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:
Anti-Politics & Beyond (Munich Book Launch - Audio)
Ruling Class Hysteria (Berlin Book Launch - Audio)
/268/ Emergency vs Emergency ft. Geoff Shullenberger
/267/ South Africa Mafia State ft. Benjamin Fogel
Excerpt: /266/ Reading Club: Foucault & Biopolitics
Excerpt: /265/ Three Articles: Inflation!
Excerpt: /264/ Aufhebonus Bonus
/262/ The Useless Past ft. Matt Karp
Excerpt: /261/ Three Articles: Macronistan
Excerpt: /260/ Reading Club: Fear II - Furedi
/258/ Conformist Rebellion ft. Elena Lange & Joshua Pickett-Depaolis
/257/ How to Boil a Frog (2) ft. Chris Bickerton
/256/ How to Boil a Frog (1) ft. Charles Devellennes
Excerpt: /255/ Reading Club: Fear I – Robin
/254/ Three Articles: Ukraine
/252/ Technopopulism & Toxic Politics ft. Carlo Invernizzi Accetti
/250/ Oil & Disorder ft. Helen Thompson
/249/ Dances with Truckers ft. Ashley Frawley
Excerpt: /248/ Aufhebonus Bonus
/246/ Why Isn’t There Revolution? ft. Vivek Chibber
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free