A Meal of Thorns

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Credits:

• Guest: Sunny Moraine
• Title: Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
• Host: Jake Casella Brookins
• Music by Giselle Gabrielle Garcia
• Artwork by Rob Patterson
• Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough

References:

• Your Shadow Half Remains
• Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction From the Margins of History
• Looming Low
• Singing With All My Skin and Bone
• Serial horror podcast Gone
• The Shadow Files of Morgan Knox
• Gibson's Neuromancer, Virtual Light, Mona Lisa Overdrive, “The Gernsback Continuum”, The Peripheral, “Fragments of a Hologram Rose”
• Frank Herbert’s Dune and Dune Messiah
• Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness
• Nathan Ballingrud’s Crypt of the Moon Spider, The Strange, and North American Lake Monsters
• China Miéville’s The City and the City
• Michel Foucault's notion of heterotopia
• Jean Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation
• William Gibson & the Futures of Contemporary Culture edited by Mitch R. Murray and Matthias Nilges
• Sheryl Vint & Charles Yu
• Beat writers; Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs
• Imagism 
• Mono No Aware
• Speculative Realism/Object Oriented Ontology; Jane Bennett, Graham Harman, Timothy Morton
• C.J. Cherryh's notion of “Third Person Intense Internal”
• Aimee Pokwatka’s Self Portrait With Nothing
• Kids by The Midnight
• Sonic Nurse by Sonic Youth
• Amplitudes edited by Lee Mandelo
• Sunny on Bluesky
• World Fantasy Awards