Confronting Reality w/ author Yasha Levine

About this episode

Yasha Levine joins Joshua Turek to discuss a range of topics from technofeudalism to literature.

Guest Yasha Levine and Host Joshua Turek discuss everything from technofeudalism to pistachios. San Francisco! For tickets Nov 1 to see Yasha's new documentary at Roxie Theater with live Q&A hosted by Joshua Turek here For Josh's poetry books and his weekend Zoom workshop on Nov 8 & 9 visit his site Books Talked About Include Society of the Spectacle - Guy Debord Surveillance Valley - Yasha Levine The Image - Daniel Boorstijn Neil Postman - Amusing ourselves to death Raven Rock Dead Cities - Mike Davis Moderan - David Bunch Shadow of the torture - Gene Wolf The Dying Earth Series - Jack Vance sci fi Cadillac Desert The American Genocide The End of th Myth Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Joshua Turek

Guest: Yasha Levine

Topics covered

• technofeudalism
• documentary
• society
• culture
• literature

Keywords

• Yasha Levine
• Joshua Turek
• technofeudalism
• documentary
• literature

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Society of the Spectacle, Surveillance Valley, Amusing ourselves to death, Raven Rock, Dead Cities, Moderan, Shadow of the torture, The Dying Earth Series, Cadillac Desert, The American Genocide

Places: San Francisco

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