Phi Fic means Philosophical Fiction. Each episode, we have a candid dicussion on a heady work of of fiction, full of SPOILERS. Join host Nathan Hanks and readers Cezary Baraniecki, Daniel St. Pierre, Laura Davis, and Mary Claire, plus the occasional guest.
The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and Continue Reading …
Not School Digest Jan 2013: A Bonus Quasisode
Excerpts of discussions about Deleuze & Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus, an article on emergence called "More Is Different" by Nobel Prize Winning physicist P.W. Anderson, John Searle's Mind: A Brief Introduction, and Italo Calvino's trippy science fantasy novel Cosmicomics. How does the world fit together, with its different layers of organization, each with its different Continue Reading …
Not School Fiction Group: Italo Calvino’s “Cosmicomics” (Phi-Fi #2)
Featuring Nathan Hanks, Jordan Payne, and Nick Story. Discussing the themes of science, love, beauty, loss, and existence from some of the book's twelve stories. Recorded 1/6/13. An inspiration from Cosmicomics and the first story, The Distance of the Moon: Watch on YouTube. We discussed the narrator, whose name is Qwfwq- (no, that's not a typo), a timeless being Continue Reading …
Not School’s Fiction Group Reads Cosmicomics
[Editor's Note: OK, here's the last writeup on the current batch of Not School group discussions. In this case, you actually get to hear (and see!) the full discussion without being a member, but of course, we're still trying to seduce you to join up so that you can join into these fun discussions, so we get more of them, with more people, filling in more of the gaps and Continue Reading …