web01.fireside.fm Mon, 06 Apr 2026 05:41:33 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Weird Studies - Episodes Tagged with “Michael Garfield” https://www.weirdstudies.com/tags/michael%20garfield Wed, 19 Sep 2018 13:30:00 -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 26: Living in a Glass Age, with Michael Garfield https://www.weirdstudies.com/26 fd19336e-d884-43e4-9b11-737b666e6185 Wed, 19 Sep 2018 13:30:00 -0400 Phil Ford and J. F. Martel 26 Living in a Glass Age, with Michael Garfield full Phil Ford and J. F. Martel JF and Phil talk to artist and thinker Michael Garfield about his idea that we are living in the final days of the Age of Glass. 1:18:47 yes Stone, bronze, iron... glass? In his recent thought and writing, transdisciplinary artist and thinker Michael Garfield defines modernity as an age of glass, arguing that the entire ethos of our era inheres in the transformative enchantments of this amorphous solid. No one would deny that glass plays a central role in our lives, although glass does have a knack for disappearing into the background, at least until the beakers or screens crack and shatter. Glass is weird, and like a lot of weird things, it can serve as a lens (so to speak!) for observing our world from strange new angles. In this episode, Michael joins Phil and JF to talk through the origins, the significance, and the fate of the Glass Age. Michael Garfield (http://weirdstudies.com/guests/garfield) is a musician, live painter, and futurist. He is the host of the brilliant Future Fossils Podcast (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/future-fossils/id1152767505?mt=2). REFERENCES Michael Garfield's website (http://michaelgarfield.net/) + Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/michaelgarfield) + Medium (https://medium.com/@michaelgarfield) + Bandcamp (http://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com) Michael Garfield, "The Future is Indistinguishable from Magic" (https://medium.com/@michaelgarfield/the-future-is-indistinguishable-from-magic-5b9596a4ea) (This is the essay we discuss that was unpublished at the time of the recording) Michael Garfield, "The Future Acts Like You" (https://medium.com/@michaelgarfield/the-future-acts-like-you-7848b55475d5) Michael Garfield, "The Evolution of Surveillance Part 3: Living in the Belly of the Beast" (https://medium.com/@michaelgarfield/the-evolution-of-surveillance-part-3-living-in-the-belly-of-the-beast-2a42538ee2) Artist David Titterington's Patreon page (https://www.patreon.com/posts/16115658) Richard Doyle, On Beyond Living: Rhetorical Transformations of the Life Sciences (https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=797) Corning, "The Glass Age" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12OSBJwogFc) (corporate video) Jean-Paul Sartre, Baudelaire (https://www.amazon.com/Baudelaire-Jean-Paul-Sartre/dp/0811201899) John David Ebert, "On Hypermodernity" (https://cultural-discourse.com/on-hypermodernity/) John C. Wright, The Golden Age (https://www.amazon.com/Golden-Age-John-C-Wright/dp/0765336693) J.R.R. Tolkien, [The Lord of the Rings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheLordoftheRings) Timothy Morton, Hyperobjects (https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/hyperobjects) Christopher Knight and Alan Butler, Who Built the Moon? (https://www.amazon.com/Who-Built-Moon-Christopher-Knight/dp/1842931636) Pink Floyd, [The Dark Side of the Moon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheDarkSideoftheMoon)_ Marshall McLuhan, [The Gutenberg Galaxy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheGutenbergGalaxy) Marshall McLuhan, [The Medium is the Massage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheMediumIstheMassage) Spinoza, Ethics (http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3800) Charles Taylor, The Malaise of Modernity (https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-1991-cbc-massey-lectures-the-malaise-of-modernity-1.2946849) Martine Rothblatt, [Virtually Human: The Promise and the Peril of Digital Immortality](https://www.amazon.com/Virtually-Human-Promiseand-Perilof-Immortality/dp/1250046912) John Crowley, [Little, Big](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little,Big)_ Jose Arguelles, Dreamspell Calendar (http://www.13moon.com/dreamspell.htm) William Irwin Thompson, Lindisfarne Tapes (https://centerforneweconomics.org/envision/legacy/lindisfarne-tapes) Jonathan Sterne, The Audible Past (https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-audible-past) Karl Schroeder, “Degrees of Freedom,” in Heiroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future (https://www.amazon.com/Hieroglyph-Stories-Visions-Better-Future/dp/0062204718) Michael Garfield, “Being Every Drone (https://medium.com/@michaelgarfield/being-every-drone-the-future-of-xr-robotic-telepresence-19f12889da78)” Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution (https://www.amazon.com/Creative-Evolution-Henri-Bergson/dp/0486400360) Special Guest: Michael Garfield. Michael Garfield, glass age, modernity, weird Stone, bronze, iron... glass? In his recent thought and writing, transdisciplinary artist and thinker Michael Garfield defines modernity as an age of glass, arguing that the entire ethos of our era inheres in the transformative enchantments of this amorphous solid. No one would deny that glass plays a central role in our lives, although glass does have a knack for disappearing into the background, at least until the beakers or screens crack and shatter. Glass is weird, and like a lot of weird things, it can serve as a lens (so to speak!) for observing our world from strange new angles. In this episode, Michael joins Phil and JF to talk through the origins, the significance, and the fate of the Glass Age.

Michael Garfield is a musician, live painter, and futurist. He is the host of the brilliant Future Fossils Podcast.

REFERENCES

Michael Garfield's website + Patreon + Medium + Bandcamp
Michael Garfield, "The Future is Indistinguishable from Magic" (This is the essay we discuss that was unpublished at the time of the recording)
Michael Garfield, "The Future Acts Like You"
Michael Garfield, "The Evolution of Surveillance Part 3: Living in the Belly of the Beast"

Artist David Titterington's Patreon page
Richard Doyle, On Beyond Living: Rhetorical Transformations of the Life Sciences
Corning, "The Glass Age" (corporate video)
Jean-Paul Sartre, Baudelaire
John David Ebert, "On Hypermodernity"
John C. Wright, The Golden Age
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
Timothy Morton, Hyperobjects
Christopher Knight and Alan Butler, Who Built the Moon?
Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of the Moon
Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy
Marshall McLuhan, The Medium is the Massage
Spinoza, Ethics
Charles Taylor, The Malaise of Modernity
Martine Rothblatt, Virtually Human: The Promise and the Peril of Digital Immortality
John Crowley, Little, Big
Jose Arguelles, Dreamspell Calendar
William Irwin Thompson, Lindisfarne Tapes
Jonathan Sterne, The Audible Past
Karl Schroeder, “Degrees of Freedom,” in Heiroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future
Michael Garfield, “Being Every Drone”
Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution

Special Guest: Michael Garfield.

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Michael Garfield is a musician, live painter, and futurist. He is the host of the brilliant Future Fossils Podcast.

REFERENCES

Michael Garfield's website + Patreon + Medium + Bandcamp
Michael Garfield, "The Future is Indistinguishable from Magic" (This is the essay we discuss that was unpublished at the time of the recording)
Michael Garfield, "The Future Acts Like You"
Michael Garfield, "The Evolution of Surveillance Part 3: Living in the Belly of the Beast"

Artist David Titterington's Patreon page
Richard Doyle, On Beyond Living: Rhetorical Transformations of the Life Sciences
Corning, "The Glass Age" (corporate video)
Jean-Paul Sartre, Baudelaire
John David Ebert, "On Hypermodernity"
John C. Wright, The Golden Age
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
Timothy Morton, Hyperobjects
Christopher Knight and Alan Butler, Who Built the Moon?
Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of the Moon
Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy
Marshall McLuhan, The Medium is the Massage
Spinoza, Ethics
Charles Taylor, The Malaise of Modernity
Martine Rothblatt, Virtually Human: The Promise and the Peril of Digital Immortality
John Crowley, Little, Big
Jose Arguelles, Dreamspell Calendar
William Irwin Thompson, Lindisfarne Tapes
Jonathan Sterne, The Audible Past
Karl Schroeder, “Degrees of Freedom,” in Heiroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future
Michael Garfield, “Being Every Drone”
Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution

Special Guest: Michael Garfield.

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