
Phil and Jake are joined by the philosopher Ian Marcus Corbin, whose new book To Arrive Where We Started: Belonging in the Modern World, is out today. We discuss Nancy Fraser and bell hooks.
The Manifesto:
Nancy Fraser, "From Progressive Neoliberalism to Trump--and Beyond"
https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2017/11/progressive-neoliberalism-trump-beyond/
The Art:
bell hooks, "Habits of the Heart"
https://www.amazon.com/Belonging-Culture-Place-bell-hooks/dp/041596816X
Ian's new book:
To Arrive Where We Started: Belonging in the Modern World
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300263626/to-arrive-where-we-started/
Jun 16
1 hr 16 min

Jake and Phil are joined by Jenn Frey, a philosopher at the University of Virginia, to discuss Iris Murdoch and Madame Bovary
The Manifesto:
Iris Murdoch - The Sovereignty of Good
https://eganphilosophy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Murdoch-The-Sovereignty-of-Good-Over-Other-Concepts.pdf
The Art:
Flaubert - Madame Bovary
Manifesto! A Podcast is sponsored by Fairfield University
May 28
1 hr 12 min

Jake and Phil are joined by Vladislav Davidzon to discuss Kazimir Malevich's The Manifesto of Suprematism and the poetry of Serhiy Zhadan.
The Manifesto:
Malevich, The Manifesto of Suprematism
https://designmanifestos.org/kazimir-malevich-the-manifesto-of-suprematism/
The Art:
Serhiy Zhadan
https://poetrysociety.org/poems/three-poems-by-serhiy-zhadan
https://www.wordsforwar.com/take-only-what-is-most-important
Apr 29
1 hr 12 min

Jake and Phil discuss Jake's new book, THE DISINFORMATION STATE, where he argues that the technological infrastructure we've built to make society safer and more rational has steadily replaced democratic freedoms with systems of digital control.
To buy the book:
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250363121/theinformationstate/
Mar 25
1 hr 14 min

Jake and Phil are joined by internet culture reporter Katherine Dee to discuss The Fictosexual Manifesto and "Aye and Gomorrah..." by Samuel Delany
The Manifesto:
The Fictosexual Manifesto
https://vocal.media/humans/fictosexual-manifesto
The Art:
Samuel Delany, "Aye and Gomorrah..."
https://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fiction/aye-and-gomorrah/
Mar 4
1 hr 18 min

Phil and Jake are joined by Aaron Gwyn, an author and associate professor of English at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte, to discuss Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian.
The Manifesto:
Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1998/1998-h/1998-h.htm
The Art:
McCarthy, Blood Meridian
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/110472/blood-meridian-by-cormac-mccarthy/
Other Links:
Aaron Gwyn's The Cannibal Owl
https://bellepointpress.com/products/the-cannibal-owl
Nov 21, 2025
1 hr 42 min

Jake and Phil discuss Philip Roth's 1961 essay "Writing American Fiction" and the Qohelet, also known as the Book of Ecclesiastes
The Manifesto:
Philip Roth, "Writing American Fiction"
https://www.commentary.org/articles/philip-roth/writing-american-fiction/
The Qohelet
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes%201&version=KJV
Oct 27, 2025
1 hr 4 min

Jake and Phil are joined by Amy Sohn, author of The Man Who Hated Women: Sex, Censorship, and Civil Liberties in the Gilded Age, to discuss the 1967 anti-war manifesto A Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority and Allen Ginsberg's 1956 poem Howl.
The Manifesto:
A Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority
https://vietnamwar.lib.umb.edu/warHome/docs/1967CallToResistIllegit.html
The Art:
Allen Ginsberg, Howl
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49303/howl
Sep 29, 2025
1 hr 20 min

Jake and Phil are joined by Roy Scranton, author of Impasse: Climate Change and the Limits of Progress, to discuss the Dark Mountain Manifesto by Paul Kingsnorth and Dougald Hine and The Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft.
The Manifesto:
The Dark Mountain Manifesto
https://dark-mountain.net/about/manifesto/
The Art:
HP Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/cc.aspx
Roy Scranton, Impasse
https://www.sup.org/books/literary-studies-and-literature/impasse
Aug 28, 2025
1 hr 40 min

Jake and Phil discuss Alasdair MacIntyre’s Notes from the Moral Wilderness and Camus’ short story The Guest
The Manifesto:
Alasdair MacIntyre, Notes from the Moral Wilderness
https://www.scribd.com/document/123091458/Notes-from-the-Moral-Wilderness-Alasdair-MacIntyre
The Art:
Camus, The Guest
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1957/12/the-guest/642533/
Jul 29, 2025
1 hr 7 min
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