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In The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light, the cultural historian William Irwin Thompson predicted the rise of a new form of knowledge building, a direly needed alternative to the Wissenshaft of standard science and scholarship. He called it Wissenskunst, "the play of knowledge in a world of serious data processors." Wissenskunst is pretty much what JF and Phil have been aspiring to do on Weird Studies since 2018, but in this episode they are joined by a master of the craft, the computational sociologist and physicist Jacob G. Foster of UCLA. Jacob is the co-founder of the Diverse Intelligence Summer Institute (DISI), a gathering of scholars, scientists, and students that takes place each year at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. It was there that this conversation was recorded. The topic was the Possible, that dream-blurred vanishing point where art, philosophy, and science converge as imaginative and creative practices.

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REFERENCES

Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute
\n"Deconstructing the Barrier of Meaning," a talk by Jacob G. Foster at the Santa Fe Institute
\nWilliam Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture
\nFrederic Rzewski, \u201cLittle Bangs: A Nihilist Theory of Improvisation\u201d
\nBrian Eno, Oblique Strategies
\nThe accident of Bob in Twin Peaks
\nCarl Jung, \u201cOn the Relation of Analytical Psychology to Poetry
\nAugust Kekule,, German chemist
\nRobert Dijkgraaf, \u201cContemplating the End of Physics\u201d
\nRichard Baker, American zen teacher
\nGian-Carlo Rota, Indiscrete Thoughts
\nWilliam Shakespeare, Macbeth
\nShoggoth, Lovecraftian entity

Special Guest: Jacob G. Foster.