Episode 6: Revolution, Entropy, and Abstract Art

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 (http://evildrclam.blogspot.com/2008/11/on-literature-revolution-entropy-and.html)

Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/17201/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/ (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/ (https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/13561/russian-thinkers/)

Lawrence Joseph, So Where Are We?

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374266677 (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374266677)

Paul Scharre, Army of None

http://books.wwnorton.com/books/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 (http://press.georgetown.edu/book/georgetown/strategy-evolution-and-war)

Mitch Hedburg, Tennis

https://twitter.com/M_Hedberg/status/174677445432188928 (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 (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 (https://www.wassilykandinsky.net/work-35.php)

Vasily Kandinsky, Composition VII, 1913

https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/composition-vii/CQHOKgpWcL_UPA?hl=en (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/ (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 (https://www.wassilykandinsky.net/book-117.php)

Vasily Kandinsky, The Spiritual in Art

https://librivox.org/concerning-the-spiritual-in-art-by-wassily-kandinsky/ (https://librivox.org/concerning-the-spiritual-in-art-by-wassily-kandinsky/)