Best Timothy Wilcox Podcasts (2024)

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Simulated State-Created Podcast Event ft. Noah (@trycypress) 1:01:40

3+ y ago1:01:40

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Released less than one month apart at the start of 1985 are two satires of contemporary bureaucratic and consumer life, one an American novel and the other a British film. Don DeLillo's White Noise and Terry Gilliam's Brazil each stand up as profound visions of their late 20th century moment. With my guest Noah (@trycypress), we bring these two tog…

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Tradhumanism Ex Machina ft. Adam Jesionowski 1:24:02

3+ y ago1:24:02

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In 2014, Alex Garland's film Ex Machina imagines a contest between two humans, structured narratively around an artificially intelligent humanoid robot. At the same time, Roger Scruton explores the concept of the sacred in The Soul of the World, addressing the ways in which we address ourselves to the face of the other and the face of the world, fi…

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Yvor Winters' Easy Ride ft. E. L. Brooks 56:29

3+ y ago56:29

56:29

The 1969 film Easy Rider and the late poetry of Yvor Winters offer a striking double vision of California and its place in both the American landscape and culture. The film stars Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper as two motorcyclists struggling to take it easy in a hostile America, traveling east from California. Earlier, Winters traveled west to Calif…

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Dead Dreams at the Turn of the Century ft. nameandnoun 58:49

3+ y ago58:49

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Joined by guest poet Steff (@nameandnoun), we go back in time to explore intimacy, womanhood, family, and more in the year 2000. As seen prominently in Darren Aronofsky's film Requiem for a Dream, despair, addiction, and desperation tears through multiple lives. Meanwhile, Kim Addonizio explores these issues in her own way in her poetry collection …

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Our Cyberpunk Before ft. James McGirk 1:05:03

3+ y ago1:05:03

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In 1966, we find two distinct visions which become foundational for cyberpunk a decade and a half later. In Robert Stone's novel A Hall of Mirrors, a man gets taken on as a radio host, forming conspiratorial patterns in the news to guide public opinion. Then as predecessor to the sort of console cowboys who would later roam cyberspace, The Good, th…

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Taking Off Atomised Society's Glasses ft. Default Friend 1:07:42

3+ y ago1:07:42

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Two influential, distinct visions of romance and our social structures at the end of the 20th century, Michel Houellebecq’s Les Particules élémentaires and the romantic comedy She’s All That come out half a year and an ocean apart. In one, two isolated half-brothers struggle to find love and physical affection, while in the teen movie, the social o…

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Coming of Age in 1995 ft. goblinodds 56:12

3+ y ago56:12

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Two striking visions of coming of age – Ursula K. Le Guin's story "Coming of Age in Karhide" and Amy Heckerling's film Clueless – come out two months apart in mid-1995. The former depicts a planet of androgynous beings whose gender and sexuality continually adapt to others within a state known as "kemmer." The latter adapts Jane Austen's 1815 novel…

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Observations Above and Within the Sea 21:54

3+ y ago21:54

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Marianne Moore releases her poetry collection Observations in December of 1924. Prominent throughout the collection are images of the sea in particular. The sea frames Moore's poetic and philosophic project, but looking at the timing of this publication, she is not alone in this interest. The most popular film of the year is The Sea Hawk, an advent…

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Countercultural Inheritance ft. Geoff Shullenberger 1:01:20

3+ y ago1:01:20

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In February 1990, Thomas Pynchon releases Vineland, his first novel since the momentous Gravity's Rainbow 17 years prior. The novel focuses on the teenage daughter of a 1960s counterculture radical, trying to come to understand her parents' past and the world she has inherited amid the relentless pursuit of an FBI agent. Simultaneous with this rele…

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Reflections Unprying 16:35

3+ y ago16:35

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In 1972, John Berryman dies and David Lynch begins work on his first feature-length film, Eraserhead. It takes Lynch five years to complete the film, the same span of time needed for John Haffenden to find, transcribe, organize, and publish a selection of leftover Berryman poems, which he prints as Henry's Fate, in reference to central character He…

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Killing Machines at the End of the Cold War ft. Emmet Penney 46:10

4y ago46:10

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Right before the Cold Wars ends in December of 1991, Bret Easton Ellis releases American Psycho in March and James Cameron releases Terminator 2 in July. One is about an inhuman killing machine, and the other is about a cyborg who leans the value of human life. One a vision of the consumer end of late 20th century technology, the other military, de…

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Cultural Engine Failure ft. Grant Dever 44:34

4y ago44:34

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September 11, 2001, Life of Pi comes out, then a few weeks later, Donnie Darko releases in theaters, a box office failure due its timing and central plane crash imagery. In these two narratives, a young man struggles to survive within a harsh world, while grappling with an animalistic nature. Grant Dever joins host Timothy Wilcox to recover this cu…

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A Sketch of Christmas 12:19

4y ago12:19

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A short Christmas special: December 1983, A Christmas Story comes out in theaters, depicting a kid who wants a BB gun for Christmas, but who keeps being told he'll shoot his eye out. A few months earlier, Raymond Carver publishes his story "Cathedral," in which a close-minded man is visited by a blind man. Both works have a realist bent, showing ch…

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Extracting the American Outlaw ft. Sonya Mann 1:09:25

4y ago1:09:25

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In August, 1967, Bonnie and Clyde comes out and glamorizes two real-life outlaws on the big screen. It is in this moment that foundational gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson publishes his first book, a close-up account of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang. In both works, we see the self-conscious creation of an American outlaw image, yet each work …

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Triplethink ft. James Simpkin 1:00:31

4y ago1:00:31

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Summer 1949, in post-World War II Europe, at the dawn of the Cold War, George Orwell publishes Nineteen Eighty-Four. The novel's insights have led its ideas to become shorthand for increasingly broad generalities. At the same time, in the same context, The Third Man offers its own distinct vision. James Simpkin, a PhD candidate in History, joins ho…

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Origins of Cyberpunk 26:47

4y ago26:47

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Summer 1982, Ridley Scott's Blade Runner is in theaters and William Gibson's story "Burning Chrome" just published in Omni magazine. Host Timothy Wilcox explores the multiple origins of cyberpunk: cyborg bodies, cyberspace, and the worlds of simulated stimulation.By Timothy Wilcox

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Hallucinations of 1983 ft. Jeremy Fox 1:58:11

4y ago1:58:11

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February 1983, David Cronenberg's Videodrome comes out. Soon after, Jorge Luis Borges puts out one of his last stories, "Shakespeare's Memory." Host Timothy Wilcox and guest Jeremy Fox, LPC explore the parallel visions of these two artists. Creation, obsession, trauma, media, communication – reality itself hangs in the balance.…

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Simulated State-Created Podcast Event ft. Noah (@trycypress) 1:01:40

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Tradhumanism Ex Machina ft. Adam Jesionowski 1:24:02

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Yvor Winters' Easy Ride ft. E. L. Brooks 56:29

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Dead Dreams at the Turn of the Century ft. nameandnoun 58:49

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Our Cyberpunk Before ft. James McGirk 1:05:03

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Taking Off Atomised Society's Glasses ft. Default Friend 1:07:42

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Coming of Age in 1995 ft. goblinodds 56:12

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Observations Above and Within the Sea 21:54

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Countercultural Inheritance ft. Geoff Shullenberger 1:01:20

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Reflections Unprying 16:35

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Killing Machines at the End of the Cold War ft. Emmet Penney 46:10

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Cultural Engine Failure ft. Grant Dever 44:34

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A Sketch of Christmas 12:19

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Extracting the American Outlaw ft. Sonya Mann 1:09:25

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Triplethink ft. James Simpkin 1:00:31

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Origins of Cyberpunk 26:47

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Hallucinations of 1983 ft. Jeremy Fox 1:58:11

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