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J\\xf3hann J\\xf3hannsson was one of contemporary cinema\'s greatest score composers when he passed away in 2018 at the young age of 48. Last and First Men, his enigmatic directorial debut, was released shortly after in 2020. Based on a novel by the same name by the British science fiction writer Olaf Stapleton, the film offers a sustained meditation on the prospect of extinction, the eventuality of humanity\'s disappearance from the comos. In this episode, JF and Phil discuss the images and sounds of the film as they flicker and swell against the backdrop of nonbeing that envelops us all. The conversation touches on the idea of beauty, Brutalist architecture, modernism, and futurity.
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REFERENCES
\\n\\nJ\\xf3hann J\\xf3hannsson, Last and First Men
\\nUnfrozen Caveman Lawyer, SNL character
\\nSpomeniks, Yugoslavian monuments
\\nOlaf Stapleton, The Last and First Men
\\nWoody Allen, Hannah and Her Sisters
\\nThe Last of Us, television show
\\nRay Brassier, Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction
\\nWeird Studies, Episode 2 on Garmonbozia
\\nAlexander Solzhenitsyn, Nobel Prize Speech
\\nWeird Studies Episode 139 on Art Power
\\nNumenius, Platonist philosopher
\\nGilles Deleuze and F\\xe9lix Guattari, What is Philosophy?
\\nJia Tolentino, \\u201cThe Overwhelming Emotion of Hearing Toto\\u2019s \\u201cAfrica\\u201d
\\nWeird Studies, Episode 110 on \\u201cThe Glass Bead Game\\u201d
\\nD. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley\\u2019s Lover