web02.fireside.fm Sat, 02 May 2026 05:53:42 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Weird Studies - Episodes Tagged with “Martial Arts” https://www.weirdstudies.com/tags/martial%20arts Wed, 28 Mar 2018 09:30:00 -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 7: The Unspeakable Mystery at the Heart of Boxing https://www.weirdstudies.com/7 25265c45-afa0-45ba-a138-7fd140365239 Wed, 28 Mar 2018 09:30:00 -0400 Phil Ford and J. F. Martel 7 The Unspeakable Mystery at the Heart of Boxing full Phil Ford and J. F. Martel JF and Phil wrestle with philosophical issues surrounding violent sports. 1:05:47 yes For as long as they've been pounding the crap out of each other for good reasons, humans have also been pounding the crap out of each other for fun. Everywhere, in ever age, elaborate systems, rituals, and traditions have arisen to ring in the practice of violence and thereby offer the rough beast that lurks in every soul a chance to come out for a stretch in the sun. In this episode, Phil and JF delve into one of the most scandalous affairs of all: the illicit dalliance of Aphrodite and Ares, beauty and violence. WORKS & IDEAS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE: Ernest Hemingway, [Death in the Afternoon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeathintheAfternoon)_ James Hillman, A Terrible Love of War (https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-59420-011-3) Homer, The Odyssey (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey) Joyce Carol Oates, On Boxing (https://www.amazon.com/Boxing-Joyce-Carol-Oates/dp/0060874503) La fosse aux tigres (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5109866/) (documentary directed by Jason Brennan and JF Martel; Nish Media) Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm) Richard Strauss's opera Salome (https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/feb/19/classicalmusicandopera.dance) Gur Hirshberg, "Burke, Kant, and the Sublime (http://philosophynow.org/issues/11/Burke_Kant_and_the_Sublime)" Gilles Deleuze, [The Logic of Sense](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheLogicofSense)_ For as long as they've been pounding the crap out of each other for good reasons, humans have also been pounding the crap out of each other for fun. Everywhere, in ever age, elaborate systems, rituals, and traditions have arisen to ring in the practice of violence and thereby offer the rough beast that lurks in every soul a chance to come out for a stretch in the sun. In this episode, Phil and JF delve into one of the most scandalous affairs of all: the illicit dalliance of Aphrodite and Ares, beauty and violence.

WORKS & IDEAS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon
James Hillman, A Terrible Love of War
Homer, The Odyssey
Joyce Carol Oates, On Boxing
La fosse aux tigres (documentary directed by Jason Brennan and JF Martel; Nish Media)
Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Richard Strauss's opera Salome
Gur Hirshberg, "Burke, Kant, and the Sublime"
Gilles Deleuze, The Logic of Sense

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WORKS & IDEAS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon
James Hillman, A Terrible Love of War
Homer, The Odyssey
Joyce Carol Oates, On Boxing
La fosse aux tigres (documentary directed by Jason Brennan and JF Martel; Nish Media)
Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Richard Strauss's opera Salome
Gur Hirshberg, "Burke, Kant, and the Sublime"
Gilles Deleuze, The Logic of Sense

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