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Episode Synopsis
Jake and Phil side with the madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels and skeptics on this episode, discussing Yevgeny Zamyatin's “On Literature, Revolution, Entropy, and Other Matters,” alongside the paintings Composition VI and Composition VII, by Vasily Kandinsky.
Works referenced in Episode 6
Yevgeny Zamyatin, “On Literature, Revolution, Entropy, and Other Matters”
http://evildrclam.blogspot.com/2008/11/on-literature-revolution-entropy-and.html
Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/17201/we/
Alistair Hamilton, The Appeal of Fascism
https://www.amazon.com/Appeal-Fascism-Study-Intellectuals-1919-45/dp/0218514263/
Isaiah Berlin, Russian Thinkers
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/13561/russian-thinkers/
Lawrence Joseph, So Where Are We?
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374266677
Paul Scharre, Army of None
http://books.wwnorton.com/books/Army-of-None/
Kenneth Payne, Strategy, Evolution, and War
http://press.georgetown.edu/book/georgetown/strategy-evolution-and-war
Mitch Hedburg, Tennis
https://twitter.com/M_Hedberg/status/174677445432188928
Isaiah Berlin, The Origins of Cultural History: Vico versus Descartes
https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/origins-cultural-history-2-geisteswissenschaft-and-natural-sciences-vico-versus-descartes
Vasily Kandinsky, Composition VI, 1913
https://www.wassilykandinsky.net/work-35.php
Vasily Kandinsky, Composition VII, 1913
https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/composition-vii/CQHOKgpWcL_UPA?hl=en
Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/292003/swanns-way-by-marcel-proust/9780142437964/
Vasily Kandinsky, Point and Line to Plane
https://www.wassilykandinsky.net/book-117.php
Vasily Kandinsky, The Spiritual in Art
https://librivox.org/concerning-the-spiritual-in-art-by-wassily-kandinsky/
Works referenced in Episode 6
Yevgeny Zamyatin, “On Literature, Revolution, Entropy, and Other Matters”
http://evildrclam.blogspot.com/2008/11/on-literature-revolution-entropy-and.html
Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/17201/we/
Alistair Hamilton, The Appeal of Fascism
https://www.amazon.com/Appeal-Fascism-Study-Intellectuals-1919-45/dp/0218514263/
Isaiah Berlin, Russian Thinkers
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/13561/russian-thinkers/
Lawrence Joseph, So Where Are We?
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374266677
Paul Scharre, Army of None
http://books.wwnorton.com/books/Army-of-None/
Kenneth Payne, Strategy, Evolution, and War
http://press.georgetown.edu/book/georgetown/strategy-evolution-and-war
Mitch Hedburg, Tennis
https://twitter.com/M_Hedberg/status/174677445432188928
Isaiah Berlin, The Origins of Cultural History: Vico versus Descartes
https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/origins-cultural-history-2-geisteswissenschaft-and-natural-sciences-vico-versus-descartes
Vasily Kandinsky, Composition VI, 1913
https://www.wassilykandinsky.net/work-35.php
Vasily Kandinsky, Composition VII, 1913
https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/composition-vii/CQHOKgpWcL_UPA?hl=en
Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/292003/swanns-way-by-marcel-proust/9780142437964/
Vasily Kandinsky, Point and Line to Plane
https://www.wassilykandinsky.net/book-117.php
Vasily Kandinsky, The Spiritual in Art
https://librivox.org/concerning-the-spiritual-in-art-by-wassily-kandinsky/
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