Cracks in Postmodernity

Journalist Armin Rosen joins the pod to talk about Rolling Loud, Playboi Carti, Zoomers, ugliness, and nihilism. Follow him on Twitter @arminrosen and check out his article "Zoomers Like It Ugly” in the Tablet here: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/zoomers-armin-rosen

Albert Thompson, professor at Howard University and delegate of the American Solidarity Party, joins the pod to discuss racial equality and distributist economic theory. Follow him on Twitter @IronProfessor And check my interview with him on 3rd party politics https://www.patheos.com/blogs/cracksinpomo/2020/10/racial-justice-and-third-party-politics-an-interview-with-albert-thompson/

Freelance writer Kyle Turner joins the pod to discuss whether House of Gucci is camp or not, amongst other things. Check out his essay on HoG and Camp in W Magazine https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/house-of-gucci-camp-essay And follow him on IG @tylekurner

Artist extraordinaire Erin K. McAtee joins to pod to discuss the Warhol exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum. Listen to us as we address Warhol's encounter with John Paul 2, his celibacy, and the obnoxious elitist captions offered by the Brooklyn Museum. Check out Erin's work @erin.k.mcatee Read our interviews https://www.ncronline.org/news/media/artist-erin-mcatees-faith-journey-led-place-encounter?fbc...

Producer and artist Dani Mendez joins the pod to discuss the state of R&B music and the conflict between building a career off of hype vs. artistry. Follow her on IG @danimendezmusic

Bill Melone joins the pod to discuss suburbia, assimilation, and the erasure of ethnic identity. Follow Bill on Twitter @BillMelone Check out his article on cultural assimilation and Rachel Dolezal https://mereorthodoxy.com/cultural-assimilation/

Joseph Bottum joins the pod to discuss the puritanical roots of American culture, and how we will never be a secular country, no matter how hard we try.  Check out his book An Anxious Age: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/16449/an-anxious-age-by-joseph-bottum/

@brennanvickery dishes on what inspired him to start up @_theiffy_ magazine, why we're so deaf to nuance, whether women can be funny, and NYC hot spots. Check out the iffy pod https://www.patreon.com/theiffy and DM brennan to get a copy of the mag

Dr. Michael P. Foley joins the pod to discuss the philosophical significance of smoking tobacco and weed. Check out his article on smoking at First Things: https://www.firstthings.com/article/1997/04/tobacco-and-the-soul and his books: https://michaelpfoley.info/my-writings

Music journalist GG Albuquerque joins the pod to talk about the history and cultural significance of Brazilian Funk and other afrodiasporic art forms.

Leticia Ochoa Adams and Destiny Herndon-De La Rosa join the pod to knock on social activists who take themselves too seriously, and to discuss how being lazy and watching Netflix are more important than fighting for human rights (which is also mildly important).  Follow Destiny @destinynwf of @newwavefeminists and Leticia @leticiaoadams on IG

@bodylessorgans joins the pod to discuss Paglia's take on Madonna and Gaga, the vapidness of performative social media posturing, and whether modern art is beautiful (it is not).

Listen to me engage in a riveting interview with myself about the (ir)relevance of irony, propaganda that poses as art, the new wave of emo reggaetoneros, and other really important opinions that I am right about. *I am being sarcastic...it actually does not

Am I going to hell for using Amazon Prime? Probably. Dr. William T. Cavanaugh joins the pod to discuss the moral and social implications of using the largest retail company in the universe, as well as brand fetishism and the iron cage of modernity.

Joseph Schafer (@zizekonawiredbrain) joins in for an incomprehensible word salad session on the Manichaean hysteria over vaxxing, the campy cultural commentary of Trump, and whether or not Hegel was right that we are eternally screwed. 

The hosts of Contra Gentiles come on the pod to discuss whether or not homosexuality exists (no), if it's a mortal sin for women to smoke (yes), if Milo is the new Oscar Wilde (no), and the general banality of our puritanical culture. Follow Contra Gentiles on Twitter @contra_gentiles, and follow Grant on Twitter and IG @basedsodomite.

Chris Arnade joins the pod to talk about tyrannical technocrats, the horrors of suburbia, and the magic of boring everyday stuff. Check out his book Dignity (and my review of it ) and follow him on Twitter @chris_arnade

Watch me sperg out as I answer the age old question: "how do I cracks in pomo?" Good luck following along. Also available as a blog post at https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/p/how-to-cracks-in-pomo-a-manifesto Follow on IG @cracksinpomo