Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-243) and index.
Contents:
I. I am one hundred percent sure that we're not completely sure -- Dream investigations of tree house operations -- Know thyself, Agent Cooper! -- Laura Palmer - Madonna and whore -- Special epistemic agent Dale Cooper -- Albert among the chowder-head yokels and blithering hayseeds II. My log does not judge -- But what does it mean? -- The art of playing along with dancing little people -- I sure feel uncomfortable being in this situation with you -- III. It's like I'm having the most beautiful dream and the most terrible nightmare at once -- My dharma is the road that never ends -- The Miss Twin Peaks award goes to... -- The mother of all bombs -- It's not about BOB - it never was -- IV. The owls are not what they seem -- Reason and catharsis -- Diane, I am now upside down -- The evil in these woods -- Doppelgängers, doubles, and tulpas -- Through plastic our secrets seen -- V. I have no idea where this will lead us, but I have a definite feeling it will be a place both wonderful and strange -- Repeating Twin Peaks -- A pataphysical cherry pie.
Summary:
2017 saw the triumphant return of the weird and haunting TV show Twin Peaks, with most of the original cast, after a gap of twenty-five years. Twin Peaks and Philosophy finally answers that puzzling question: What is Twin Peaks really about? Twin Peaks is about evil in various forms, and poses the question: What's the worst kind of evil? Can the everyday evil of humans in a small mountain town ever be as evil as the evil of alien supernatural beings? Or is the evil of non-humans actually less threatening because it's so strange and unaccountable? And does the influence of uncanny forces somehow excuse the crimes committed by regular folks? Twin Peaks is about the imagination run wild, moving from metaphysics to pataphysics--the discipline invented by Alfred Jarry, which probes the assumption that anything can happen and discovers the laws governing events which constitute exceptions to all laws.
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