28: In which, thanks to several tangents, the pod’s “temporal bandwidth” goes wild (Gravity’s Rainbow Episodes 3.21-3.24)
Topics include: Gravity’s Rainbow’s Hot or Not, hypertext, philosophy of technology, our expanding universe, old fashioned candy stores, and moles (the coastal structure, not the digging creatures). Oh, and Katje and Pirate are back! Yay?
Next time, Gravity’s Rainbow Episodes 3.25, 3.26, 3.27, 3.28, and 3.29, or pp. 558-590 in the U.S. Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition.
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For the month of October’s Patreon-exclusive bonus episode, we’re watching David Cronenberg's Videodrome (1983).
Show Notes:
“Romantasy girl is still reading Gravity’s Rainbow” by bakingisscience (https://www.reddit.com/r/literature/comments/1wjnz0j/romantasy_girl_is_still_reading_gravitys_rainbow/)
“Do Artifacts Have Politics?” by Langdon Winner (https://www.jstor.org/stable/20024652?seq=1)
“The Question Concerning Technology,” by Martin Heidegger (https://nissenbaum.tech.cornell.edu/papers/heidegger_concerningtechnology.pdf)
“Technology” section of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy’s entry on Heidegger, by Mark Wrathall (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/heidegger/#Tech)
“Timeline of Art History Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778),” by Wendy Thompson (https://www.metmuseum.org/essays/giovanni-battista-piranesi-1720-1778)
“Hegel on History,” by Lawrence Evans (https://philosophynow.org/issues/129/Hegel_on_History)
“The End of History?” by Francis Fukuyama (https://www.jstor.org/stable/24027184?seq=9)
Andor: Luthen Rael’s Monologue (https://youtu.be/-3RCme2zZRY)
Content warnings: strong language, physical and sexual violence, racism, misogyny, homophobia, xenophobia, genocide, suicide
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Featuring Patrick Fiorilli, Andrew Tillett, and Duri Long.
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