Cracks in Postmodernity

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Topics include Pentecostalism, doomscrolling, psychoanalysis, gay Taliban members, whether you should start a Substack, our top 10 films, and how much is too much.

A. Natasha Joukovsky comes on the pod to discuss her debut novel The Portrait of a Mirror, Rene Girard, Wilde, the Novitate Conference, contemporary moralism, narcissism, life working a full time job while writing novels, and more.

Lexi Freiman joins the pod to discuss her latest novel The Book of Ayn, the overlap between Nietzsche and Sufism, a theology of poop, the agency of women, and not rushing to fill the existential void.

Patrick Deneen joins the pod to discuss liberalism's failures, the emergence of the postliberal horseshoe after the latest "regime change," the possibility of a right-left coalition, and building strong local cultures.

Abbot Nikodemus Schnabel, a Benedictine monk living in the Holy Land, tells us about his experience of living in the midst of the conflict between Israel and Palestine, and about his hope for peace.

Recording of my presentation of Pasolini's The Gospel According to Matthew at Our Lady of Pompeii parish in NYC last spring.

Read my review of the film at the American Spectator https://spectator.org/the-case-for-watching-pasolinis-the-gospel-according-to-matthew-on-good-friday/

And my comments on Pasolini and consumerism at NYLON magazine https://www.nylon.com/life/bad-bunny-un-verano-sin-ti-one-year-anniversary

American Solidarity Party 2024 presidential candidate Peter Sonski joins to the pod to discuss his campaign, ASP history, and the role of third parties in the US.

Check out his campaign site https://www.petersonski.com/ and Twitter @29sonski https://twitter.com/29sonski

Also check out our past interview with ASP rep. Albert Thompson on the pod and on the Substack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuUUU6lnSvk; https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/p/racism-distributism-and-third-party; https://www.patheos.com/blogs/cracksinpomo/2020/06/a-politics-of-the-person-going-beyond-the-duopoly-with-the-american-solidarity-party/

And our pieces on third party voting

https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2020/10/19/on-the-history-and-significance-of-third-parties-in-the-u-s/; https://www.ncronline.org/news/what-do-catholics-say-about-third-party-presidential-candidates

Writer John Waters joins the pod to discuss music and spirituality, industry "conspiracies," the conservative case against colonialism, and whether there is any hope in the face of globohomo's expansion.

Check out John's Substack https://johnwaters.substack.com/

Jonathan Culbreath joins the pod to discuss his recent First Things article on Andrew Tate, as well as other manosphere related topics, neopagan masculinity, and the value of fatherhood.

Follow Jonathan @maestrojmc and check out his article here: https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2023/07/the-pagan-asceticism-of-andrew-tate?fbclid=IwAR2GMO5luwurGq9Vb61hPjjRPwKO1wyG8Qw5792rKpRnSx1-rHFLTasB8sw

And check out my articles on Tate and Peterson, and look out for my upcoming essay in Hedgehog Review on bootstrapping and the manosphere.

https://spectator.org/theres-something-queer-about-andrew-tate/

https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/guest-voices/looking-advice-masculinity-try-st-joseph-rather-jordan-peterson

Chloe Valdary joins the pod in Bed Stuy to discuss her innovative DEI program, Jung, cultural rootedness, and the power of music.

Follow Chloe @cvaldary, check out Theory of Enchantment here: https://theoryofenchantment.com/

and check out our interview on The Heart Speaks podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wzXVoHALE4

Adam Stynchula (@wafers3d), Brennan Vickery (@brennanvickery), Nick Adubato, Matthew DiNicola (@mattiopattio), and Stephen G. Adubato discuss the first volume of cracks in pomo: the zine at the launch party on 7/28 at the Catholic Worker Maryhouse in the East Village. Performances by Eric Doce (@hamburger.helpless) and Hallowed (@hallowedbeats) [not included].

After long await, Sean Thor Conroe joins the pod to discuss his debut novel Fuccboi, masculinity, Nietzsche, and much more.

Repost of a ep I record with Rev. Alex Evangelista for the Hispanic Theological Initiative's podcast on the religious implications of Bad Bunny's music.

https://www.htiopenplaza.org/content/exegeting-bad-bunny?fbclid=IwAR3NutFvRZj6jkqGHZ1ibBYiEci7ymo6gjbJX-epPB4kIaMYmLfrM9eG-AU

Follow HTI @htiprogram

See Alex's article here https://pres-outlook.org/2022/11/why-you-should-listen-to-bad-bunny/

and follow him #reva1ex

and check out my articles here

https://www.nylon.com/life/bad-bunny-un-verano-sin-ti-one-year-anniversary

https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&&p=fda6515d9cf34af0JmltdHM9MTY2MjU5NTIwMCZpZ3VpZD0yODBiY2UyNS1hZjAzLTYwY2MtM2U5My1kZjk5YWU2NDYxMjQmaW5zaWQ9NTE4OA&ptn=3&hsh=3&fclid=280bce25-af03-60cc-3e93-df99ae646124&u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYW1lcmljYW1hZ2F6aW5lLm9yZy9hcnRzLWN1bHR1cmUvMjAyMi8wOC8yNS9iYWQtYnVubnktc3Bpcml0dWFsaXR5LTI0MzYxNQ&ntb=1

https://thefederalist.com/2022/09/27/cross-dressing-pop-stars-such-as-bad-bunny-are-not-unique-theyre-corporate-pawns/

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/cracksinpomo/2020/03/1497/

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/cracksinpomo/2019/08/1019/

Eric Doce aka @hamburger.helpless joins the pod to do a deep dive into Camille Paglia's magnum opus Sexual Personae, drawing out her Freudian themes. Subtopics include Eric's music (he's a harpist!), Mariah Carey, Spinoza, and commentary on the wildlife surrounding us on the Upper West Side.

Eric will be performing at the cracks in pomo: the zine launch on 7/28 at the Catholic Worker Maryhouse.

check out Eric's music page @hamburger.harpist and support his debut https://www.gofundme.com/f/nybased-alt-harpist-composer-complete-debut-lp?utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_content=undefined&utm_medium=social&utm_source=instagram_story&utm_term=undefined

Justin Giboney, founder of the &Campaign, joins the pod to discuss the culture wars, distributism, and racial politics.

Follow him @justinegiboney and the &Campaign @andcampaign, and check out the website https://andcampaign.org/

Jordan Castro joins the pod to discuss his novel The Novelist, poop, alt-literature, the death of the sacred, our humorless generation, swallowing the responsibility pill, and being Christ-pilled.

Dankdeleuze joins the pod to discuss Pasolini's "Salo or 120 Days of Sodom."

Follow him @Dankdeleuze and check out his pod and writing workshop at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Truncata

Matt De Nicola, whose photos will be featured in the upcoming Cracks in PoMo zine, joins me to eat fries at Pommes Frites on MacDougal Street in the West Village to discuss photography, NYC wildlife, and other random stuff.

Follow him @mattiopattio, and look out for a copy of the zine

Jeremy Klemin joins the pod to discuss his recent article in the Atlantic about how to categorize Portuguese people, and set out to resolve questions like: are Italians Latino, are Brazilians Hispanic, should Portuguese people benefit from Affirmative Action, does assimilation ruin everything, and most importantly, should Rosalia win a Latin Grammy? (don't expect any answers, though). We also discuss the wondrous world of Brazilian music.

Follow Jeremy @JeremyKlemin

Kyle, one of the admins of the ineedgodineverymomentofmylife IG page, joins me for a live pod at Cafe Reggio in the Village to spill [coffee] on God, performativity theory, concerts as liturgy, the cult of celebrity, the Oscars, Chris Rock, Marianne Williamson, The View, Wendy Williams, and other hot topics.

Junot Diaz drops by the pod to discuss his writing process, the immigrant experience, the African diaspora and the New World cosmology, masculinity, cancel culture, what's great about Jersey, and whether there's any hope left.

Destiny Herndon De La Rosa joins the pod once again to analyze the situation since the overturning of Roe, feminine and masculine genius, and holy harlots. We also resolve to give each other's home states a chance. 

The notorious Tara Isabella Burton joins the pod to discuss her book Strange Rites, in addition to Charles Taylor, TikTok Witches, Huysmans' Satanism, Dimes Square Catholicism, Neo-pagan sellouts, and Trad LARPers. 

Glenn Belverio joins the pod to talk about his public access program Glennda and Friends, his friendship with Camille Paglia, the successes and failures of the Sexual Revolution, the future of Gen Z, the changing landscape of Greenwich Village, and the NYC crime wave.

James KA Smith joins the pod to discuss the liturgical significance of everything from listening to music and going to the mall, to attending classes and going to the doctor. We also discuss the myth of secular "neutrality," the cult of celebrities, and whether or not we should burn the universities down and start from scratch (*we should not). 

River Page joins the pod to analyze the midterm elections. Hot takes include the ironic sincerity of Republicans, Trump's unbeatable comedic genius, AOC's Latinx Larping, Wendy Williams '24 (?), the Christian Walker+Chasten Buttigieg reality show, and other high level political commentary.

Shadi Hamid joins the pod to discuss his new book The Problem of Democracy (which you ought to buy ASAP), whether democracy "works," whether things should even be expected to "work," and whether Americans can afford to be post-liberal...in addition to several hot takes on Jordan B. Peterson, Patrick Deneen, Houellebecq, the "decadence" of Islam, why I'm not Muslim (but sometimes wish I was), Sharia vs. Catholic social teaching, Ramy, and sufism.

Urban Hannon joins the pod once again to discuss the different construals of same sex intimacy in Brideshead Revisited, Call Me By Your Name, and Love Simon. 

Follow Urban @hannonregular 

After long await, Urban Hannon joins the pod to breakdown his famous 2014 First Things Mag article, "Against Heterosexuality." Other topics include the Foucault, Freud, Raffalovich, Quentin Crisp, and the horseshoe theory of Catholicism and queer theory. 

Rick joins the pod to discuss Rosalia's album MOTOMAMI and its themes of postmodern chaos, dualism, global homogenization, cultural appropriation, linguistic diversity, and more. 

Check out Rick's video and his channel Cronicas Linguisticas. 

And check out my review of MOTOMAMI in The Iffy https://www.the-iffy.com/rosalia.

We continue the discussion with Zach Langley Chi Chi on trends in pop music, including hot takes on Beyonce’s new album, Drake, Nicki Minaj, Gaga, Mariah, and Ariana...as well as a back and forth about the convergences and divergences between pagan libertinism and ecstatic asceticism, and the limits of love, violence, and morality.

Zach Langley Chi Chi joins the pod to discuss the cosmic symbolism of Drag, the drag of Drag Queen Story Hour, why Paglia enjoys drag shows more than Judith Butler, Japanese vs. American vs. Mediterranean male psyches, the REAL Mishima, the annihilation of masculinity under technocratic industrialism, thirst traps, virtue signaling, unironic influencers, and how Tik Tok demons are possessing us. Stay tuned for part 2. 

Charles Camosy joins the pod to discuss the collapse of the 2 party system, cognitive dissonance, the breakdown of nuance, mass hysteria, third parties, Roe and other life issues, and if anyone actually has any "rights."

Anti-vape activist (and journalist) Billy McMorris joins the pod to talk about the politics of cigarettes, the metaphysical woes of vaping, and other nic related topics. 

Carlo Lancellotti joins the pod to discuss Augusto Del Noce's hot takes on the sexual revolution, Rainbow Capitalism, the bourgeois cult of well-being, the eclipse of ontology, the cognitive dissonance of secular progressivism, Marxism, the moralism of Obergefell, and the legacies of Dorothy Day and Simone Weil.