Who Is the Dreamer? (Borges' "The Circular Ruins")

Who Is the Dreamer? (Borges' "The Circular Ruins") is the 293rd episode of the Very Bad Wizards podcast, released on September 24, 2024.

Show Notes

David and Tamler crawl up a riverbank, kiss the mud, and dream a discussion of Borges' "The Circular Ruins." We sort through various interpretations and allusions, the story as a metaphor for artistic creation, gnostic cosmology, solipsism, eternal recursion, and the unstable boundary between reality and illusion. How does Borges fit all of this and much more in a 5 page story? Plus, Scientific American endorses Kamala Harris – is that a big deal? We look at a study purporting to show that Nature's Biden endorsement eroded trust in science among Trump supporters. Political endorsement by Nature and trust in scientific expertise during COVID-19 [nature.com] The Circular Ruins by Jorge Luis Borges [wikipedia.org]  

• Political endorsement by Nature and trust in scientific expertise during COVID-19
  
• The Circular Ruins by Jorge Luis Borges