Episode 216 – Artworks Are People Too — Weird Studies

Introduction and episode focus The encounter with artwork as sentient being Dorian Gray and the question of personhood Promo for the Questionable Cinema series Discussion of the book 'Weirding' and chapter drafts The 'cursor' metaphor for developing ideas Origin of the idea in the Eskenazi Museum Writing process and the Diverse Intelligences talk Excitement for the upcoming book publication Contrasting approaches to writing and ideas Artworks as material subjects with personality Ideas as autonomous agents or persons Ibn Arabi's visions and the concept of Logos Ojibwa ontology and personhood as primitive The spectrum of personhood from particles to persons Disenchantment and the narrowing of mind The buffered self and the long viewing exercise Encounter with Rothko and removing psychic barriers Art as a trick and the persistence of personhood Jung's autonomous complexes and Wagner's Ring Jodorowsky's voodoo dolls and magical efficacy Dan Sperber's cognitive causal chains vs. personhood Art as interpersonal language and religious response The problem of proof and the metaphysics of exclusion Moral agency of museum objects and repatriation Yupik narratives and the treatment of ancestors Moral harm beyond calculable injury De-occlusion, Rilke's Apollo, and the polity of persons

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Episode 216 – Artworks Are People Too

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