Scholar, journalist and author Erik Davis joins Phil and JF for a freewheeling conversation on the permutations of the weird, Burning Man, speculative realism, the uncanny, the H. P. Lovecraft/Philip K. Dick syzygy, and how the world has gotten weirder (and less weird) since Erik’s groundbreaking Techgnosis was published twenty years ago.
WORKS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:
Erik Davis’s Techgnosis website
Erik Davis's podcast, Expanding Mind
Erik Davis, Techgnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information
Erik Davis, Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica
Erik Davis, Led Zeppelin IV
Mark Fisher, The Weird and the Eerie
Philip K. Dick, Exegesis
Goop Magazine, no. 2
Hakim Bey and the Temporary Autonomous Zone
The Burning Man Festival
Ian Hacking, The Taming of Chance
Erik Davis, “Weird Shit”
JF Martel, “How Symbols Matter”
Henri Bergson, Introduction to Metaphysics
Charles Baudelaire, “Correspondances” from Fleurs du mal
Sigmund Freud, “The Uncanny”
Deleuze and Guattari, Anti-Oedipus
The Onion, “Lovecraftian School Board Member Wants Madness Added to Curriculum”
Special Guest: Erik Davis.
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