Episode 139: Sex, Money, and Power are YOURS with our SECRET Art-Power Formula!

Weird Studies

Phil Ford and J. F. Martel

Society & Culture, Arts, Philosophy

4.8 • 688 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2023

⏱️ 94 minutes

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"YOU MUST CHANGE YOUR LIFE!" Tired of failure and self-loathing? Want to be rich and famous while having a good time all the time? Wondering how to turn your banal opinions into Transcendent Truths? Look no further than this special, exclusive episode of Weird Studies, where we reveal, once and for all, the secrets of ART-POWER! 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 T-shirt design from Cotton Bureau! Get your Weird Studies merchandise (t-shirts, coffee mugs, etc.) Visit the Weird Studies Bookshop SHOW NOTES Ramsey Dukes, BLAST Your Way to Megabuck$ with My SECRET Sex-Power Formula James Raggi's statements on artistic freedom in tabletop roleplaying games: Proud to Commit Commercial Suicide 2023 and On Potential Inclusivity/Morality Clauses in RPG Licenses David Cronenberg, "I Would Like to Make a Case for the Crime of Art" Oscar Wilde, Preface to The Picture of Dorian Grey Alfred Gell, The Art of Anthropology Susanne Langer, “On the Cultural Importance of the Arts” Weird Studies, Episodes 73 and 74 on Carl Jung’s Theory of Art Kodo Sawaki, Japanese zen teacher Eric Voegelin, The New Science of Politics Gilles Deleuze, Pure Immanence Werner Herzog, Cave of Forgotten Dreams John Dewey, Art as Experience Susanne Langer, Philosophy in a New Key Neil Gaiman, “Make Good Art” Leon Wieseltier, “Perhaps Culture is Now the Counterculture” Eugene Vodolazkin, Laurus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Spectrevision Radio
0:02.0	Welcome to Weird Studies, an arts and philosophy podcast with hosts Phil Ford and J.F. Martel.
0:20.0	For more episodes or to support the podcast,
0:23.3	go to weirdstud J.F. Martel.
0:52.8	We read a few texts in preparation for this episode,
0:56.0	the cultural importance of the arts by the American philosopher Suzanne Langer,
1:00.5	Oscar Wilde's preface to the picture of Dorian Gray, commencement speeches by Leon Wieselteer,
1:06.4	Neil Gaiman and David Cronenberg, Alfred Gell's The Art of Anthropology,
1:11.5	and no doubt a couple more things that elude me now.
1:15.3	All these texts have to do with art.
1:17.9	More specifically, they deal with the problem of the utility or purpose of art, with the question,
1:24.0	what is art for?
1:25.6	Well, our answer is straightforward. Art is for nothing. It is, as Wilde famously
1:31.2	put it, quite useless. That's why it's so essential in an age of technique bent on instrumentalizing
1:37.8	all things. Today, art is being pulled apart by the four horsemen of the aesthetic apocalypse,
1:45.5	not war, pestilence,
1:50.7	famine, and death, but politics, artificial intelligence, commodification, and moralism.
1:54.8	I could go on, but I'm out of horses, and art is out of limbs.
1:59.3	As everything accelerates, works of art become easier to overlook.
2:02.2	They appear on the periphery of our fields of vision.
2:08.9	Blurred objects glimpsed briefly on the roadside as we flash by. Art belongs to a slow world,
2:15.2	another world, the real world. In its perfect uselessness, it asks us to stop and become useless ourselves. The call is all too easy to ignore.
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