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The Fine Art of Changing the Subject: On Duchamp's 'Fountain'
Episode 33
In 1917, Marcel Duchamp trolled the New York art scene with Fountain, the famous urinal, whose significance has since swelled in the minds o…
7 years, 2 months ago
Orbis Tertius: Borges on Magic, Conspiracy and Idealism
Episode 32
Jorge Luis Borges's story "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" is a metaphysical detective story, an armchair conspiracy thriller, and a masterpiece…
7 years, 2 months ago
Scarcely Human at All: On Glenn Gould's 'Prospects of Recording'
Episode 31
Most people know Glenn Gould as a brilliant pianist who forever changed how we receive and interpret the works of Europe's great composers: …
7 years, 2 months ago
On Stanley Kubrick's 'Eyes Wide Shut'
Episode 30
No dream is ever just a dream. Or so Tom Cruises tells Nicole Kidman at the end of Eyes Wide Shut. In this episode, Phil and JF expound some…
7 years, 3 months ago
On Lovecraft
Episode 29
Phil and JF indulge their autumnal mood in this discussion of Howard Phillips Lovecraft's work, specifically the essay "Notes on the Writing…
7 years, 3 months ago
Weird Music, Part Two
Episode 28
"Music is worth living for," Andrew W.K. sings in his latest rock anthem. In this second episode on the weirdness of music, JF and Phil focu…
7 years, 3 months ago
Weird Music, Part One
Episode 27
In this first of two episodes devoted to the music of the weird, Phil and JF discuss two works that have bowled them over: the second moveme…
7 years, 3 months ago
Living in a Glass Age, with Michael Garfield
Episode 26
Stone, bronze, iron... glass? In his recent thought and writing, transdisciplinary artist and thinker Michael Garfield defines modernity as …
7 years, 3 months ago
David Cronenberg's 'Naked Lunch'
Episode 25
JF and Phil head for Interzone in an attempt to solve the enigma of Naked Lunch, David Cronenberg's 1991 screen adaptation of William S. Bur…
7 years, 4 months ago
The Charlatan and the Magus, with Lionel Snell
Episode 24
As Lionel Snell, also known as Ramsey Dukes, observes in his seminal esoteric essay, "The Charlatan and the Magus" (1984), the series of tru…
7 years, 4 months ago