Grand Podcast Abyss
Episodes
Ep. 10. Licentious
02 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Thomas Mann. Death in Venice. The greatness of modernist novellas. Art’s self-consciousness. Mann as autobiographical writer. Death in Venice as kin...
Ep. 9. The End of History
25 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Right and left Hegelians. 1989 and the global triumph of liberalism. Science and the satisfaction of creaturely desires. Gorbachev in the Pizza Hut. F...
Ep. 8. Underground Men
18 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground. Russia and Orientalism. Extremisms of Russian and American literature. The holy fool. 2+2=4. Romanticism, nihilism...
Ep. 7. Super Powers
10 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Watchmen. Favorite characters. Alan Moore as stylist. Superhero comics. Watchmen and Don Quixote. Form and genre: Understanding Comics, understanding ...
Ep. 6. Crossfire
02 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ukraine. A political autobiography. Democracy and empire. Conviction and ambivalence. Ideological ferment: neoliberalism, neoconservatism, and MAGA. I...
Ep. 5. The Art of the Novel
22 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Henry James. “The Art of the Novel.” Romance vs. novel. Experience is everything. The necessity of cultural appropriation. Making love to the lang...
Ep. 4. Pragmatism Not Idealism
15 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
William James. Pragmatism vs. Rationalism. Metaphysics. Why it’s good to believe in God. Louis Menand. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Eugenics and compu...
Ep. 3. Performative
07 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
General hilarity. Sidney Morgenbesser, Mencius Moldbug, Judith Butler. Nietzsche. Limits of thought. Cheapness of paradox. How to write. Hannah Arendt...
Ep. 2. Gnostic & Anti-Gnostic
29 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Joan Didion. A dirge. Gnosticism. William Blake. Catholicism. The CIA. Assorted literary gossip. Notes: my essays on William Blake, Elaine Pagels, an...
Ep. 1. Overture
29 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Literary mixes. The title explained. Georg Lukács. Are we leftists? How do we know each other? Don DeLillo, Iris Murdoch. Novels in general. Soundsc...