web01.fireside.fm Thu, 30 Apr 2026 09:02:08 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Weird Studies - Episodes Tagged with “Ontology” https://www.weirdstudies.com/tags/ontology Wed, 20 Jun 2018 11:00:00 -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 19: Intermezzo https://www.weirdstudies.com/19 e7061906-e7fe-4c47-b1e3-c77b1fad4e92 Wed, 20 Jun 2018 11:00:00 -0400 Phil Ford and J. F. Martel 19 Intermezzo full Phil Ford and J. F. Martel A discussion on the past and future of the podcast, and the nature of the conversation unfolding therein. 1:08:58 yes After announcing that Weird Studies will be going to a bi-weekly release schedule for the summer, Phil and JF talk about how the podcast has gone so far and what's on the horizon (more guests!). Before long, they're digging deep into what makes each of them tick as weird speculators, locating the points at which their ideas differ and converge. The discussion touches on the philosophy of Quentin Meillassoux, the theology of Tertullian, the Beatles, the Coke-Pepsi dichotomy, the art of religion, and more. SHOUT OUTS Mandala artist Betty Paz (http://www.bettypaz.com/) Infinite Conversations (https://www.infiniteconversations.com/) Michael Garfield, the Future Fossils (https://www.mindpodnetwork.com/category/futurefossils/) podcast Ramsey Dukes (Lionel Snell), “The Charlatan and the Magus” (http://the-philosophers-stone.com/articles/charlatn/magus.htm) Joshua Ramey, The Hermetic Deleuze: Philosophy and the Spiritual Ordeal (https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-hermetic-deleuze) and [The Politics of Divination: Neoliberal Endgame and the Religion of Contingency](https://www.rowmaninternational.com/book/politicsofdivination/3-156-c10d5ea3-3149-479b-87bf-03db7e5a7b2f) REFERENCES Patrick Harpur, The Secret Tradition of the Soul (https://www.northatlanticbooks.com/shop/the-secret-tradition-of-the-soul/) Quentin Meillassoux, After Finitude: An Essay on Contingency (https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/after-finitude-9781441173836/) GK Chesterton, Orthodoxy (http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/130) MC Escher, [Drawing Hands](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DrawingHands)_ The works of Tertullian (http://www.tertullian.org/works.htm) After announcing that Weird Studies will be going to a bi-weekly release schedule for the summer, Phil and JF talk about how the podcast has gone so far and what's on the horizon (more guests!). Before long, they're digging deep into what makes each of them tick as weird speculators, locating the points at which their ideas differ and converge. The discussion touches on the philosophy of Quentin Meillassoux, the theology of Tertullian, the Beatles, the Coke-Pepsi dichotomy, the art of religion, and more.

SHOUT OUTS
Mandala artist Betty Paz
Infinite Conversations
Michael Garfield, the Future Fossils podcast
Ramsey Dukes (Lionel Snell), “The Charlatan and the Magus”
Joshua Ramey, The Hermetic Deleuze: Philosophy and the Spiritual Ordeal and The Politics of Divination: Neoliberal Endgame and the Religion of Contingency

REFERENCES
Patrick Harpur, The Secret Tradition of the Soul
Quentin Meillassoux, After Finitude: An Essay on Contingency
GK Chesterton, Orthodoxy
MC Escher, Drawing Hands
The works of Tertullian

]]> After announcing that Weird Studies will be going to a bi-weekly release schedule for the summer, Phil and JF talk about how the podcast has gone so far and what's on the horizon (more guests!). Before long, they're digging deep into what makes each of them tick as weird speculators, locating the points at which their ideas differ and converge. The discussion touches on the philosophy of Quentin Meillassoux, the theology of Tertullian, the Beatles, the Coke-Pepsi dichotomy, the art of religion, and more.

SHOUT OUTS
Mandala artist Betty Paz
Infinite Conversations
Michael Garfield, the Future Fossils podcast
Ramsey Dukes (Lionel Snell), “The Charlatan and the Magus”
Joshua Ramey, The Hermetic Deleuze: Philosophy and the Spiritual Ordeal and The Politics of Divination: Neoliberal Endgame and the Religion of Contingency

REFERENCES
Patrick Harpur, The Secret Tradition of the Soul
Quentin Meillassoux, After Finitude: An Essay on Contingency
GK Chesterton, Orthodoxy
MC Escher, Drawing Hands
The works of Tertullian

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