Show Notes
In this episode, JF and Phil bring together two visionary essays on the daimonic and the imaginal: Cristina Campo’s “On Fairy Tales” and M.C. Richards’s “Wrestling with the Daimonic.” What emerges is a conversation about imagination, personhood, and a world shot through with meaning. Notably, this episode opens with a discussion of what your hosts mean by "imaginal."
Phil’s reading of Richards’s essay can be found on our Patreon page. Thanks to Wesleyan University Press for permission to share this with our listeners.
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Music in this Episode
"Scavenger," from Weird Studies Vol. 3
"Domes and Spires," from Weird Studies Vol. 2
References
M. C. Richards, American artist and philosopher
Cristina Campo, Italian poet and essayist
M. C. Richards, “Wrestling with the Daimonic”
Cristina Campo, “On Fairy Tales”
Henri Bergson, Matter and Memory
William Blake, “Auguries of Innocence”
Weird Studies, Episode 8 on Graham Harmon
Susan Chang, The Tarot Podcast
Ramsey Dukes, The Little Book of Demons
“The Boy Who Knew No Fear,” fairy tale
Una Voce, Catholic movement
Franz Liszt, Hungarian Pianist
Walter Benjamin, The Storyteller
William Shakespeare, Othello
M. C. Richards, Centering
Robert Duncan, American poet
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