Episode 4: Exploring the Weird with Erik Davis

Weird Studies

Phil Ford and J. F. Martel

Society & Culture, Arts, Philosophy

4.8 • 688 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2018

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

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’s groundbreaking Techgnosis was published twenty years ago. WORKS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE: Erik Davis’s Techgnosis website Erik Davis's podcast, Expanding Mind Erik Davis, Techgnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information Erik Davis, Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica Erik Davis, Led Zeppelin IV Mark Fisher, The Weird and the Eerie Philip K. Dick, Exegesis Goop Magazine, no. 2 Hakim Bey and the Temporary Autonomous Zone The Burning Man Festival Ian Hacking, The Taming of Chance Erik Davis, “Weird Shit” JF Martel, “How Symbols Matter” Henri Bergson, Introduction to Metaphysics Charles Baudelaire, “Correspondances” from Fleurs du mal Sigmund Freud, “The Uncanny” Deleuze and Guattari, Anti-Oedipus The Onion, “Lovecraftian School Board Member Wants Madness Added to Curriculum” Special Guest: Erik Davis. 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. Martel.
0:21.9	For more episodes and to support the podcast, go to get recording on earnest, that I've got a terrible streaming cold.
0:55.7	I have a minor cold, but it's not too noisy at the moment.
0:59.6	But you sound okay.
1:01.7	You have gravitas.
1:03.4	Ah, good.
1:04.3	Excellent.
1:05.5	All right.
1:06.3	So this is the first.
1:09.0	I think you're, you definitely are our first
1:11.4	guest ever, Eric.
1:12.4	So thanks for accepting the invitation.
1:15.7	You know, of all possible guests, this podcast could start with.
1:20.6	I mean, you're the man.
1:22.0	So we're very happy to have you with us.
1:24.4	You're the, the godfather of weird studies, which doesn't really exist, but you're the godfather
1:30.6	of it.
1:30.8	No, and it shouldn't really exist.
1:33.8	It should only weirdly exist.
1:36.1	Exactly.
1:37.2	In a liminal state.
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