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    Futurism was an Italian art movement focused on speed, technology, and violence that began in 1909 after Filippo Tommaso Marinetti published the Manifesto of Futurism. Italian Futurists thought that their nascently-industrialized country was developing at a slow pace due to the weight of Italy’s past and they wanted to break free; artists like Umberto Boccioni, Giacomo Balla, Luigi Russolo, and Tullio Crali depicted “futuristic” subjects like cars, trains, and airplanes in dynamic ways that challenged existing cultural conventions. On this week’s episode of Silent Generation Nathan and Joseph analyze Futurism using an urbanist lens. Amongst other things they discuss the problematic link between Futurism and Fascism in post-WW1 Italy, the Cubo-Futurist style of the short lived Russian Futurist movement, the absurdity of Futurist food, and the beauty of Tullio Crali’s Aeropittura paintings of airplanes and aerial landscapes.

    Links:

    Futurism Pinterest board: https://www.pinterest.com/silentgeneration/futurism/

    Manifesto of Futurism by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

    Scene of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's accident, 15 October 1908

    Screenshot from Italian Futurism: Speed, dynamism, and the fight at La Fenice

    Manifesto of Futurist Woman by Valentine de Saint-Point

    Italian Futurism, 1909–1944: Reconstructing the Universe

    Boccioni Recreated

    Recreating Boccioni's striding sculptures from 1913

    How Italian Futurism Influenced the Rise of Fascism by Jad Dahsan

    When Futurism Led to Fascism—and Why It Could Happen Again

    What Is Russian Futurism? by Anastasiia S. Kirpalov

    Kseniya Boguslavskaya

    https://www.tulliocrali.com/en/

    Crali and Aeropainting (Tullio Crali: A Futurist Life)

    Lingotto factory in Turin

    Modernist Architecture in Eritrea

    Artwork:

    Before the Parachute Opens (Prima che si apra il paracadute), 1939 by Tullio Crali

    Recorded on 12/9/2024

  • How is modern masculinity different from classical masculinity? This week the boys are joined by local menswear influencer Gent Z to discuss how men in the modern era intentionally refine their masculinity through self improvement. Amongst other things they discuss what the end goal of self-improvement should be, what male role models they personally look up to, and what they think about the idea that there is a “crisis of masculinity.”

    Links:

    How to Build New Habits by Taking Advantage of Old Ones by James Clear

    Artwork:

    Paul Newman photographed by Stewart Stern, 1973

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  • McBling is a mid-2000s aesthetic characterized by tacky displays of wealth, celebrity culture, fake tans, and bleach blonde hair. According to Vogue magazine it emerged in “2003, following the American invasion of Iraq, and ended with the onset of the Great Recession in 2008.” McBling arose organically in popular culture and was only later identified as an aesthetic by the Consumer Aesthetic Research Institute, and this is the first Silent Generation episode to cover an aesthetic identified by their organization. Amongst other things on this week’s episode, the boys discuss how the term McBling first came out of a poll in a “post-Y2K” Facebook group, how Gen Z’s interpretation of McBling favors Von Dutch too heavily, how the mid-2000s reality TV show Bad Girls Club captured the McBling zeitgeist, and how TikTok accounts like Bronzedupbrat are making McBling reach record popularity in 2024.

    Links:

    McBling Pinterest board

    The Consumer Aesthetic Research Institute

    McBling CARI description

    The original McBling Facebook Group

    Evan Collins’ McBling “joke” post

    Brittney Spears’ half Y2k/ half McBling outfit

    The second poll in the McBling Facebook group

    What Is McBling and How Is it Different From Y2K? by Abrigail Williams

    McBling on Google Trends

    The Antisemitic History of Early 2000s Fashion Brand Von Dutch by Sam Miller

    Paris Hilton changing her voice to sound more feminine

    Paris Hilton’s “stop being poor” meme

    Bad Girls Club Tanisha slamming pots and pans in season 2

    Bad Girls Club Judi Jai breakfast cereal fight in season 7

    The Y2K Attitude Era - A Cultural Middle Finger

    How do you stay so authentically 2000s? by Bronzedupbrat

    4Chan mannerisms displayed by Boxxy

    The McBling Subreddit

    Trashy McBling Spotify playlist

    NGSUNC by Ayesha Erotica

    Do I Look Like a Slut by Avenue D

    OlderBrotherCore Tiktok

    McMansion Hell

    Artwork:

    Paris Hilton

    Recorded on 11/17/2024

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    This week Joseph and Nathan are joined by Breanna, a Silent Generation listener who works as a software engineer for a major online dating company, to discuss online dating. They detail the early history of online dating (such as how the first person to develop a computer based dating service was a working class British woman named Joan Ball) before sharing their experiences with online dating websites and apps such as Match.com, Hinge, Tinder, Okcupid, and The League. Amongst other things they discuss how dating apps replaced ELO algorithms with Gale-Shapley algorithms, how a recent study found that NYC was the worst major US city for dating, and how Chicago attracts “coastal dating app refugees” who seek an easier dating market.

    Links:How heterosexual couples met graphThe Mother of All Swipes by Mar HicksWhitney Wolfe, founder of dating app Bumble, has had quite the year. She just can’t discuss parts of it by Todd C. Frankel Hinge’s newest feature claims to use machine learning to find your best match by Ashley CarmanTowards a statistical physics of dating apps by Fabrizio OlmedaThe Uncanny Swipe Drive: The Return of a Racist Mode of Algorithmic Thought on Dating Apps by Greggory NarrNot My Type: Automating Sexual Racism in Online Dating by Apryl Williams and Kendra AlbertRace and Attraction, 2009 – 2014 from Oktrends NYC is the ‘worst’ US city for dating by Asia GraceRiver Page Grindr TweetHot Gays, Body Image, & Comparison by Hellvetika What is the dating culture in Chicago like? Reddit postAsian gay immigrant looking to relocate to Chicago from LA? Reddit post

    Artwork:First boot in 17 years, all on 90’s equipment

    Recorded on 11/10/2024

  • Pokémon is the highest grossest media franchise of all time, but has it declined in quality? On this week’s episode Joseph and Nathan use Pokemon as a case study to talk about gamer culture, nostalgia, and fandoms more broadly. After breaking down the history of Pokémon into three booms and one bust, the boys detail what they like about the franchise (Ken Sugimori’s artwork, HM moves, and their favorite Pokémon) and the things they dislike about it (competitive Pokémon play, shiny hunting, and legendary Pokémon). Amongst other things they discuss how Poliwhirl almost became the main mascot for the Pokémon franchise, how Pokémon became uncool in the mid-2000s, how the designs of Pokémon became rounder and cuter over time, and how a terabyte of information stolen from Game Freak’s servers (dubbed “the teraleak”) recently leaked to the public.

    Links: Pokémon – from bugs to blockbuster by Simon ParkinPoliwhirl: The Mascot You Never KnewPokémon Trainer Norm MacDonald“Pokémon” on Google TrendsPokémon Go - Vaporeon stampede Central Park, NYCTarget Pokémon card scalper stampede videoKen Sugimori’s artwork for the original 151 PokémonOh Wow, The Best Pokémon Card Art All Comes From The Same Person by John WalkerHow Pokémon's Art Style & Design Has 'Evolved'Generic Pokémon Design by Generation What Would Gen 8 Pokémon Look Like in Gen 1? (Part 2)The Evolution of Pokémon DesignPokemon Gold & Silver beta PokémonGorochu’s back spriteProject Bauer/ Pokemon Movie 24Palworld vs. Pokémon Comparison: Just How Similar Are the Designs? by Joshua YehlPokemon Sword and Shield Controversy and 'Dexit', Explained by Casey DeFreitas & Matt KimTaechichu’s YoutubeRegi NoisesVictreebel Scream

    Artwork:Charizard Pokémon Carddass artwork by Ken Sugimori

    Recorded on 11/3/2024

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    Why did Joseph go to Copenhagen last week? Did he bike around a lot? How many hot dogs did he eat? How was Malmo, Sweden? These are some of the important questions Nathan asked Joseph on this week’s episode.

    Artwork:Street photo Copenhagen ... Summer and sun by Ivan NaurholmAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

    Recorded on 10/27/2024

  • Hyperpop is a music genre that is noted for its hyperfeminine, artificial, and childlike sound. The term “hyperpop” came into popular use after Spotify staff created a hyperpop playlist in 2019. The music the term described emerged much earlier however, with the earliest examples coming out of the renowned UK record label PC Music starting in 2013. This week Nathan is joined by his friend E to delineate the three main subgenres of hyperpop: future pop, internet pop and digicore. They discuss music by Danny L Harle, A. G. Cook, Hannah Diamond, QT, SOPHIE, Charli XCX, 100 Gecs, Alice Gas, Food House, and others. Amongst other things they discuss how how they first came to find PC Music, how digicore is NEET music, and how both Hannah Diamond and Dis Magazine used “superreal” aesthetics.

    Links:Nathan and E’s Hyperpop Spotify PlaylistGFOTY vs. LITTLE MIX - The InterviewPC Music’s GFOTY criticised after calling Toumani & Sidiki Diabaté “Bombay Bicycle Club blacked up”Why did GFOTY leave PC Music? Reddit postTHE 3 PILLARS OF HYPERPOP Reddit postTwo Bloods Called by I’m so Popularhttps://studio.hannahdiamond.com/MEAT’s AW12 I LUV U campaignMEAT’s AW13 Believe campaignUr Not a Baller by Serious ThugsAlis Pelleschi’s InstagramHey QT - The Story of a Popstar Who Never ExistedBaby Bubbles by QTHood By Air AW 2014 runway showVroom vroom vineHyperpop: How Charli XCX Created a New Genre100 Gecs opening for Deftones video404 Error, Genre Not Found: The Life Cycle of Internet Scenes by Sophie Walker Alice Gas, Alice Glass, 100 gecs Drama Explained Reddit post Dis Magazine/ PC Music collaborations

    Artwork:Artwork for Pink and Blue by Hannah Diamond

    Recorded on 10/27/2024

  • Kevin Heckart is a Kansas City based artist who created the artwork behind seapunk’s original aesthetic. This special episode coincides with both the one year anniversary of Silent Generation and the relaunch of the seapunk clothing line Mainframe, which features many of Heckart’s designs. The first half of episode is an interview with Heckart that serves as a spiritual threequel to Silent Generation’s prior two seapunk episodes while the later half is a broader conversation about net art and net artists such as Brad Troemel, Hito Steyerl, Laturbo Avendon, and Lorna Mills. Amongst other things they discuss how Heckart has gone viral on Tiktok for hacking animatronic fish and furby toys, how Nathan and Brad Troemel did the same undergrad program, how Hito Steyerl incorporated real life biographies into Factory of the Sun, and how Skibbidy Toilet shows how thoroughly post-internet aesthetics have permeated popular culture.

    Links:

    mainframehq.net

    Mainframe’s Instagram

    Kevin Heckart’s Instagram

    Kevin Heckart’s Tiktok

    I hacked a singing fish. - Kevin Heckart

    “and yet a trace of the true self exists in the false self” meme

    HIS BRAIN? NO. HIS HEART Brad Troemel meme

    The Post-internet Culture Report by Brad Troemel

    Untitled, 2016 by Laura Owens

    Trojan Horses: Activist Art and Power by Lucy R. Lippard

    Color(ed) Theory Series by Amanda Williams

    Rhizome’s Net Art Anthology

    My Boyfriend Came Back from the War by Olia Lialina

    Madison Beer #NoFilter by Dis Magazine

    I was Raised on the Internet exhibition at the MCA

    Transdimensional Serpent by Jon Rafman

    The Jogging Tumblr blog

    Army of Ants by Brad Troemel

    Giant Arthropods Eating Doritos early meme

    Liquidity Inc. by Hito Steyerl screenshot

    Factory of the Sun by Hito Steyerl

    takeSomeCrime Youtube channel

    In Defense of the Poor Image by Hito Steyerl

    In Defense of the Poor Image-esque Instagram post

    GIFS by Lorna Mills

    Repetition Mindset: Artists as Snowflakes by Brad Troemel

    Artwork:

    Provided by Kevin Heckart

    Recorded on 10/16/2024

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    For this week’s episode Joseph and Nathan watched Francis Coppola’s latest (and likely final) film, Megalopolis. The film draws parallels between Ancient Rome and modern day New York City and has been met with widespread confusion. The boys discuss the film in the first half of the episode, detailing the performance of several actors (notably Aubrey Plaza’s role as the brilliantly named Wow Platinum) and the film's various references to Ancient Rome. In the second half of the episode the boys discuss megalopolises more broadly, including ones in real life (the Northeast Megalopolis, the European Megalopolis, Japan's Taiheiyo Belt, and China’s various megalopolises) and fictional examples (the megalopolis depicted in the 1927 film Metropolis, Mega-City One in Judge Dredd, and Coruscant in Star Wars).

    Links:

    Martin Scorsese Had a Cinema Epiphany ‘Too Late’

    Megalopolis Plot meme

    Megalopolis Movie Clip - Cesar is Mine (Wow Platinum elevator scene)

    Nymphet Alumni’s Ep. 90: The Baby Name Game with Sophie Kim

    Francis Ford Coppola Didn’t Want ‘Megalopolis’ To Be “Some Woke Hollywood Production,” Casting “Canceled” Actors from Deadline

    Tell Your Children by Alex Berensen

    Megalopolis: The Urbanized Northeastern Seaboard of the United States by Jean Gottman

    What if the cities of Jersey City, Elizabeth, Union, Newark, Hoboken, and others became one larger city like NYC? Reddit post

    Why is there no major city here? (Boroughitis) by Urban Jersey Guy

    The location of Gotham city

    Cars.destroyed.our.cities Hartford, Connecticut post

    Blue Java Banana Review by Weird Explorer

    Artwork:

    From Megalopolis' Interactive Scene Explained: What Happens In It

    Recorded on 10/6/2024

  • What is Chautauqua? Chautauqua began in 1874 in Chautauqua, New York as a Summer camp that trained laymen to be Sunday school teachers. President Ulyses S Grant visited the assembly shortly after its founding in 1875, which gave Chautauqua widespread attention and engendered a national movement; the original Chautauqua (now known in the modern day as the Chautauqua Institution) gave rise to hundreds of “daughter” Chautauquas. They offered week long or month long retreats to religiously minded vacationers who wanted to enjoy nature but also wanted to stay productive by watching edifying sermons, lectures, historical impersonations, and concerts.

    On this week’s episode the boys discuss how the popular Chautauqua speech Acres of Diamonds resembles the 21st century self help book The Secret, how Chautauqua acts differed from vaudeville acts, and how a specific type of historical impersonation popular in circuit Chautauquas became synonymous with Chautauqua in the modern day. This is the third and final installment of a three part series that explores interconnected topics that deal with American culture and the outdoors.

    Links:

    The Chautauqua Institution

    Chautauqua: An American Narrative (2011)

    The History of the Chautauqua Movement

    Acres of Diamonds by Russell Conwell

    Bohumir Kryl

    The height of assassins versus that of their targets Reddit post

    Artwork:

    Participants of a Circuit Chautauqua at Gurdon (Clark County); circa 1919.

    Recorded on 9/22/2024

  • In a more anecdotal direction, this week’s episode is on American Summer camps. The boys detail how camping was first developed in 1861 by Frederick Gunn before discussing their own experiences as campers and counselors at American Summer camps. Amongst other things they discuss how modern Summer camps have felt the need to hyperspecialize and give parents an ROI, how Summer camp aesthetics are 1970’s by default, how Summer camps were depicted as WASPy in Addams Family Values, and how Summer camps were depicted as somewhat utopian in the 1964 Soviet film Welcome, or No Trespassing. This is the second installment of a three part series that explores interconnected topics that deal with American culture and the outdoors.

    Links:

    The Not So Happy Campers by Mimi Swartz

    About our Founder - The Frederick Gunn School

    Summer Camp Capitalism

    The History of American Jewish Summer Camps

    I can tell from her tweets that she had to go live with grandma for a lil bit meme

    Wednesday’s revolt from The Addams Family Values

    Long accused of Indigenous misappropriation, Boy Scouts ask if it’s time to change

    Welcome, or No Trespassing (1964)

    Artwork:

    Photograph by Andy Sweet

    Recorded on 9/15/2023

  • Full episode available on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SilentGeneration

    Scouting is a grassroots, child-led movement that began in the early 1900’s after children discovered Robert Baden-Powell’s written accounts of his time working as a scout for the British Army. After learning of children’s interest in his work, Baden-Powell conducted an experimental scout camp at Brownsea Island in 1907 and subsequently published his seminal work Scouting for Boys in 1908. Dozens and hundreds of official scouting organizations followed, most of which still exist today.

    On this week’s episode the boys detail the history of various figures and organizations in the scouting movement. Amongst other things they discuss how arbitrary it was that the scouting movement was inspired by scouting, how scout badges and scouting uniforms create an archive of people’s childhoods, how Cub Scouts truthfully don’t create their own pinewood derby cars, and how the TTI industry and wilderness therapy are “dark scouting.” This is the first installment of a three part series that explores interconnected topics that deal with American culture and the outdoors.

    Links:

    Scouting for Boys by Robert Baden-Powell

    The Zoomer Question by Isaac Wilkes

    Remembering the Wandervogel by John Savage & Johnny Ryan

    David Hahn, The ‘Radioactive Boy Scout’ Who Tried To Build A Nuclear Reactor In His Backyard

    Joseph as a Cub Scout

    Nanook of the North (1922)

    Scouts Honor: The Secret Files of The Boy Scouts of America (2023)

    Artwork:

    Scouts with canoe - National Parks Gallery

    Creative Commons CC0 License

    Recorded on 9/9/2024

  • Why was Nathan in Rio de Janeiro last week? Why was he there in 2018? What did he do there? What new fruits did he try? These are some of the important questions Joseph asked Nathan on this week’s episode.

    Links:

    Brazil with a Z vs Brasil with an S - example 1

    Brazil with a Z vs Brasil with an S - example 2

    Artwork:

    Picture of Rio de Janeiro taken by Nathan from Pão de Açúcar

    Recorded on 9/2/2024

  • How did the spy-fi literary and cinematic genre come to be? This week Joseph and Nathan chronicle how detective fiction authors took inspiration from sensational espionage cases such as The Dreyfus Affair and The Rosenberg Trial to imagine what the front lines of The Cold War might look like. The boys cover “realistic” spy movies such as James Bond’s Dr. No, Three Days of the Condor, and The Bourne Trilogy before going into fantastical depictions of spies in Children’s media like The Spy Kids, Kim Possible, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Amongst other things they discuss the difference between state and industrial espionage, Austria’s constitutionally mandated status of neutrality, and Edward Snowden’s modeling portfolio.

    Links:Nathan’s InstagramWas the Rosenberg trial America’s Dreyfus AffairThe Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness OrczyThe Thirty-Nine Steps by Charles BuchanEp. 53: Bond Girl Summer by Nymphet AlumniPhotos from young Edward Snowden’s brief modeling careerTrying to Make Sense of Hannah Diamond and Post-Ringtone Music by VICEThe Real Life Spy Behind Charlie And The Chocolate FactoryChildren of undercover Russian spy couple only learned their nationality on flight to MoscowExclusive: Suspected Chinese spy targeted California politicians

    Artwork:Sean Connery playing James Bond in From Russia With Love

    Recorded on 8/16/2024

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    This week the boys are joined by local filmmaker Charles Livingston to discuss male desire. They begin by first discussing straight male desire (the derision of the male gaze, male jealousy and possessiveness, and gender performance) before going into a deep exploration of Nathan’s thesis that yearning is the most universal and inexorable difficulty experienced by gay men. Amongst other things they discuss how the Ancient Romans conflated sexual conquest with imperial conquest, how Cleopatra in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra weaponized mens’ desire, and how straight men and gay men seem to equally match each other in terms of desire.

    Links:

    Charles Livingston’s Instagram

    Wings by Charles Livingston

    Oscars 2018: Facts and figures about the members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences - Orange County Register

    The VICE Guide to Being Gay

    Armond and Mark scene from the White Lotus

    Artwork: Germanic Warrior with Helmet, Osmar Schindler, 1902

    Recorded on 8/11/2024

  • On this week’s (sans Joseph) episode of Silent Generation, Nathan is joined by his friend Kamara to discuss antiques. They talk about how they first got into antiques, the best antiques that they own, and the defining characteristics of several antique furniture styles (Victorian, Arts & Crafts Movement, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, and Mid-century Modern). Amongst other things they discuss how Victorian antiques and houses are construed as being haunted, how antiques seem to be most popular in rural areas, and how the antiques industry acts as a point of intergenerational exchange between different generations of gay men.

    Links:

    Antiques Pinterest Board (Nathan’s antiques are at the bottom)

    A Lamp & Fixture Corp

    Tighlman Chicago

    Justanswer Antiques

    The Blue Fairy Book edited by Andrew Lang

    Campbell House Museum

    The Slav Epic by Alphonse Mucha

    THREATENED: Hector Guimard’s Art Nouveau Metra Entrance

    Restor-A-Finish Youtube demo

    The Roger Brown Study Collection

    Artwork:

    Art Deco Cubist Armchair in Vermilion Mohair Velvet and Maple, Belgium, 1920s

    Recorded on 8/4/2024

  • This week the boys cover a listener suggested topic that is closely associated with their lines of work: unions. Nathan is currently a librarian represented by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), and Joseph works in the heavily unionized construction industry. Amongst other things they discuss how violent strikes were prior to the formation of the NLRB in 1935, how the Haymarket Affair lead to creation of the 8 hour work day, how YIMBYs feel ambivalent toward unions, and how unions mitigate but don’t eliminate the deleterious effects of monopolization.

    Links:

    How Chicago’s Past Resulted in Disproportionate Lead Poisoning of Minority Children of the Present: A Narrative Review

    The Redneck Army Refuses to Stay Buried by Cassady Rosenblum

    Ep. 164: Labor Union Depictions in Hollywood by Citations Needed

    Ten cities facing the worst of the pension crisis

    CTA has only netted 4 rail operators this year Reddit post

    Noisy and Unsafe: Stop Fetishizing Old Homes by M. Nolan Gray

    A ton of variation in construction labor cost M. Nolan Gray tweet

    Artwork:

    Der Streik by Robert Koehler

    Recorded on 7/28/2024

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    Christopher Lasch identified narcissism as the dominant pathology of the Baby Boomer generation in his seminal work The Culture of Narcissism and suggested that prior and future generations of Americans would also exhibit collective pathologies. What is the dominant pathology or ideology of the Millennial generation? On this week’s episode Joseph and Nathan are joined by their friend Bobby to present evidence that said ideology is nihilism. They examine the causes of Millennial nihilism (The Great Recession, 9/11, New Atheism) and the effects that nihilism has had on Millennials (“cutting off your family” discourse, distrust of authority, the proliferation of sexwork, and the increasing number of deaths of despair). Amongst other things they discuss what generation they personally identify with, how nihilism has been slowly accumulating from generation to generation, and how both Rick and Morty and Everything Everywhere All at Once use the idea of multiverses to create worlds in which nihilism is justified.

    Links:

    The Culture of Narcissism by Christopher Lasch

    The Revolt of the Elites by Christopher Lasch

    “Optimistic Nihilism” Tiktok Video

    The Nihilism of Generation X is an Artifact of Privilege by Shane Burley

    The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama

    “I’m tired of living through historic events” meme

    The Case Against the Sexual Revolution by Louise Perry

    ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ in the Age of #StopAsianHate and Millennial Nihilism

    Recorded on 7/21/2024

  • Ivy Style, otherwise known as Ivy League, is a style of men’s dress that became mainstream at Ivy League schools during the 1950’s. Students started wearing casual versions of the traditional menswear staples worn by their fathers and started wearing clothing originally designed for recreational activities outside of sports fields. On this week’s episode Joseph and Nathan delineate various Ivy Style staples and talk about several groups that adopted the look: Jews who dressed Ivy in order to blend in in professional environments, female students at the Seven Sisters schools who dressed Ivy in a strikingly masculine way, and Black civil rights activists who dressed Ivy in order to persuade White Americans that they were equals. The boys then round off the episode by critiquing the Ivy League as an institution.

    Links:

    Ivy League Pinterest Board

    The Ivy Style Primer

    American Ivy: Chapter 1 - Articles of Interest

    Take Ivy by Hayashida, Teruyoshi

    The Weird and Glorious Culture Shock of “Take Ivy”

    Kiel James Patrick’s Instagram

    Man fired for being ‘too American,’ old, wearing khakis: EEOC complaint

    Visual snow syndrome grid pattern post

    What is Black Ivy, and why you've never heard of it

    The Zoomer Question by Isaac Wilks

    Air rage triggered by walking past first-class seating, study says

    Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street by Karen Ho

    Pete Buttigieg McKinsey tweet

    Artwork:

    Sunday in the Ivy League from Take Ivy

    Recorded on 7/15/2024

  • This week Joseph and Nathan are joined by Marissa Macias, a local artist and fashion designer who owns the insect-inspired clothing brand Petrichor, to discuss insect aesthetics. They begin by examining 7 of the ~30 extant insect orders: hymenoptera (ants, bees, wasps), odonata (dragonflies), coleoptera (beetles), orthoptera (grasshoppers, crickets), mantodea (mantids), lepidoptera (butterflies, moths), and heteroptera (true bugs). Amongst other things they discuss Chicago’s recent dual cicada brood emergence, how insects appeared in pre-modern still lives because of their association with death, and how decline in insect biomass could result in systems collapse and a sixth extinction.

    Links:

    https://www.petrich0r.com/ (online shop)

    Petrichor (Instagram)

    Marissa’s Neurobasis Kaupi Are.na Channel

    Maria Sibylla Merian

    The Insect Asylum

    Cicada Parade-a

    Carravagio’s Basket of Fruit

    Durer’s Stag Beetle

    Eating Bugs to Save the Planet by Dana Goodyear

    The Collapse of Insects By Julia Janicki, Gloria Dickie, Simon Scarr and Jitesh Chowdhury

    Earth Is Not in the Midst of a Sixth Mass Extinction by Peter Brannen

    Ocean Trash Is a Lifesaver for Insects by Daniel Strain

    Artwork:

    Neurobasis Kaupi by Marissa Macias

    Recorded on 7/10/2024