Episode 103: On the Tower, the Sixteenth Card of the Tarot
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Continuing their series on the tarot, Phil and JF discuss the card nobody wants to see in a reading \\u2013 The Tower. Featuring lightning bolts, plumes of ominous smoke, and figures plummeting from the windows, the Tower\\u2019s meaning at first glance seems clear: \\u201cpride comes before a fall,\\u201d as the old adage goes. But as JF and Phil delve into the details, they note not only the card\\u2019s connection to the Biblical tower of Babel and the fall of man, but also its relevance to the present era\\u2019s systems of control and communication breakdown. This discussion leads them to search for an antidote to the Tower\'s message of destruction.
\\n\\nReferences
\\n\\nAnonymous, Meditations on the Tarot
\\nAlejandro Jodorowsky, The Way of the Tarot
\\nThomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
\\nArnold Schoenberg, Austrian composer
\\nGilles Deleuze, \\u201cPostscript on the Societies of Control\\u201d
\\nWilco, \\u201cRadio Cure\\u201d
\\nRichard Dyer, Heavenly Bodies
\\nGeorge Cukor (dir.), A Star is Born
\\nPerformativity, sociological concept
\\nGuy Debord, Society of the Spectacle
\\nJaques Ellul, The Technological Society