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    Weird Studies/BW Powe on Visionary Literature

    08 Mar 2022 - 16 Dec 2022
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      • 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".
      • 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.