Episode 25: David Cronenberg's 'Naked Lunch' - a podcast by Phil Ford and J. F. Martel

JF and Phil head for Interzone in an attempt to solve the enigma of Naked Lunch, David Cronenberg's 1991 screen adaptation of William S. Burroughs' infamous 1959 novel. A treatise on addiction, a diagnosis of modern ills, a lucid portrait of the artist as cosmic transgressor, and like the book, "a frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of every fork," Naked Lunch is here framed in the light Cronenberg's recent speech making the case for the crime of art.
Image by Melancholie, Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gabel.jpg).REFERENCES
David Foster Wallace, "Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way," (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_with_Curious_Hair) from Girl With Curious HairGilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Oedipus), and "How Do You Make Yourself a Body Without Organs?" in [A Thousand Plateaus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AThousandPlateaus)David Cronenberg (writer-director), Naked Lunch (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102511/) (the film)
William Burroughs, [Naked Lunch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NakedLunch)_ (the novel)
Thomas De Quincey, [Confessions of an Opium-Eater](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ConfessionsofanEnglishOpium-Eater)
Dale Pendell, Pharmako/Poeia: Power Plants, Poisons and Herbcraft (https://www.amazon.com/Pharmako-Poeia-Revised-Updated-Herbcraft/dp/1556438052)"David Cronenberg: I would like to make the case for the crime of art," (https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-crime-of-art/) Globe and Mail June 22 2018
JF Martel, [Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice](https://www.amazon.com/Reclaiming-Art-Age-Artifice-Manifesto/dp/1583945784/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1536764053&sr=1-1&keywords=reclaiming+art+in+the+age+of+artifice)
Phil Ford, Dig: Sound and Music in Hip Culture (https://www.amazon.com/Dig-Sound-Music-Hip-Culture/dp/0199939918)Derek Bailey (director), [On the Edge: Improvisation in Music](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edy2QlPjaU)_Phil Ford, "Good Prose is Written By People Who Are Not Frightened" (https://dialmformusicology.com/2017/08/10/good-prose-is-written-by-people-who-are-not-frightened/)
Geroge Orwell, "Inside the Whale" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_the_Whale)

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