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Progressiveradionetwork.com presents Expanding Mind with Erik Davis. He explores the culture of consciousness: magic, spirituality, psychology, technology.
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Sunday Nov 11, 2012
Sunday Nov 11, 2012
Time, Tarkovsky's "Stalker," and the Zona of Burning Man: a talk with writer Geoff Dyer, author of Zona: A Book about a Film about a Journey to a Room. www.geoffdyer.com
8 years ago
Yeah, I got your "temporary autonomous zone" right here, Mister. Right where the flesh meets the bone and both have to do fierce battle with the good old central nervous system. Take it or leave it the hell alone.
8 years ago
So dudes fondest wish was to get so stoned/laid at Black Rock that he remained utterly, irretrievably incapable of conferring any kind of coherent reality to his experience? Way to a-go-go, dude.
8 years ago
Yeah, dude, "If something is indescribable" even after you've experienced "it" for some five times or so, it usually stands to reason that "it" usually denotes a formless, chaotic, indulgently pre-verbal--hell, pre-sentient, even!--void that in every likelihood is a must to avoid. Either that, or you are severely lacking in any sort of imaginative intuition. Geez...
8 years ago
Man, Erik, scarcely more than ten minutes to go on what has been, by and large, a wonderful conversation regarding the passage of time in film and space, and you just have to tie it all up with your pet obsessions the psychedelic experience and Burning Man. Wtf? Are you that uncertain of yourself and your mind that you can't help but whittle everything down to these core indulgences even for one freaking episode? Shit, and here I was all set to praise you and your guest on an exceptionally thought-provoking, informative and just plain entertaining bit of media. Well, I still really dug it, nevertheless, so there. You cannot harshen my buzz, man!