Weird Studies Christmas Bonus Hyperstition Addendum

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• 00:00:00

  Welcome to Weird Studies, an art and philosophy podcast with hosts Phil Ford and J.F. Martel. For more episodes and to support the podcast, go to weirdstudies.com. Hi, this is J.F. Our last episode on Hypersstition ran a little long, so we agreed to cut out the last 20 minutes or so of the conversation. But that…

• 00:03:55

  Well, the problem with Marxism is... Blah. It leads to violence or something. You know, it's the nature of ideas that you are dealing with things in abstract and totalizing ways. Right. But human beings, if you try to deal with human beings in abstract and totalizing ways, you're a human resources department, right…

• 00:07:00

  It's not a thinking thing. It's a human thing. You know what I'm saying? Absolutely, yeah. Yeah, but in all you've said there, you have affirmed a certain system of belief that some people are calling into question. So you've said that everything happens at the level of the individual. Well, I don't know if I said…

• 00:09:58

  Like even if you were to look at things from a kind of purely environmental perspective, well, then each of our individual existences, just the fact of existing is an affront to the planet. Like there's a lot of that kind of thinking going on, right? So these are ideas that have gotten away with it. But I absolutely…

• 00:13:12

  Yeah. Lucifer is the one who thinks he's got it all figured out. Exactly. And Cain is the one who thinks he's got it all figured out, right? In the story of Cain and Abel, you have Abel, everything's going well for him. He's sacrificing animals, his best sheep to God. And Cain sacrifices some of the fruits…

• 00:16:07

  Right. And as heroic as that sounds, I mean, you and I both have at different times expressed a lot of frustration with the extreme limits of that idea of subjectivity. And it's responsible for so many things that we don't like. And yet, the attempt to eliminate it forever and all, to kill it, to destroy it, which…

• 00:19:59

  And I think that until we regain some sense of that collectively, that this polarized, fractured thing that's going on will just perpetuate itself. Yeah. I agree. If you can't believe that each person you meet is an individual. You know, the term namaste in India, I believe, means something like, I recognize the God…

• 00:22:49

  And one of the things he says is, you're music too. And that surely is something that's worthy of respect, perhaps even love. Consider subscribing to Weird Studies on iTunes, Stitcher, or another podcast service. You can also find us on Twitter. Music for the podcast is composed and performed by Pierre-Yves Martel…