web01.fireside.fm Fri, 15 May 2026 05:02:16 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Weird Studies - Episodes Tagged with “Essence” https://www.weirdstudies.com/tags/essence Tue, 13 Mar 2018 15:45:00 -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 5: Reading Lisa Ruddick's "When Nothing is Cool" https://www.weirdstudies.com/5 61e6357d-d09b-4ec0-aa93-2f9f9b0344f8 Tue, 13 Mar 2018 15:45:00 -0400 Phil Ford and J. F. Martel 5 Reading Lisa Ruddick's "When Nothing is Cool" full Phil Ford and J. F. Martel Phil and JF do their best to weird the cultural politics of the postmodern academy. 1:08:51 yes <p>Phil and JF discuss Lisa Ruddick's "When Nothing is Cool," an essay on the postmodern humanities and its allergy to essences -- especially that personal essence we call soul. Maybe the soul is a heap of miscellaneous notions and influences that I paint a face onto and then call "me." Or maybe there is something under that painted effigy of the self. If so, what? And if there's nothing under there, could it be a nothing that delivers? </p> <p><strong>WORKS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE</strong></p> <p>Lisa Ruddick, <a href="https://thepointmag.com/2015/criticism/when-nothing-is-cool" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">"When Nothing is Cool"</a></p> <p>Elizabeth Gilbert, <a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_gilbert_on_genius" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">"Your Elusive Creative Genius"</a></p> <p>Judith Halberstam, <a href="https://read.dukeupress.edu/camera-obscura/article-abstract/9/3%20(27)/36/31508/Skinflick-Posthuman-Gender-in-Jonathan-Demme-s-The?redirectedFrom=fulltext" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">"Skinflick: Posthuman Gender in Jonathan Demme's <em>The Silence of the Lambs</em>"</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.music.hku.hk/daniel_chua.html#books" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Daniel Chua</a> (the musicologist whose name Phil couldn't remember)</p> <p>Brett Easton Ellis, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/American-Psycho-Bret-Easton-Ellis/dp/0679735771" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">American Psycho</a></p> <p>Mary Harron, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Psycho_(film)" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">American Psycho (film)</a></p> <p>David Lynch, <a href="http://www.sho.com/twin-peaks" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Twin Peaks: The Return</a> </p> Phil and JF discuss Lisa Ruddick's "When Nothing is Cool," an essay on the postmodern humanities and its allergy to essences -- especially that personal essence we call soul. Maybe the soul is a heap of miscellaneous notions and influences that I paint a face onto and then call "me." Or maybe there is something under that painted effigy of the self. If so, what? And if there's nothing under there, could it be a nothing that delivers?

WORKS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE

Lisa Ruddick, "When Nothing is Cool"

Elizabeth Gilbert, "Your Elusive Creative Genius"

Judith Halberstam, "Skinflick: Posthuman Gender in Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs"

Daniel Chua (the musicologist whose name Phil couldn't remember)

Brett Easton Ellis, American Psycho

Mary Harron, American Psycho (film)

David Lynch, Twin Peaks: The Return

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WORKS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE

Lisa Ruddick, "When Nothing is Cool"

Elizabeth Gilbert, "Your Elusive Creative Genius"

Judith Halberstam, "Skinflick: Posthuman Gender in Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs"

Daniel Chua (the musicologist whose name Phil couldn't remember)

Brett Easton Ellis, American Psycho

Mary Harron, American Psycho (film)

David Lynch, Twin Peaks: The Return

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