Drunk Life Reviewers: Recent Episodes
Drunk Life Reviewers
This is an on going discussion between three friends, Drakeford, Brian, and Connor, about essays, books, short stories, philosophy, economics, environmentalism, and why none of us sleep anymore. Our discussions aim to provide an intellectually rigorous and semi-serious tone to things in and out of what might be called "real literature". We will always be discussing things that we think have substance to them, but Faulkner, Touno, Hegel, Sanderson, Hugo, Erikson, Holland, and Naian will all be discussed with the same level of seriousness. Usually there will be alcohol because Plato had it right, the best discussions happen with a little bit of alcohol, and we could all use a drink.
In this first in-person discussion we begin by drinking and discussing a quote from Wendel Berry's essay Feminism, the Body and the Machine. This quickly becomes a discussion on relationships and marriage and the problems with two of our love lives, and of course more drinking. Enjoy!
Tune in for a discussion of the 16th century Baroque nightmare of a Medieval future that is Warhammer 40k. Specifically this particular nightmare is that of the War for Armageddon: Helsreach by Aaron Dembski-Bowden. This story is part of the larger story of the War for Armageddon Omnibus published by Black Library.
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We apologize for the audio issues about 16 minutes in the internet, unsuprisingly given our discussion had a few issues. Tune in for a moderately informed discussion of “What the Honest Capitalist Will Say” by Louis Althusser. This is an essay adapted from the recently published book History and Imperialism Writings, 1963 – 1983. This book is a collection of numerous of Althusser’s unpublished works edited by G.M. Goshgarian and published by Polity Press.
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Tune in for a moderately informed discussion of an article written by Italo Calvino from The New York Review of Books from 1986. The full article is available here, https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1986/10/09/why-read-the-classics/.
Books/authors mentioned in article as "classics" :
Herodotus : https://bit.ly/2Abdchs
Thucydides : https://bit.ly/2M7d59j
Henri de Saint-Simon : https://amz.run/3FKA
Cardinal de Retz : https://bit.ly/3catCnw
Honore Balzac : https://bit.ly/2XEcaST
Charles Dickens : https://bit.ly/3d7lTIc
Emile Zola : https://bit.ly/2X7auCm
Michel Butor : https://bit.ly/2XDvIqC
Homer : https://bit.ly/2AcK3ST
Franz Kafka : https://bit.ly/3dbNfNd
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev : https://bit.ly/2X5vqd8
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky : https://bit.ly/3eCubIv
Stéphane Mallarmé : https://amz.run/3FKL
Jean-Jacques Rousseau : https://bit.ly/2ZIsPaB
Lucretius : https://bit.ly/3gohse5
Lucian : https://amz.run/3FKW
Montaigne : https://bit.ly/3cap6W7
Erasmus : https://bit.ly/2M119G6
Quevedo : https://amz.run/3FKb
Marlowe : https://bit.ly/2M3FFZ7
Rene Descartes', the Discourse on Method : https://bit.ly/2AdNMje
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe's, Wilhelm Meister : https://bit.ly/3gvJbJG
Coleridge : https://bit.ly/2M1bgdU
Ruskin : https://bit.ly/3gvZ8Qj
Proust : https://amz.run/3FKh
Valéry : https://amz.run/3FKk
Murasaki : https://bit.ly/2XCr8J7
Icelandic Sagas : https://amz.run/3FKn
Giacomo Leopardi : https://bit.ly/2TKgqiB
E. M. Cioran : https://bit.ly/3eoti64