The Imp of the Possible
JF MartelPhilosophy, art, religion
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The One Idea of Gilles Deleuze
A relative of mine is teaching an undergraduate course on postmodern philosophy next fall. He asked me whether I considered Deleuze a postmodernist and, if so, which texts might serve as a good introduction to his thought. Still today, thre...
Brutalism is a Humanism
This piece, first published in the North American Review (and republished here with new annotations), came back to mind this week as I obsessively watched a series of YouTube “reactions” to the Canadian avant-garde rock duo Angine de Poitri...
Fate and Chance
The twentieth-century fantasist Lord Dunsany opens The Gods of Pegāna (1905) with the following myth:
In the mists before the Beginning, Fate and Chance cast lots to decide whose the Game should be; and he that won strode through the mis...
The Bergson Shock
I’ve been off to a good start with The Imp of the Possible, publishing nine pieces—the last one a rather meaty essay on Macbeth—over the course of the newsletter’s first four months. Although there are new essays in the works, including one...
Macbeth and the Death of God
The Tragedy of Macbeth may be the weirdest of Shakespeare’s plays, the one whose fantastical elements most strongly resist reduction to mere metaphor or allegory. Unlike The Tempest and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, both easily relegated to a...
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Writer, filmmaker, podcaster. Author of Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice. Co-host of Weird Studies.
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