Mark Blacklock is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of the cultural history The Emergence of the Fourth Dimension, and his most recent novel Hinton was longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction in 2021. In this episode we discuss 'J.G. Ballard Selected Nonfiction 1962-2007'

Book link: 
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262048323/selected-nonfiction-19622007/

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J.G. Ballard, Nonfiction and Fiction with Mark Blacklock

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Spells by Michel de Ghelderode (Book Review)

Brad Baumgartner is a theorist and writer. He is the author of several works, including Dead Man's Switch: Glissades (Orbis Tertius Press, 2022), The –Tempered Mid·riff: A Play in Four Acts (Schism-Neuronics, 2020), Celeste: Our Lady of Flowering Marvel (Spuyten Duyvil, 2020), which was a semi-finalist for the 2017 Tarpaulin Sky Book Award, and Quantum Mechantics: Memoirs of a Quark (The Operating System, 2019). Additionally, Stylinaut
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aphorism/fragment, and poetry, was a finalist for the 2019 Tarpaulin Sky
 Book Award. Other recent work can be found in the edited collections Acéphale and Autobiographical Philosophy in the 21st Century (Schism Press, 2021) and Art Disarming Philosophy: Non-philosophy and Aesthetics (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021). He is on the Editorial Board of Cyclops Journal: Contemporary Theory, Theory of Religion, and Experimental Theory and is Fiction Editor of Coffin Bell: A Journal of Dark Literature. In this episode we discuss his book Weird Mysticism: Philosophical Horror and the Mystical Text (Lehigh University Press, 2021)
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​Erik Butler translates literature and scholarship from French, German, and other European languages. He also writes on cultural history. In this episode we discuss the work of  Léon Bloy.
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The Life and Work of Léon Bloy with Erik Butler

Wayne Bradshaw is a research associate at James Cook University, 
Australia, where he completed a PhD in literary studies. He is the 
founder of James Cook University’s postgraduate cultural magazine, Sudo 
Journal, and has also published a chapter on the importance of 
philosophical egoism to the terrorist persona in Metaphysical Sociology:
 On the Work of John Carroll (2018). In this episode we discuss 
Bradshaw's book The Ego Made Manifest
Max Stirner, Egoism, and the Modern Manifesto.

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Max Stirner, Egoism, and the Modern Manifesto with Wayne Bradshaw

Ashley Woodward is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Dundee and is a founding member of the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy. In this episode we discuss Raymond Ruyer's text Cybernetics 
and the Origin of Information.

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J.G. Ballard, Nonfiction and Fiction with Mark Blacklock

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