web02.fireside.fm Wed, 29 Apr 2026 23:32:02 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Weird Studies - Episodes Tagged with “Gebser” https://www.weirdstudies.com/tags/gebser Wed, 25 Sep 2019 11:30:00 -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 56: On Jean Gebser, with Jeremy D. Johnson https://www.weirdstudies.com/56 2670fca2-8b91-4d66-8532-4daca533408f Wed, 25 Sep 2019 11:30:00 -0400 Phil Ford and J. F. Martel 56 On Jean Gebser, with Jeremy D. Johnson full Phil Ford and J. F. Martel JF and Phil talk to Jeremy Johnson about his new book, "Seeing Through the World: Jean Gebser and Integral Consciousness." 1:18:41 yes The German poet and philosopher Jean Gebser's major work, The Ever-Present Origin, is a monumental study of the evolution of consciousness from prehistory to posthistory. For Gebser, consciousness adopts different "structures" at different times and in different contexts, and each structure reveals certain facets of reality while potentially occluding others. An integral human being is one who can utilize all of the structures according to the moment or situation. As Gebserian scholar Jeremy Johnson explains in this episode, modern humans are currently experiencing the transition from the "perspectival" structure which formed in the late Middle Ages to the "aperspectival," a new way of seeing and being that first revealed itself in the art of the Modernists. Grokking what the aperspectival means, and what it might look like, is just one of the tasks Jeremy, Phil and JF set themselves in this engaging trialogue. Jeremy D. Johnson is the author of the recently released Seeing Through the World: Jean Gebser and Integral Consciousness (https://www.amazon.com/Seeing-Through-World-Consciousness-Nuralogicals/dp/1947544152). REFERENCES Jeremy Johnson, Seeing Through the World: Jean Gebser and the Integral Consciousness (https://www.amazon.com/Seeing-Through-World-Consciousness-Nuralogicals/dp/1947544152) Jean Gebser, The Ever-Present Origin (https://www.amazon.com/Ever-Present-Origin-Part-Aperspectival-Manifestations/dp/0821407694) William Irwin Thompson, Coming Into Being: Artifacts and Texts in the Evolution of Consciousness (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780312176921) Ken Wilber (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Wilber), integral theorist Lionel Snell, “Spare Parts” (https://fulgur.co.uk/austin-osman-spare/spare-parts/?v=7516fd43adaa) Nagarjuna, “Verses of the Middle Way” (https://www.stephenbatchelor.org/index.php/en/verses-from-the-center) (Mulamadhyamakakarika) Peter Sloterdijk, You Must Change Your Life (https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/philosophy-of-the-acrobat-on-peter-sloterdijk/) Thomas Aquinas, [Summa Theologica](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SummaTheologica)_ Object-oriented ontology (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_ontology) (OOO) Dogen, [Uji](https://www.thezensite.com/ZenTeachings/DogenTeachings/UjiWelch.htm) (“The Time-Being”), from the Shobogenzo (Treasury of the True Dharma Eye) Special Guest: Jeremy D. Johnson. Jean Gebser, aperspectival, evolution of consciousness, Jeremy Johnson, seeing through the world The German poet and philosopher Jean Gebser's major work, The Ever-Present Origin, is a monumental study of the evolution of consciousness from prehistory to posthistory. For Gebser, consciousness adopts different "structures" at different times and in different contexts, and each structure reveals certain facets of reality while potentially occluding others. An integral human being is one who can utilize all of the structures according to the moment or situation. As Gebserian scholar Jeremy Johnson explains in this episode, modern humans are currently experiencing the transition from the "perspectival" structure which formed in the late Middle Ages to the "aperspectival," a new way of seeing and being that first revealed itself in the art of the Modernists. Grokking what the aperspectival means, and what it might look like, is just one of the tasks Jeremy, Phil and JF set themselves in this engaging trialogue.

Jeremy D. Johnson is the author of the recently released Seeing Through the World: Jean Gebser and Integral Consciousness.

REFERENCES

Jeremy Johnson, Seeing Through the World: Jean Gebser and the Integral Consciousness
Jean Gebser, The Ever-Present Origin
William Irwin Thompson, Coming Into Being: Artifacts and Texts in the Evolution of Consciousness
Ken Wilber, integral theorist
Lionel Snell, “Spare Parts”
Nagarjuna, “Verses of the Middle Way” (Mulamadhyamakakarika)
Peter Sloterdijk, You Must Change Your Life
Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica
Object-oriented ontology (OOO)
Dogen, Uji (“The Time-Being”), from the Shobogenzo (Treasury of the True Dharma Eye)

Special Guest: Jeremy D. Johnson.

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Jeremy D. Johnson is the author of the recently released Seeing Through the World: Jean Gebser and Integral Consciousness.

REFERENCES

Jeremy Johnson, Seeing Through the World: Jean Gebser and the Integral Consciousness
Jean Gebser, The Ever-Present Origin
William Irwin Thompson, Coming Into Being: Artifacts and Texts in the Evolution of Consciousness
Ken Wilber, integral theorist
Lionel Snell, “Spare Parts”
Nagarjuna, “Verses of the Middle Way” (Mulamadhyamakakarika)
Peter Sloterdijk, You Must Change Your Life
Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica
Object-oriented ontology (OOO)
Dogen, Uji (“The Time-Being”), from the Shobogenzo (Treasury of the True Dharma Eye)

Special Guest: Jeremy D. Johnson.

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