The Spinal Landscape.

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Mackay, Robin, Author.

Contributor:

Lewin, Shaun, Contributor.

Moynihan, Thomas, Contributor.

Library Stack, distributor.

Series:

Urbanomic Podcast ; 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cosmology.

Earth sciences.

Field recordings.

Field Recording.

Geoscience.

Genre:

Podcasts

Podcasts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified], Urbanomic, 2019.

Summary:

"In this epic osteogeographical podcast recorded entirely on location, we go back to the future and take a tour around Cornwall with author Thomas Moynihan to discuss his book Spinal Catastrophism. In the last section Shaun Lewin joins us at Plymouth station to talk railway spines. 00:00:00 Introduction 00:06:34 Pencallenick Obelisk 00:12:00 The Creepy Recurrency of a Peculiar Idea 00:14:30 German Idealism and Trauma 00:16:15 Copernicanism, Deep Time, Organic and Inorganic 00:18:55 Unconscious as Indigestion of the Idea 00:20:52 Wakefulness as Retrograde Amnesia 00:22:04 Wrongmindedness, Methodology, and Theory-Fiction 00:23:23 Desiring-Theory and Metaphorology 00:25:50 A Cave, Trevaunance Cove 00:26:44 Into Eternity, the Mines of Falun, Slowtime 00:30:15 Xenocommunication 00:31:54 Depth as Memory, Nicholas Steno 00:34:13 Earth as a Storehouse of Possibilia 00:36:46 Plutonic Embryology 00:41:00 Nervous System as Empowering Entrapment 00:42:10 Woes of Monkeyflake, Language and Pain 00:44:30 Jellyfish Anamnesis, Grumpy Wyndham Lewis, and the Time Mind 00:48:55 Cognitive Oncology, Philosophical Anthropology, Herder 00:53:09 Artificialisation 00:54:00 Underdetermination, Modernity, Evolutionary Heritage 00:55:57 Time Complex of Recapitulation and Relativity 00:59:22 Modernity and Recapitulationism 01:00:00 The Body as Exploded Cross-Section of Total Time 01:01:40 Plot, Navigation, Surface and Mine 01:05:03 Microcosm and Macrocosm 01:06:34 Leibniz, Contingency, Possible Worlds 01:09:05 Thresholds into Alternate Pasts, Shelley 01:10:50 The Body Becomes a Portal into Virtuality 01:11:42 Ferenczi 01:12:15 The Lizard 01:13:13 Why the Spine? 01:14:00 Hartmann and the Unconscious 01:16:55 Reflex Arcs, Vivisected Puppies, Neuro-Phylo 01:17:56 Neuronics 01:19:00 Our Inner Fish, Physiology of Time-Travel, The Voices of Time 01:20:50 Pathology as Time-Desynch, The Flimsy Present, Picnic at Hanging Rock 01:24:14 Spinal Dreams and Time Dilation 01:25:22 Hughlings Jackson and Relative Diagnostics, Time-Sickness 01:26:45 Ferenczi, Longing for Return 01:29:10 Hartmann's Omnicidal Metaphysics, Regression, Bioanalysis 01:31:10 Plymouth Station - with Shaun Lewin 01:32:11 Public Transport Dragged Me Down the Spinal Landscape 01:36:06 Priapic Spine and Wandering Womb 01:39:20 Cephalic Teleology 01:41:43 Velikovsky, Freud, and Fish 01:45:30 Recapitulationism in Contemporary Biology 01:47:33 Embryology as Cancel Culture, Gregory Bateson, Radial Monsters 01:49:44 Every Chicken is Potentially a Velociraptor 01:50:43 Planetary Phylogeny 01:53:18 Convergence, Encephalic Teleology Redux, Nasalisation 01:56:30 Possibility Space, Vultures, Biological and Economic Niches 01:59:05 Nietzsche's Headaches 02:03:09 Chakras, Metaphorology, Tautegory 02:04:27 Manipulation and Cognition 02:06:20 Intelligence is Not a Thing, Ice Age Curlews 02:10:16 Externalisation, Slasher Peppa Pig, Eaten By Your Own Prostheses 02:16:33 Future Palaeontologists, Endurance Runners, Evolved For Swiping 02:21:57 Vibratruncles, Drum Solos, Waxy Segments 02:23:47 Tooled-up Worms, Bilateralism, Segmented Spine 02:27:13 Sieved Spongebob, Shadow Biosphere 02:28:42 Transcendental Morphology, Cuvier vs. St Hilaire 02:30:55 Cuvier, Discontinuity, Deep Time 02:33:25 Stretching Worms Into Sponges, How Catastrophism Got Its Bad Name 02:36:14 Absolute Contingency, Uni vs Cata (Humean All Too Humean) 02:40:31 The Catholic Strata, The Great Die-Off and The Plastacene 02:44:19 1000 Plateaus, History, More Segmentation, PAX6 02:48:40 Biosphere as Claymation, Universal History of Contingency, D&G Are So 80s 02:52:14 Contingency of Capitalism, Spongebob and Mediaeval Chinese Buddhism 02:52:47 Determinism, Ballard's Quantum Spine, The Dragonflies Get Massive 02:55:26 Techno Worm, Probe Head, All Segmented Roads lead to Detroit 02:58:00 Launch Event"-- provided by distributor.

Notes:

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Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access