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Each week on The Matterhorn podcast, I discuss a way to layer fictions and discover the nuances of truth, using my novel as a catalyst but looking at other works of fiction as well as theory and interdisciplinary ideas. Each week, I also spend a little time on places & spaces, as part of a continued discourse on these ideas.
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Today’s episode links to “Part I: Sheung Wan ii” in A Hong Kong Story.
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Keywords:
Derrida – Plato’s Pharmacy (in Dissemination) & the Pharmakon [ φάρμακον ]
o Remedy & Poison (also scapegoat, etc.)
o Plato on the Pharmakon – Truth within and exterior to philosophy (truth)
o Mis-readings / translations
o Doubling of writing indeterminacy
o Dichotomies
o Speech vs Writing
o Self / ontology
Tensions in philosophy
Playing with the concept in fictions – Eileen Chang Lust, Caution
Place & Space focus - Sheung Wan
Texts:
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Derrida - Plato’s Pharmacy in Dissemination
Eileen Chang - Lust, Caution (with Ang Lee commentary)
Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet
Ackbar Abbas - Hong Kong: culture and the politics of disappearance
Lois Lowry - The Giver
Great guide from University of Hawaii on Plato’s Phaedrus
Music philosophy professor Michael Cobussen on Pharmakon
Pharmakon and the Machine: applications to interpretations of AI and post-human
- on Ambiguous endings
Nation, Topography, and Historiography: Writing Topographical Histories in Hong Kong
More on Sheung Wan:
The Pharmakon in Fiction | Episode 39