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#104: He Felt the Marble Rising in His Veins (Terrorism as Public Art #3) (Patreon)

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2018-12-03 06:49:05
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2026-06
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Iain Sinclair's Radon Daughters and the Jerusalem of real-estate capital.

(In all seriousness, I'm still dealing with the last effects of a couple nasty drug detoxes, so I'm sorry if this isn't quite up to whatever my usual standard might be.)

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John Waaben

Bit of a longshot but has anyone else here read “Tree of Smoke” by Dennis Johnson? I’m almost done with it. The CIA’s obsession with myth in that novel and controlling it, (through the titular tree of smoke), feels in harmony with Sinclair’s ideas here. I’m Relistening to this series after MJ’s recommendation from the Aaron Bushnell ep (RIP Legend) with these themes fresh in my mind.

Jonathan Schultz

Another great episode. I got a hold of the edition of Lud Heat/Suicide Bridge that you mentioned in this and last episode, I believe. I was blown away by both, but for some reason Suicide Bridge resonated more with me than Lud Heat. That last ten minutes of this episode, where you talk about Sinclair's notion of 'heat', I was reminded heavily of William Burroughs, "One God Universe" routine...for whatever that may be worth.

Robert

Love the outro! In MJ we trust! Really enjoyed that one and came at an opportune time. I was strolling around London last week and came across Swedenborg society house. Gorgeous interior and exterior with a lot of cool stuff (incl. a donated Sinclair typewriter if I read correctly). Their publishing house turns out a lot of interesting stuff too. Will go & read Radon Daughters with a nice bit of insight too (after I finish my Swedenborg bio that I got for £2 at the society). Look forward to the next podcast - will it be the one you’re recording in a different way?

Robert

Like you said, Sinclair is no household (loosely used) name like Pynchon, DeLillo etc. But as someone who has read lud heat / suicide bright/ Scarlett tracings and a few other books, I found your explanation of his themes and purpose as helpful as that of anything on Pynchon! Hopefully more than anything this turns people onto Sinclair!

Justin Davis

Fascinating and thought-provoking as ever. Anecdotally, I think Iain Sinclair's reputation in the UK has suffered a little bit because of his imitators. There's a certain genre of Gen X writer who got on the 'property ladder' when it was still affordable, had a relatively lucrative job in media at some point, and then in the last 10 years started writing meanderingly lyrical non-fiction about their outdoorsy hobbies and the walks they go on, riffing on the literary and social history of place, often appealing to the palimpsests of 'the old, weird England', etc. Sometimes when I'm walking along the canal I pass a stylishly dressed 40-something man wheeling a bike with an empty child's seat on the back, his eyes shining with inspiration as he looks at an old gasometer across the water, and I can practically hear him composing his finely-tuned prose. I'm partly just being a prick and I'm sure there's plenty of merit in this stuff, but either way you've convinced me to drop this hangup and check out Sinclair's actual work.

Justin Davis

Also you reminded me there's a fairly obscure magazine called Notes from the Borderland that's been around since the 90s I think, with articles tracking both the security services and domestic extremists in the UK, i.e. exactly the kind of stuff you described from Radon Daughters. I wonder if the 'Borderland' echo is a coincidence