Weird Studies/Weird Music
09 Nov 2022 - 26 Dec 2023
- Musical philosophers: Schopenhaur, Henri Bergson, Langer
- Art makes stones stoney, AKA letting their true nature shine through our cloud of symbolic representations. (I have noticed this effect on psychedelics and really would like a name for it).
- JFM: art offers a form of materialism that would put Newton and Darwin to shame. Real materialism, matter → mutter. Not a nihilistic or reductionist materialism, but one where matter is directly alive (see neovitalism ). OK.
- Ornette Coleman, harmolodics, Weird Studies/Naked Lunch.
- Dylan's Jokerman. Great choice, that's a rich Dylan song that I've never really listened to closely before.
Keeping one step ahead of the persecutor within
- oh interesting Bob Dylan – Jokerman Lyrics | Genius Lyrics did not know that refernce
- Carl Jung's Aion, Satan or anti-christ as the repressed shadow of Jesus
- They see some things in these lines that I don't
Freedom just around the corner for you But with the truth so far off, what good will it do?
- but that's OK. A ref to poets in the US being free but meaningless, damn, that reminds me of somethign but I can't quite place it...was it Andrei Codrescu? No... damn I know I heard that exact sentiment but can't google it. Paul Auster? Kurt Vonnegut? Damn that is irritating.
- Switch to Mephisto ?
- Steven Pinker as Enlightenment punching bag (he deserves it). I'm not sure he believes that "soon we will know everything there is to know", I think that might be a strawman (repeated elsewhere like that Weird ≡ Good Patreon piece).