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A term I heard JFM use, in contrast with substance dualism, which is the kind I've been taught to despise my entire life. Not despise exactly – but somehow it is the root of all of western wrongthink. Anyway, modal dualism, if I understand it correctly, does not have the problems of substance dualism. There is one "substance", but it has many ways of being. That seems perfectly sensible.
Fast forward a few centuries, and you'll find the folks at Weird Studies carrying Blake's torch in their own peculiar way. Phil Ford , JF Martel , and their fellow travelers aren't anti-science exactly, but they're deeply suspicious of scientism—that overweening confidence that scientific methods can and should be applied to everything worth knowing. They champion what they call "weird" ways of understanding: the occult, the anomalous, the irreducibly subjective experiences that make positivists break out in hives.
About | All is Full of Love a JFM course. I expect I'll enjoy this one more than Weird Studies/Courses/AI because I actually have more to learn, whereas on AI I have to argue with everything. My takes on Kubrick are pretty standard; I have a feeling JFM's is more original, whether or not I buy it.
J F Martel, one of the hosts of Weird Studies. Someone I have perpetual head-battles with (I try not to argue with him in real life, because he's got more philosophical chops than I do and I'd lose). He's Catholic, although that doesn't seem to stop him from liking weird shit and being best buds with a Buddhist (the other host, Phil Ford)