web02.fireside.fm Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:35:31 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) ex.haust - Episodes Tagged with “Pmc” https://exhaust.fireside.fm/tags/pmc Tue, 14 Dec 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 69: Brain Smart: Common Core and The Downfall of the Humanities ft. Catherine Liu https://exhaust.fireside.fm/69 1996180f-a5d9-4241-a093-cbf69fa8b903 Tue, 14 Dec 2021 23:00:00 -0800 Emmet Penney full Emmet Penney Professor of film and media studies and author of Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class, Catherine Liu joins Emmet to talk about the death of the humanities in higher ed, the meritocratic nightmare of Common Core, why the humanities are important, the HRification of everything, and more! 1:05:41 yes Professor of film and media studies and author of Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class (https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/virtue-hoarders), Catherine Liu (https://twitter.com/bureaucatliu) joins Emmet to talk about the death of the humanities in higher ed, the meritocratic nightmare of Common Core, why the humanities are important, the HRification of everything, and more! The Apotheosis of the Professional Class by Catherine Liu (https://catalyst-journal.com/2021/05/the-apotheosis-of-the-professional-class), Catalyst. Subscribe to our Patreon to get two exclusive episodes a month! (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust) Closing Song: Shimmering Neck by Landowner. (https://landowner.bandcamp.com/album/impressive-almanac-2) common core, humanities, liberal arts, college, university, ap classes, college admissions, pmc, professional managerial class, obama, bennington college, woke Professor of film and media studies and author of Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class, Catherine Liu joins Emmet to talk about the death of the humanities in higher ed, the meritocratic nightmare of Common Core, why the humanities are important, the HRification of everything, and more!

The Apotheosis of the Professional Class by Catherine Liu, Catalyst.

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Closing Song: Shimmering Neck by Landowner.

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The Apotheosis of the Professional Class by Catherine Liu, Catalyst.

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Closing Song: Shimmering Neck by Landowner.

]]> 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

River's Substack.

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