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Matt Price – technology historian and dedicated educator – joins us to discuss Susanna Clarke's Piranesi. We talk about egos, ego death, cults, academia, Christianity, Buddhism, and psychedelics. No insights, only more questions.
Show notes:
- Susanna Clarke's official website
- Piranesi on Goodreads
- Very Bad Wizards on Piranesi
- Giovanni Battista Piranesi on Wikipedia
- Carceri d'invenzione, Giovanni Battista Piranesi's "Imaginary Prisons"
- All Things Shining, the book I refer to as "Everything Shining" in the podcast
- Gene Wolfe, who Ursula K. Le Guin referred to as "our Melville"
- Aleister Crowley
- Bodhisattva
- Natural history
- Various soundtracks to Piranesi:
- "Everything Forgotten Flows" by Priori
- "Prati Bagnati Del Monte Analogo" by Francesco Messina and Raul Lovisoni
- In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country by Boards of Canada
Next month, will be Jurassic Park (the movie and the book!) with Mark Chambers.
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Produced by Jed Sundwall. Write to jed at techsontexts.net with feedback and suggestions for books or guests.
Intro music by Secret School.
Outro music is "3/10th of the Population" by WE™.
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