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The ArtiFact Podcast is a long-form show on books, culture, painting, and music hosted by Alex Sheremet, Joel Parrish, and a revolving door of co-hosts and guests. Each subject is covered in depth and at length, with past shows featuring the Epic of Gilgamesh, Charles Johnson's "Oxherding Tale", Leonard Shlain’s "Art & Physics", John Williams's "Stoner", and more. Opinionated, controversial, and prone to making enemies and friends of friends and enemies, ArtiFact delivers new perspectives on the arts by artists of talent.
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Saturday Jun 26, 2021
Saturday Jun 26, 2021
In ArtiFact #4, Joel Parrish and I discuss growing up religious, the literary questions surrounding the Bible's Ecclesiastes, and other works of art by Rembrandt, Countee Cullen, and Robinson Jeffers.
You can also watch this episode on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWgEDn4TXIY
Read the latest writing from automachination: https://automachination.com
Joel's website: https://poeticimport.com
Music sample: Lowkemia - "Lorem Ipsum" (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Timestamps:
0:14 - Joel amidst the wildfires
5:48 - Some peculiarities of Russian Orthodoxy
9:40 - Joel's religious upbringing
17:05 - Religion will continue compromising with itself
27:34 - Joel: religion still sticks to the atheist
34:03 - Christian Marxism in action
41:37 - Religious sublimation, or sublimating religion?
45:14 - Alex: healthy atheists don't obsess over religion
50:26 - Loren Eiseley as spiritual literature
55:04 - Is religion explanatory or prescriptive?
01:06:46 - Alex: God is an after-thought in Ecclesiastes
01:09:00 - Joel on Biblical structures
01:13:11 - Reading Ecclesiastes, Ch. 1
01:17:12 - Robinson Jeffers vs. Ecclesiastes
01:25:25 - Ch. 2: Solomon's (missing) labors
01:34:32 - Solomon's sophistries
01:40:08 - Ch. 3: where does the narrator truly stand?
01:47:06 - Ch. 5: Schopenhauer explains Ecclesiastes
01:57:00 - Ch. 7: against gatekeeping
02:04:19 - Ch. 9: cutting God out of the equation
02:08:06 - Ch. 10: redemption arcs
02:11:09 - Ch. 11: for the love of melancholy
02:22:22 - Ch. 12: whose epilogue?
02:25:05 - Ecclesiastes as a work of art
02:33:32 - Critiquing Rembrandt's "The Prodigal Son"
02:49:24 - Encore: Robinson Jeffers, Countee Cullen
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