A Meal of Thorns 23 – DREAMS OF AMPUTATION with Sean McTiernan

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Credits:

• Guest: Sean McTiernan
• Title: Dreams of Amputation by Gary J. Shipley
• Host: Jake Casella Brookins
• Music by Giselle Gabrielle Garcia
• Artwork by Rob Patterson
• Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough
• Transcribers: Kate Dollarhyde

References:

• The SFUltra podcast
• Alasdair Gray’s Lanark & Poor Things
• James Joyce’s Ulysses
• Fredric Jameson
• Absolute DC comics
• Michael Comeau’s Hellberta
• Alan Grant & John Wagner’s Doomlord
• Ray Nayler’s Where the Axe is Buried
• Neil Sharpson’s When The Sparrow Falls
• Michael Mann's Blackhat
• Later Die Hards
• Tony Scott’s Enemy of the State
• Jean Baudrillard
• Shipley’s Stratagem of the Corpse, Crypt(o)spasm, and Serial Killing: A Philosophical Anthology
• Dennis Cooper
• Blake Butler’s “Sci-Fi Doesn’t Have to Be Dominated by Horny Bro Wizards” for Vice
• Darko Suvin
• Manuela Draeger's Kree (and Antoine Volodine’s other work)
• Mark Danielewski
• B.R. Yeager
• Apocalypse Party
• William S. Burrough’s Naked Lunch
• Neal Stephenson
• Daniel Dennett
• Memetics
• Philip K. Dick’s A Scanner Darkly
• J.G. Ballard, M. John Harrison, John Updike
• Blake Butler’s Uxa.gov & the SFUltra episode
• Christopher Priest’s “Hull 0, Scunthorpe 3”
• Brian Evenson, Pierre Guyotat
• Harrison's Nova Swing
• Tad Williams' Otherland
• Derek Raymond (Rober Cook)’s He Died With His Eyes Open
• Thomas Metzinger The Ego Tunnel
• Bernard Wolfe’s Limbo
• Evenson’s Last Days / Brotherhood of Mutilation
• William Gibson, Bruce Sterling
• Warhammer 40k
• Ballard's Crash
• Curt Siodmak’s Donovan's Brain
• Matt from Bookpilled
• Nick Land
• CCRU & Dark Enlightenment
• Baudrillard’s The Transparency of Evil, Cool Memories, The Perfect Crime
• Mark Fisher, Kodwu Eshun, Kode9
• Fisher’s “Exiting the Vampire Castle”
• Andrea Dworkin
• Brion Gysin
• Travis Baldree's Legends and Lattes
• Walter Hill's The Driver
• Brian Catling
• Ian Sinclair
• SFUltra episodes on Lanark, Poor Things, and Catling