You Need to Be Dick-maxxing feat. Ryan Simón
Apr 17, 2023•2 hr 40 min•Ep. 40
Listen to this episode in Metacast mobile app
Don't just listen to podcasts. Learn from them with transcripts, summaries, and chapters for every episode. Skim, search, and bookmark insights. Learn more
Episode description
This episode, Ryan Simón, editor of the fabulous magazine, American Vulgaria, joins me to talk about Philip K Dick's mind-bending science fiction masterpiece, Ubik.
Arty sleaze, "pick me straights," beauty and art and reading as the way out of Current Thingism, making a magazine an aesthetic object, bubbles of irreality, Gnosticism, Dick's constant destruction of his own narrative, what Ubik means, science fiction tropes, crazy sci fi fashions, and much more discussed on the longest episode with a single guest ever!
Buy American Vulgaria (Issue 2 out soon!) here: https://americanvulgaria.com/shop/
Support me on Patreon. At the moment, it's just the archive, but we will be launching an aftershow soon: https://www.patreon.com/GettingLit
For the best experience, listen in Metacast app for iOS or Android