web01.fireside.fm Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:51:46 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Weird Studies - Episodes Tagged with “Class” https://www.weirdstudies.com/tags/class Wed, 26 May 2021 10:00:00 -0400 Professor Phil Ford and writer J. F. Martel host a series of conversations on art and philosophy, dwelling on ideas that are hard to think and art that opens up rifts in what we are pleased to call "reality." en-us episodic Art and philosophy at the limits of the thinkable Phil Ford and J. F. Martel Professor Phil Ford and writer J. F. Martel host a series of conversations on art and philosophy, dwelling on ideas that are hard to think and art that opens up rifts in what we are pleased to call "reality." yes weird, art, philosophy Phil Ford and J. F. Martel admin@weirdstudies.com Episode 99: Curing the Human Condition: On 'Wild Wild Country' https://www.weirdstudies.com/99 016f2b2c-4341-403f-8d07-c7c77687c759 Wed, 26 May 2021 10:00:00 -0400 Phil Ford and J. F. Martel 99 Curing the Human Condition: On 'Wild Wild Country' full Phil Ford and J. F. Martel Phil and JF work through the differences between spirituality and religion in the context of the documentary series about Bhagwan Rajneesh. 1:30:19 yes In this never-before-released episode recorded in 2019, Phil and JF travel to rural Oregon through the Netflix docu-series, Wild Wild Country. The series, which details the establishment of a spiritual community founded by Bhagwan Rajneesh (later called Osho) and its religious and political conflicts with its Christian neighbors, provides a starting point for a wide-ranging conversation on the nature of spirituality and religion. What emerges are surprising ties between the “spiritual, not religious” attitude and class, cultural commodification, and the culture of control that pervades modern society. But they also uncover the true “wild” card at the heart of existence that spiritual movements like that of Rajneesh can never fully control, no matter how hard they try. REFERENCES Chapman and Maclain Way (dirs), Wild Wild Country (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7768848/) Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780618918249) Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780674212770) Carl Wilson, Celine Dion’s Let’s Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780826427885) Peter Sloterdijk, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Sloterdijk) German cultural theorist Weird Studies, Episode 47, Machines of Loving Grace (https://www.weirdstudies.com/47) Slavoj Žižek, On Western appropriation of Eastern religions (https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/2/zizek.php) William Burroughs, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_S._Burroughs) American writer Gilles Deleuze, “Postscript on the Societies of Control” (https://www.jstor.org/stable/778828?seq=1) Bhagwan Rajneesh/Osho, Speech on friendship (https://www.oshotimes.com/insights/lifestyle/spirituality/can-you-accept-the-master-as-your-friend/) Daniel Ingram, Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781911597100) Paul Tillich, Dynamics of Faith (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780060937133) James Carse, The Finite and Infinite Games (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781476731711) spirituality, religion, class, cultural appropriation, hipsterism, suffering, play, anthropotechnics, control, neoliberalism, social media In this never-before-released episode recorded in 2019, Phil and JF travel to rural Oregon through the Netflix docu-series, Wild Wild Country. The series, which details the establishment of a spiritual community founded by Bhagwan Rajneesh (later called Osho) and its religious and political conflicts with its Christian neighbors, provides a starting point for a wide-ranging conversation on the nature of spirituality and religion. What emerges are surprising ties between the “spiritual, not religious” attitude and class, cultural commodification, and the culture of control that pervades modern society. But they also uncover the true “wild” card at the heart of existence that spiritual movements like that of Rajneesh can never fully control, no matter how hard they try.

REFERENCES

Chapman and Maclain Way (dirs), Wild Wild Country
Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
Carl Wilson, Celine Dion’s Let’s Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste
Peter Sloterdijk, German cultural theorist
Weird Studies, Episode 47, Machines of Loving Grace
Slavoj Žižek, On Western appropriation of Eastern religions
William Burroughs, American writer
Gilles Deleuze, “Postscript on the Societies of Control”
Bhagwan Rajneesh/Osho, Speech on friendship
Daniel Ingram, Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha
Paul Tillich, Dynamics of Faith
James Carse, The Finite and Infinite Games

]]> In this never-before-released episode recorded in 2019, Phil and JF travel to rural Oregon through the Netflix docu-series, Wild Wild Country. The series, which details the establishment of a spiritual community founded by Bhagwan Rajneesh (later called Osho) and its religious and political conflicts with its Christian neighbors, provides a starting point for a wide-ranging conversation on the nature of spirituality and religion. What emerges are surprising ties between the “spiritual, not religious” attitude and class, cultural commodification, and the culture of control that pervades modern society. But they also uncover the true “wild” card at the heart of existence that spiritual movements like that of Rajneesh can never fully control, no matter how hard they try.

REFERENCES

Chapman and Maclain Way (dirs), Wild Wild Country
Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
Carl Wilson, Celine Dion’s Let’s Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste
Peter Sloterdijk, German cultural theorist
Weird Studies, Episode 47, Machines of Loving Grace
Slavoj Žižek, On Western appropriation of Eastern religions
William Burroughs, American writer
Gilles Deleuze, “Postscript on the Societies of Control”
Bhagwan Rajneesh/Osho, Speech on friendship
Daniel Ingram, Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha
Paul Tillich, Dynamics of Faith
James Carse, The Finite and Infinite Games

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