21 . Art As Paranormal Activity - JF Martel

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I’m very excited today to bring you writer and co-host of the Weird Studies podcast, JF Martel.

If you haven’t encountered JF’s work, you’re in for a treat. He’s a philosopher of art and of the weird, whose work, amongst other things, is recovering the liberating power of beauty from the shallow purposes of the merely practical world. Great stuff!

In the episode we talk about

* Where Movies come from

* A very brief history of French Canadian culture

* DnD and variants

* Tension between Criticism and Art Making

* Useful/Useless Beauty

* Vampires!

* Limits of Materialism

* What is the Rift?

* And much more

I had a great time in this conversation, and I almost guarantee you will too!

PS I’ve just launched a course, “Living Soulfully in Light of Modernity,” I’d love to have you there! More info here: Living Soulfully in Light of Modernity

References

“Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice“ - Available for pre-order

Weird Studies

Orthodoxy - G.K. Chesterton

Difference and Repetition - Gilles Deleuze (We don’t talk about this book specifically, but we do talk about Deleuze, and JF has recommended this one in the past)

The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies - Robert Kirk

Hellier - TV Show from Greg and Dana Newkirk

Uneasy Riders: Part One - Essay by Daniel Pinchbeck