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Intellectual. Comedian. Pornographic connoisseur. CJ Suite is all these things and more, and White Boy Struggles With Modernity is the chronicle of one pasty fat man and his outraged conflicts with the modern-day. He has mommy issues and knows where the hoes are at, it's time for White Boy Struggles With Modernity.
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Modernity and Absurdity with Christian Perez brings commentary and interviews on a range of issues including current events, world news, history, politics, culture with a whole lot of sarcasm. Christian Perez is an educator, podcaster, social/political communicator and curmudgeon. He like to smash walls of ignorance and he doesn't like the bad guys. Follow Christian on Twitter @PerezPodcast Send Christian an e-mail at PerezPodcast@gmail.com
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Season 2 of Genealogies of Modernity is a limited series from the Genealogies of Modernity Project and Ministry of Ideas. Each episode takes up a well-worn story about what it means to be modern and how we got here, and then challenges that narrative with recent humanities scholarship. Genealogies of Modernity illuminates lesser-known pathways to the present and unearths overlooked resources from the past for flourishing in the future. Genealogies of Modernity is a project of Beatrice Instit ...
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The great English essayist and linguist Samuel Johnson was writing during the Enlightenment – the period some historians identify as the beginning of the modern age. American author and philosopher David Foster Wallace worked more than two centuries later, in the “post-modern” style. But these two writers shared a common problem: once modernity fra…
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The problem of gun violence is as old as guns themselves. According to historian Priya Satia, America’s present epidemic of gun violence has its roots in the industrial revolution. Satia tells the story of British gun-maker Samuel Galton, Jr., who was called to task by his Quaker community for manufacturing rifles. As a professed pacifist, Galton h…
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What if racism shared an origin with opposition to racism? What if the condemnation of injustice gave rise both to an early form of anti-racism and to the racial hierarchies that haunt the modern era? Rolena Adorno, David Orique, María Cristina Ríos Espinosa tell the story of how Bartolomé de las Casas, a Dominican missionary to New Spain, came to …
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Race is sometimes treated as a biological fact. It is actually a modern invention. But for this concept to gain power, its logic had to be spread – and made visible. Art historian Ilona Katzew tells the story of how Spanish colonists of modern-day Mexico developed theories of blood purity and used the casta paintings – featuring family groups with …
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What is the “traditional American family?” Popular images from the colonial and pioneer past suggest an isolated and self-sufficient nuclear family as the center of American identity and the source of American strength. But the idea of early American self-sufficiency is a myth. Caro Pirri tells the story of the precarious Jamestown settlement and h…
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Genealogy, in Charles Darwin’s terms, is the study of “descent with modification.” Taken as an analogy for the study of history, genealogy can guard against the potential dangers of claiming modernity. Against the effort to erase the past, genealogy asserts that our ancestry will always be with us. Against the effort to master the past, genealogy r…
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We often think of modernity as a distinct time period in history – one that is said to start at different places, but which always includes us. Yet people have been claiming to be modern since at least the third century BC. Harvard scholar Michael Puett takes us back to ancient China, when a series of emperors laid claim to modernity in order to co…
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We all know many stories about how modernity came about. But what does it mean to be “modern?” This episode comes at the question through the test case of mountain climbing and rock climbing. Claims to becoming modern through climbing often point back to Italian humanist Francesco Petrarch’s ascent of Mt. Ventoux in 1336, a climb that made him, acc…
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Rising like an inbred phoenix from the ashes of a 2003 Honda Civic, CJ drives himself crazy dealing with Carvana, how that $2.99 fee from Uber Eats you all bitch about is because of technical real estate, and digs up a nice, painful memory of his Boomer Grandfather. CJ was almost t-boned by an F-150, the only arousal Grandfather had in decades and …
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This week, CJ ruins a perfectly good date with his obsession with pop culture and painful awkwardness. But really, superheroes are the brunt of CJ's dissatisfaction, as well as Cheesecake Factory dumps and movies theatre prices, as passé as that is. Commissioner Gordon is making a Chipotle run and this is episode 13 of White Boy Struggles with Mode…
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This week, CJ takes it down a notch, trading Hobo Bucket shits for a fat man cornering you for 30 minutes telling you WHAT HE THINKS. If that's not enough to warrant calling security, CJ confronts child predator Rubeus Hagrid and why being special is a pain in the ass and why we shouldn't do it. Tend your own garden and sh*t, and listen to episode …
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In this weeks episode, CJ takes a moment to remind Taki of the nature of the business. Funeral arrangements aside, CJ also regales us with recollections of his childhood and Brazzers porn. You don’t need to write anything to be a writer here on White Boy Struggles With Modernity. Come join us on Youtube! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChcKG3_Dgrn…
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This week, Cj and Taki talk about violinists in wheelchairs, chokeholds, and what we do when we lose faith in our heroes. Relax, it's just a shitty theater and this is another episode of White Boy Struggles With Modernity. Come join us on Youtube!https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChcKG3_DgrnMngeA_gmMqZw https://www.wbswm.com/ twitter: @cj_suite Inst…
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It's episode three, and CJ finally takes responsibility for his lackluster work record, the dumpster fire that is Planet Fitness, and why being sick isn't romantic. Some call staying in bed for days and pissing in a Coke bottle depression, but we call it another episode of White Boy Struggles With Modernity. Video:https://twitter.com/StillSumAsshol…
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CJ and Taki talk about sea fishing, the absurdity of friendships today, and whether or not two equally shitty people are willing to set aside their differences to control one person. Nobody tells us nothing and it's bullshit, but it is episode two of White Boy Struggles With Modernity. Brian Wilson: @oldsupermanusa https://www.wbswm.com/ Twitter: @…
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In the introductory episode, CJ introduces his producer Taki, discusses integrity and economics, including the finer points of chinaware. Break out nana's china and pop a squat, it's the first episode of White Boy Struggles With Modernity. https://www.wbswm.com/ Twitter:@cj_suite Insta: @cjsweettooth Tik Tok: @cjsweettooth…
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In this brief audio track I talk about some of the Trump/Biden debate fallout and about Trump testing positive for COVID-19.-Don't fall for the 'both-sides-ism" argument about that dumpster fire of a debate. The blame falls on Trump.-Trump can kill people by just opening his mouth now. It's a sign.-Biden accurately describing Antifa as an idea blew…
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In this episode Christian discusses the various COVID-19 conspiracy theories that have recently sprung up. From microchips and "the mark of the beast" to claims that 5G towers are spreading the virus. We get to the most popular wrong ideas surrounding the global pandemic.Is Bill Gates planning on using COVID-19 vaccines as a Trojan Horse to implant…
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This week’s episode is based on Chris Nygren’s session at the summer school in 2018, and a follow-up interview we conducted with him afterwards. Chris is an assistant professor of Art History at the University of Pittsburgh. He discusses the genealogy of art written by Giorgio Vasari in 16th century Florence, and the ways that it is taken to be nor…
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This week’s episode is based on Eileen Reeves’ session at the summer school in 2018, and a follow-up interview we conducted with her afterwards. Eileen is a professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. She speaks to us about the new ground that natural philosophy was broaching in the 17th century, with an emphasis on Galileo, and qu…
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This week’s episode is based on an interview we conducted with Karen Detlefsen, professor of Early Modern Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. Karen takes us through the so-called ‘standard narrative’ of early modern philosophy and illustrates how it serves to exclude very many important thinkers from the 17th and 18th centuries.…
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The first episode of the podcast is based on Ryan McDermott’s session at the summer school in 2018, and a follow-up interview we conducted with him afterwards. Ryan is a professor of medieval and reformation English literature at the University of Pittsburgh, and one of the originators of the Genealogies of Modernity project as a whole. We discuss …
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