web02.fireside.fm Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:21:49 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) ex.haust - Episodes Tagged with “Neoliberalism” https://exhaust.fireside.fm/tags/neoliberalism Fri, 20 Jan 2023 12:15:00 -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 95: [UNLOCKED] Sanctions and Self-Interest ft. Phil Cunliffe https://exhaust.fireside.fm/95 12b8e8d9-21ee-4d5b-b108-1de8d1019169 Fri, 20 Jan 2023 12:15:00 -0800 Emmet Penney full Emmet Penney Phil Cunliffe joins Emmet to talk about his opposition to the UK's sanctions against Russia, the politics of self-interest, what happened to the nation-state, and more. 59:49 yes Phil Cunliffe joins Emmet to talk about his opposition to the UK's sanctions against Russia, the politics of self-interest, what happened to the nation-state, and more. Phil's piece on the sanctions: https://unherd.com/thepost/its-time-to-end-gas-sanctions-on-russia/ Phil's piece on ChatGPT: https://unherd.com/thepost/chatgpt-a-morbid-symptom-of-our-declining-universities/ Phil's Twitter: https://twitter.com/thephilippics Bungacast: https://www.patreon.com/bungacast Closing song: https://chatpile.bandcamp.com/album/gods-country putin, ukraine, sanctions, energy crisis, neoliberalism, energy, natural gas, gas, oil, electricity, britain, united kingdom Phil Cunliffe joins Emmet to talk about his opposition to the UK's sanctions against Russia, the politics of self-interest, what happened to the nation-state, and more.

Phil's piece on the sanctions: https://unherd.com/thepost/its-time-to-end-gas-sanctions-on-russia/

Phil's piece on ChatGPT: https://unherd.com/thepost/chatgpt-a-morbid-symptom-of-our-declining-universities/

Phil's Twitter: https://twitter.com/thephilippics

Bungacast: https://www.patreon.com/bungacast

Closing song: https://chatpile.bandcamp.com/album/gods-country

]]> Phil Cunliffe joins Emmet to talk about his opposition to the UK's sanctions against Russia, the politics of self-interest, what happened to the nation-state, and more.

Phil's piece on the sanctions: https://unherd.com/thepost/its-time-to-end-gas-sanctions-on-russia/

Phil's piece on ChatGPT: https://unherd.com/thepost/chatgpt-a-morbid-symptom-of-our-declining-universities/

Phil's Twitter: https://twitter.com/thephilippics

Bungacast: https://www.patreon.com/bungacast

Closing song: https://chatpile.bandcamp.com/album/gods-country

]]> 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

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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

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Closing Song: Slower Hell by Money

]]> Episode 71: Closing Your Loop ft. Josh Bregman https://exhaust.fireside.fm/71 2aed2556-b109-4694-863b-d68aec3c6a97 Tue, 28 Dec 2021 23:45:00 -0800 Emmet Penney full Emmet Penney Emmet and returning guest Josh Bregman sit down to talk about the movie Looper. They look back at what makes it such a successful film, but also what it captured about the year it was released, 2012. They talk about Mark Fisher, life before social media, "the slow cancellation of the future," what kind of interregnum we're in, and what Looper had to tell us about our future. 1:01:24 yes Emmet and returning guest Josh Bregman sit down to talk about the movie Looper. They look back at what makes it such a successful film, but also what it captured about the year it was released, 2012. They talk about Mark Fisher, life before social media, "the slow cancellation of the future," what kind of interregnum we're in, and what Looper had to tell us about our future. Subscribe to our Patreon for two exclusive episodes a month! (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust) Closing Song: Free Nation - Naked Raygun. (https://nakedraygun.bandcamp.com/album/jettison) mark fisher, china, looper, joseph gordon levitt, bruce willis, sci-fi, black mirror, social media, neoliberalism Emmet and returning guest Josh Bregman sit down to talk about the movie Looper. They look back at what makes it such a successful film, but also what it captured about the year it was released, 2012. They talk about Mark Fisher, life before social media, "the slow cancellation of the future," what kind of interregnum we're in, and what Looper had to tell us about our future.

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Closing Song: Free Nation - Naked Raygun.

]]> Emmet and returning guest Josh Bregman sit down to talk about the movie Looper. They look back at what makes it such a successful film, but also what it captured about the year it was released, 2012. They talk about Mark Fisher, life before social media, "the slow cancellation of the future," what kind of interregnum we're in, and what Looper had to tell us about our future.

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Closing Song: Free Nation - Naked Raygun.

]]> Episode 56: This Film Is Dedicated to the Brave Mujahideen Fighters of Afghanistan ft. Phil Cunliffe https://exhaust.fireside.fm/56 f5c42cae-2479-4f6c-b87b-f8db870be301 Tue, 14 Sep 2021 20:00:00 -0700 Emmet Penney full Emmet Penney Emmet talks with author and cohost of Aufhebunga Bunga Phil Cunliffe about the bungled evac of Kabul, the Afghanistan War's aimlessness, historical amnesia, and more! 58:48 yes Emmet talks with author and cohost of Aufhebunga Bunga (https://aufhebungabunga.podbean.com/) Phil Cunliffe (https://twitter.com/thephilippics) about the bungled evac of Kabul, the Afghanistan War's aimlessness, historical amnesia, and more! The Fall of an American Empire (https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/08/20/the-fall-of-an-american-empire/) by Phill Cunliffe Whatever Happened to the Good War? (https://www.spiked-online.com/2006/09/26/what-ever-happened-to-the-good-war/) by Phil Cunliffe Subscribe to our Patreon for 2 exclusive episodes a month! Closing Song: Dig It A Hole by The U-Men (https://umen.bandcamp.com/album/u-men) afghanistan, war on terror, bush, 9/11, terrorism, islam, neoliberalism Emmet talks with author and cohost of Aufhebunga Bunga Phil Cunliffe about the bungled evac of Kabul, the Afghanistan War's aimlessness, historical amnesia, and more!

The Fall of an American Empire by Phill Cunliffe
Whatever Happened to the Good War? by Phil Cunliffe

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Closing Song: Dig It A Hole by The U-Men

]]> Emmet talks with author and cohost of Aufhebunga Bunga Phil Cunliffe about the bungled evac of Kabul, the Afghanistan War's aimlessness, historical amnesia, and more!

The Fall of an American Empire by Phill Cunliffe
Whatever Happened to the Good War? by Phil Cunliffe

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Closing Song: Dig It A Hole by The U-Men

]]> Episode 42: "It All Ends in Pizza": Brazilianization and Life in the Undeveloping World ft. Alex Hochuli https://exhaust.fireside.fm/42 f8be6f8c-8d02-4b25-b97a-c90138e69a7a Tue, 08 Jun 2021 20:00:00 -0700 Emmet Penney full Emmet Penney Writer and co-host of the Aufhebungabunga podcast Alex Hochuli joins Emmet and John to talk about his latest article in American Affairs: "The Brazilianization of the World." 1:04:51 yes Writer and co-host of the Aufhebungabunga podcast (https://aufhebungabunga.podbean.com/) Alex Hochuli (https://twitter.com/Alex__1789)joins Emmet and John to talk about his latest article in American Affairs: "The Brazilianization of the World." They talk about Alex's article, the alleged end of the "End of History," anti-politics, and more! "The Brazilianization of the World (https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2021/05/the-brazilianization-of-the-world/)" by Alex Hochuli. Pre-order Aufhebungabunga's book here (https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/end-end-history). Bibliography (https://exhaust.fireside.fm/articles/ep42bib). Twitter (https://twitter.com/ex_haustpodcast). Subscribe to our Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust) for two exclusive episodes a month! Closing Song: "Black Sea" by The Farmers (https://dupagecountyhardcore.bandcamp.com/album/black-sea-b-w-devil). Photo by Gustavo Leighton on Unsplash. neoliberalism, history, zizek, brazil, bolsonaro, lula, socialism, modernism, development Writer and co-host of the Aufhebungabunga podcast Alex Hochuli joins Emmet and John to talk about his latest article in American Affairs: "The Brazilianization of the World." They talk about Alex's article, the alleged end of the "End of History," anti-politics, and more!

"The Brazilianization of the World" by Alex Hochuli.

Pre-order Aufhebungabunga's book here.

Bibliography.

Twitter.

Subscribe to our Patreon for two exclusive episodes a month!

Closing Song: "Black Sea" by The Farmers.

Photo by Gustavo Leighton on Unsplash.

]]> Writer and co-host of the Aufhebungabunga podcast Alex Hochuli joins Emmet and John to talk about his latest article in American Affairs: "The Brazilianization of the World." They talk about Alex's article, the alleged end of the "End of History," anti-politics, and more!

"The Brazilianization of the World" by Alex Hochuli.

Pre-order Aufhebungabunga's book here.

Bibliography.

Twitter.

Subscribe to our Patreon for two exclusive episodes a month!

Closing Song: "Black Sea" by The Farmers.

Photo by Gustavo Leighton on Unsplash.

]]> Episode 41: A Brief History of the American Electricity Grid From the 1920s to Closure of Indian Point ft. Edgardo Sepulveda https://exhaust.fireside.fm/41 5ac385ed-eddc-4b03-b427-ec8be1dd0fee Tue, 01 Jun 2021 20:00:00 -0700 Emmet Penney full Emmet Penney Emmet sits down with Edgardo Sepulveda to talk about the history of the electrical grid in America and why certain infrastructure projects no longer feel possible anymore. 1:07:13 yes Emmet sits down with economic historian Edgardo Sepulveda (https://twitter.com/E_R_Sepulveda) to talk about the history of the electrical grid in America from the 1920s until the closure of Indian Point. They talk vertical integration, the dawn of public utilities, the rise of monetarism and neoliberalism, the birth of the RTO system, and whether or not it's feasible to reform this precious infrastructure in an age of diminishing expecations and possibilities. Bibliography (https://exhaust.fireside.fm/articles/ep41bib). Twitter (https://twitter.com/ex_haustpodcast). Subscribe to our Patreon for 2 exclusive episodes a month (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust)! Closing Song: "OK FM DOA (https://dillingerfour.bandcamp.com/album/midwestern-songs-of-the-americas)" by the Dillinger Four neoliberalism, monetarism, electricity markets, new deal, nuclear energy, indian point, electricity grid, infrastructure, american history Emmet sits down with economic historian Edgardo Sepulveda to talk about the history of the electrical grid in America from the 1920s until the closure of Indian Point. They talk vertical integration, the dawn of public utilities, the rise of monetarism and neoliberalism, the birth of the RTO system, and whether or not it's feasible to reform this precious infrastructure in an age of diminishing expecations and possibilities.

Bibliography.

Twitter.

Subscribe to our Patreon for 2 exclusive episodes a month!

Closing Song: "OK FM DOA" by the Dillinger Four

]]> Emmet sits down with economic historian Edgardo Sepulveda to talk about the history of the electrical grid in America from the 1920s until the closure of Indian Point. They talk vertical integration, the dawn of public utilities, the rise of monetarism and neoliberalism, the birth of the RTO system, and whether or not it's feasible to reform this precious infrastructure in an age of diminishing expecations and possibilities.

Bibliography.

Twitter.

Subscribe to our Patreon for 2 exclusive episodes a month!

Closing Song: "OK FM DOA" by the Dillinger Four

]]> Episode 17: The Eclipse of the Demos ft. Kyong-Min Son https://exhaust.fireside.fm/17 8ef49afe-59ea-4fce-afbf-b4257a0f83f2 Tue, 22 Dec 2020 20:45:00 -0800 Emmet Penney full Emmet Penney 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. 1:00:41 yes 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. (https://kansaspress.ku.edu/978-0-7006-2919-0.html) Bibliography (https://exhaust.fireside.fm/articles/epseventeenbib). Complaints Department: ex.haustpodcast [at] gmail [dot] com. Closing song: "Old Connecticut Money (https://landowner.bandcamp.com/track/old-connecticut-money)" by Landowner. Special Guest: Kyong-Min Son. neoliberalism, cold war, kyong-min son, randcorp, democracy, carl schmitt, hayek 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.

Bibliography.

Complaints Department: ex.haustpodcast [at] gmail [dot] com.

Closing song: "Old Connecticut Money" by Landowner.

Special Guest: Kyong-Min Son.

]]> 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.

Bibliography.

Complaints Department: ex.haustpodcast [at] gmail [dot] com.

Closing song: "Old Connecticut Money" by Landowner.

Special Guest: Kyong-Min Son.

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