18. What is a World? (w/ Patricia Reed)

Update: 2024-09-05

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Majorly excited to have Patricia Reed on the pod. This is a beefy episode! If I was looking for a major reset in my relationship to the world around me, I'd start here.

Here’s a list of the references we make throughout the interview:

Here's that e-flux diagram I talk about in the intro, and here's a lecture in which she discusses this diagram. Here's the Diagramming the Common piece, which is older but I really like it.
Here's a must-read interview with Denise Ferreira da Silva where the concept of "the end of the world as we know it" is postulated.
When Patricia Reed refers to the "logics of worlds" in a Badiousian sense, she's referring to Alain Badiou's work on truth and world. Unless you're down for a real rabbithole, you're likely good with Reed's description here.
Reed references Margaret Morrison and the Black-Scholes model in the context of finance.
Reed references Sylvia Wynter's work consistently, specifically her discussion of humanism and of Frantz Fanon.
Check out Beth Coleman's work on Octavia Butler AI, as well as da Silva's "Unpayable Debt" (inspired by Butler's Kindred) -- and if you somehow haven't read the Lilith's Brood Trilogy after we discussed it with Luciana Parisi, go read it (aka Xenogenesis). It's like idk the most important work of fiction in the last 50 years idk!!!
Ofc big shoutouts as always Anil Bawa-Cavia -- this is the book we discuss toward the end of the episode.
If you aren't aware of Laboria Cuboniks and the XFM, stop listening and read it!!!