#89: Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory of the Black Devouring Star, pt. I
MJ attempts to decrypt some of the secrets encoded into the sarcophagus, both personal and planetary, of David Bowie's Blackstar.
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Coming back for the 10 year
I hit this album so hard at the time that I actually haven't heard it, front-to-back, for years – I should retvrn, and by remarkable coincidence, the next episode was already going to concern (in part) matters of petrochemical consciousness
Our eyes are tiny black stars themselves you know
*pupils
i know this was over 2 years ago, but i have had feelings and dreams about oil being sentient, or a release of something all consuming, like you described in this episode. great stuff. ill check out the book you mentioned here too.
Absolutely mindblown by this episode. I love michaels insights.
I love this shit. Your fix on 'Ormen' is a banger - CF Negarestani's interest in baroque forms of pre-modern torture here - http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ucsd/Zombies/The%20Corpse%20Bride.pdf He's a disappointingly human, legible presence on twitter these days
wow i just remembered i wrote a batman comic about that essay years ago. What a nerd https://tapas.io/episode/22882#!/collapse
Brilliant stuff! Will listen to this again after time spent with Blackstar.
Great episode! Thanks! And of course, one might even argue that the relationship between the US military and ISIS is literally collaborative, and not just collaborative in a metaphysical way, since ISIS was created by the CIA to destabilize "enemy" regimes and to legitimize military intervention.
oh, we're gonna get to that in part 2, don't worry
this one dedicated to Randy Lahey
hot damn, amazing work as always. Looking forward to revisiting the album/videos and listening to this again. Also: you are 100% correct about 1. Outside