DEATH // SENTENCE

Kayte Terry of the Tender Subject podcast joins Langdon to talk through Jane Schoenbrun's follow up to I Saw The TV Glow, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma. Will they avoid being horribly murdered long enough to see Gillian Anderson kiss a girl?

Music by Nik Bärtsch’s Ronin

Langdon and Eden return from the void of unreality to tackle, fight, love, and hate How I Killed the Universal Man by Thomas Kendall. It's an excellent and infuriating cyberpunk/noir book about mind-altering drugs, the violence of infrastructure, and how philosophy sucks, actually.

Music played:

Dissimulator - Alloyed https://20buckspin.bandcamp.com/track/alloyed

Eden and Langdon return to disparage Francis Fukuyama (and mispronounce his name, sorry) before moving to lauding Italo Calvino's tongue-in-cheek, sharply constructed The Nonexistent Knight. They explore questions of historical reception, "herohood", identity, and (post)modernism.

Music played:

Papangu - Colosso https://papangu.bandcamp.com/track/colosso

Kayte Terry from Tender Subject podcast joins Langdon to talk about The Singularity, the first serious piece of Italian science fiction and a story of getting yourself all messed up about AI, the cold war and weird Zones.

The song is "Endogenous Polypharmaceutical Communion Rite of the Oracular Virgin Priestess" by Effluence and it's 35 minutes long.

The Chaos Configuration emerges to discuss Missouri Williams' beguiling, frustrating, oppressive, and gorgeous The Vivisectors. A tale of the end of history, the collapse of meaning, how weird gardens are, and a messed up city.

Music played:

Oh Hiroshima - Broken Sunlight https://ohhiroshima.bandcamp.com/track/broken-sunlight