Aesthetic Resistance Podcast

Participants: John Steppling, Dennis Riches, Shaenah Batterson, Max Parry, and Hiroyuki Hamada. Subjects covered: the Olympics opening ceremony, the rise of Kamala “Kamalot” Harris, the Clinton-Obama factional divide, the disappearance of the Trump assassination attempt from Internet searches, elections in Venezuela, the demise of Israel, “Cuba: An African Odyssey” (documentary film) and the demis...

Participants: John Steppling, Dennis Riches, Shaenah Batterson, Max Parry, Hiroyuki Hamada, & Cory Morningstar. The US presidential election gets even weirder, environmental protection vs. climate crisis vs. war; apples, bees and honey, BlackRock (and other investment firms) capture the working class in private pensions, putting a young future assassin in their advertising, NATO summit in Washingt...

Participants: John Steppling, Shaenah Batterson, Max Parry, Hiroyuki Hamada & Dennis Riches. Topics covered: revelations about who did the killing on October 7th, 2023, French elections, Sweden and Norway ascend to NATO, the "trad wife" phenomenon, late stage capitalism as a con in which everyone is the mark being cooled out, a mark who must con others in order to regain his sense of worth. Music...

Why does the right and much of the left denounce the Frankfurt School? Green capitalism and climate anxiety vs. genuine concern for environmental protection. Closing music track Take the Wind by Jack Littman, used with permission.

Participants: John Steppling, Dennis Riches, Shaenah Batterson, Max Parry, Lex Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, & Johan Eddebo. Discussed in this edition: Escalation of war in Ukraine, the genocide in Palestine continues, was Joe Biden ever a “good, kind man”? protests in L.A. against the sale of Palestinian land reported as “antisemitism,” organizing, protests, group infiltration, group dogmatism, and...

Lecture 3: Theatre & Death (or introducing cinema) by John Steppling

Participants: John Steppling, Dennis Riches, Shaenah Batterson, Max Parry, and Hiroyuki Hamada. Topics covered: The green agenda, barriers to fossil fuel replacement, the energy footprint of artificial meat, the war on farmers, small business owners: are they the bourgeoisie or proletariat? splittism, dogmatism and purity tests of the Left, Russia accused by the West of being a colonial and expans...

Lecture 2: Theatre and Mimesis by John Steppling

Participants: John Steppling, Dennis Riches, Shaenah Batterson, Johan Eddebo, Max Parry, and Hiroyuki Hamada. In this episode: Palestine and slave revolts. Surreal Politik: "Ukraine is winning", two mentally incompetent presidential candidates in the United Stats, a “peace conference” in Switzerland without one side in the conflict invited, provoking and waging war while pretending to care about c...

Participants: John Steppling, Shaenah Batterson, Johan Eddebo, Hiroyuki Hamada, Max Parry, Dennis Riches. Theme: A vast regression in public consciousness, sleepwalking to full war in Europe.

This is the first in a series of lectures, or educational video and audio programs, that will cover art, philosophy, culture, psychology, sociology and history. The learners we have in mind for these lectures are not only the familiar readership and listeners of John’s Aesthetic Resistance blog and podcast but also they are the younger everyman and everywoman who is struggling to make sense of the...

Participants: John Steppling, Lex Steppling, Varun Mather, Shaenah Batterson, Cory Morningstar, Max Parry, Hiroyuki Hamada, Johan Eddebo, Dennis Riches. Topics covered: the slave revolt in Palestine, the financialization of the economy (case study: the live concert business), the individual's alienation from consumed cultural products, alienation from the founding mythology of Western civilization...

Participants: John Steppling, Lex Steppling, Shaenah Batterson, Johan Eddebo, Hiroyuki Hamada, Varun Mathur, Max Parry, Dennis Riches. Topics discussed: a week of assassination attempts, coups and suspicious deaths, Wikipedia censorship, Swedish Nazi "war heroes" in Ukraine, the clown world of Western leadership, Anthony Blinken rocking Kiev, the ICC case against Israel, education reform and neo-l...

Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, Max Parry, Cory Morningstar, Dennis Riches. In this episode: Gaza, Palestine, Trump derangement syndrome (2024 version), educational decline, True Detective (season one), the environmental and cultural impact of lawns and lawn mowing, two varieties of family reunions in Canada and Thailand.

Participants: John Steppling, Johan Eddebo, Dennis Riches, Cory Morningstar, Shaenah Batterson, and Max Parry. Discussed in this episode: 1. The FBI tells Americans to prepare for a “heightened threat environment.” 2. Reactionary responses to the protests on American campuses 3. Echoes of 1968 in student protests—including the Democratic convention taking place in Chicago. 4. France ready to send...

Participants: John Steppling, Johan Eddebo, Max Parry, Lex Steppling, Varun Mathur, Shaenah Batterson, Hiroyuki Hamada and Dennis Riches. Links to articles and subjects dissussed in this episode: Slobodan Despot on the Parallels between Two Disintegrations, Yugoslavia and Ukraine https://dennisriches.substack.com/p/slobodan-despot-on-the-parallels The Gaza genocide as explicit policy: Michael Huds...

Participants: John Steppling, Lex Steppling, Max Parry, Dennis Riches, Shaenah Batterson, Varun Mathur, and Hiroyuki Hamada. Links to sources and subjects mentioned in this episode: On victims rights: "The Wrongs of Victim's Rights" https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2922&context=facpub U.S. and India set to announce flurry of deals spanning defense, chips and A.I....

Participants: John Steppling, Max Parry, Cory Morningstar, Johan Eddebo, Dennis Riches, Shaenah Batterson, Varun Mathur, and Hiroyuki Hamada Links to articles and subjects discussed in this episode: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/if-you-want-people-have-babies-youre-now-far-right https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/04/23/reckoning-with-the-soviet-role-in-the-creation-of-israel/ https://prol...

Participants: John Steppling, Max Parry, Cory Morningstar, Johan Eddebo, Dennis Riches, Shaenah Batterson, and Varun Mathur. Israel's culture of rape and child abuse https://beeley.substack.com/p/israels-culture-of-rape-and-child Animal behavior and the total eclipse https://interestingengineering.com/space/total-eclipse-secrets-animal-behavior Oil palm in Latin America: monoculture and violence h...

with Cory Morningstar, Johan Eddebo, Hiroyuki Hamada, Lex Steppling and John Steppling

with Cory Morningstar, Hiroyuki Hamada, Varun Mathur, Johan Eddebo, Dennis Riches, Max Parry, and John Steppling.

with Cory Morningstar, Hiroyuki Hamada, Varun Mathur, Johan Eddebo, Dennis Riches, Max Parry, and John Steppling. https://leyla-acaroglu.medium.com/the-hidden-environmental-impacts-of-ai-887fb3f8613c https://consortiumnews.com/2024/03/12/the-debate-over-israel-as-us-aircraft-carrier/ https://www.wsj.com/video/series/in-depth-features/visual-evidence-shows-illegal-settler-construction-in-west-bank-...

with Cory Morningstar, Hiroyuki Hamada, Varun Mathur, Johan Eddebo, Dennis Riches, Max Parry, Lex Steppling and John Steppling. https://mondoweiss.net/2023/11/are-israelis-jews-returning-to-jewish-minority-life/ https://john-steppling.com/2014/04/revisiting-the-new-york-school/ https://scheerpost.com/2024/03/08/michael-brenner-the-wests-reckoning/ https://rumble.com/v3p2smp-the-occupation-of-the-a...

with Cory Morningstar, Hiroyuki Hamada, Johan Eddebo, Varun Mathur, Dennis Riches, and John Steppling

with Cory Morningstar, Hiroyuki Hamada, Varun Mathur, Johan Eddebo, Dennis Riches, Max Parry, Lex Steppling and John Steppling. https://www.newarab.com/analysis/erase-gaza-how-genocidal-rhetoric-normalised-israel https://www.newarab.com/news/ben-gvir-says-israeli-army-can-shoot-women-children-gaza https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-788364 https://www.globalresearch.ca/left-anticommunism-the...