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The question of art has been of central concern for JF and Phil since Weird Studies began in 2018. What is art? What can it do that other things can't do? How is it connected to religion, psyche, and our current historical moment? Is the endless torrent of advertisements, entertainment, memes, and porn in which seem hopelessly immersed a manifestation of art or of something else entirely? In this exploration of the main ideas in JF's book Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice, your hosts focus on these burning questions in hopes that the answers might shed light on our collective predicament and the paths that lead out of it.

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REFERENCES

JF's upcoming course on the nature and power of art, starting May 10th, 2021

JF Martel, Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice

Weird Studies, Episode 84 on the Empress card
\nWalter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
\nWerner Herzog, Cave of Forgotten Dreams
\nStanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey
\nAdam Savage, Special effects designer
\nDeleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus
\nKabbalistic emanationist cosmology
\nHenry Corbin\u2019s concept of the \u201cimaginal\u201d
\nWilliam Shakespeare, The Tempest
\nTibetan book of the Dead
\nJames Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
\nJames Hillman, The Thought of the Heart and The Soul of the World
\nPhil Ford, \u201cBattlefield medicine\u201d
\nJaques Ellul, idea of \u201ctechnique\u201d
\nAlain de Botton, Religion for Atheists
\nPaul Tillich, Dynamics of Faith