About

J.F. Martel is a writer and filmmaker living in Ottawa, Canada. He is the author of Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice, published by North Atlantic Books. This episode is a companion to J.F.’s essay, “Consciousness in the Aesthetic Imagination," published in Metapsychosis. In this conversation Marco and J.F. discuss: the paintings of Vermeer and Van GoghWhat makes an artwork a “classic”art and artificethe Church of Art (as a “church without walls”)capitalism and alienationpanpsychismthe untimely and time-free (achronon)art as singularityart as nondual multiplicityart as direct transmissionart as a question of “ultimate concern”how religion is made out of artthe aesthetics of Catholicismart and communion with the Realthe mystery of Being and the originary power of artart and terrorismthe Wagnerian vision of artart and the power to shape cultureart and the power to shape our intimate livesart as apolitical / amoralart and individualityusing the machinery of capitalism to subvert the machineliving in interesting times Mentioned in this Episode People Martin HeideggerPaul TillichSalvador DaliOscar Wilde*Karl MarxFriedrich NietzscheDaniel PinchbeckBeyoncéEmily DickinsonStanley KubrickGilles Deleuze *Editor's note: In the talk, Marco conflates Wilde's The Soul of Man Under Socialism with his letter De Profundis. Books The Ever-Present Origin – by Jean GebserHamlet – by William ShakespeareMao II – by Don DeLillo Paintings Vincent van Gogh, Still Life: Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers, 1888Johannes Vermeer, Woman Holding a Balance, 1662 Credits Audio Production Modern Busker Productions Music “What Does Anybody Know About Anything” and “It's Always Too Late to Start Over” – by Chris Zabriskie Creative Commons (CC BY 4.0) license