Brute Norse Podcast Ep. 27: World on a Wire, Norse Cosmology, and Heroic Death (Valhalla interlude)

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Brute Norse goes to the movies in this spoiler saturated interlude to the series on Valhalla. What are the gods, and how do they see us? With its unsettling depiction of a simulated reality, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1973 sci-fi masterpiece «World on a Wire» (Welt am Draht) is an oft cited example of a film way ahead of its time. In this episode, we’re going to turn that claim upside down and let the mythic merge with the cybernetic, using the film as an opportunity for a Scandifuturist reading of Norse Pre-Christian cosmology, and notions of heroic transcendence.

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Mentioned works:

- Fassbinder, Rainer Werner (1973). World on a Wire: www.imdb.com/title/tt0070904/

- Fragasso, Claudio (1990). Troll 2: www.imdb.com/title/tt0105643/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

- Heide, Eldar (2014). Contradictory Cosmology in Old Norse Myth & Religion - But still a system?

- Neckel, Gustav (1913). Walhall: Studien über germanishcen Jenseitsglauben.