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October 16, 2021

end talk – the latest!

I’ve got some recent new content to share from END TALK – podcast and media newsletter!

Listen:

“How Obama Killed Indie Music” (on the shifting terrain in indie music from 2000 to the present, including the particularities of the indie sound as the genre developed and mutated post-2010)

“Ciao Bella!” (on Cuomo, the non-hero of New York AKA Emmy-award winning disgraced ex-Governor, Andrew Cuomo)

These episodes are also available on podcast streaming apps by searching “end talk.”

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“Welcome to END TALK, and welcome to summer 2021, possibly the hottest summer yet experienced during mankind’s existence on planet Earth, but hardly the hottest we will experience for the remainder of our species’ tenure here. Welcome BACK TO NORMAL—today is Friday, July 16, 2021.

Back to normal… this concept was the selling point for the Biden electoral coalition, as well as the theoretical promise to be realized by ending the pandemic. Well, the pandemic has not ended, and while the administration did not achieve its goal of vaccinating 70% of Americans by the 4th of July, that’s ok!—because we have collectively decided to pretend they did.

It seems that normalcy is more a collectively-agreed-upon state of acceptance than any objective metric for measuring external reality.”

Read on.

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June 30, 2021

end talk – i’m so bored with the USA

Read the latest issue of end talk now: I’M SO BORED WITH THE USA. It is full!

“This issue of END TALK loosely embodies the spirit of the frontier, our collective ceiling, and the deep challenge of escaping history. We include another roundup of the current climate situation, an essay by Ben on the attempt to create a European Super League, a partial reprint of Will’s essay on fascism, a shout-out to a couple non-controversial Substacks, and several music and reading recommendations, including a recent interview w/ Arundhati Roy & a new music video from our friend Anguid.”

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March 24, 2021

end talk – climate collapse

Read the most recent issue of end talk: CLIMATE COLLAPSE, an increasingly important and urgent topic. And please subscribe to end talk.

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March 22, 2021

READ ME: Star Trek, socialism, and the final frontier

Very excited to share this essay I wrote with Will Solomon for Blood Knife about Star Trek: The Original Series. “New Life and New Civilizations: Socialism, Progress, and the Final Frontier” – read here or click below!

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February 23, 2021

climate change and more in the hudson valley

I love the Hudson Valley, NY. Always have, always will. It is where I come from, and I am deeply connected to it.

The Hudson Valley, like the rest the country and the world, is already experiencing the effects of climate change. Read about the experiences of Hudson Valley farmers in The River.

For more on the Hudson Valley, listen to our conversation on end talk with fellow Hudson Valley native and writer Rob Rubsam, covering the region’s connection to NYC, the role of gentrification here especially during COVID, and more.

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February 9, 2021

The Twilight Zone

Perhaps The Twilight Zone epitomizes a (potential) world where—things are not what they seem; there isn’t an intrinsic morality in the universe that protects the weak and rewards the good—sometimes both are the subjects of tragedy; there isn’t a measured, linear nature to time and space, which we can quantify and control. Perhaps the series suggests, above all, that there are things—out there, here—that we cannot explain, but are nevertheless real….

Read this essay in full in the most recent issue of end talk and subscribe (it’s free)!

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January 22, 2021

end talk: weekending in a (long) emergency

In the most recent episode of end talk we discuss gentrification, particularly in the context of COVID-19, community, and the projection of fantasy in the Hudson Valley with writer, Rob Rubsam. NYers, Hudson Valley folks, and anyone interested in these topics, I highly recommend listening.

Read Rob’s nuanced piece in The Baffler (published last April) here.

Listen to our episode here or search for it in any podcast app.

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January 14, 2021

end talk – issue 5

Juicy new issue of end talk available now!

In this issue, we discuss the material—with a regular round-up of updates on climate breakdown—and the immaterial—through the work of authors Daniel Pinchbeck, who recently came onto the podcast, and Mitch Horowitz, as well as a Trillbilly Worker’s Party podcast recommendation, a brief reflection on five years without the inimitable David Bowie, and a delve into the mind-bending Twilight Zone. Check it out! The boundaries of reality and consciousness are not what they seem!

Please subscribe to end talk on Substack (all free)—like, comment, and share!

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December 15, 2020

obama, no hero…and neither is cuomo

Check out the last issue of end talk: “Obama, no hero.”
In issue 4 we reflect on Obama’s fraught legacy, Walter Benjamin’s “angel of history,” the Permian-Triasic mass extinction, a great episode of The Twilight Zone, some interesting wikipedia entries, and more.
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And for an excellent op-ed regarding Cuomo and NY’s response to Covid-19, see The River: “The Undeserved Myth of Andrew Cuomo, Pandemic Hero.”

 

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November 20, 2020

everything is alright

New issue of end talk available now: everything is alright. It includes this music video, that we made for “Everything is Alright” by Denmark – a song we released this past summer:


Please read, listen, and watch – like, follow, and subscribe!

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