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 (https://techgnosis.com/)
Erik Davis's podcast, Expanding Mind (http://expandingmind.podbean.com/)
Erik Davis, Techgnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information (https://www.northatlanticbooks.com/shop/techgnosis/)
Erik Davis, Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica (https://www.amazon.com/Nomad-Codes-Adventures-Modern-Esoterica/dp/1891241540/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1520348249&sr=8-1)
Erik Davis, Led Zeppelin IV (https://www.amazon.com/Led-Zeppelins-Zeppelin-IV-33/dp/0826416586/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8)
Mark Fisher, The Weird and the Eerie (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/546891/the-weird-and-the-eerie-by-mark-fisher/9781910924389/)
Philip K. Dick, Exegesis (https://www.amazon.com/Exegesis-Philip-K-Dick/dp/0547549253/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=x)
Goop Magazine, no. 2 (https://shop.goop.com/shop/products/goop-magazine-issue-no-2)
Hakim Bey and the Temporary Autonomous Zone (https://hermetic.com/bey/taz_cont)
The Burning Man (https://burningman.org/) Festival
Ian Hacking, The Taming of Chance (http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/history/history-ideas-and-intellectual-history/taming-chance?format=PB&isbn=9780521388849)
Erik Davis, “Weird Shit” (https://boingboing.net/2014/07/14/weird-shit.html)
JF Martel, “How Symbols Matter” (http://thefinch.net/2016/03/10/jf-martel-how-symbols-matter/)
Henri Bergson, Introduction to Metaphysics (https://archive.org/details/anintroductiont00berggoog)
Charles Baudelaire, “Correspondances” (https://fleursdumal.org/poem/103) from Fleurs du mal
Sigmund Freud, “The Uncanny” (http://web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/freud1.pdf)
Deleuze and Guattari, Anti-Oedipus (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/305132/anti-oedipus-by-gilles-deleuze-and-felix-guattari/9780143105824/)
The Onion, “Lovecraftian School Board Member Wants Madness Added to Curriculum” (https://local.theonion.com/lovecraftian-school-board-member-wants-madness-added-to-1819570587) Special Guest: Erik Davis.