The Spinal Landscape

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