Episode 4: Exploring the Weird with Erik Davis

Published: March 7, 2018, 3 p.m.

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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\\u2019s groundbreaking Techgnosis was published twenty years ago.

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WORKS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

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Erik Davis\\u2019s Techgnosis website

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Erik Davis\'s podcast, Expanding Mind

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Erik Davis, Techgnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information

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Erik Davis, Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica

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Erik Davis, Led Zeppelin IV

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Mark Fisher, The Weird and the Eerie

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Philip K. Dick, Exegesis

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Goop Magazine, no. 2

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Hakim Bey and the Temporary Autonomous Zone

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The Burning Man Festival

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Ian Hacking, The Taming of Chance

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Erik Davis, \\u201cWeird Shit\\u201d

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JF Martel, \\u201cHow Symbols Matter\\u201d

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Henri Bergson, Introduction to Metaphysics

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Charles Baudelaire, \\u201cCorrespondances\\u201d from Fleurs du mal

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Sigmund Freud, \\u201cThe Uncanny\\u201d

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Deleuze and Guattari, Anti-Oedipus

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The Onion, \\u201cLovecraftian School Board Member Wants Madness Added to Curriculum\\u201d

Special Guest: Erik Davis.

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