web01.fireside.fm Thu, 30 Apr 2026 03:48:32 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Weird Studies - Episodes Tagged with “Event” https://www.weirdstudies.com/tags/event Wed, 15 Aug 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 23: On Presence https://www.weirdstudies.com/23 29d90a14-84a8-4085-ba2f-81bdf6452b15 Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:00:00 -0400 Phil Ford and J. F. Martel 23 On Presence full Phil Ford and J. F. Martel Phil and JF meet in person to discuss the mysteries of presence and event. 1:43:19 yes Phil stops by JF's Canadian homestead for a raucous IRL conversation on the idea of presence. The range of topics includes objects of power, the magic of books, the mystery of the event, modernity's knack for making myths immanent, genius loci, the mad wonder of Blue Velvet, and the iron fist of the virtual. REFERENCES Gil Scott-Heron, "The Revolution Will Bot Be Televised" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGaoXAwl9kw) Louis CK on smart phones at the ballet recital (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS3jbaeseT8) Henri Bergson, [Matter and Memory](http://www.reasoned.org/dir/lit/matterandmemory.pdf), Creative Evolution (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/26163/26163-h/26163-h.htm) Gilles Deleuze (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_Deleuze) on the virtual: see Bergsonism, Proust and Signs, The Logic of Sense, Difference and Repetition, Cinema II: The TIme Image Expanding Mind with Erik Davis, "Being Anarchist" (http://expandingmind.podbean.com/e/expanding-mind-being-anarchist-051018/) JF Martel, "Reality is Analog" (https://www.metapsychosis.com/reality-is-analog-philosophizing-with-stranger-things-part-one/) Jason A. Josephson-Storm, The Myth of Disenchantment (https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo26032843.html) (and Gyrus's review (https://dreamflesh.com/review/book/myth-disenchantment/)) Gyrus, North: The Rise and Fall of the Polar Cosmos (https://polarcosmology.com/) William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture (https://www.amazon.com/Time-Falling-Bodies-Take-Light/dp/0312160623) Geoffrey O’Brien, Phantom Empire (https://www.amazon.com/Phantom-Empire-Movies-Mind-Century/dp/0393312968/) David Foster Wallace, “David Lynch Keeps His Head” (http://www.lynchnet.com/lh/lhpremiere.html) Donald Barthelme (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Barthelme) David Lynch, Blue Velvet (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090756/) Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Cannibal Meraphysics (https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/cannibal-metaphysics) presence, event, virtual, genius loci, david lynch, gilles deleuze Phil stops by JF's Canadian homestead for a raucous IRL conversation on the idea of presence. The range of topics includes objects of power, the magic of books, the mystery of the event, modernity's knack for making myths immanent, genius loci, the mad wonder of Blue Velvet, and the iron fist of the virtual.

REFERENCES

Gil Scott-Heron, "The Revolution Will Bot Be Televised"
Louis CK on smart phones at the ballet recital
Henri Bergson, Matter and Memory, Creative Evolution
Gilles Deleuze on the virtual: see Bergsonism, Proust and Signs, The Logic of Sense, Difference and Repetition, Cinema II: The TIme Image
Expanding Mind with Erik Davis, "Being Anarchist"
JF Martel, "Reality is Analog"
Jason A. Josephson-Storm, The Myth of Disenchantment (and Gyrus's review)
Gyrus, North: The Rise and Fall of the Polar Cosmos
William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture
Geoffrey O’Brien, Phantom Empire
David Foster Wallace, “David Lynch Keeps His Head”
Donald Barthelme
David Lynch, Blue Velvet
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Cannibal Meraphysics

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REFERENCES

Gil Scott-Heron, "The Revolution Will Bot Be Televised"
Louis CK on smart phones at the ballet recital
Henri Bergson, Matter and Memory, Creative Evolution
Gilles Deleuze on the virtual: see Bergsonism, Proust and Signs, The Logic of Sense, Difference and Repetition, Cinema II: The TIme Image
Expanding Mind with Erik Davis, "Being Anarchist"
JF Martel, "Reality is Analog"
Jason A. Josephson-Storm, The Myth of Disenchantment (and Gyrus's review)
Gyrus, North: The Rise and Fall of the Polar Cosmos
William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture
Geoffrey O’Brien, Phantom Empire
David Foster Wallace, “David Lynch Keeps His Head”
Donald Barthelme
David Lynch, Blue Velvet
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Cannibal Meraphysics

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