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M. R. James\' "The Mezzotint" is one of the most fascinating, and most chilling, examples of the classic ghost story. In this episode, Phil and JF discover what this tale of haunted images and buried secrets tells us about the reality of ideas, the singularity of events, the virtual power of the symbol, and the enduring magic of the art object in the age of mechanical reproduction.

To accompany this episode, Phil recorded a full reading of the story. Listen to it here.

REFERENCES

M.R. James, "The Mezzotint"
\\nRobert Aickman, English author of "strange stories"
\\nEdgar Allan Poe, "The Oval Portrait"
\\nWalter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"
\\nMarshall McLuhan, The Book of Probes
\\nClement Greenberg, American art critic
\\nJ.F. Martel, Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice
\\nMarcel Duchamps, Fountain
\\nHenri Bergson, Laughter
\\nJohn Cage, American composer
\\nDavid Lynch (director), Twin Peaks: The Return
\\nGilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition
\\nVilhelm Hammersh\\xf8i, Danish painter
\\nSigmund Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle
\\nMartin Heidegger, What is Called Thinking?
\\nStanley Kubrick, [The Shining](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shining(film))_
\\nFerruccio Busoni, Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music
\\nDavid Lynch on why you shouldn\'t watch films on your phone
\\nNelson Goodman, American philosopher
\\nPablo Picasso, Guernica
\\nPaul Thomas Anderson, The Master
\\nMartin Heidegger, Basic Writings
\\nPhil Ford, "No One Understands You"