#341 - Metaverse of Madness
Long before the "metaverse" loomed over us, David…
Michael and Us · Luke Savage and Will Sloan
June 19, 202242m 22sExplicit
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Show Notes
Long before the "metaverse" loomed over us, David Cronenberg's EXISTENZ (1999) imagined a completely immersive virtual environment that is even less cozy than our own. We discuss the film's porous boundary between reality and unreality, and explain why Cronenberg is one of the few Canadian filmmakers who really "gets" Canada. PLUS: Looking back at a moral panic over right-wing art from the early '90s.