Episode 2: Garmonbozia
Phil and JF use a word from the Twin Peaks mythos, "garmonbozia," to try to understand what it was that the detonation of atomic bomb brought into the world. We use the fictional world of Twin Peaks as a map to the (so-called) real world and take Philip K. Dick, Krzysztof Penderecki, Norman Mailer, William S. Burroughs, Theodor Adorno, and H.P. Lovecraft as our landmarks.
\n\nWarning: some spoilers of Twin Peaks season 3.
\n\nWorks Cited or Discussed:\n\nPhil Ford, "The Cold War Never Ended", Dial M for Musicology (1) (2) (3) (4)
\n\nTwin Peaks: The Return \u2014 Official Site
\n\nPhilip K. Dick, \u201cThe Empire Never Ended,\u201d treated in R. Crumb\u2019s \u201cThe Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick\u201d and the \u201cTractate\u201d from Dick\u2019s Exegesis: http://www.tekgnostics.com/PDK.HTM
\n\nNorman Mailer, \u201cThe White Negro\u201d
\n\nRay Brassier, Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction
\n\nJ.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
\n\nArthur Machen, The White People
\n\nRobert Oppenheimer, \u201cI am become death\u201d
\n\nC.G. Jung, Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle
\n\nWilliam S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
\n\nHoward Phillips Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
\n\nWilliam B. Yeats, "The Second Coming"
\n\nKrzysztof Penderecki, Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima
\n\n\n\nJon H. Else, The Day After Trinity (documentary)
\n\nFrancisco Goya, "The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters"
\n\nStanley Kubrick, Doctor Strangelove, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
\n\nTheodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment
\n\nJean Beaudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
\n\nGuy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle
\n\nWilliam James, A Pluralistic Universe
\n\nNorman Mailer, Advertisements for Myself