Show notes
Guest & Book
- W. David Marx — Website | Newsletter: Culture: An Owner's Manual | Twitter/X
- Blank Space: A Cultural History of the 21st Century — Penguin Random House | Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Goodreads
- Status and Culture (David's previous book) — Hachette Book Group
People & Cultural Figures
- Jordan Peterson — Wikipedia
- Boots Riley — Director of Sorry to Bother You, member of The Coup
- David Solomon (DJ D-Sol) — CEO of Goldman Sachs and EDM DJ
- Joseph Kony / Kony 2012 — Wikipedia | Invisible Children Official Page | Slate: What We Learned from Kony 2012 | PBS NewsHour Analysis | Ethan Zuckerman: Unpacking Kony 2012
Cultural References
- The Coup - Party Music album cover controversy — Wikipedia: Party Music | Snopes Fact Check | CNN Coverage (2001)
- 9/11 and cultural shifts — Discussion throughout the transcript about post-9/11 cultural changes
- K-pop and Korean Wave (Hallyu) — Discussion in transcript about Korean cultural strategy
- White Lotus Season 3 — HBO series (benzodiazepines reference)
Concepts & Frameworks
- "The Long Twentieth Century" — Giovanni Arrighi's book on historical periodization
- Post-practice culture — The 21st century ideology that practice/expertise is unnecessary (central theme of Blank Space)
- The Perpetual Present — The sense that nothing begins or ends in digital culture
