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    from Weird Studies/The Village Scene
    • A followup to the last episode, talking about the postwar Greenwich Village scene, the Casssavetes movie Shadows and Kafka was the Rage. They were circling an idea, something about how the ciry and specific scenes like this are "imaginal", their favorite word. From a certain angle I agree completely, but they also insist on framing it as an irruption of something pre-existing into the material world, rather than an active embodied creation of embodied beings. If I have to find something to gripe about, and I do.

    Weird Studies/From Hell

    24 Jan 2024 - 24 Jan 2024
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      • Very excited by this episode, before even hearing it. Alan Moore was an early entry on my request list and also probably the most influential guy on me breaking away from simpleminded atheism (see "God" ≡ God ).
      • Intro: "Jung's autonomous complexes that seek to clothe themselves in the words of poets"
      • Scenes, eh. JFM: the past is imaginal. I think I agree 95%, the differences are important though.
      • Hm well didn't get tons of new insights here, but this is a work I know well. Once again they fail to mention William Blake (who sees Gull in a vision towards the end of the book and inspires his Ghost of a Flea).