Episode 130: Holiday Memories

Weird Studies

Phil Ford and J. F. Martel

Society & Culture, Arts, Philosophy

4.8 • 688 Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2022

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

In August, 2022, JF and Phil flew to the UK to attend the Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) at the University of St. Andrews and the Supernormal Festival in Oxfordshire. In addition to recording two live shows (to be released in the coming weeks), they encountered billiant minds, novel ideas, and arresting works of art that opened new avenues for thought. It's these encounters that anchor this conversation, which branches off to touch ideas such as the elusive ideal of intersciplinarity, Hakim Bey's temporary autonomous zone, the legacy of the 20th-century counterculture, the fate of revolutionary movements, non--human intelligences, and the weirdness of human thought. Header Image by RomitaGirl67 via Wikimedia Commons. Listen to volume 1 and volume 2 of the Weird Studies soundtrack by Pierre-Yves Martel Support us on Patreon Find us on Discord Get the new T-shirt design from Cotton Bureau! Get your Weird Studies merchandise (t-shirts, coffee mugs, etc.) Visit the Weird Studies Bookshop References Dial M for Musicology, Interdisciplinarity Hakim Bey, The Temporary Autonomous Zone Entitled Opinions Podcast William Gibson, Foreword to Samuel Delaney’s Dhalgren DISI Podcast, Many Minds John Krakauer, professor of nuerology and neuroscience Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist The Great Ape Dictionary, specific database used by Cat Hobaiter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Spectrevision Radio
0:03.3	Welcome to Weird Studies, an arts and philosophy podcast with hosts Phil Ford and J.F. Martel.
0:23.3	For more episodes or to support the podcast, go to weird studies, and happy new year.
0:54.8	That's my little joke.
0:57.0	For working academics, the end of the summer marks the beginning of the new academic year,
1:01.9	and the first day of class is imbued with feelings of excitement and new beginnings and grand ventures undertaken with a jaunty cheer somehow undimmed by the certain knowledge
1:11.9	that in a couple of months you'll be burned out again. So it feels like New Year's, is what I'm
1:17.6	saying. And J.F. and I have settled into that rhythm in recent years, taking a couple of weeks off
1:23.2	in late summer and then coming back guns ablazen for a new season of weird studies.
1:28.9	And so it is with this week's episode.
1:31.3	We're back from the UK, tanned, rested and ready, with two live shows we recorded during
1:36.9	our travels ready to drop.
1:39.3	But first, we need to do a little scene setting.
1:42.3	For this episode, J.F. and I met up just as soon as the jet lag wore off,
1:46.7	and we recorded a conversation on the adventures we'd just had.
1:50.8	You can tell we were both still buzzing from the energy of our encounters with the Supernormal
1:55.1	Festival and the D.Ferci's Summer Institute, or D.C. for short.
2:01.0	D.C. is an interdisciplinary summer workshop for researchers working on problems related to
2:06.3	cognition and mind. Whether said mind might be found in humans, animals, machines, or who knows,
2:12.6	maybe demons? That was our pitch to the D.C. folks, anyway. We try to make a case for intelligence as
2:19.8	something out there, unembodied and unlocatable, even though sometimes we might find
2:25.3	ourselves growing uneasy under its hidden gaze. That's not what we want to talk about in this
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