web01.fireside.fm Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:48:54 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) ex.haust - Episodes Tagged with “Social Media” https://exhaust.fireside.fm/tags/social%20media Tue, 18 Jan 2022 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 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.

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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 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.

Subscribe to our Patreon for two exclusive episodes a month!

Closing Song: Free Nation - Naked Raygun.

]]> 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 20: We Are the Information Supervisors https://exhaust.fireside.fm/20 0c1ad9d5-e4fb-4cf5-a2c3-42b90663ae72 Tue, 12 Jan 2021 20:45:00 -0800 Emmet Penney full Emmet Penney We offer a brief obit for Flash animation and then discuss two documentaries that deal with the problem of social media. 1:10:21 yes We offer a brief obit for Flash animation and then discuss how we watched social media take shape over the course of their lives. Then, using the documentaries We Live in Public (2009) and The Social Dilemma (2020) as jumping off points, we talk about the nature of the new epistocracy. This episode was recorded in 2020, before the storming of the capitol, Trump's banning from every social media platform, and the quiet but obvious and opaque purge of accounts on Twitter, etc. We Live in Public can be found here (https://www.interloperfilms.com/wlip). The Social Dilemma can be found on Netflix. Closing song: "Only in America (https://nakedraygun.bandcamp.com/track/only-in-america)" by Naked Raygun. Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/ex_haustpodcast). Bibliography (https://exhaust.fireside.fm/articles/eptwentybib). social media, facebook, joshua harris, tristan harris, twitter, flash animation, cancel culture We offer a brief obit for Flash animation and then discuss how we watched social media take shape over the course of their lives. Then, using the documentaries We Live in Public (2009) and The Social Dilemma (2020) as jumping off points, we talk about the nature of the new epistocracy. This episode was recorded in 2020, before the storming of the capitol, Trump's banning from every social media platform, and the quiet but obvious and opaque purge of accounts on Twitter, etc.

We Live in Public can be found here. The Social Dilemma can be found on Netflix.

Closing song: "Only in America" by Naked Raygun.

Follow us on Twitter.

Bibliography.

]]> We offer a brief obit for Flash animation and then discuss how we watched social media take shape over the course of their lives. Then, using the documentaries We Live in Public (2009) and The Social Dilemma (2020) as jumping off points, we talk about the nature of the new epistocracy. This episode was recorded in 2020, before the storming of the capitol, Trump's banning from every social media platform, and the quiet but obvious and opaque purge of accounts on Twitter, etc.

We Live in Public can be found here. The Social Dilemma can be found on Netflix.

Closing song: "Only in America" by Naked Raygun.

Follow us on Twitter.

Bibliography.

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