Aug 4, 2026 · 2 hr 31 min · 10 segments
*Atrocities* is an epic poem (of sorts), out soon from Hyperidean Press. In it, Felix McNamara explores the end of the End of History with a great deal of humour (it's a very, very funny poem)…
Felix McNamaraGuestJackHost
I think the um, I think small presses having a particular aesthetic orientation is like a really positive thing.
Yeah, it is.
Um, you know, the, if you think about what happened at that time and following that time, I mean, you do get, um, the late 19th century avant-garde and then the early 20th century avant-garde, and I mean, I don't think, I don't think there's like a, at all a s- I mean, for people, you know, people have made all kinds of connections of our 2024-ish, 2026, 2016, 2024s era as being in various ways a throwback to either the early 20th century or to various parts of the 19th century in terms of there being a major historical shift in, uh, civilization and culture and society in general in various ways.
And I think like, yeah, I think that, I think they're kind of, um, uh, like small movements are a really positive thing.
But I think also like, uh, I think what's really nice is a thing that Substack I guess does really facilitate is, are these kind of, uh, loose decentralized networks of people who are, um, uh, you know, not non-identical and are not card-carrying in any aesthetical, political, collective sense, but who have a loose network of kind of salon-esque relationships.
Mm.
And I guess that the best example, I mean, you, you recently did, uh, like Wyndham Lewis's Tar-
Yeah
Well, yeah, and like, uh, I mean, the fa- I mean, just the, like that era of the 1910s and the 1920s where you get this collection of people who are in some senses doing similar things, but also doing, you know, quite different things-
Very different things
Yeah.
Well, I mean, you had, say in Paris you had Hemingway and Joyce, and they're, they're just-
... they're so different as- not just aesthetically, but philosophically.
In ba- every meaningful way-
I think the um, I think small presses having a particular aesthetic orientation is like a really positive thing.
Yeah, it is.
Um, you know, the, if you think about what happened at that time and following that time, I mean, you do get, um, the late 19th century avant-garde and then the early 20th century avant-garde, and I mean, I don't think, I don't think there's like a, at all a s- I mean, for people, you know, people have made all kinds of connections of our 2024-ish, 2026, 2016, 2024s era as being in various ways a throwback to either the early 20th century or to various parts of the 19th century in terms of there being a major historical shift in, uh, civilization and culture and society in general in various ways.
And I think like, yeah, I think that, I think they're kind of, um, uh, like small movements are a really positive thing.
But I think also like, uh, I think what's really nice is a thing that Substack I guess does really facilitate is, are these kind of, uh, loose decentralized networks of people who are, um, uh, you know, not non-identical and are not card-carrying in any aesthetical, political, collective sense, but who have a loose network of kind of salon-esque relationships.
Mm.
And I guess that the best example, I mean, you, you recently did, uh, like Wyndham Lewis's Tar-
Yeah
Well, yeah, and like, uh, I mean, the fa- I mean, just the, like that era of the 1910s and the 1920s where you get this collection of people who are in some senses doing similar things, but also doing, you know, quite different things-
Very different things
Yeah.
Well, I mean, you had, say in Paris you had Hemingway and Joyce, and they're, they're just-
... they're so different as- not just aesthetically, but philosophically.
In ba- every meaningful way-
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