On modernism and its end.
We're joined by 2020 Pulitzer Prize winner Benjamin Moser to discuss the tensions between hating your national culture and wanting to leave it behind, and the effacement of national culture by postmodern homogenisation.
We talk about his biography of Susan Sontag, plus a range of other questions: Brazil, USA, literature, architecture, sex, imperialism, Freud, the image and representation, and contemporary wokeness.
Moser's Books:
Excerpt: /224/ Three Articles: Labour Revolts?
/222/ Nukes 4 Kids ft. Emmet Penney, pt. 1
Excerpt: /221/ Reading Club: Truth About Class
Excerpt: /220/ Aufhebonus Bonus
Excerpt: OK Bunger! The Problem of Generations, pt. 5
OK BUNGER! The Problem of Generations, pt. 4
Excerpt: OK BUNGER! The Problem of Generations, pt. 3
/218/ Stability Über Alles ft. Wolfgang Streeck
OK BUNGER! The Problem of Generations, pt. 2
Excerpt: /217/ Reading Club: Intersectional Stalinism
/216/ Goodbye Mutti! Election Preview ft. Dominik Leusder
OK BUNGER! The Problem of Generations, pt. 1
Excerpt: /215/ Organize the Incels?! ft. Alex Gendler
/213/ The Leopard Lockdown ft. Adam Tooze
Excerpt: /212/ Three Articles: Middle-Class Anxieties
/211/ Unlocking the Lockdown Left ft. @galexybrane
Excerpt: /210/ Reading Club: Psychoanalysis & Spirit of Capitalism
Excerpt: /209/ Aufhebonus Bonus + Kabul Falls
/207/ Pangolin vs Lobster, pt 1 ft. Paolo Gerbaudo
Excerpt: /206/ Three Articles: Post-Liberalism
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