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Phil stops by JF's Canadian homestead for a raucous IRL conversation on the idea of presence. The range of topics includes objects of power, the magic of books, the mystery of the event, modernity's knack for making myths immanent, genius loci, the mad wonder of Blue Velvet, and the iron fist of the virtual.

REFERENCES

Gil Scott-Heron, "The Revolution Will Bot Be Televised"
\nLouis CK on smart phones at the ballet recital
\nHenri Bergson, Matter and Memory, Creative Evolution
\nGilles Deleuze on the virtual: see Bergsonism, Proust and Signs, The Logic of Sense, Difference and Repetition, Cinema II: The TIme Image
\nExpanding Mind with Erik Davis, "Being Anarchist"
\nJF Martel, "Reality is Analog"
\nJason A. Josephson-Storm, The Myth of Disenchantment (and Gyrus's review)
\nGyrus, North: The Rise and Fall of the Polar Cosmos
\nWilliam Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture
\nGeoffrey O\u2019Brien, Phantom Empire
\nDavid Foster Wallace, \u201cDavid Lynch Keeps His Head\u201d
\nDonald Barthelme
\nDavid Lynch, Blue Velvet
\nEduardo Viveiros de Castro, Cannibal Meraphysics