Guest & Book

• W. David Marx — Website | Newsletter: Culture: An Owner's Manual | Twitter/X
• Blank Space: A Cultural History of the 21st Century — Penguin Random House | Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Goodreads
• Status and Culture (David's previous book) — Hachette Book Group

People & Cultural Figures

• Jordan Peterson — Wikipedia
• Boots Riley — Director of Sorry to Bother You, member of The Coup
• David Solomon (DJ D-Sol) — CEO of Goldman Sachs and EDM DJ
  • NME: Goldman Sachs CEO to DJ at Lollapalooza
  • Fox Business: Solomon Gives Up DJ Gigs
• Joseph Kony / Kony 2012 — Wikipedia | Invisible Children Official Page | Slate: What We Learned from Kony 2012 | PBS NewsHour Analysis | Ethan Zuckerman: Unpacking Kony 2012

Cultural References

• The Coup - Party Music album cover controversy — Wikipedia: Party Music | Snopes Fact Check | CNN Coverage (2001)
• 9/11 and cultural shifts — Discussion throughout the transcript about post-9/11 cultural changes
• K-pop and Korean Wave (Hallyu) — Discussion in transcript about Korean cultural strategy
• White Lotus Season 3 — HBO series (benzodiazepines reference)

Concepts & Frameworks

• "The Long Twentieth Century" — Giovanni Arrighi's book on historical periodization
• Post-practice culture — The 21st century ideology that practice/expertise is unnecessary (central theme of Blank Space)
• The Perpetual Present — The sense that nothing begins or ends in digital culture