23.2: The Ghost Network post-read w/ Ben Roswell: Celebrity, Internet Culture, Architecture, and Secret Utopias
We've finally done it! Sorry for the late episode, a few real life considerations got in the way of editing.
We're joined again by Ben Roswell (@roswellwrites on twitter & roswellian.itch.io) to discuss Catie Disabato's postmodern novel of celebrity & architectural cults, The Ghost Network (https://amzn.to/2VtAhVc).
We all had a lot of thoughts on this book, and for any given one two of us agreed and a third didn't, in various combinations, like a big fun podcast triangle! It was a lovely conversation, about a great book to discuss with others.
Stuff we mentioned:
* Fight Truck: https://pantamalion.itch.io/fight-truck
* Trash Theory on FKA Twigs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oXADE5bzZI
* Roxane Gay on Janelle Monáe: https://www.thecut.com/2020/02/janelle-monae-afrofuture.html
* Lady Gaga Isn't Done Shape-Shifting Yet by Rachel Symes: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/03/magazine/lady-gaga-movie-star-is-born.html
* The Wikipedia page on Selena (cw domestic violence): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selena
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