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In this episode, Phil and JF explore the vast palatial halls of Susanna Clarke\'s novel Piranesi. Set in an otherworld consisting of endless galleries filled with enigmatic statues, Piranesi is the story of a man who lives alone -- or nearly alone -- in a dream labyrinth. As usual, our discussion leads to unexpected places every bit as strange as Clarke\'s setting, from Borge\'s infinite library and Lovecraft\'s alien cities to Renaissance Europe, where the art of memory was synonymous with wisdom and magic.

SHOW NOTES

Susanna Clarke, Piranesi
\\nJoshua Clover, 1989: Dylan Didn\'t Have This to Sing About , The Matrix (BFI Modern Classics
\\nJohn Crowley, Little, Big
\\nChristopher Priest, The Prestige (+Christopher Nolan\'s screen adaptation)
\\nSusanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
\\nJF Martel, "The Real as Sacrament" (forthcoming?)
\\nFrances Yates, The Art of Memory
\\nMary Carruthers, The Book of Memory: A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture
\\nPlato, Phaedrus
\\nHenri Bergson, Matter and Memory
\\nJorge Luis Borges, "The Library of Babel"
\\nGiovanni Battista Piranesi, Carceri d\'invenzione
\\nMaurits Cornelis Escher, Duch artist
\\nH. P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness
\\nGaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
\\nGyrus, North: The Rise and Fall of the Polar Cosmos
\\nEmerald Tablet, foundational Hermetic text
\\nJoshua Foer, Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
\\nWeird Studies ep. 42 - On Pauline Oliveros, with Kerry O\'Brien
\\nGiovanni colleague?
\\nAllen Ginsberg, "America"
\\nRodney Ascher, A Glitch in the Matrix
\\nWalter J. Ong, American philosopher
\\nWeird Studies ep. 71: The Medium is the Message
\\nThomas Ligotti, "The Night School"
\\nThomas Aquinas, Christian philosopher and theologian
\\nErasmus, Christian philosopher
\\nMarsilio Ficino, Christian philosopher