Supercontext: an autopsy of media

The novels VALIS, The Divine Invasion, and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer by legendary science-fiction author Philip K. Dick comprise the unofficial VALIS trilogy. Published between 1978 and 1982, these books use psychedelic imagery, religious history, and psychological inquiry to create a portrait of American culture in the late 70s and early 80s. We try to unpack them against the backdrop of our contemporary situation to gain a little clarity on our middle age and growing paranoia. Interested in the media we discussed this episode? Please support the show by purchasing it through our affiliate store: The VALIS Trilogy Sources: https://philipdick.com/literary-criticism/interviews/horselover-fat-and-the-new-messiah/ https://muse.jhu.edu/article/237538 https://web.archive.org/web/20130528112644/http://www.philipkdick.com/media_twilightzone.html https://www.salon.com/2022/07/23/8-facts-about-philip-k-dick_partner/ https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/just-because-you-re-paranoid-philip-k-dick-s-troubled-life-1.3243976 Masculinity in the Novels of Philip K. Dick. Endopsychic Allegories John Boonstra: "Horselover Fat and The New Messiah" (Hartford Advocate April 22, 1981, p. 24 THE PSYCHEDELIC REINTERPRETATION OF CORPUS CHRISTI BY PHILIP K. DICK, Bogdan Trocha Dr. hab., Professor, University of Zielona Góra, Poland, Zielona Góra

This 1979 instrumental record is considered the beginning of ambient music by many of its listeners. We unpack Eno's intentions behind the function of such music, while considering his goal of provoking his listeners to contemplate their own death. We also do our best to define Ambient Music for ourselves and resist the pull of academic dissection of artistic experimentation. Interested in the media we discussed this episode? Please support the show by purchasing it through our affiliate store: Ambient 1: Music For Airports Sources: https://reverbmachine.com/blog/deconstructing-brian-eno-music-for-airports/ https://www.3ammagazine.com/litarchives/oct2001/interview_judy_nylon.html https://inmotionmagazine.com/eno1.html https://www.loudersound.com/features/mad-as-tits-but-successful-a-brief-history-of-eg-records http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/interviews/unk-78b.html http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/MFA-txt.html https://pitchfork.com/features/podcast/brian-eno-music-for-airports-review/ http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/interviews/musn79.html Lysaker, J. T. (2018). Brian Eno's Ambient 1: Music for airports. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190497293.001.0001 Cox C., Warner D., . (2004). Audio culture. New York: Continuum. Albiez, S., & Pattie, D. (Eds.). (2016). Brian Eno: Oblique Music. Bloomsbury Academic. Sheppard, David. On Some Faraway Beach : The Life and Times of Brian Eno, Chicago Review Press, Incorporated, 2009.

This 1981 horror/comedy film has achieved cult status within the film buff community, built the mold for horror comedies, and completely traumatized Charlie in his youth. Despite the controversies around its creator, it has become ripe for personal interpretations. Interested in the media we discussed this episode? Please support the show by purchasing it through our affiliate store: An American Werewolf in London Sources https://davidmvining.wordpress.com/2024/07/24/an-american-werewolf-in-london/ https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-film-preservation-board/documents/Interview_John-Landis.pdf https://itcamefromblog.com/2018/01/17/famous-monsters-aliens-a-chat-with-rick-baker-monster-maker/ https://www.sfsite.com/10a/dn233.htm https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/an-american-werewolf-in-london-is-still-the-best-horror-reimagining/?pubDate=20250804 https://kevingoetz360.com/george-folsey-jr-film-editing-art-of-the-fix/ https://www.northernsoul.me.uk/griffin-dunne/ https://jennyagutter.net/ https://www.avid.wiki/PolyGram_Pictures https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/aug/21/an-american-werewolf-in-london-1981-john-landis https://jewishhorrorreview.com/tag/john-landis/ https://reellifemonsters.wordpress.com/2024/10/23/american-werewolf-in-london-queer-or-camp/ Elder, R. K. (2011). The film that changed my life : 30 directors on their epiphanies in the dark /. Chicago Review Press. Dietz, F., Bennett, J., Woodward, F. H., Weitz, S., & Maynard, R. (2021). Damn Dirty Geeks Talk Among Us!: Reflections on the classic films that make us geek out. Independently published. Curran, A. (2003). Aristotelian Reflections on Horror and Tragedy in An American Werewolf in London and The Sixth Sense. Dark Thoughts. Philosophic Reflections on Cinematic Horror. Lanham, Maryland & Oxford: The Scarecrow Press inc, 47-64. 'AMERICAN WEREWOLF,' HORROR PLUS LAUGHS Aug. 21, 1981 The New York Times Archives "A Meditation on 'An American Werewolf in London' The Old Horror Film from John Landis: A Queer Look," Walter Holland, April 5, 2023 "An American Werewolf in London at 40: John Landis's crafty creative peak," The Guardian, Guy Lodge.

After being serialized in Heavy Metal magazine, this dystopian bio-punk comic was published as a beautiful book in 2010... and hardly anyone is talking about it now. We discuss the creators' intentions and hopes for the story, along with Heavy Metal's history, and Christian's youthful memories of Singapore. Interested in the media we discussed this episode? Track it down from here: Fluorescent Black Sources https://www.zonanegativa.com/fluorescent-black-an-interview-with-m-f-wilson-and-nathan-fox/ https://variety.com/2007/film/news/imagi-plotting-fluorescent-black-1117975671/?jwsource=cl https://comicattack.net/ddwddnf/ https://livefromthedmz-blog.tumblr.com/post/18558447254/nathan-fox-interview https://vimeo.com/mfwilson https://www.comicbox.com/index.php/news-english/fluorescent-black-the-graphic-novel/ (review with full Heavy Metal press release text) https://readrant.wordpress.com/2010/09/27/review-fluorescent-black/ "A Challenge to Gene Theory, a Tougher Look at Biotech," New York Times, July 1, 2007 Waldby, C. (2009). Singapore Biopolis: Bare Life in the City-State. East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal, 3(2–3), 367–383. https://doi.org/10.1215/s12280-009-9089-2 https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-history-of-cyberpunk-comics/ Transhumanism - Francis Fukuyama

This television show, created by Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi, ran from 2021 to 2023, taking on themes like grief and indigenous identity with humor, inventive storytelling, and touching reminders of coming of age within a compassionate community. Interested in the media we discussed this episode? Track it down from here: Reservation Dogs Sources: https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/reservation-dogs-the-real-story-of-okern-oklahoma/ https://deadline.com/2024/08/reservation-dogs-dpharaoh-woon-a-tai-interview-emmys-1236033993/ https://variety.com/2024/tv/awards/reservation-dogs-producer-migizi-pensoneau-indigenous-storytelling-1236044429/ https://screenrant.com/reservation-dogs-original-5-season-plan-details/ https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/reservation-dogs-sterlin-harjo-series-finale-interview-1235607021/ https://www.huffpost.com/entry/reservation-dogs-authentic-native-moments_n_64c5771fe4b03ad2b898c325 https://www.npr.org/2023/08/02/1191671833/the-unassumingly-brilliant-reservation-dogs-is-back-for-its-third-and-final-seas https://variety.com/2023/tv/features/reservation-dogs-creator-sterlin-harjo-why-ending-season-3-1235686188/ https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-reviews/reservation-dogs-season-3-tv-review-fx-hulu-1235547845/ https://www.npr.org/2022/08/08/1115613218/reservation-dogs-indian-native-american-hulu https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/sep/01/why-reservation-dogs-is-the-funniest-and-most-groundbreaking-new-tv-show https://www.salon.com/2021/08/09/reservation-dogs-fx-hulu-taika-waititi-sterlin-harjo/ https://www.cbr.com/reservation-dogs-hot-chip-metaphor/ https://www.indiewire.com/features/interviews/reservation-dogs-finale-sterlin-harjo-interview-1234910461/ https://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episode-1489-taika-waititi

This 2020 novel by Native American author Stephen Graham Jones mixes literary explorations of indigenous peoples' identity with slasher-film tropes, making it his first novel with mainstream success. Did Jones change something about his writing to get there, or did the literary world catch up to him? We discuss how history, symbols, and context fit into his project while asking, "Why did the literary establishment like this so much?" Interested in the media we discussed this episode? Please support the show by purchasing it through our affiliate store: The Only Good Indians Sources: https://blackfeetnation.com/ https://blog.nativehope.org/native-american-animals-the-elk-a-protector-and-relative https://academic.oup.com/isle/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/isle/isad056/7255951?redirectedFrom=fulltext https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/stephen-graham-jones-the-only-good-indians-interview/ https://ew.com/books/2019/08/08/only-good-indians-preview/ https://www.npr.org/2020/07/29/896840079/in-his-new-book-stephen-graham-jones-explores-the-idea-of-good-indians https://www.npr.org/2020/07/16/891433693/grief-and-guilt-spawn-horrors-in-the-only-good-indians https://www.jstor.org/stable/541345 https://journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/transmotion/article/view/266/900 https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2020-07-15/the-only-good-indians-by-stephen-graham-jones-review https://blog.nativehope.org/native-american-animals-the-elk-a-protector-and-relative https://filmobsessive.com/film/film-news/film-interviews/interview-stephen-graham-jones-a-discussion-on-lost-highway-and-mapping-the-interior/ ERIC GARY ANDERSON, et al. "Demon Theory for Beginners, or The Intertextual Badlands of Stephen Graham Jones." Postindian Aesthetics, University of Arizona Press, 2022, pp. 165-, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2c3k193.24. Washuta, Elissa and Warburton, Theresa. Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers, Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2019. Schaak, Hogan D. "Bleeding All over the Shelves and Tracking It Out into the World: Theorizing Horror in the Indigenous North American Novels The Only Good Indians and Empire of Wild." Studies in the Fantastic, vol. 15, 2023, p. 94-126.

Dive into the world of Fugazi and their influential album 'Repeater,' which still resonates today. Explore the band's DIY ethos and the personal interpretations of their themes by listeners across generations. Discover the intricate dynamics of their onstage chemistry and the unique soundscapes crafted through collaboration. Reflect on the socio-political messages in tracks like 'Greed,' while discussing the evolution of the indie music scene and the shift to more creator-driven platforms. Experience the powerful legacy of authenticity and community that defines Fugazi's work.

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