Episode 26: On Pain and on Fallujah Revisited

Jake and Phil are joined by Elliot Ackerman to discuss Ernst Junger’s 1934 essay On Pain, alongside Elliot’s A Battle in Fallujah, Revisited, an excerpt of his memoir, Places and Names.

The Manifesto

Ernst Junger, On Pain

https://www.amazon.com/Pain-Ernst-J%C3%BCnger/dp/0914386409 (https://www.amazon.com/Pain-Ernst-J%C3%BCnger/dp/0914386409)

The Art

Elliot Ackerman, A Battle in Fallujah, Revisted

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/25/opinion/memorial-day-falluja.html (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/25/opinion/memorial-day-falluja.html)

(adapted from Places and Names)

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/580119/places-and-names-by-elliot-ackerman/ (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/580119/places-and-names-by-elliot-ackerman/)

Works cited

Junger, Storm of Steel

Junger, Battle as an Inner Experience

Junger, Total Mobilization

Junger, The Worker

Junger, Eumeswil

Junger, On the Marble Cliffs

Karl Marlantes, What It Is Like to Go to War

https://groveatlantic.com/book/what-it-is-like-to-go-to-war/ (https://groveatlantic.com/book/what-it-is-like-to-go-to-war/)

Sam Adler-Bell, Surviving Amazon

https://logicmag.io/bodies/surviving-amazon/ (https://logicmag.io/bodies/surviving-amazon/)

Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society

Jacob Siegel, Send Anarchists, Guns and Money

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/anarchists-guns-and-money-siegel (https://thebaffler.com/salvos/anarchists-guns-and-money-siegel)

Elliot Ackerman, Red Dress in Black and White

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/576747/red-dress-in-black-and-white-by-elliot-ackerman/ (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/576747/red-dress-in-black-and-white-by-elliot-ackerman/)