Episodes and Blog Entries
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Episode 32: Orbis Tertius: Borges on Magic, Conspiracy and Idealism
Episode | October 31st, 2018 | 1 hr 10 mins
hyperstition, idealism, jorge luis borges, metaphysics
Phil and JF discuss the classic tale, "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius," by the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges.
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Episode 31: Scarcely Human at All: On Glenn Gould's 'Prospects of Recording'
Episode | October 24th, 2018 | 1 hr 16 mins
art, music, technology, transhumanism
JF and Phil discuss the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould's prophetic essay, "The Prospects of Recording."
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Episode 30: On Stanley Kubrick's 'Eyes Wide Shut'
Episode | October 14th, 2018 | 1 hr 6 mins
dreams, film, kubrick, sexuality
Phil and JF discuss Stanley Kubrick's final masterpiece.
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Episode 29: On Lovecraft
Episode | October 9th, 2018 | 1 hr 15 mins
hp lovecraft, philip k dick, self, weird fiction
Phil and JF try to distill the essence of H. P. Lovecraft's monumental work.
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Episode 28: Weird Music, Part Two
Episode | October 2nd, 2018 | 1 hr 4 mins
morality, music, romanticism
The search for the music of the weird continues with a discussion on Bob Dylan and Franz Liszt.
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Episode 27: Weird Music, Part One
Episode | September 26th, 2018 | 1 hr 18 mins
cinema, ligeti, music, ornette coleman
Phil and JF discuss two powerful pieces of music: Ligeti's Musica Ricercata, second movement, and the opening music to Cronenberg's Naked Lunch, composed by Howard Shore and featuring Ornette Coleman.
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Episode 26: Living in a Glass Age, with Michael Garfield
Episode | September 19th, 2018 | 1 hr 18 mins
glass age, michael garfield, modernity
JF and Phil talk to artist and thinker Michael Garfield about his idea that we are living in the final days of the Age of Glass.
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Episode 25: David Cronenberg's 'Naked Lunch'
Episode | September 12th, 2018 | 1 hr 20 mins
art, crime, david cronenberg, drugs, william s. burroughs
Phil and JF discuss David Cronenberg's 1991 film, "Naked Lunch," an adaptation of William S. Burroughs' hallucinatory classic.
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Episode 24: The Charlatan and the Magus, with Lionel Snell
Episode | August 28th, 2018 | 58 mins 23 secs
lionel snell, magic, ramsey dukes, trickery
Phil and JF discuss magic with occult thinker and practicing magician Lionel Snell, also known as Ramsey Dukes.
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Episode 23: On Presence
Episode | August 15th, 2018 | 1 hr 43 mins
event, presence, virtuality
Phil and JF meet in person to discuss the mysteries of presence and event.
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Episode 22: Divining the World with Joshua Ramey
Episode | August 1st, 2018 | 1 hr 9 mins
joshua ramey
Phil and JF talk with American philosopher Joshua Ramey about his work on chance, contingency, and divination.
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Episode 21: The Trash Stratum - Part 2
Episode | July 13th, 2018 | 1 hr 5 mins
art, camp, cinema, irony
Phil and JF continue to muse on Philip K. Dick's line, "the symbols of the divine initially show up at the trash stratum."
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Episode 20: The Trash Stratum - Part 1
Episode | July 4th, 2018 | 1 hr 15 mins
Phil and JF muse on Philip K. Dick's line, "the symbols of the divine initially show up at the trash stratum."
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Episode 19: Intermezzo
Episode | June 20th, 2018 | 1 hr 8 mins
art, ontology, phenomenology, religion
A discussion on the past and future of the podcast, and the nature of the conversation unfolding therein.
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Episode 18: Does 'Consciousness' Exist? - Part Two
Episode | June 13th, 2018 | 1 hr 1 min
consciousness, pansychism, philosophy, william james
Phil and JF continue (begin?) their discussion of William James's essay "Does Consciousness Exist"?
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Episode 17: Does 'Consciousness' Exist? - Part One
Episode | June 6th, 2018 | 47 mins 35 secs
consciousness, idealism, materialism, william james
JF and Phil do everything in their power to delay the moment where they will actually discuss William James' essay, "Does 'Consciousness' Exist?".