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Interviewing the author of Weird Studies/Neighbor George and "The Secret Life of Puppets" which I guess I have to read. They say it was foundational to what WS is doing, which I think means that it advanced the talking of the supernatural in a somewhat-respectible academic contexts. Not sure how I feel about that.
As usual, this drifited into the ontology of the supernatural and modernism. Bruno Latour came up. These discussions always get me thinking about my own views, and how they differ from that of the hosts, or perhaps aren't all that different.
Naturally all direct talk of the supernatural and the paranormal sets my teeth on edge. To which the WS people might respond, quite reasonably, if I don't like that kind of thing, why am I hanging around these precincts?
Well, one answer is that while parnormalism isn't very attractive to me, I share with the WS folks a sense that something is really wrong and broken with modenity, science, materialism, rationalism, whatever you want to call it. (So does everybody else pretty much, aside maybe from some overly aggressive Science Guy types). I've always liked art that questioned the hard edges of reality, a taste which I also share with WS, they just take ti a few degrees more seriously than I am willing to.
Everything you hate is part of you (including Donald Trump, ech).
Yeah I gotta admit the truth of that. It stands to reason – you have to represent the things you don't like. Aversion to things you don't like, attraction to those you do, it's the basic engine of samsara. Dvesha is the Buddhist term Dvesha (Buddhism) - Wikipedia).
My intense opposition to fascism worries me sometimes – the stronger and more justified the hate, the more likely that there is some part of myself I am not seeing.
This machine kills the fascist within.
— Slope of Function (@SlopeOfFunction) March 3, 2016