Nov 13, 2023: Ed Park, author, "Same Bed Different Dreams"
Show Notes
• Same Bed Different Dreams, by Ed Park
• Linktree for Ed Park
• About Ed Park
• Welcome to Ed Park’s Many-Layered World (Nov 2, 2023), New York Times review by Hamilton Cain
• July 20, 2020 Techtonic, Ed’s first appearance on Techtonic – discussing reading during a pandemic
• Californian author Ed Park’s wildly ambitious novel of alt-history Korea (LA Times review by Jonathan Russell Clark, Nov 6, 2023)
• Court rules automakers can record and intercept owner text messages (Record.media, Nov 8, 2023)
• Finally: Speaking of “Dreams are everything that’s not online” . . .
“Our cancerous industrialism, reducing all ideological differences to epiphenomena, has generated its own breed of witch doctor. These are men with a genius for control and organization, and the lust to administrate. They propose first to shrink our world to the dimensions of a global village, over which some technological crackpot will erect a geodesic dome to regulate air and light; at the same time the planetary superintendent of schools will feed our children via endless belt into reinforcement-trained boxes where they will be conditioned for their functions in the anthill arcology of the future. The ideal robot, after all, is simply a properly processed human being.”
– Edward Abbey, “Shadows from the Big Woods” (thanks to DJ Irwin Chusid)
• Linktree for Ed Park
• About Ed Park
• Welcome to Ed Park’s Many-Layered World (Nov 2, 2023), New York Times review by Hamilton Cain
• July 20, 2020 Techtonic, Ed’s first appearance on Techtonic – discussing reading during a pandemic
• Californian author Ed Park’s wildly ambitious novel of alt-history Korea (LA Times review by Jonathan Russell Clark, Nov 6, 2023)
• Court rules automakers can record and intercept owner text messages (Record.media, Nov 8, 2023)
• Finally: Speaking of “Dreams are everything that’s not online” . . .
“Our cancerous industrialism, reducing all ideological differences to epiphenomena, has generated its own breed of witch doctor. These are men with a genius for control and organization, and the lust to administrate. They propose first to shrink our world to the dimensions of a global village, over which some technological crackpot will erect a geodesic dome to regulate air and light; at the same time the planetary superintendent of schools will feed our children via endless belt into reinforcement-trained boxes where they will be conditioned for their functions in the anthill arcology of the future. The ideal robot, after all, is simply a properly processed human being.”
– Edward Abbey, “Shadows from the Big Woods” (thanks to DJ Irwin Chusid)
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