This might be one of the most involved episodes we've recorded. We start out with a Gus Update, then move into discussions of lost civilizations, similarities in different mythologies, indecipherable languages, and dreams of green darkness.
Then, in part 2, we begin an incredibly ambitious and free-ranging conversation about language and the world of archetypes, how they might manifest both in characters and in human beings, and what a "choral reef" of lesser gods might look like. How might these beings interact through art?
This is pretty dense stuff, and one of my favorite conversations Kris and I have had so far. We're getting somewhere here, and really running up against the barriers of the language we have to describe it.
Part 1:
Maintenance Art / Black Phoenicians / The Handbags of the Gods / Strange Languages
Part 2:
Roko’s Basilisk / Archetypes as Psychic Resonances / The Etymology of “Character” / Lives of Archetypes
SHOW NOTES:
Drinking Blood
Mierle Laderman Ukeles’ Maintenance Art Manifesto
Colette's libretto for Ravel's L'enfant et les sortilèges
Are Neanderthals Trolls?
Black Etruscans/Phoenicians
In the Dark Places of Wisdom by Peter Kingsley
Rapa Nui Walking Statues
Gobekli Tepe
The Handbags of the Gods
Rongorongo
Dagon’s Pope Hat
Bam Margera’s Rap Language
Sir Joseph Banks
Pascal’s Wager
Roko’s Basilisk
The Corpus Hermeticum
Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson
Key 23 from The Invisibles (Incorrectly referred to as “Key 6” in the episode)
Carl Dennis
Symptoms in the Mind by Andrew Sims
Harold Pinter
Edward Albee
David Mamet
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