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In this episode I discuss a book by an American philosopher called Terence McKenna in which he proposed a radical new theory on human evolution.
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In this episode I read out a narrative that I wrote as a result of my recent 3 month deep dive into the history of psychedelics.
Time stamps for sections:
00:00 - An Ecstatic Prologue
27:25 - The Old World
43:04 - The New World
50:10 - Seeking the Magic Mushroom
53:42 - Seeking the Magic Mushroom: Richard Evans Schultes
1:02:50 - Seeking the Magic Mushroom: Gordon Wasson
1:13:05 - Time for Change
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This episode is a reading of the next (and third) installment of my ongoing project based on James Joyce's novel, Ulysses. I have been rewriting the chapters of the book to document my response and processing of the modernist masterpiece. The recording is 14 minutes long.
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Part 2 of my reading, with live commentary, of the famous essay called Oration on the Dignity of Man by the Italian Renaissance Philosopher, Pico Della Mirandola. This essay is now considered by scholars to be a "manifesto for the Italian Renaissance."
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In this episode I do another live reading of another famous essay, this time it is a lecture called Oration on the Dignity of Man by the Italian Renaissance Philosopher, Pico Della Mirandola. This essay is now considered by scholars to be a "manifesto for the Italian Renaissance."
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The first philosophers: the pre-Socratics and the road to atomic theory.
Thales
Anaximander
Anaximenes
Xenophanes
Heraclitus
Parmenides
Zeno
Melissus
Pythagoras
Anaxagoras
Empedocles
Leucippus
Democritus
The Sophists
Protagoras
Gorgias
Prodicus
Thracymachus
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A 17 minute condensed and, in many places, reimagined version of the second episode of James Joyce's modernist masterpiece, Ulysses, titled, Nestor. Likes are great, but buying me a drink (or some food) over on patreon would be even better😅🫣 What would Joyce have been without his patrons? #strugglingartist #"would I make money by it?" Stephen asked Haines.
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As part of my bachelor's degree in Art college I had to write a thesis on a subject of my own choosing. If you're not familiar, ever wondered what an Art college thesis might be like? I chose to write my thesis on the reasons why a form of contemporary socially engaged art, called Dialogical Art, came about. In this episode I read out and discuss the thesis that I wrote. Some of the topics include: Guy Debord's book called Society of the Spectacle; some past forms of socially engaged art; why Installation Art came about; Relational Aesthetics and Dialogical Art practices.
And here are some other words that come up in discussion in relation to this kind of art: Socially engaged art, Community art,
Experimental communities,
Interventionist art, Participatory art,
Collaborative art, Contextual art, Useful art, and Social practice.
Some key writers in relation to these types of art are: Claire Bishop, Grant Kester and Nicolas Bourriaud.
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As part of my bachelor's degree in Art college I had to write a thesis on a subject of my own choosing. If you're not familiar, ever wondered what an Art college thesis might be like? I chose to write my thesis on the reasons why a form of contemporary socially engaged art, called Dialogical Art, came about. In this episode I read out and discuss the thesis that I wrote. Some of the topics include: Guy Debord's book called Society of the Spectacle; some past forms of socially engaged art; why Installation Art came about; Relational Aesthetics and Dialogical Art practices.
And here are some other words that come up in discussion in relation to this kind of art: Socially engaged art, Community art,E xperimental communities,
Interventionist art, Participatory art,
Collaborative art, Contextual art, Useful art, and Social practice.
Some key writers in relation to these types of art are: Claire Bishop, Grant Kester and Nicolas Bourriaud.
If you like this episode, or any other episodes, and would like to show support or appreciation, then you could buy me a drink over on Patreon, just search Oralotium there, cheers ✌️🙏 follow on Instagram: Oralotium
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As part of my bachelor's degree in Art college I had to write a thesis on a subject of my own choosing. If you're not familiar, ever wondered what an Art college thesis might be like? I chose to write my thesis on the reasons why a form of contemporary socially engaged art, called Dialogical Art, came about. In this episode I read out and discuss the thesis that I wrote. Some of the topics include: Guy Debord's book called Society of the Spectacle; some past forms of socially engaged art; why Installation Art came about; Relational Aesthetics and Dialogical Art practices.
And here are some other words that come up in discussion in relation to this kind of art: Socially engaged art, Community art,
Experimental communities,
Interventionist art, Participatory art,
Collaborative art, Contextual art, Useful art, and Social practice.
Some key writers in relation to these types of art are: Claire Bishop, Grant Kester and Nicolas Bourriaud.
If you like this episode, or any other episodes, and would like to show support or appreciation, then you could buy me a drink over on Patreon, just search Oralotium there, cheers ✌️🙏 follow on Instagram: Oralotium
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Part 2: I read and discuss a lecture by Thomas Carlyle in which he investigates Scandinavian mythology.
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In this episode I read and discuss a lecture by Thomas Carlyle in which he investigates Scandinavian mythology.
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In this short 7 and a half minute episode I read out a poem that I wrote recently which introduces the fact that I have been writing poetry for a long time now, but I have only recently started trying to get some of it published in literary magazines and journals. Here is that story in the form of a poem.
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I read out live and discuss a well known essay called Civil Disobedience, by Henry David Thoreau. It is still as relevant today as it was when it was first written in 1849. This essay was a major influence on Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King in their use of non-violent, peaceful protesting. I thought it was appropriate to read this essay now because of the current, worldwide protesting that is calling for a ceasefire of the genocidal, Nakba 2.0 situation in Gaza right now.
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Part 2 of a live reading, with commentary, of another essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson called, The Poet.
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In this episode I do a live reading, with commentary, of another essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson called, The Poet.
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In this episode I explore three of the most popular myths from the earliest known civilization on the planet, which was located in Mesopotamia, called, Sumeria. This civilization basically produced the foundations for every other civilization that followed on the planet. They are enigmatic and tantalizing stories that rocked the world when they were rediscovered in the mid 19th century. Who created the world and mankind, and why? Here's an alternative creation story. The Enuma Elish (The Epic of Creation), Atrahasis and The Epic of Gilgamesh. Check it out 😉✌️
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Ulysses, the novel by the Irish modernist writer James Joyce, is celebrated each year on the 16th of June and the celebration is called Bloomsday. The book is set on June 16th, 1904. The story starts off that morning and ends that night. It is a story of two protagonists and how their paths cross during the day; a young recent graduate, and artistic-type, Stephen Daedalus and a middle-aged, Dublin-born, jewish man who works in advertising, Leoplod Bloom. It is hailed as a masterpiece of modernist fiction. Joyce chose to set his novel on that day because June 16th, 1904, is the day that he first met his wife.
I was rereading some chapters of the book again in June this year as we approached Bloomsday, and around the same time I had discovered that the German word for poetry comes from the German word for "to condense." So, just as an experiment, I set myself the task of trying to condense the first chapter of Ulysses. Here are the results. What do you think of it? Should I do some more chapters? Maybe even the whole book? 😄 I took some artistic liberties within this experiment, readers of Ulysses will perhaps be able to spot where I deviated.
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In this episode I take up where I left off in the last episode and gallop through a thousand years of history. Pointing out what I think are some of the main figures who helped develop the European mind up until the Italian Renaissance. How did Europe pick itself back up after the decline of the Roman Empire? Here is the story, in broad strokes.
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In this episode I discuss, what I believe to be, the little known role that Ireland played in how Europe started to rebuild itself after the decline of the Roman empire. It's a tour around the chain of events that helped preserve and rebuild western civilization during the early Dark Ages, from Cassiodorus to Colombanus.
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Ireland the land of saints and scholars
How the Irish Saved Civilization
Saint Patrick
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