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: /85/ Reading Club No.1
/84/ How To Fail Better ft. Adam Proctor
Excerpt: /83/ Now It's Syrizous
/82/ Socialist Trumplandia ft. Eric Blanc
/79/ CaliBunga: Tech, Drugs & Capitalist Soul, Pt. 4 [UNLOCKED]
/80/ CaliBunga: Tech, Drugs & Capitalist Soul, Pt.5
Excerpt: /79/ CaliBunga: Tech, Drugs & Capitalist Soul, Pt. 4
/78/ CaliBunga: Tech, Drugs & Capitalist Soul, Pt. 3
Excerpt: /77/ CaliBunga: Tech, Drugs & Capitalist Soul, Pt. 2
/76/ CaliBunga: Tech, Drugs & Capitalist Soul, Pt. 1
Excerpt: /75/ Synthesis Session: Order Not Freedom
/74/ Order Not Freedom ft. Quinn Slobodian
/72/ Frankly Awesome Lefty Conversation ft. Aaron Bastani [UNLOCKED]
Excerpt: /73/ Eurosads ft. Anton Jäger & Catarina Príncipe
Excerpt: /72/ Frankly Awesome Lefty Conversation ft. Aaron Bastani
/71/ Trustworthy Propaganda ft. Glenn Greenwald
/70/ In Defence of Universalism ft. Kenan Malik
/69/ Boiled Lobsters ft. Angela Nagle
/68/ Big Money Talk ft. Doug Henwood
/67/ Legacies of Postmodernism ft. Catherine Liu
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