I do not know how many years it has been since the last pseudcast episode, which was a sprawling, overly-complicated series on the Voynich manuscript that, quite sadly, collapsed under its own weight (with a host of technical malfunctions to boot). Maybe its been two years, perhaps three—time for me has ceased to function at all and increasingly so, I float along in a beautiful bubble where everything is both simultaneous and distant, which I guess is somewhat disturbing too—but questions about when the next episode will drop have occurred on nearly a weekly basis since then. So here it is, the preamble to KB’s newfound expertise in the historical forgery, fabrication, and its relationship to bureaucratic rationalization, the art of editing, and the development of textual criticism:
Laying the Machinery of Detection Bare: The History of Literary Forgery, 1760-1930 | Patreon
Recorded by two very sweaty guys in a hot apartment with a couple of coronas and only one microphone, I hope people enjoy. There’s a lot more to come.