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B. W. Powe is a Canadian poet, novelist, essayist and professor at York University, in Toronto. His work, though it covers an immense range of topics from politics and poetics to magic and technology, proceeds from a mystical apprehension of the universe as the locus of magical operations, the site of experiments in cosmic becoming. In his various books and essays, Powe continues a uniquely Canadian form of the visionary tradition whose luminaries include his former teachers Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye. In this episode, he joins JF and Phil for an exploration of the meaning, potency, and danger of the visionary in art and literature.

Header image: Detail of "Green Color" by Gausanchennai (Wikimedia Commons).

REFERENCES

B. W. Powe's website
\nB. W. Powe, The Charge in the Global Membrane
\nB. W. Powe, Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye: Apocalypse and Alchemy

Frank Lentricchia, "Last Will and Testament of an Ex-Literary Critic"
\nLorca's concept of duende
\nHildegard of Bingen's concept of viriditas
\nGilles Deleuze, Cinema II
\nErnest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
\nMarshall McLuhan, Understanding Media
\nMarshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy
\nMarshall McLuhan, "Notes on William Burroughs"
\nPhil Ford, Dig: Sound and Music in Hip Culture
\nJohn Clellon Holmes, beatnik
\nNorthrop Frye, Canadian literary critic
\nHildegard von Bingen, Ordo Virtutum
\nJoni Mitchell, "Woodstock"
\nGenesis 32, Jacob and the Angel
\nR. D. Laing, Scottish psychologist
\nPierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man
\nWilliam James, The Varieties of Religious Experience
\nSylvia Plath, "Lady Lazarus"
\nSylvia Plath, "Daddy"
\nJack Kerouac, American writer
\nAllen Ginsberg, American poet
\nLionel Snell, British philosopher and magician

Special Guest: B. W. Powe.