web02.fireside.fm Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:54:10 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) ex.haust - Episodes Tagged with “Covid” https://exhaust.fireside.fm/tags/covid Fri, 28 Oct 2022 09:00:00 -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 [teaser] Latour and the Problem of Science ft. Jacob Shell https://exhaust.fireside.fm/91 0005e926-fb6b-4f01-9d70-cd8b9a839adb Fri, 28 Oct 2022 09:00:00 -0700 Emmet Penney full Emmet Penney Geographer and author Jacob Shell joined me to talk about his obituary of the late Bruno Latour who rose to prominence critiquing science and then turned his back on his most influential works of critical theory in 2004. We discuss the postmodern turn, science as ideology, the problem of critical theory, epistemic authority, "trusting the science," and more! 15:03 yes Geographer and author Jacob Shell joined me to talk about his obituary of the late Bruno Latour who rose to prominence critiquing science and then turned his back on his most influential works of critical theory in 2004. We discuss the postmodern turn, science as ideology, the problem of critical theory, epistemic authority, "trusting the science," and more! To hear the rest of the episode and get 2 exlusive episodes plus bonus content every month, subscribe to our Patreon! How Critical Theory Learned to Trust the Science (https://compactmag.com/article/how-critical-theory-learned-to-trust-the-science) by Jacob Shell, Compact Why Has Critique Run out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern (http://www.bruno-latour.fr/sites/default/files/89-CRITICAL-INQUIRY-GB.pdf) by Bruno Latour Check out Jacob's books: Transportation and Revolt: Pigeons, Mules, Canals, and the Vanishing Geographies of Subversive Mobility (https://www.amazon.com/Transportation-Revolt-Vanishing-Geographies-Subversive/dp/0262029332/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=) Giants of the Monsoon Forest: Living and Working with Elephants (https://www.amazon.com/Giants-Monsoon-Forest-Working-Elephants/dp/0393247767/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1ZZ3KUSLAF66R&keywords=jacob+shell&qid=1666973760&qu=eyJxc2MiOiIwLjk3IiwicXNhIjoiMC45OSIsInFzcCI6IjEuMDAifQ%3D%3D&sprefix=jacob%2520shell%2Caps%2C96&sr=8-1) bruno latour, climate change, covid, science, postmodernism, philosophy Geographer and author Jacob Shell joined me to talk about his obituary of the late Bruno Latour who rose to prominence critiquing science and then turned his back on his most influential works of critical theory in 2004. We discuss the postmodern turn, science as ideology, the problem of critical theory, epistemic authority, "trusting the science," and more!

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How Critical Theory Learned to Trust the Science by Jacob Shell, Compact
Why Has Critique Run out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern by Bruno Latour

Check out Jacob's books:
Transportation and Revolt: Pigeons, Mules, Canals, and the Vanishing Geographies of Subversive Mobility
Giants of the Monsoon Forest: Living and Working with Elephants

]]> Geographer and author Jacob Shell joined me to talk about his obituary of the late Bruno Latour who rose to prominence critiquing science and then turned his back on his most influential works of critical theory in 2004. We discuss the postmodern turn, science as ideology, the problem of critical theory, epistemic authority, "trusting the science," and more!

To hear the rest of the episode and get 2 exlusive episodes plus bonus content every month, subscribe to our Patreon!

How Critical Theory Learned to Trust the Science by Jacob Shell, Compact
Why Has Critique Run out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern by Bruno Latour

Check out Jacob's books:
Transportation and Revolt: Pigeons, Mules, Canals, and the Vanishing Geographies of Subversive Mobility
Giants of the Monsoon Forest: Living and Working with Elephants

]]> 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.

Subscribe to Default Wisdom.

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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.

Subscribe to Default Wisdom.

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

]]> Episode 74: Welcome to the Desert of the Political ft. Anton Jager https://exhaust.fireside.fm/74 1e66f21c-4856-4c9b-8924-1f1c1657f9fe Tue, 18 Jan 2022 23:00:00 -0800 Emmet Penney full Emmet Penney Anton Jager sits down with Emmet to talk about how we moved from the post-political age of technocratic consensus to the noisy stasis of our current hyper-political present. They talk about whether the right and left descriptors handed down from French parliament hold today, politics as fandom, the death of political responsibility, and more! 56:32 yes Anton Jager (https://twitter.com/AntonJaegermm) sits down with Emmet to talk about how we moved from the post-political age of technocratic consensus to the noisy stasis of our current hyper-political present. They talk about whether the right and left descriptors handed down from French parliament hold today, politics as fandom, the death of political responsibility, and more! How the World Went from Post-Politics to Hyper-Politics (https://tribunemag.co.uk/2022/01/from-post-politics-to-hyper-politics) by Anton Jaegar, Tribune. Subscribe to our Patreon to get two exclusive episodes a month and access to our back catalog of reading series including our series on MacIntyre's After Virtue. (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust) Check out Emmet's new Substack, Nuclear Barbarians. (https://nuclearbarians.substack.com/) Closing Song: Parasocial Contract by Future Nauseous. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FE0fQB7K_k) politics, political theory, populism, blm, trump, george floyd, covid, social media, fandom Anton Jager sits down with Emmet to talk about how we moved from the post-political age of technocratic consensus to the noisy stasis of our current hyper-political present. They talk about whether the right and left descriptors handed down from French parliament hold today, politics as fandom, the death of political responsibility, and more!

How the World Went from Post-Politics to Hyper-Politics by Anton Jaegar, Tribune.

Subscribe to our Patreon to get two exclusive episodes a month and access to our back catalog of reading series including our series on MacIntyre's After Virtue.

Check out Emmet's new Substack, Nuclear Barbarians.

Closing Song: Parasocial Contract by Future Nauseous.

]]> Anton Jager sits down with Emmet to talk about how we moved from the post-political age of technocratic consensus to the noisy stasis of our current hyper-political present. They talk about whether the right and left descriptors handed down from French parliament hold today, politics as fandom, the death of political responsibility, and more!

How the World Went from Post-Politics to Hyper-Politics by Anton Jaegar, Tribune.

Subscribe to our Patreon to get two exclusive episodes a month and access to our back catalog of reading series including our series on MacIntyre's After Virtue.

Check out Emmet's new Substack, Nuclear Barbarians.

Closing Song: Parasocial Contract by Future Nauseous.

]]> Episode 70: Where Are We Now?: Thinking with Agamben https://exhaust.fireside.fm/70 1c58349e-4ec2-4e4c-88c8-22929e14a09c Tue, 21 Dec 2021 23:45:00 -0800 Emmet Penney full Emmet Penney Emmet and Mike talk about Agamben's book, Where Are We Now?: The Epidemic as Politics, and reflect on life since the pandemic. They discuss Carl Schmitt, security theater, anti-social civics, the cultic gnosticism of scientific faith, the need for physical practices and spiritual mentors, bare life, their own intellectual failings during the pandemic, and more. 1:06:24 yes Emmet and Mike talk about Agamben's book, Where Are We Now?: The Epidemic as Politics, and reflect on life since the pandemic. They discuss Carl Schmitt, security theater, anti-social civics, the cultic gnosticism of scientific faith, the need for physical practices and spiritual mentors, bare life, their own intellectual failings during the pandemic, and more. Subscribe to the Patreon to get two exclusive episodes a month! (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust) Check out Emmet's new podcast and newsletter, Nuclear Barbarians (https://nuclearbarians.substack.com/). Closing Song: Leprosy - Death. (https://death.bandcamp.com/album/leprosy-reissue) covid, bill gates, agamben, carl schmitt, fear, security, politics, history, medicine, science, scientism, law, constitution Emmet and Mike talk about Agamben's book, Where Are We Now?: The Epidemic as Politics, and reflect on life since the pandemic. They discuss Carl Schmitt, security theater, anti-social civics, the cultic gnosticism of scientific faith, the need for physical practices and spiritual mentors, bare life, their own intellectual failings during the pandemic, and more.

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

Check out Emmet's new podcast and newsletter, Nuclear Barbarians.

Closing Song: Leprosy - Death.

]]> Emmet and Mike talk about Agamben's book, Where Are We Now?: The Epidemic as Politics, and reflect on life since the pandemic. They discuss Carl Schmitt, security theater, anti-social civics, the cultic gnosticism of scientific faith, the need for physical practices and spiritual mentors, bare life, their own intellectual failings during the pandemic, and more.

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

Check out Emmet's new podcast and newsletter, Nuclear Barbarians.

Closing Song: Leprosy - Death.

]]> 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.

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

]]> 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 50: Real Eyes Realize Real Pfize Ft. Canada Mike https://exhaust.fireside.fm/50 922dfe7b-6f81-46e4-ae52-e6c1a0be01f9 Tue, 03 Aug 2021 22:00:00 -0700 Emmet Penney full Emmet Penney Emmet and Canada Mike return to their bread and butter: vaccine supply chains. 1:02:01 yes 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! If you're new, you can listen to our first ep on vaccines here (https://exhaust.fireside.fm/18) and here (https://exhaust.fireside.fm/23). Otherwise, you'll have to subscribe to our Patreon. Join our Patreon for 2 exclusive episodes a month! (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust) Bibliography (https://exhaust.fireside.fm/articles/ep50). Twitter (https://twitter.com/ex_haustpodcast). 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/) agamben, cold war, covid, darpa, fauci, foucault, logistics, pfizer, plato, vaccine 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!

If you're new, you can listen to our first ep on vaccines here and here. Otherwise, you'll have to subscribe to our Patreon.

Join our Patreon for 2 exclusive episodes a month!

Bibliography.

Twitter.

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/)

]]> 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!

If you're new, you can listen to our first ep on vaccines here and here. Otherwise, you'll have to subscribe to our Patreon.

Join our Patreon for 2 exclusive episodes a month!

Bibliography.

Twitter.

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 31: Thinking Through Happiness, Misery and Freedom ft. Ashley Frawley https://exhaust.fireside.fm/31 06ce6bfd-fd19-421e-99af-cd9c9571872a Tue, 23 Mar 2021 20:45:00 -0700 Emmet Penney full Emmet Penney Emmet sits down with Ashley Frawley to talk about her work on the semiotics of happiness, the knowledge class, and the how to think about freedom. 53:49 yes Emmet sits down with Ashley Frawley (https://twitter.com/AshleyAFrawley)to talk about her work on the semiotics of happiness, the knowledge class, and the how to think about freedom. Ashley was a great guest and we hope to have her return to the pod. Buy her book (https://www.amazon.com/Semiotics-Happiness-Rhetorical-beginnings-Bloomsbury/dp/1350004766/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1MKTJGJYOTN3Y&dchild=1&keywords=ashley+frawley&qid=1616092874&sprefix=ashley+frawley%2Caps%2C1032&sr=8-1). Bibliography (https://exhaust.fireside.fm/articles/ep31bib). Twitter (https://twitter.com/ex_haustpodcast). Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust). Closing Song: "Ceiling (https://stuckchi.bandcamp.com/album/change-is-bad)" by Stuck Episode image: Photo by Maximilian Scheffler on Unsplash Special Guest: Ashley Frawley. covid, therapy, knowledge class, happiness, social distancing, freedom, marx, capitalism, socialism, the elightenment, plato, democracy Emmet sits down with Ashley Frawley to talk about her work on the semiotics of happiness, the knowledge class, and the how to think about freedom. Ashley was a great guest and we hope to have her return to the pod.

Buy her book.

Bibliography.

Twitter.

Patreon.

Closing Song: "Ceiling" by Stuck

Episode image: Photo by Maximilian Scheffler on Unsplash

Special Guest: Ashley Frawley.

]]> Emmet sits down with Ashley Frawley to talk about her work on the semiotics of happiness, the knowledge class, and the how to think about freedom. Ashley was a great guest and we hope to have her return to the pod.

Buy her book.

Bibliography.

Twitter.

Patreon.

Closing Song: "Ceiling" by Stuck

Episode image: Photo by Maximilian Scheffler on Unsplash

Special Guest: Ashley Frawley.

]]> Episode 19: Who Will Entertain In America? https://exhaust.fireside.fm/19 a2dcc0a6-96e2-418d-9925-8d2b1a0a0fee Tue, 05 Jan 2021 20:45:00 -0800 Emmet Penney full Emmet Penney In our first episode of 2021, we speak with Ian Corey about his series of articles on art and entertainment in the age of COVID. 1:16:50 yes In our first episode of 2021 we speak with Ian Corey about his series of articles on art and entertainment in the age of COVID. We talk about Twitch streaming live performances, platform dominance, the NBA bubble, UFC's Fight Island, and why the band Code Orange is the future. Read Ian's pieces here: Who Will Entertain in America? Pt 1: Live Streaming (https://lamniformes.substack.com/p/who-will-entertain-in-america-pt) Who Will Entertain in America? Pt 2: NBA - The Return (https://lamniformes.substack.com/p/who-will-entertain-in-america-pt-eb8) Who Will Entertain in America? Pt. 3 - Code Orange (https://lamniformes.substack.com/p/who-will-entertain-in-america-pt-b62) Bibliography (https://exhaust.fireside.fm/articles/epnineteenbib). Closing song: "I Have Been A Flame (https://lamniformes.bandcamp.com/album/sisyphean)" by Lamniformes. Follow us on Twitter: @ex_haustpodcast (https://twitter.com/ex_haustpodcast). Special Guest: Ian Cory. music, covid, nba bubble, fight island, ufc, nba In our first episode of 2021 we speak with Ian Corey about his series of articles on art and entertainment in the age of COVID. We talk about Twitch streaming live performances, platform dominance, the NBA bubble, UFC's Fight Island, and why the band Code Orange is the future.

Read Ian's pieces here:

Who Will Entertain in America? Pt 1: Live Streaming
Who Will Entertain in America? Pt 2: NBA - The Return
Who Will Entertain in America? Pt. 3 - Code Orange

Bibliography.

Closing song: "I Have Been A Flame" by Lamniformes.

Follow us on Twitter: @ex_haustpodcast.

Special Guest: Ian Cory.

]]> In our first episode of 2021 we speak with Ian Corey about his series of articles on art and entertainment in the age of COVID. We talk about Twitch streaming live performances, platform dominance, the NBA bubble, UFC's Fight Island, and why the band Code Orange is the future.

Read Ian's pieces here:

Who Will Entertain in America? Pt 1: Live Streaming
Who Will Entertain in America? Pt 2: NBA - The Return
Who Will Entertain in America? Pt. 3 - Code Orange

Bibliography.

Closing song: "I Have Been A Flame" by Lamniformes.

Follow us on Twitter: @ex_haustpodcast.

Special Guest: Ian Cory.

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