This one was fun to record, so we hope it's fun to listen to. Sign up for Emmet's lecture on Book I of the Republic. (https://lu.ma/plato-justice) Bibliography (https://exhaust.fireside.fm/articles/eptwentyfourbib). Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/ex_haustpodcast). Closing Song by Tom Inhaler off of the album Distilled (https://youtu.be/-1ZZGGPAoM8). Cover image: Gustave Doré's illustration to Dante's Inferno. Plate IX: Canto III: Arrival of Charon. leo strauss, heidegger, yukio mishima, borges, nihilism, philosophy, politics, capitol riots, incel, altright, conspiracy theory, qanon We talk through three pieces: Leo Strauss's lecture on German Nihilism, Bradley Troemel's (recently banned from YouTube) video essay on QAnon, and Boris Groys's essay Self-Design and Aesthetic Responsibility to understand the current state of American Nihilism. This one was fun to record, so we hope it's fun to listen to.

Sign up for Emmet's lecture on Book I of the Republic.

Bibliography.

Follow us on Twitter.

Closing Song by Tom Inhaler off of the album Distilled.

Cover image: Gustave Doré's illustration to Dante's Inferno. Plate IX: Canto III: Arrival of Charon.

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Sign up for Emmet's lecture on Book I of the Republic.

Bibliography.

Follow us on Twitter.

Closing Song by Tom Inhaler off of the album Distilled.

Cover image: Gustave Doré's illustration to Dante's Inferno. Plate IX: Canto III: Arrival of Charon.

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