web01.fireside.fm Tue, 19 May 2026 16:56:18 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Weird Studies - Episodes Tagged with “David Cronenberg” https://www.weirdstudies.com/tags/david%20cronenberg Wed, 12 Sep 2018 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 25: David Cronenberg's 'Naked Lunch' https://www.weirdstudies.com/25 38711c33-1e0a-4536-b97b-fd5861fc4628 Wed, 12 Sep 2018 10:00:00 -0400 Phil Ford and J. F. Martel 25 David Cronenberg's 'Naked Lunch' full Phil Ford and J. F. Martel Phil and JF discuss David Cronenberg's 1991 film, "Naked Lunch," an adaptation of William S. Burroughs' hallucinatory classic. 1:20:06 yes <p>JF and Phil head for Interzone in an attempt to solve the enigma of <em>Naked Lunch</em>, David Cronenberg's 1991 screen adaptation of William S. Burroughs' infamous 1959 novel. A treatise on addiction, a diagnosis of modern ills, a lucid portrait of the artist as cosmic transgressor, and like the book, "a frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of every fork," <em>Naked Lunch</em> is here framed in the light Cronenberg's recent speech making the case for the <em>crime</em> of art.</p> <p>Image by Melancholie, <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gabel.jpg" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Wikimedia Commons</a>.</p> <p><strong>REFERENCES</strong></p> <p>David Foster Wallace, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_with_Curious_Hair" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">"Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way,"</a> from <em>Girl With Curious Hair</em> <br> Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, <em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Oedipus" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Anti-Oedipus</a></em>, and "How Do You Make Yourself a Body Without Organs?" in <em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Thousand_Plateaus" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">A Thousand Plateaus</a></em><br> David Cronenberg (writer-director), <em><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102511/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Naked Lunch</a></em> (the film)<br> William Burroughs, <em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_Lunch" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Naked Lunch</a></em> (the novel)<br> Thomas De Quincey, <em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_English_Opium-Eater" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Confessions of an Opium-Eater</a></em><br> Dale Pendell, <em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Pharmako-Poeia-Revised-Updated-Herbcraft/dp/1556438052" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Pharmako/Poeia: Power Plants, Poisons and Herbcraft</a></em><br> <a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-crime-of-art/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">"David Cronenberg: I would like to make the case for the crime of art,"</a> Globe and Mail June 22 2018 <br> JF Martel, <em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Reclaiming-Art-Age-Artifice-Manifesto/dp/1583945784/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1536764053&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=reclaiming+art+in+the+age+of+artifice" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice</a></em><br> Phil Ford, <em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dig-Sound-Music-Hip-Culture/dp/0199939918" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Dig: Sound and Music in Hip Culture</a></em><br> Derek Bailey (director), <em><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edy2QlP_jaU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">On the Edge: Improvisation in Music</a></em> <br> Phil Ford, <a href="https://dialmformusicology.com/2017/08/10/good-prose-is-written-by-people-who-are-not-frightened/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">"Good Prose is Written By People Who Are Not Frightened"</a><br> Geroge Orwell, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_the_Whale" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">"Inside the Whale"</a> </p> burroughs, naked lunch, cronenberg JF and Phil head for Interzone in an attempt to solve the enigma of Naked Lunch, David Cronenberg's 1991 screen adaptation of William S. Burroughs' infamous 1959 novel. A treatise on addiction, a diagnosis of modern ills, a lucid portrait of the artist as cosmic transgressor, and like the book, "a frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of every fork," Naked Lunch is here framed in the light Cronenberg's recent speech making the case for the crime of art.

Image by Melancholie, Wikimedia Commons.

REFERENCES

David Foster Wallace, "Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way," from Girl With Curious Hair
Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus, and "How Do You Make Yourself a Body Without Organs?" in A Thousand Plateaus
David Cronenberg (writer-director), Naked Lunch (the film)
William Burroughs, Naked Lunch (the novel)
Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an Opium-Eater
Dale Pendell, Pharmako/Poeia: Power Plants, Poisons and Herbcraft
"David Cronenberg: I would like to make the case for the crime of art," Globe and Mail June 22 2018
JF Martel, Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice
Phil Ford, Dig: Sound and Music in Hip Culture
Derek Bailey (director), On the Edge: Improvisation in Music
Phil Ford, "Good Prose is Written By People Who Are Not Frightened"
Geroge Orwell, "Inside the Whale"

]]> JF and Phil head for Interzone in an attempt to solve the enigma of Naked Lunch, David Cronenberg's 1991 screen adaptation of William S. Burroughs' infamous 1959 novel. A treatise on addiction, a diagnosis of modern ills, a lucid portrait of the artist as cosmic transgressor, and like the book, "a frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of every fork," Naked Lunch is here framed in the light Cronenberg's recent speech making the case for the crime of art.

Image by Melancholie, Wikimedia Commons.

REFERENCES

David Foster Wallace, "Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way," from Girl With Curious Hair
Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus, and "How Do You Make Yourself a Body Without Organs?" in A Thousand Plateaus
David Cronenberg (writer-director), Naked Lunch (the film)
William Burroughs, Naked Lunch (the novel)
Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an Opium-Eater
Dale Pendell, Pharmako/Poeia: Power Plants, Poisons and Herbcraft
"David Cronenberg: I would like to make the case for the crime of art," Globe and Mail June 22 2018
JF Martel, Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice
Phil Ford, Dig: Sound and Music in Hip Culture
Derek Bailey (director), On the Edge: Improvisation in Music
Phil Ford, "Good Prose is Written By People Who Are Not Frightened"
Geroge Orwell, "Inside the Whale"

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