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  <itunes:subtitle>Phil and JF meet in person to discuss the mysteries of presence and event.</itunes:subtitle>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;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 &lt;em&gt;Blue Velvet&lt;/em&gt;, and the iron fist of the virtual.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;REFERENCES&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Gil Scott-Heron, &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGaoXAwl9kw" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;"The Revolution Will Bot Be Televised"&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Louis CK on &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS3jbaeseT8" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;smart phones at the ballet recital&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Henri Bergson, &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.reasoned.org/dir/lit/matter_and_memory.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Matter and Memory&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/26163/26163-h/26163-h.htm" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Creative Evolution&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_Deleuze" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Gilles Deleuze&lt;/a&gt; on the virtual: see &lt;em&gt;Bergsonism&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Proust and Signs&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;The Logic of Sense&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Difference and Repetition&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Cinema II: The TIme Image&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Expanding Mind with Erik Davis, &lt;a href="http://expandingmind.podbean.com/e/expanding-mind-being-anarchist-051018/" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;"Being Anarchist"&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
JF Martel, &lt;a href="https://www.metapsychosis.com/reality-is-analog-philosophizing-with-stranger-things-part-one/" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;"Reality is Analog"&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Jason A. Josephson-Storm, &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo26032843.html" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;The Myth of Disenchantment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (and Gyrus's &lt;a href="https://dreamflesh.com/review/book/myth-disenchantment/" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;review&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br&gt;
Gyrus, &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="https://polarcosmology.com/" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;North: The Rise and Fall of the Polar Cosmos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
William Irwin Thompson, &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.amazon.com/Time-Falling-Bodies-Take-Light/dp/0312160623" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;br&gt;
Geoffrey O’Brien, &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.amazon.com/Phantom-Empire-Movies-Mind-Century/dp/0393312968/" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Phantom Empire&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;br&gt;
David Foster Wallace, &lt;a href="http://www.lynchnet.com/lh/lhpremiere.html" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;“David Lynch Keeps His Head”&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Barthelme" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Donald Barthelme&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;
David Lynch, &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090756/" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Blue Velvet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/cannibal-metaphysics" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Cannibal Meraphysics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
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    <![CDATA[<p>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 <em>Blue Velvet</em>, and the iron fist of the virtual.</p>

<p><strong>REFERENCES</strong></p>

<p>Gil Scott-Heron, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGaoXAwl9kw" rel="nofollow noopener">"The Revolution Will Bot Be Televised"</a><br>
Louis CK on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS3jbaeseT8" rel="nofollow noopener">smart phones at the ballet recital</a><br>
Henri Bergson, <em><a href="http://www.reasoned.org/dir/lit/matter_and_memory.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener">Matter and Memory</a></em>, <em><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/26163/26163-h/26163-h.htm" rel="nofollow noopener">Creative Evolution</a></em><br>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_Deleuze" rel="nofollow noopener">Gilles Deleuze</a> on the virtual: see <em>Bergsonism</em>, <em>Proust and Signs</em>, <em>The Logic of Sense</em>, <em>Difference and Repetition</em>, <em>Cinema II: The TIme Image</em><br>
Expanding Mind with Erik Davis, <a href="http://expandingmind.podbean.com/e/expanding-mind-being-anarchist-051018/" rel="nofollow noopener">"Being Anarchist"</a><br>
JF Martel, <a href="https://www.metapsychosis.com/reality-is-analog-philosophizing-with-stranger-things-part-one/" rel="nofollow noopener">"Reality is Analog"</a><br>
Jason A. Josephson-Storm, <em><a href="https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo26032843.html" rel="nofollow noopener">The Myth of Disenchantment</a></em> (and Gyrus's <a href="https://dreamflesh.com/review/book/myth-disenchantment/" rel="nofollow noopener">review</a>)<br>
Gyrus, <em><a href="https://polarcosmology.com/" rel="nofollow noopener">North: The Rise and Fall of the Polar Cosmos</a></em><br>
William Irwin Thompson, <em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Time-Falling-Bodies-Take-Light/dp/0312160623" rel="nofollow noopener">The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture</a></em> <br>
Geoffrey O’Brien, <em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Phantom-Empire-Movies-Mind-Century/dp/0393312968/" rel="nofollow noopener">Phantom Empire</a></em> <br>
David Foster Wallace, <a href="http://www.lynchnet.com/lh/lhpremiere.html" rel="nofollow noopener">“David Lynch Keeps His Head”</a><br>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Barthelme" rel="nofollow noopener">Donald Barthelme</a> <br>
David Lynch, <em><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090756/" rel="nofollow noopener">Blue Velvet</a></em><br>
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, <em><a href="https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/cannibal-metaphysics" rel="nofollow noopener">Cannibal Meraphysics</a></em> </p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>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 <em>Blue Velvet</em>, and the iron fist of the virtual.</p>

<p><strong>REFERENCES</strong></p>

<p>Gil Scott-Heron, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGaoXAwl9kw" rel="nofollow noopener">"The Revolution Will Bot Be Televised"</a><br>
Louis CK on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS3jbaeseT8" rel="nofollow noopener">smart phones at the ballet recital</a><br>
Henri Bergson, <em><a href="http://www.reasoned.org/dir/lit/matter_and_memory.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener">Matter and Memory</a></em>, <em><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/26163/26163-h/26163-h.htm" rel="nofollow noopener">Creative Evolution</a></em><br>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_Deleuze" rel="nofollow noopener">Gilles Deleuze</a> on the virtual: see <em>Bergsonism</em>, <em>Proust and Signs</em>, <em>The Logic of Sense</em>, <em>Difference and Repetition</em>, <em>Cinema II: The TIme Image</em><br>
Expanding Mind with Erik Davis, <a href="http://expandingmind.podbean.com/e/expanding-mind-being-anarchist-051018/" rel="nofollow noopener">"Being Anarchist"</a><br>
JF Martel, <a href="https://www.metapsychosis.com/reality-is-analog-philosophizing-with-stranger-things-part-one/" rel="nofollow noopener">"Reality is Analog"</a><br>
Jason A. Josephson-Storm, <em><a href="https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo26032843.html" rel="nofollow noopener">The Myth of Disenchantment</a></em> (and Gyrus's <a href="https://dreamflesh.com/review/book/myth-disenchantment/" rel="nofollow noopener">review</a>)<br>
Gyrus, <em><a href="https://polarcosmology.com/" rel="nofollow noopener">North: The Rise and Fall of the Polar Cosmos</a></em><br>
William Irwin Thompson, <em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Time-Falling-Bodies-Take-Light/dp/0312160623" rel="nofollow noopener">The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture</a></em> <br>
Geoffrey O’Brien, <em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Phantom-Empire-Movies-Mind-Century/dp/0393312968/" rel="nofollow noopener">Phantom Empire</a></em> <br>
David Foster Wallace, <a href="http://www.lynchnet.com/lh/lhpremiere.html" rel="nofollow noopener">“David Lynch Keeps His Head”</a><br>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Barthelme" rel="nofollow noopener">Donald Barthelme</a> <br>
David Lynch, <em><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090756/" rel="nofollow noopener">Blue Velvet</a></em><br>
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, <em><a href="https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/cannibal-metaphysics" rel="nofollow noopener">Cannibal Meraphysics</a></em> </p>]]>
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