Episode 2: Garmonbozia

Weird Studies

Phil Ford and J. F. Martel

Society & Culture, Arts, Philosophy

4.8 • 688 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2018

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Phil and JF use a word from the Twin Peaks mythos, "garmonbozia," to try to understand what it was that the detonation of atomic bomb brought into the world. We use the fictional world of Twin Peaks as a map to the (so-called) real world and take Philip K. Dick, Krzysztof Penderecki, Norman Mailer, William S. Burroughs, Theodor Adorno, and H.P. Lovecraft as our landmarks. Warning: some spoilers of Twin Peaks season 3. Works Cited or Discussed: Phil Ford, "The Cold War Never Ended", Dial M for Musicology (1) (2) (3) (4) Twin Peaks: The Return — Official Site Philip K. Dick, “The Empire Never Ended,” treated in R. Crumb’s “The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick” and the “Tractate” from Dick’s Exegesis: http://www.tekgnostics.com/PDK.HTM Norman Mailer, “The White Negro” Ray Brassier, Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion Arthur Machen, The White People Robert Oppenheimer, “I am become death” C.G. Jung, Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch Howard Phillips Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu William B. Yeats, "The Second Coming" Krzysztof Penderecki, Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima The Book of Ecclesiastes Jon H. Else, The Day After Trinity (documentary) Francisco Goya, "The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters" Stanley Kubrick, Doctor Strangelove, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment Jean Beaudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle William James, A Pluralistic Universe Norman Mailer, Advertisements for Myself Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Specter Vision Radio.
0:03.3	Welcome to Weird Studies, an art and philosophy podcast with hosts Phil Ford and J.F. Martell.
0:21.9	For more episodes and to support the podcast, go to Phil Ford. An explanatory note about the conversation you're about to hear.
0:57.0	JF and I have actually been recording some of these conversations for a few months now,
1:01.5	and we recorded this one back in September.
1:04.3	Not long after the mysterious conjunction of two separate events.
1:09.8	One, the finale of David Lynch's third season of
1:14.0	Twin Peaks, an event that both of us greeted with a great deal of excitement. And also,
1:20.3	a much less enjoyable occasion, North Korea's detonation of its then-largest-ever nuclear device.
1:30.8	An interesting coincidence, or if you like,
1:37.1	synchronicity, given that the detonation of the first ever nuclear device, the Trinity bomb,
1:43.2	is a major plot point in the new season of Twin Peaks. So with all of these thoughts swimming around in our heads, we decided to
1:45.9	have a conversation that we titled Garmin Bozia. Now, Garmin Bozia is a word from the Twin Peaks
1:52.1	canon, which means pain and sorrow. And it's a very particular kind of pain and sorrow, seasoned liberally with fear.
2:04.1	And we're using this term from a fictional universe to denote something in the very real world that we live in,
2:10.9	because, surprising as this may seem, sometimes it's a fictional map that turns out to be the best guide to the so-called real world.
2:32.9	Garmin Bozziah.
2:34.0	So? Garmin Bozia. So?
2:34.7	Garmin Bozia.
2:35.6	Garmin Bozia.
2:37.7	For me, I mean, this is something we've been talking about for a while.
2:42.5	And it really all came together for me when I read those blog posts you wrote.
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