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Greg Thomas on Albert Murray, Philosopher of Jazz and the Blues
Marco V Morelli
In this outtake from Infinite Conversations LIVE, Greg Thomas talks with Marco and Ed Mahood about the life and literary legacy of Albert Murray, whose Collected Essays & Memoirs were published by the Library of America in 2016. We discuss Murray’s ideas on Omni-American identity, culture and race, and his conception of “antagonistic cooperation”…
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Multiple Delicacies Awaiting Discovery: The Poetry of Jenn Zahrt
Marco V Morelli
Jenn Zahrt and host Marco V Morelli discuss a series of Jenn’s poems recently published in Metapsychosis journal under the titles โDialogues with the Inscrutableโ and โThere is a Hydrogen Bomb on Your Raspberry Eyelid.โ
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The Rifts of Art: Reclaiming Our Capacity to Be Affected by the Real
Marco V Morelli
J.F. Martel is a writer and filmmaker living in Ottawa, Canada. He is the author of Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice,ย published by North Atlantic Books. This episode is a companion to J.F.โs essay, โConsciousness in the Aesthetic Imagination,” published in Metapsychosis.
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Does an Artist Need a Business Plan?
This pilot episode of the Infinite Conversations podcastโfeaturing writer, actor, mystic, and activist Mark Binetโexplores the difficult relationship between art, commerce, and activismโand asks to what degree contemporary artists are implicated in unjust systems and self-serving motives. Must an artist necessarily oppose power, or can she work with powerโespecially economic powerโto serve noble ends? What…