Episode 23: On Presence

Weird Studies

Phil Ford and J. F. Martel

Society & Culture, Arts, Philosophy

4.8 • 688 Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2018

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

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 Blue Velvet, and the iron fist of the virtual. REFERENCES Gil Scott-Heron, "The Revolution Will Bot Be Televised" Louis CK on smart phones at the ballet recital Henri Bergson, Matter and Memory, Creative Evolution Gilles Deleuze on the virtual: see Bergsonism, Proust and Signs, The Logic of Sense, Difference and Repetition, Cinema II: The TIme Image Expanding Mind with Erik Davis, "Being Anarchist" JF Martel, "Reality is Analog" Jason A. Josephson-Storm, The Myth of Disenchantment (and Gyrus's review) Gyrus, North: The Rise and Fall of the Polar Cosmos William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture Geoffrey O’Brien, Phantom Empire David Foster Wallace, “David Lynch Keeps His Head” Donald Barthelme David Lynch, Blue Velvet Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Cannibal Meraphysics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Specter Vision Radio.
0:03.3	Welcome to Weird Studies, an art and philosophy podcast with hosts Phil Ford and J.F. Martel.
0:21.8	For more episodes and to support the podcast, go to Weird Studies.
0:51.3	Today we have a special episode for you. Recently, Phil and his
0:56.3	wife, Helen, were on a road trip in Eastern Canada, and they stopped by Ottawa for a visit. So that
1:01.7	was great. Our family's got to hang out. We barbecued. We drank some beer. And Phil and I took the
1:07.9	opportunity to record our first in-person Weird Studies episode with both of us sitting in the same room.
1:16.5	The sound quality isn't what we're used to on the show.
1:19.6	That's because we were using a single mic for both of us.
1:23.5	However, we hope that the spontaneity of the chat makes up for that.
1:28.1	And we really let the dialogue find its own shape, and we hope you enjoy the results.
1:58.9	We hope you enjoy the results. Well, let's talk about the fact that we're sitting live.
2:00.4	I think that's, we should probably start with. How are we doing with that? Is it working for you?
2:04.6	Being live, being sitting together? Actually talking as like two human beings and not
2:08.9	I think that people will notice a difference. Yeah, I think so too. Because we're actually just
2:14.8	having a conversation looking at each other and it's very different. I mean, we did,
2:18.5	last time we recorded, we did decide to use the, usually up until episode 22, we were purely
2:27.8	using audio. We were not using the cameras at all on our computers, weren't seeing each other.
2:32.7	Then we'd start, we tried one once just to
2:35.8	see how that would affect the vibe i didn't notice a big difference but i think now obviously the fact
2:40.7	that we're sitting together in a room the sound it's going to be you know it's going to sound different
2:44.1	it's going to feel different because we're interrupting each other more because we're having a real
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