Weird Studies/BW Powe on Visionary Literature
08 Mar 2022 - 16 Dec 2022
- He writes on Northrop Frye, McLuhan, and other weird Canadians.
- Four principles of inspiration: duende, greening (viriditas), entheos...relates to a concept in Deleuze of "spiritual automaton".
- Refs McLuhan's Notes on Burroughs (1964) – RealityStudio
- Ref to RD Laing theory of breakdown
- Eliot on Baudelaire, "the courage to be damned".
- no warning label, no informed consent on the visionary experience (didn't he just say this on another episode? Yes Weird Studies/Tarot/The Moon )
- Academics are people who tend to let themselves be overtaken by ideas.
- Learn to perform a Banishment on ideas or at least learn to take them lightly. Have a psychic defense system. Negate the idea, and to balance Affirm the common everyday world.
- JFM remark on Deleuze and the non-philosophical
- Hm this episode didn't quite click for me, too academic or meta-academic or something.