by Paul K
WAKE ISLAND IS A CONVERSATION SERIES ABOUT THE DARKENING UNDERCURRENTS OF CONTEMPORARY CULTURE WITH HOSTS PAUL K AND DAVID LEO RICE 🕳️ 🐇
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September 17, 2024
<p>In this season-ending episode of Wake Island, guest co-host BR Yeager—author of Negative Space and Burn You the Fuck Alive—joins us for a hall of mirrors conversation. Together, we get into David Leo Rice’s latest book, The Berlin Wall, using it as a lens to examine violent cusp figures like Anders Behring Breivik, Timothy McVeigh, and the Columbine shooters.</p> <p><br>We take a gut check for 2024, exploring the height of disenchantment that drives us to embrace disharmony in a world where consensus feels out of reach and history feels at once stuck in place and spiraling out of control. Along the way, we nosedive through historical inflection portals and terroristic moments that warp our perception of reality and linear time.</p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>Europe, 2020. Some claim that the Berlin Wall, once a living entity, is coming back together, its scattered pieces seeking reunion on the far side of history. The European continent trembles on the edge of total war, either in reality or deep in its own feverish imagination. Part present-tense apocalyptic satire and part neo-medieval phantasmagoria, David Leo Rice’s new novel presents an alternate history of the present where the Internet has become a territory unto itself and unstable factions obsessed with nationalism, liberalism, and romanticism drive one another toward a clash that could turn the very notions of refuge and culture into the ravings of a lunatic.</strong></p> <p><br></p> <p><em>With </em>The Berlin Wall<em>, David Leo Rice has produced a text that feels totally sui generis: he has achieved the rarest of writerly feats and become his own genre. No other writer I know embodies simultaneity so cleanly or marries the aesthetics of gnosticism, decadence and pop-culture with a clarity of prose. If </em>The New House<em> was a bildungsroman from alternative dimensions, </em>The Berlin Wall<em> is an allegorical history of the present. It is as if Rice presents an archaeology of time, dusting off human chronology to reveal the multiplicative source of life in all its writhing self-contained logic beneath. He charts how forms form and the way the gross larval simplicity of fascism invades and reproduces in bodies.</em></p> <p>— Thomas Kendall, author of <em>The Autodidacts</em> and <em>How I Killed the Universal Man</em></p> --- Support this podcast: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wake-island/support" rel="payment">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wake-island/support</a>
August 14, 2024
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July 31, 2024
<p>In this episode with Steve Finbow, we tease out the point at which a body ceases to be considered a person and chart the development of trauma over time, tracing the fine line between disgust and desire. We get into the motivations behind necrophilia and corpse desecration, examining the boundaries of how taboos can become normalized. We discuss the role of the soul or consciousness in elevating necrophilia to a mythic realm and the pursuit of the death drive in objects of beauty. We also consider art as both a method and a way of life, and whether societal breakdowns due to acceleration will increase instances of necrophilia in the future.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Necrophilia has shadowed humanity throughout its existence, from ancient Egypt, to the Moche culture of Peru, the exploits of the renowned Vampire of Montparnasse, the sexual murders of the Weimar Republic, through to serial killers such as Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer. This new edition of <em>Grave Desire </em>– with artworks by Karolina Urbaniak – delves unflinchingly into the myths, art and practices surrounding this taboo subject. Finding Juliet’s catatonic body and believing she had poisoned herself, it could have crossed Romeo’s mind to act out the unthinkable. Maybe Juliet, seeing Romeo’s corpse, considered a little sexual frottage before she stabbed herself with the phallic dagger. Repulsive yet real, disgusting and disturbing, this is an erotic book of the dead.</p> <p><br></p> <p><a href="https://www.infinitylandpress.com/product-page/grave-desire" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Buy Grave Desire from Infinity Land Press. </a></p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>Steve Finbow</strong>’s non-fiction includes Allen Ginsberg: Critical Lives (Reaktion), Notes from the Sick Room (Repeater), Death Mort Tod (Infinity Land Press), The Mindshaft (Amphetamine Sulphate), Polaroid Haiku – with Jukka Siikala (Infinity Land Press), The Life of the Artist Niccolò di Mescolano (Alberegno Press). Sanbashi – a biography of the postwar Japanese photographer Toru Nakagami – will be published in 2024.</p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>SOCIALS</strong>:</p> <p> Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/WakeIslandPod">@WakeIslandPod </a></p> <p>Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/wakeislandpod/?hl=en">@wakeislandpod </a></p> <p>David Leo Rice: <a href="https://l.instagram.com/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.raviddice.com%2F&e=AT1iNJk95C_ZxpzO-SvjV4uF4cCF8Uk4e2baHAzQdYRRovNqREQHlkBmn-u6KWZcb1B2TQCNGm9cCenOtQ0Od_-BZFSrYrjcHSz0lg"><strong>www.raviddice.com</strong></a></p> <p>David's Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/raviddice">@raviddice</a></p> --- Support this podcast: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wake-island/support" rel="payment">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wake-island/support</a>
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