Infinite Conversations

J.F. Martel is a writer and filmmaker living in Ottawa, Canada. He is the author of Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice, published by North Atlantic Books. This episode is a companion to J.F.’s essay, “Consciousness in the Aesthetic Imagination,” published in Metapsychosis. In this conversation Marco and J.F. discuss: the paintings of Vermeer and Van Gogh What makes an artwork a “classic” art and artifice the Church of Art (as a “church without walls”) capitalism and alienation panpsychism the untimely and time-free (achronon) art as singularity art as nondual multiplicity art as direct transmission art as a question of “ultimate concern” how religion is made out of art the aesthetics of Catholicism art and communion with the Real the mystery of Being and the originary power of art art and terrorism the Wagnerian vision of art art and the power to shape culture art and the power to shape our intimate lives art as apolitical / amoral art and individuality using the machinery of capitalism to subvert the ma