Weird Studies/Erik Davis
11 Feb 2022 - 06 Oct 2025
- Weird Studies Episode 48: Walking the Tightrope with Erik Davis based on the release of High Weirdness.
- Describes his relationship with occultists, which I thought was interesting. Dabbled with it, but decided it wasn't for him. He's so fascinating to me as someone who both inhabits all these scenes, but is also apart enough from them to write about them as a journalist and academic.
- High Weirdness as a cautionary tale (and also a healing tale, for those who need it).
- Interesting mentions
- You Must Change Your Life
- anthropotechnics vs. instrumentality .
- Lakoff's theory of metaphors
- metaprogramming (the old Robert Anton Wilson ish kind)
- Weird Studies Episode 4: Exploring the Weird with Erik Davis
- 20th anniversary of Techgnosis
- Reviewing the 90s – the loss of subcultures.
- Some stuff about the relation of the weird and probability which I thought was intriguing but vaguely problematic.
- Inside vs. outside. Normie art links all the weirdness to internal (psychological) factors and diminishes the cool idea that it is the world that is weird.
- Lovecraft vs Dick – in Dick, the weirdness is invading from without, in Lovecraft the protagonist approaches the weird and is swalled up by it.
- (very paraphrased). Dick characters are in a social web, Lovecraft's are solitary.