Evgenia and I sit down in the attic to talk about David Lynch’s passing, my failed attempt to make a Lynch film in my early 20s, and the similarities between Lynch and Philip K.
Any likelihood of gathering with local miami fans of the show? I’m a Cuban immigrant and by now have spent half my life in Miami. Grew up surrounded by soviet culture in Havana. Would love to show you guys some of the places where newcomers and locals engage in death drive like rituals.
Hi, really like this ep. Many years ago I was at a SF writer's workshop and talked to then editor in chief at Tor Partrick Nielsen Hayden. Back then Steampunk was realtively new and for me it seemed such a defeatist genre. On the on hand putting a positive spin on industrialisation (much like Cyberpunk cooling up historical developments which were in many ways about destruction). I thought it was about being afraid of the present moment and being nostalgic about a time when tech was understandable by the layman and the whole celebratory aspect felt, to me, very much like Weimar Republic Germany. Berlin was a party town where gender bending was celebrated, lots of drugs, the free market, the stock market crash, the rise of the Nazi party, austerity and so on. It was all there.... He laughed at me. Wonder what he would say now (There is a German TV series that looks at this era which is pretty good - Berlin Babylon). It fits really well with your thoughts on the Trump era starting now the move to Florida and so on.
Another cultural gem which gets at this is Bong Joon-ho's Okja - where part of the story is the clash between two kinds of capitalism. The new woke style and the old Trumpian style. Wonder if you've seen any of this stuff or if you ever think about the parallels to the Weimar Republic.
This podcast is such a relief for my depressing habit of social media scrolling.
I was thinking a lot about Mike Davis lately. I wonder if there are a lot of through lines and parallels between Lynch, Dick and Davis.
I agree - when you think of life as “this is it” you can usually enjoy it more. Usually.
Any likelihood of gathering with local miami fans of the show? I’m a Cuban immigrant and by now have spent half my life in Miami. Grew up surrounded by soviet culture in Havana. Would love to show you guys some of the places where newcomers and locals engage in death drive like rituals.
Hi, really like this ep. Many years ago I was at a SF writer's workshop and talked to then editor in chief at Tor Partrick Nielsen Hayden. Back then Steampunk was realtively new and for me it seemed such a defeatist genre. On the on hand putting a positive spin on industrialisation (much like Cyberpunk cooling up historical developments which were in many ways about destruction). I thought it was about being afraid of the present moment and being nostalgic about a time when tech was understandable by the layman and the whole celebratory aspect felt, to me, very much like Weimar Republic Germany. Berlin was a party town where gender bending was celebrated, lots of drugs, the free market, the stock market crash, the rise of the Nazi party, austerity and so on. It was all there.... He laughed at me. Wonder what he would say now (There is a German TV series that looks at this era which is pretty good - Berlin Babylon). It fits really well with your thoughts on the Trump era starting now the move to Florida and so on.
Another cultural gem which gets at this is Bong Joon-ho's Okja - where part of the story is the clash between two kinds of capitalism. The new woke style and the old Trumpian style. Wonder if you've seen any of this stuff or if you ever think about the parallels to the Weimar Republic.