Aesthetic Resistance Podcast

Mar 07 2025 167 ep. 80 mins 158
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Podcast by John Steppling

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PODCAST #151

Mar 07 2025 94 mins  
Participants: John Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, Shaenah Batterson and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: The Trump-Zelenski feud, Freud and the working class, Russell Jacoby and psychoanalysis, Brecht, Film: A Complete Unknown—are biopics performed by actors or re-enactors? Who will save Europe from itself this time? RFK Jr.’s chances of success, in reforming Health and Human Servic

PODCAST #150

Feb 28 2025 90 mins  
Participants: John Steppling, Max Parry, Hiroyuki Hamada, Shaenah Batterson and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: the death of sports under capitalism with American characteristics, every athlete is a mercenary, cultural franchises vanish in corporate transactions, American citizens flee to greener pastures, pushing the message that there is no alternative, the philistinism that leads

PODCAST #149

Feb 25 2025 94 mins  
Participants: John Steppling (writer of “Rambo III”), Max Parry, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Phase 2 of the American war against Europe, documentary film “No Other Land”, Adorno on “adults acting like the adults they never became,” why our present leaders don’t even rise to the level of mediocrity (rhetorical question), celebrity activists who

PODCAST #148

Feb 14 2025 112 mins  
Participants: John Steppling, Max Parry, Hiroyuki Hamada, Shaenah Batterson and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Trump Derangement Syndrome: the sequel. Liberals hating Trump for all the wrong reasons. Clinging to illusions of the potential for progressive victories. The right calls liberals “commies”, liberals describe themselves as anti-communist capitalists. The Gnosticism of

PODCAST #147

Feb 08 2025 96 mins  
Participants: John Steppling, Shaenah Batterson, Max Parry, Hiroyuki Hamada, Lex Steppling and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Gaza to be under “new ownership”, rebuilding on blood-soaked Gazan soil, early Zionist atheists, Zionism’s religious piety as a worn-out mask over conventional imperialism and US power projection, duopoly as a distraction, how Hollywood films solidify

PODCAST #146

Jan 30 2025 100 mins  
Participants: John Steppling, Shaenah Batterson, Max Parry, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: Do the Democrats understand why they lost? Does Trump understand why he won? Trump’s tariffs and economic warfare on allies. RFK Jr. faces an inquisition by Democrats. Why don’t billionaires spend money a good tailor? 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz. Music

PODCAST #145

Jan 24 2025 94 mins  
Participants: John Steppling, Shaenah Batterson, Aghogho Akpome, Lex Steppling, Max Parry, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Dennis Riches. The passage read aloud at 1:24:10 is by Luciano Canfora, “From Stalin to Gorbachev: How an Empire Ends”—Afterword for Domenico Losurdo, Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend (2008, English translation by Iskra Books, 2023) 343-344. Music trac

PODCAST #144

Jan 17 2025 87 mins  
Participants: John Steppling, Shaenah Batterson, Max Parry, and Dennis Riches. Topics covered: confirmation hearings for Trump’s appointees, Trump’s Greater Israel ambitions, change in Iran’s foreign policy? implications of the Israeli ceasefire, Los Angeles fires, the history of California fires, building back better, disaster recovery, housing and rental accommodation short

PODCAST #143

Jan 10 2025 104 mins  
Participants: John Steppling, Shaenah Batterson, Aghogho Akpome, Daniel Broudy, Hiroyuki Hamada, Max Parry, and Dennis Riches. First podcast of 2025. Topics covered: Los Angeles fires, Trump’s expansionist rhetoric—“transactional colonialism”, Operation Gladio, domestic terror attacks in the U.S., self-censorship in academia. Music Track: “My One and Only Love” by Art T

PODCAST #142

Dec 28 2024 117 mins  
Participants: John Steppling, Shaenah Batterson, Lex Steppling, Hiroyuki Hamada, Max Parry, and Dennis Riches. Final podcast of 2024. Topics covered: The “canon” of television serials: The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, Mad Men, The Wire, Six Feet Under, Deadwood, Lost. Also mentioned: Blood in, Blood Out, Snowfall, Homicide--Life in the Street, Quarry. Related works in film and theat