Future Fossils/Weird Studies
25 Feb 2022 - 30 Jun 2023
- 126 - Phil Ford & JF Martel on Weird Studies & Plural Realities - FUTURE FOSSILS | Acast Weird Studies
- Ep is from 2019
- SFI has a critique of materialist science, but Garfield still feels drawn to the fringe (OK that I can buy into).
- "No man is an island, but some are very long peninsulas"
- Etymology of weird ≡ wyrd ≡ twisted ≡ fractal
- "It's all fun and games until someone loses an I" (Zen dad joke)
- Fractalnoia – name for the condition induced by crazy internet media
- Crowley should be up with Pound, Einstein, Picasso as modernist figure
- Hrm rm, here's where I kind of part with the WS guys. They want Crowley and the weird to be outsiders but also recognized as insiders. I sense a contradiction. To be fair it's probably one they are well aware of, they talk about things like this sometimes, and it's not like I'm some outlaw purist.
- Plural ontology. I guess my Politics and Pragmatism in Scientific Ontology Construction is a pretty boring version of that.
- Grammar of Process, myth shows the shape of things (OK, thats on my wavelength). Ontological morphology
- Dōgen episode of WS: singularity of the moment. Should listen to that one.
- The creepy avidity of life...finding an opening and seething through. Your geraniums look beautiful and homey but it's the same thing. A loathsome profigacy (From Lovecraft). Source of all beauty?
- Talk by John Pepper at National Cancer Institute. About nutrition and cancer as a metabolic thing. Sugar and petroleum have tumorized us.
- Some pseudoscience UFO thing...oy.
- Disruption as weirding capitalism. Cash in and be Weird Consultants, get spots on CNN explaining the Weird Times too the masses
- WS will die if there is ever a WS department...WS is what escapes the episteme. Compared later to TAZ theory of Hakim Bey – as soon as utopia is identified it becomes distopia.
- Fundamental problem of academia: Originality vs. Evaluation. Things need to be replicable and that is counter to personal vision. Just how things work. WS is always about things that elude categorization, replication, standardization.
- David Weinberger, Everyday Chaos