Enjoy our new multi part “Book Lunch Series” featuring Irving Singer’s “The Nature of Love”.

In this initial installation of my first aesthetics series I talked about what the concept means to me, beginning with Susan Sontag's 1966 texts Against Interpretation, On Style an early, young adult experience at the 1987 Red Grooms show at the Whitney and much more.

Thanks to everyone who joined us last Friday for our recent "Funky Friday at Five"!!!!

Your podcast host, Mitch Hampton is also a concert pianist, composer and film scoring wizard and in honor of Friday the 13th, he graced us with a version of Monk's "Friday the 13th" ! Enjoy!

Thanks to everyone who stopped by our recent livestream event.
This "minisode" is a celebration of show favorite, Sanifu Al Hall's new album PROJECT 43, with a guest appearance by Hall!

More on this stream and where to purchase Sanifu Hall's album, from your host, Mitch Hampton

Link to purchase this beautiful album:
Copies via mail order are available from us at AljoniMusiCo--just email us at [email protected] ; subject "I Want My Project 43" for additional order information.

“I was so enthusiastic about Sanifu Hall's newest Project 43, most of all his decision to release it on vinyl, that I decided he should return to say hi to us if he could for a mini- episode on his wonderful album.

The music on it is very composition and diverse as well as featuring plenty of solos from some great improvisers.”

Link to purchase this beautiful album:
Copies via mail order are available from us at AljoniMusiCo--just email us at [email protected] ; subject "I Want My Project 43" for additional order information.

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"On this Book Lunch I try and do some justice to Runia's book, whose subtitle Discontinuity and Historical Mutation, gives you a fairly decent idea of his intellectual project, as well as his highly original theory of history."

“One of the most persistent and embraced phenomenons in filmmaking in our current era is the love for resisting or rebooting many older popular genre films for contemporary purposes.

In this episode I was most happy to revisit painter Alexandra Carter and discuss a film she picked: Luca Guadagnino's 2018 “Suspiria” possessing the same title and some influence from the Dario Argento 1977 classic.

We could both agree that his film is a totally unique creature all of its own and, as always, I enjoyed doing the deepest dive with her.”

Links to Alexandra's beautiful works:

https://www.alexandra-carter.com/view/55405/1/0/7315772

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Listeners, This one is extra special for us as Micheal is our very own sound designer and editor! What an honor to have him on and share his work and journey with you all!

Inside this episode with your host, Mitch Hampton:

"One of the things I appreciate most about our show, and it is deliberatively by design, is how different spans of geography and culture can nevertheless contain interesting commonality.

Michael Newton, the guest of this episode is a wizard or engineer par excellence the virtues of which aids our show tremendously.

Yet like my late father, he is from Indiana and I have always felt myself to be an honorary "hoosier".

Also as one of his fields of expertise is audio and sound, I found his account of the intricacies of these matters in this episode most interesting. I throughly enjoyed this episode and I do hope that our audience perhaps gains some increased interest in all matters audiophile as well.

More about Michael: 

Michael Newton was born and raised in the small Central Indiana town of Rushville. 

He attended school there until moving to Muncie to attend Ball State University, and would go on to acquire a bachelor's degree in Digital Audio Production in 2014. 

During college and ever since, Michael has been involved in studio recording, post production, and live sound in and around Indiana. 

Most recently Michael has been recording and producing his own podcast, Michael's Mixdown, where he discusses and breaks down recorded songs, and interviews musicians and audio professionals. 

He is also the audio editor and mixer of the Journey of and Aesthete podcast. 

Michael has also been the live sound engineer for the Gabriel Harley Band since 2018. 

In his free time, Michael enjoys video games and board games, listening to progressive rock music, and spending time with his two dogs, Skipper and Ryder.

Link to his podcast: https://anchor.fm/michaelsmixdown

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Near the end of the extraordinary book that is the subject of this book lunch, The Disenchantment of the World, A Political History of Religion, the author, Marcel Gauchet, says the following about aesthetics, the very topic of our podcast:

"The aesthetic experience seems to me amenable to a similar analysis, insofar as it can be related to a primordial source, which in turn attests the continuing existence of a relation to the world, a relation previously the basis of religious sentiment. The capacity for emotion art the sight of things arises from a basic mode of inscription in being, which connects us with what used to be the meaning of the sacred for thousands of years."

Of course I read that passage when first I discovered this remarkable book, partly due to a now famous review of it in the New Republic by the late, great Jean Bethke Elshtain.

It is not every host of a podcast who was reading The New Republic in the 1990s - and then going out and buying an obscure text on the recommendation of one The New Republic's writers.

Of course the name Gauchet is far from the celebration and fame of the more familiar and famous writers on religion Elaine Pagels and Karen Armstrong. But I have always felt that his book is among the most important ones on the subject and, as one of the aims of our podcast is to introduce to a wide audience intellectual matters that might be more unfamiliar, I was only too happy about my conversation with Michael Behrent.

Dr. Behrent’s Bio

My recent scholarship has sought to historicize the work of the French philosopher Michel Foucault.

An initial set of essays evaluated the political significance of his reflections on free-market economics by situating his work in the shifting ideological landscape of France in the 1970s. My current project seeks to show how Foucault’s thought was (to a significant

degree) rooted in his upbringing in Poitiers (France) from the 1920s to the 1940s. A subsequent project seeks to reconstruct the thought of the “young Foucault” (spanning 1949 through to the mid-1960s).

I have also written on nineteenth-century French political thought (particularly the relationship between religion and republicanism), the history of liberal and democratic thought, and contemporary French political philosophy.

Finally, I write about American politics and culture for several French publications, notably Esprit.

I also write about French politics and culture for several American and British venues (such as, Dissent, Foreign Policy, and Oxford University Press blog).

Links to Professor Behrent’s Work

https://www.pennpress.org/ 9781512825145/becoming- foucault/

For a more comprehensive list of his works, visit his website, here: https:// appstate.academia.edu/ MichaelBehrent

#democracy #humanrights #sociology #individualism #multiculturalism #identity #raymondaron #France #socialismorbarbarism   #claudelefort #corneliuscastoriadis #mauricemerleau-ponty  #may68 #anthropology #christianity #islam #judaism #buddhism #politics #gladysswain #michelfoucault #alainbadoi #marxism #capitalism #neoliberalism #postmodernism #emmanuelemacron #robespierre #globalisation #francoismiterrand #jacqueschirac #spirituality #law #constitution 

Hi listeners!

This is part 6 of our ongoing 1970's cinema series.

More on this livestream event, here:

Even by the independent standards of the era, these filmmakers were most original in style, doing things on screen utterly unique in representation, tone and visual language.

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