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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.
\\n\\nWORKS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:
\\n\\nErik Davis\\u2019s Techgnosis website
\\n\\nErik Davis\'s podcast, Expanding Mind
\\n\\nErik Davis, Techgnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information
\\n\\nErik Davis, Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica
\\n\\nErik Davis, Led Zeppelin IV
\\n\\nMark Fisher, The Weird and the Eerie
\\n\\nPhilip K. Dick, Exegesis
\\n\\n\\n\\nHakim Bey and the Temporary Autonomous Zone
\\n\\nThe Burning Man Festival
\\n\\nIan Hacking, The Taming of Chance
\\n\\nErik Davis, \\u201cWeird Shit\\u201d
\\n\\nJF Martel, \\u201cHow Symbols Matter\\u201d
\\n\\nHenri Bergson, Introduction to Metaphysics
\\n\\nCharles Baudelaire, \\u201cCorrespondances\\u201d from Fleurs du mal
\\n\\nSigmund Freud, \\u201cThe Uncanny\\u201d
\\n\\nDeleuze and Guattari, Anti-Oedipus
\\n\\nThe Onion, \\u201cLovecraftian School Board Member Wants Madness Added to Curriculum\\u201d
Special Guest: Erik Davis.
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