“The ultimate sense of humor is a free way of relating with life situations in their full absurdity.” —Chögyam Trungpa
— Erik Davis (@erik_davis) October 18, 2020
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“It is when the machine begins to break down that you begin to see how it works. Likewise it is when authority is challenged that you begin to see the otherwise concealed workings of the power structure. This we could call… *preemptively apocalyptic knowledge*…” -Mick Taussig
— Erik Davis (@erik_davis) March 28, 2020
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To a degree. This is what I endeavor to do in High Weirdness, where I try and both exploit the ambiguity of the term (as genre, popular adjective for odd experiences, literary term, analog of “uncanny”, etc) and attach it to a space between matter and aesthetics.
— Erik Davis (@erik_davis) June 8, 2018
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