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The Second Arrangement is the title of a Steely Dan song that was once accidentally erased by a studio tech during the band's Gaucho sessions and thought never to be heard again. It has been the subject of lore amongst Steely Dan fans for decades, until bootlegs and samples of demos began finding their way onto the internet, which gave fans an idea as to what this lost, Gaucho-era track actually sounded like. In 2011, the band performed the track live during a Rarities Night show at the Beacon Theater in New York, which sparked the imaginations of fans, not to mention musicians such as Scott Sheriff, an ardent Steely Dan fan who fronts arguably the best Steely Dan tribute band, 12 Against Nature. Scott, along with several talented studio musicians in Nashville, decided to resurrect The Second Arrangement, and recently released a video version of the completed song, which has already gained worldwide attention. Here to discuss the momentum behind recreating this track is Scott Sheriff.

A conversation with artist Matthew Day Jackson whose show “Against Nature” is up now through July 1 at Pace's 510 West 25th Street location in New York. Jackson uses a host of inspirations from Romanticism to help share his unique vision of the world. The results are captivating landscapes that consist of dozens of intricate layers made with a wide variety of materials and mechanical processes. https://www.pacegallery.com/exhibitions/matthew-day-jackson-against-nature/https://www.pacegallery.com/artists/matthew-day-jackson/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB003ELmOR0https://www.instagram.com/matthewdayjackson/

Welcome back to ParaPower Mapping—to tide you over until the next part of the Rosicrucian Road Trip drops in a few days & to build anticipation for the next installment of the "Fin De Siècle Symbolists, Satanists, & French-British Sex Trafficking Networks" miniseries, it's the very first unlocked EP from the Boston Brahmin Watch Premium Feed! Make sure to subscribe to the Patreon to access the full version of Pt. II & Pt. III when it drops next week. patreon.com/ParaPowerMapping This is Part I of a multipart descent into the Decadent Symbolist, Rosicrucian, and Satanic underground of fin de siècle Paris and Victorian London, as well as the related sex trafficking & pedophilia networks that catered to the abhorrent appetites of the monstrous aristocratic elite of the time. This EP covers: the Symbolist writer, son of diplomats, and possible-occultist Marcel Schwob; Aleister Crowley's connections to Schwob; Oscar Wilde + Schwob once again; J.K. Huysmans; Maurice Maeterlinck; Sar Peladan; Peladan's Catholic Rosicrucian order and "Salon de la Rose + Croix"; Robert Louis Stevenson; Schwob's "syphilitic rectal sores"; Wilde's play Salome (which Schwob translated); the Biblical story of Salome, Herod, & John the Baptist; Crowley's assimilation of Salome into Babalon/ Scarlet Woman and his "Jezebel"; the influence of Decadent & Symbolist misogyny on Crowley's writing and occultism; aristocratic traditions of taboo-breaking and pederasty; Crowleyian Thelemic ideas of "justification by sin"; proto-surrealist Alfred Jarry; Ubu Roi; his semi-Satanic closet play Caesar Antichrist; the first-and-only production of Ubu Roi during his lifetime, which devolved into a riot; the fact that W.B. Yeats was in the audience, demonstrating the interconnectedness between the Victorian British & French occult scenes at the time; Crowley's formative time in France; sonnets for Rodin; Schwob connections; shitting on Oscar Wilde; callback to Levenda; Maeterlinck's connection to the French symbolists & his play serving as inspiration for Sheffield Edward's PROJECT BLUEBIRD (MK-ULTRA predecessor); H. Montgomery Hyde—former spy, protege & biographer of Sir William Stephenson (Little Bill), Ulster Unionist MP, and cousin of Henry James... plus H. Montgomery Hyde's strange proclivity for writing book-length works on pederasts, pornography, and homosexuality; the fact that he was deselected around the time of the Wolfenden Report when calling for the decriminalization of homosexuality in the U.K.; Hyde as the source of the rumor that Marcel Schwob died from constipation caused by syphilis from his book The Love that Dared Not Speak It's Name; Joris-Karl Huysmans apostasy and odyssey from Naturalism to Symbolism to Decadent Satanism to Mystic Catholicism; feuding b/w Symbolist occultists & Emile Zola; J.K. Huysmans' A rebours (Against Nature) and its influence on Wilde's Salome and The Picture of Dorian Gray; especially Huysmans' handling of Gustave Moreau's Salome series; preparation to descend into the Satanic underground of Huysmans' Là-bas(The Damned); and finally, Wilde's allusions in The Picture of Dorian Gray to Thelemic, Rabelaisian "Do What Thou Wilt" hedonism and the Cleveland Street Scandal (a scandal where numerous aristocratic men including Lord Arthur Somerset, Earl of Euston Fitzroy, and Prince Albert Victor of Wales were discovered to be frequenting a male brothel that employed young boys)... Songs:  | Kate Bush - "Waking the Witch" | | Alan Tew - "The Detectives" | | Alain Goraguer - "Ten Et Tiwa" | | Françoise Hardy - "Mon Amie La Rose |  | Nicolas Godin - "Quartier General" |  | Serge Gainsbourg, Charlotte Gainsbourg - "Lemon Incest" | 

Welcome back to ParaPower Mapping. It's another Boston Brahmin Watch Premium Feed teaser, folks—the second installment in our ongoing Fin De Siècle Symbolists, Satanists, & French-British Sex Trafficking Networks series. Speaking of which, free trials have been activated over on the Patreon, so if you'd like to access the full versions of this series, head on over to: patreon.com/ParaPowerMapping ... Let me be your Virgil today, dear listener, or your Orpheus, as we descend into another infernal circle of the fin de siècle Satanic scene. The attendant TWs, folks, this is another dark one. This episode includes: Our cont'd mapping of the overlaps & interconnections b/w the Symbolist, Decadent, Rosicrucian, Theosophical, & Satanic scenes in London; a closer look at J.K. Huysmans's transition from Naturalism to Symbolist & finally Decadent Satanism, as well as homoerotic & pederastic themes in his novels Against Nature & The Damned; Huysmans's occult apprenticeship under the Satanic Abbé Boullan, at least one of the prototypes of the Satanic Priest Canon Docre in Là-bas; his beliefs in "expiatory suffering" & Dolorism; his predecessor Eugene Vintras; the Mystic Substition of Pain—antecedents of Crowley's later philosophies of "initiation through sexual transgression"; Boullan's reputation of holding Satanic orgies & child sacrifice, and fellow occultists Stanislas de Guaïta & Papus's investigation into his cult & misdeeds, which led to a black magic duel (that Huysmans's maintained took Boullan's life); contemporary French depictions of the devil (Dr. Bataille, Michelet, Bois); Sar Péladan's Salon de la Rose + Croix; his Catholic Legitimist & Bourbon Restorationist father, who founded his own Catholic sect; his crazy alchemist brother who OD'd on strychnine; Péladan's claim that he could utilize remote viewing for espionage purposes (which he declared to French President Félix Faure); Péladan's connections to many prominent artists, poets, & composers—Erik Satie, Debussy, Wagner, Christina Rossetti, W.B. Yeats, etc.; his many collaborations w/ the Satanic painter Felicien Rops; his Eastern & Catholic Mysticism; the Moonchild; Marcel Schwob's depictions of witchcraft & Satanism in his stories "The Embalming Women", "The Faulx-Visaiges"; & "The Sabbat at Mofflaines"; Schwob's literary & aristocratic networks; first mention of Aleister Crowley's favorite "upstairs" club, Le Chat Blanc (The White Cat); more of Crowley's time in Paris; a brief foray into Italy to discuss a few anecdotes from Crowley's Abbey of Thelema; academics drinking cat blood & dying; a murderous prostitute named "Tiger Lady"; Crowley's bloody ties & Ripper story; Kenneth Anger; the "sexually transgressive" wall murals; getting kicked out of Italy by Benito Mussolini (prefiguring our later discussion of Crowley's expulsion from France); Affaire des Poisons & the La Voisin trial; the black magic black market of King Louis XIV (the Sun King); La Voisin & Guibourg's Satanic rites; various assassination attempts with poison; a brief Israel Regardie bio; his time as secretary to Crowley; Aleister's World War I counter-espionage stories in interviews w/ Paris-Midi; his exile from France; and the curious fact that a terrible rail accident occurred on the exact same Brussels-bound line exactly 3 hours & 32 minutes (or 333?) before Crowley was to depart for Belgium via train (and the obligatory wonderments about this all together too coincidental fact). Music: | Dolly Parton & Porter Wagoner - "Satan's River" | | Camille Saint-Saëns - "Danse Macabre" | | Brigitte Bardot - "Le Diable est Anglais" | | True Detective Season 1 - OST "You Should Kill Yourself" scene | | Iron Maiden - "Moonchild" |

Welcome back to ParaPower Mapping and the first episode of the BOSTON BRAHMIN WATCH Premium Feed! I'm chuffed, Brahmin Watchers, because the Patreon has finally launched, I managed to relocate the keys to the Boston Brahmin Watch Office, and I'm really excited for y'all to get your hands on this newest research (as dark, enervating, & soul-crushing as it may be). Here's the first half of the first premium feed EP for you to enjoy; and here's hoping your interest is piqued! If you're dying to listen to this EP in its entirety, go to Patreon and subscribe to ParaPower Mapping to unlock it and all sorts of extracurricular goodness. This is Part I of a multipart descent into the Decadent Symbolist, Rosicrucian, and Satanic underground of fin de siècle Paris and Victorian London, as well as the related sex trafficking & pedophilia networks that catered to the abhorrent appetites of the monstrous aristocratic elite of the time. This EP covers: the Symbolist writer, son of diplomats, and possible-occultist Marcel Schwob; Aleister Crowley's connections to Schwob; Oscar Wilde + Schwob once again; J.K. Huysmans; Maurice Maeterlinck; Sar Peladan; Peladan's Catholic Rosicrucian order and "Salon de la Rose + Croix"; Robert Louis Stevenson; Schwob's "syphilitic rectal sores"; Wilde's play Salome (which Schwob translated); the Biblical story of Salome, Herod, & John the Baptist; Crowley's assimilation of Salome into Babalon/ Scarlet Woman and his "Jezebel"; the influence of Decadent & Symbolist misogyny on Crowley's writing and occultism; aristocratic traditions of taboo-breaking and pederasty; Crowleyian Thelemic ideas of "justification by sin"; proto-surrealist Alfred Jarry; Ubu Roi; his semi-Satanic closet play Caesar Antichrist; the first-and-only production of Ubu Roi during his lifetime, which devolved into a riot; the fact that W.B. Yeats was in the audience, demonstrating the interconnectedness between the Victorian British & French occult scenes at the time; Crowley's formative time in France; sonnets for Rodin; Schwob connections; shitting on Oscar Wilde; callback to Levenda; Maeterlinck's connection to the French symbolists & his play serving as inspiration for Sheffield Edward's PROJECT BLUEBIRD (MK-ULTRA predecessor); H. Montgomery Hyde—former spy, protege & biographer of Sir William Stephenson (Little Bill), Ulster Unionist MP, and cousin of Henry James... plus H. Montgomery Hyde's strange proclivity for writing book-length works on pederasts, pornography, and homosexuality; the fact that he was deselected around the time of the Wolfenden Report when calling for the decriminalization of homosexuality in the U.K.; Hyde as the source of the rumor that Marcel Schwob died from constipation caused by syphilis from his book The Love that Dared Not Speak It's Name; Joris-Karl Huysmans apostasy and odyssey from Naturalism to Symbolism to Decadent Satanism to Mystic Catholicism; feuding b/w Symbolist occultists & Emile Zola; J.K. Huysmans' A rebours (Against Nature) and its influence on Wilde's Salome and The Picture of Dorian Gray; especially Huysmans' handling of Gustave Moreau's Salome series; preparation to descend into the Satanic underground of Huysmans' Là-bas (The Damned); and finally, Wilde's allusions in The Picture of Dorian Gray to Thelemic, Rabelaisian "Do What Thou Wilt" hedonism and the Cleveland Street Scandal (a scandal where numerous aristocratic men including Lord Arthur Somerset, Earl of Euston Fitzroy, and Prince Albert Victor of Wales were discovered to be frequenting a male brothel that employed young boys)... Songs: | Kate Bush - "Waking the Witch" | | Alan Tew - "The Detectives" | | Alain Goraguer - "Ten Et Tiwa" | | Françoise Hardy - "Mon Amie La Rose | | Nicolas Godin - "Quartier General" | | Serge Gainsbourg, Charlotte Gainsbourg - "Lemon Incest" |

i haven’t been making it to shows so much recently. i regularly check the listings and add the ones i’m interested in to my calendar and then inevitably remove them. part of the reason has been the cold and rain, the distance to sac, but i think a lot of it is that i’m having a nice time just hanging out with friends. back in santa barbara the friend group was always pretty centered around music, among other activities obv, but shows were paramount. you knew you could show up and everyone would be there. it was the place to be.the group i’ve landed in in davis has not been focused on shows, though we do play music together and there’s always music playing on a speaker somewhere, it’s just different. and while they’ll check out a show with me once in a while, i’ve been going to most shows by myself. i was doing it for three years when i wasn’t living with friends, but now that i’m living with people i like, it’s even harder to leave the house, or leave the group, to do something else. but in any relationship - friend, romantic, otherwise - it feels so important to not stop doing the things you love doing just because you found some new things you like to do. obvious statement of the week but i’m going to keep saying it to myself.hunkering down with the group was essential to my survival through that atmospheric river. but shows are going to be essential to my thriving through the atmospheric river of life, of whatever, lol. and i know that i’ll never be able to be in two places at once, and that friends will hang out without me and i’ll miss out on some things sometimes. it’s so easy to get lost in what i’m missing out on that i don’t get to fully experiencing the thing that i’m doing. a thing that i love doing - a major through-line for me - going to shows. working on releases myself from that fomo mentality!.DOWNLOAD/STREAM RECORDING00:00 (intro by omar)00:20 Nervous Twitch “Should’ve Come By” Get Back In Line02:26 Surface to Air Missive “Phases” Surface II Air Missive05:44 WOLF GIRL “Middlesexy” We Tried08:38 Program “Program” Show Me11:41 No Vacation “Out of Place” Phasing14:59 Docks “Roses” Terracotta Ladder18:16 Corridor “Junior” Junior21:13 Black Pus “LAND OF THE LOST” ALL ABOARD THE MAGIC PUS24:26 Basement Revolver “Romantic At Heart” Wax and Digital EP27:22 Hovvdy “Cathedral” Heavy Lifter30:27 Beret “How Many People” Jesus White33:01 Blacker Face “I Know More Things Than You Do” Distinctive Juju27:53 Guerilla Toss “Moth Like Me” What Would The Odd Do?40:55 Foxes in Fiction “Antibody” Trillium Killer44:11 HXXS “Year Of The Knife” Year Of The Witch46:37 Emma Russack & Lachlan Denton “Love For Myself” Take The Reigns49:01 The Kiwi Animal “Flesh And Time” Mercy51:00 Shelf Life “Avril” Everyone Make Happy53:04 Barrie “Drag” Happy To Be Here (Ext)55:13 Lubec “Against Nature” Against Nature

Lorraine Daston, Rules: A Short History of What We Live by (Princeton UP, 2022). Historian of science Lorraine Daston's wonderful new book, Rules: A Short History of What We Live by (Princeton UP, 2022). is just out. Daston's earlier pathbreaking works include Against Nature, Classical Probability in the Enlightenment and many co-authored books, including Objectivity (with Peter Galison) which introduced the idea of historically changeable "epistemic virtues." In this Recall this Book conversation, Daston--Raine to her friends--shows that rules are never as thin (as abstract and context-free) as they pretend to be. True, we love a rule that seems to brook no exceptions: by the Renaissance, even God is no longer allowed to make exceptions in the form of miracles. Yet throughout history, Raine shows, islands of standardized stability are less stable than they seem. What may feel like oppressively general norms and standards are actually highly protected ecotopes within which thin rules can arise. Look for instance at the history of sidewalks (Raine has)! Raine, Elizabeth and John dive into the details. Implicit and explicit rules are distinguished in the case of e.g. cookbooks and monasteries--and then the gray areas in-between are explored. When students unconsciously ape their teachers, that is a tricky form of emulation--is it even possible to "follow but not ape"? Perhaps genres do this work: The Aeneid is not the Iliad and yet older writers are somehow internalized in the later ones. Mentioned in the Episode Karl Polanyi, 1944) The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time, on the embeddedness of markets in norms and rules. John Locke's Second Treatise on Government (1690) denounces the "arbitrary will of another," an early case of seeing will simply qua will is unacceptable. Arnold Davidson sees genre variation (like Milton learning from Homer) also happening in musical invention. Michael Tomasello works on children's rule-following and enforcement against violations, Johannes Huizinga's Homo Ludens (1938) with its notion of demarcated "sacred spaces of play" is a touchstone of rule-following Lorraine and John both adore. Recallable Books The Rule of Saint Benedict (516 onwards) Irma Rombauer, Joy of Cooking (1931 onwards) As Elizabeth says, it's from following the rules that joy emerges.... Walter Miller's Canticle for Liebowitz Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground (1864) an instance of the notion that one establishes free will by caprice or defiance against natural laws ("damnit, gentleman, sometimes 2+2=5 is a nice thing too!") Read the transcript here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

Lorraine Daston, Rules: A Short History of What We Live by (Princeton UP, 2022). Historian of science Lorraine Daston's wonderful new book, Rules: A Short History of What We Live by (Princeton UP, 2022). is just out. Daston's earlier pathbreaking works include Against Nature, Classical Probability in the Enlightenment and many co-authored books, including Objectivity (with Peter Galison) which introduced the idea of historically changeable "epistemic virtues." In this Recall this Book conversation, Daston--Raine to her friends--shows that rules are never as thin (as abstract and context-free) as they pretend to be. True, we love a rule that seems to brook no exceptions: by the Renaissance, even God is no longer allowed to make exceptions in the form of miracles. Yet throughout history, Raine shows, islands of standardized stability are less stable than they seem. What may feel like oppressively general norms and standards are actually highly protected ecotopes within which thin rules can arise. Look for instance at the history of sidewalks (Raine has)! Raine, Elizabeth and John dive into the details. Implicit and explicit rules are distinguished in the case of e.g. cookbooks and monasteries--and then the gray areas in-between are explored. When students unconsciously ape their teachers, that is a tricky form of emulation--is it even possible to "follow but not ape"? Perhaps genres do this work: The Aeneid is not the Iliad and yet older writers are somehow internalized in the later ones. Mentioned in the Episode Karl Polanyi, 1944) The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time, on the embeddedness of markets in norms and rules. John Locke's Second Treatise on Government (1690) denounces the "arbitrary will of another," an early case of seeing will simply qua will is unacceptable. Arnold Davidson sees genre variation (like Milton learning from Homer) also happening in musical invention. Michael Tomasello works on children's rule-following and enforcement against violations, Johannes Huizinga's Homo Ludens (1938) with its notion of demarcated "sacred spaces of play" is a touchstone of rule-following Lorraine and John both adore. Recallable Books The Rule of Saint Benedict (516 onwards) Irma Rombauer, Joy of Cooking (1931 onwards) As Elizabeth says, it's from following the rules that joy emerges.... Walter Miller's Canticle for Liebowitz Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground (1864) an instance of the notion that one establishes free will by caprice or defiance against natural laws ("damnit, gentleman, sometimes 2+2=5 is a nice thing too!") Read the transcript here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history

Lorraine Daston, Rules: A Short History of What We Live by (Princeton UP, 2022). Historian of science Lorraine Daston's wonderful new book, Rules: A Short History of What We Live by (Princeton UP, 2022). is just out. Daston's earlier pathbreaking works include Against Nature, Classical Probability in the Enlightenment and many co-authored books, including Objectivity (with Peter Galison) which introduced the idea of historically changeable "epistemic virtues." In this Recall this Book conversation, Daston--Raine to her friends--shows that rules are never as thin (as abstract and context-free) as they pretend to be. True, we love a rule that seems to brook no exceptions: by the Renaissance, even God is no longer allowed to make exceptions in the form of miracles. Yet throughout history, Raine shows, islands of standardized stability are less stable than they seem. What may feel like oppressively general norms and standards are actually highly protected ecotopes within which thin rules can arise. Look for instance at the history of sidewalks (Raine has)! Raine, Elizabeth and John dive into the details. Implicit and explicit rules are distinguished in the case of e.g. cookbooks and monasteries--and then the gray areas in-between are explored. When students unconsciously ape their teachers, that is a tricky form of emulation--is it even possible to "follow but not ape"? Perhaps genres do this work: The Aeneid is not the Iliad and yet older writers are somehow internalized in the later ones. Mentioned in the Episode Karl Polanyi, 1944) The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time, on the embeddedness of markets in norms and rules. John Locke's Second Treatise on Government (1690) denounces the "arbitrary will of another," an early case of seeing will simply qua will is unacceptable. Arnold Davidson sees genre variation (like Milton learning from Homer) also happening in musical invention. Michael Tomasello works on children's rule-following and enforcement against violations, Johannes Huizinga's Homo Ludens (1938) with its notion of demarcated "sacred spaces of play" is a touchstone of rule-following Lorraine and John both adore. Recallable Books The Rule of Saint Benedict (516 onwards) Irma Rombauer, Joy of Cooking (1931 onwards) As Elizabeth says, it's from following the rules that joy emerges.... Walter Miller's Canticle for Liebowitz Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground (1864) an instance of the notion that one establishes free will by caprice or defiance against natural laws ("damnit, gentleman, sometimes 2+2=5 is a nice thing too!") Read the transcript here.

Lorraine Daston, Rules: A Short History of What We Live by (Princeton UP, 2022). Historian of science Lorraine Daston's wonderful new book, Rules: A Short History of What We Live by (Princeton UP, 2022). is just out. Daston's earlier pathbreaking works include Against Nature, Classical Probability in the Enlightenment and many co-authored books, including Objectivity (with Peter Galison) which introduced the idea of historically changeable "epistemic virtues." In this Recall this Book conversation, Daston--Raine to her friends--shows that rules are never as thin (as abstract and context-free) as they pretend to be. True, we love a rule that seems to brook no exceptions: by the Renaissance, even God is no longer allowed to make exceptions in the form of miracles. Yet throughout history, Raine shows, islands of standardized stability are less stable than they seem. What may feel like oppressively general norms and standards are actually highly protected ecotopes within which thin rules can arise. Look for instance at the history of sidewalks (Raine has)! Raine, Elizabeth and John dive into the details. Implicit and explicit rules are distinguished in the case of e.g. cookbooks and monasteries--and then the gray areas in-between are explored. When students unconsciously ape their teachers, that is a tricky form of emulation--is it even possible to "follow but not ape"? Perhaps genres do this work: The Aeneid is not the Iliad and yet older writers are somehow internalized in the later ones. Mentioned in the Episode Karl Polanyi, 1944) The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time, on the embeddedness of markets in norms and rules. John Locke's Second Treatise on Government (1690) denounces the "arbitrary will of another," an early case of seeing will simply qua will is unacceptable. Arnold Davidson sees genre variation (like Milton learning from Homer) also happening in musical invention. Michael Tomasello works on children's rule-following and enforcement against violations, Johannes Huizinga's Homo Ludens (1938) with its notion of demarcated "sacred spaces of play" is a touchstone of rule-following Lorraine and John both adore. Recallable Books The Rule of Saint Benedict (516 onwards) Irma Rombauer, Joy of Cooking (1931 onwards) As Elizabeth says, it's from following the rules that joy emerges.... Walter Miller's Canticle for Liebowitz Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground (1864) an instance of the notion that one establishes free will by caprice or defiance against natural laws ("damnit, gentleman, sometimes 2+2=5 is a nice thing too!") Read the transcript here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lorraine Daston, Rules: A Short History of What We Live by (Princeton UP, 2022). Historian of science Lorraine Daston's wonderful new book, Rules: A Short History of What We Live by (Princeton UP, 2022). is just out. Daston's earlier pathbreaking works include Against Nature, Classical Probability in the Enlightenment and many co-authored books, including Objectivity (with Peter Galison) which introduced the idea of historically changeable "epistemic virtues." In this Recall this Book conversation, Daston--Raine to her friends--shows that rules are never as thin (as abstract and context-free) as they pretend to be. True, we love a rule that seems to brook no exceptions: by the Renaissance, even God is no longer allowed to make exceptions in the form of miracles. Yet throughout history, Raine shows, islands of standardized stability are less stable than they seem. What may feel like oppressively general norms and standards are actually highly protected ecotopes within which thin rules can arise. Look for instance at the history of sidewalks (Raine has)! Raine, Elizabeth and John dive into the details. Implicit and explicit rules are distinguished in the case of e.g. cookbooks and monasteries--and then the gray areas in-between are explored. When students unconsciously ape their teachers, that is a tricky form of emulation--is it even possible to "follow but not ape"? Perhaps genres do this work: The Aeneid is not the Iliad and yet older writers are somehow internalized in the later ones. Mentioned in the Episode Karl Polanyi, 1944) The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time, on the embeddedness of markets in norms and rules. John Locke's Second Treatise on Government (1690) denounces the "arbitrary will of another," an early case of seeing will simply qua will is unacceptable. Arnold Davidson sees genre variation (like Milton learning from Homer) also happening in musical invention. Michael Tomasello works on children's rule-following and enforcement against violations, Johannes Huizinga's Homo Ludens (1938) with its notion of demarcated "sacred spaces of play" is a touchstone of rule-following Lorraine and John both adore. Recallable Books The Rule of Saint Benedict (516 onwards) Irma Rombauer, Joy of Cooking (1931 onwards) As Elizabeth says, it's from following the rules that joy emerges.... Walter Miller's Canticle for Liebowitz Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground (1864) an instance of the notion that one establishes free will by caprice or defiance against natural laws ("damnit, gentleman, sometimes 2+2=5 is a nice thing too!") Read the transcript here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/science-technology-and-society

Lorraine Daston, Rules: A Short History of What We Live by (Princeton UP, 2022). Historian of science Lorraine Daston's wonderful new book, Rules: A Short History of What We Live by (Princeton UP, 2022). is just out. Daston's earlier pathbreaking works include Against Nature, Classical Probability in the Enlightenment and many co-authored books, including Objectivity (with Peter Galison) which introduced the idea of historically changeable "epistemic virtues." In this Recall this Book conversation, Daston--Raine to her friends--shows that rules are never as thin (as abstract and context-free) as they pretend to be. True, we love a rule that seems to brook no exceptions: by the Renaissance, even God is no longer allowed to make exceptions in the form of miracles. Yet throughout history, Raine shows, islands of standardized stability are less stable than they seem. What may feel like oppressively general norms and standards are actually highly protected ecotopes within which thin rules can arise. Look for instance at the history of sidewalks (Raine has)! Raine, Elizabeth and John dive into the details. Implicit and explicit rules are distinguished in the case of e.g. cookbooks and monasteries--and then the gray areas in-between are explored. When students unconsciously ape their teachers, that is a tricky form of emulation--is it even possible to "follow but not ape"? Perhaps genres do this work: The Aeneid is not the Iliad and yet older writers are somehow internalized in the later ones. Mentioned in the Episode Karl Polanyi, 1944) The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time, on the embeddedness of markets in norms and rules. John Locke's Second Treatise on Government (1690) denounces the "arbitrary will of another," an early case of seeing will simply qua will is unacceptable. Arnold Davidson sees genre variation (like Milton learning from Homer) also happening in musical invention. Michael Tomasello works on children's rule-following and enforcement against violations, Johannes Huizinga's Homo Ludens (1938) with its notion of demarcated "sacred spaces of play" is a touchstone of rule-following Lorraine and John both adore. Recallable Books The Rule of Saint Benedict (516 onwards) Irma Rombauer, Joy of Cooking (1931 onwards) As Elizabeth says, it's from following the rules that joy emerges.... Walter Miller's Canticle for Liebowitz Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground (1864) an instance of the notion that one establishes free will by caprice or defiance against natural laws ("damnit, gentleman, sometimes 2+2=5 is a nice thing too!") Read the transcript here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/book-of-the-day

A new MP3 sermon from Pilgrim Presbyterian Bible Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: "…Against Nature…" Speaker: Don Britton Broadcaster: Pilgrim Presbyterian Bible Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 9/18/2022 Bible: Psalm 19:1-6 Length: 47 min.

Cathal started in Ireland in 1980 with Microdisney, and after five albums with then broke that up to form Fatima Mansions in 1988. After seven albums with them, he started a solo career and has now after a decade-long hiatus (during which he released a few collaborations) has come back with his sixth solo release Song of Co-Acklan. We discuss "Unrealtime" and (in closing) hear the title track from that album, plus "Denial Of The Right To Dream" from The Sky's Awful Blue (2002) and "Valley of the Dead Cars" by The Fatima Mansions from Against Nature (1989). Intro/outro: "Town to Town" by Microdisney from Crooked Mile (1987). For more, see cathalcoughlan.com. Hear more Nakedly Examined Music. Like our Facebook page. Support us on Patreon. Sponsors: Get 15% off an annual membership at MasterClass.com/examined. The post NEM#151: Cathal Coughlan (Fatima Mansions, Microdisney): Pyschogeographic Tales first appeared on The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast.

Cathal started in Ireland in 1980 with Microdisney, and after five albums with then broke that up to form Fatima Mansions in 1988. After seven albums with them, he started a solo career and has now after a decade-long hiatus (during which he released a few collaborations) has come back with his sixth solo release Song of Co-Acklan. We discuss "Unrealtime" and (in closing) hear the title track from that album, plus "Denial Of The Right To Dream" from The Sky's Awful Blue (2002) and "Valley of the Dead Cars" by The Fatima Mansions from Against Nature (1989). Intro/outro: "Town to Town" by Microdisney from Crooked Mile (1987). For more, see cathalcoughlan.com. Hear more Nakedly Examined Music. Like our Facebook page. Support us on Patreon. Sponsor: Get 15% off an annual membership at MasterClass.com/examined.

Cathal started in Ireland in 1980 with Microdisney, and after five albums with then broke that up to form Fatima Mansions in 1988. After seven albums with them, he started a solo career and has now after a decade-long hiatus (during which he released a few collaborations) has come back with his sixth solo release Song of Co-Acklan. We discuss "Unrealtime" and (in closing) hear the title track from that album, plus "Denial Of The Right To Dream" from The Sky's Awful Blue (2002) and "Valley of the Dead Cars" by The Fatima Mansions from Against Nature (1989). Intro/outro: "Town to Town" by Microdisney from Crooked Mile (1987). For more, see cathalcoughlan.com. Hear more Nakedly Examined Music. Like our Facebook page. Support us on Patreon. Sponsors: Get 15% off an annual membership at MasterClass.com/examined.

In this Francophilic video, enjoy lots of pretty pictures and some sympathetic talk about Huysmans' 1884 cult classic, "Against Nature," which is also translated as "Against the Grain." The idea of this book is that the French Decadent period was sort of the end of an age. Ennui was dominating French intellectuals and the opium dens and brothels were lining the streets of Paris. Some visionaries like Baudelaire and Rimbaud challenged the optimistic narrative of Progress and secularism. Some became political liberals, but some decided that that was a path leading nowhere. Swimming against the stream, cutting against the grain, not following the pack -- all that stuff -- Joris-Karl Huysmans wrote a book in the exact opposite direct, and it scandalized the French literati. Degeneracy is a real thing, and some people actually oppose it smartly! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/GodwardOdysee: https://odysee.com/@Godward:5?r=FFgMAmWyyzJ2b8HrstejXYp7UaTdV9ep

In this episode, I am joined by author and theologian Tara Isabella Burton. Tara and I explore the distinctive erotic pleasure one can experience in the act of creating a character out of another human being. This sort of seduction involves coming to possess someone else so as to transform them into a character in your own drama. This is a theme in the two works we discuss, Soren Kierkegaard’s The Seducer’s Diary and Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. We also talk about the influence of Joris-Karl Huysman’s novel, Against Nature, on Wilde. Wilde’s novel, like Huysman’s, is a study of decadence and decay, but the end seems fairly moralizing, in spite of Wilde’s allegiance to the aesthetic. Or so we argue, anyway.

Today's episode is brought to you by "Odessa on the Delaware: Introducing FBI Agent Marsha O'Shea". I sincerely hope you will enjoy this thrilling crime novel. You can purchase it here: AmazonCasey Barrett is a Canadian Olympian and the co-founder and co-CEO of Imagine Swimming, New York City's largest learn-to-swim school. His short fiction, essays, and books coverage have appeared in The Village Voice, Mystery Tribune, Crime Reads, Booktrib, and elsewhere. A provocative voice in the swimming and Olympic community, he has won three Emmy awards and one Peabody award for his work on NBC's broadcasts of the Olympic Games; wrote a column for Swimming World magazine; and was the author of the popular swimming blog, Cap & Goggles. He writes the Duck Darley series Under Water, Against Nature and his latest: Tower of Songs.http://imagineswimming.com/Thank you for listening. If you have a moment to spare please leave a rating or comment on Apple Podcasts as that will help us expand the circle around our campfire. If you have any questions please feel to reach out to me via my website http://www.johnhoda.com

Guerlain Mitsouko (1919) + Against Nature (1884) by Joris-Karl Huysmans  To gain access to the full catalog of TPN content please support us at https://www.patreon.com/perfumenationalist

Guest curator, Chris Sharp discusses the curatorial process developing and realising 'Dwelling Poetically: Mexico City, a case study' at ACCA (21 April–24 June 2018). Chris reflects more generally on the subject of curating, and in relation to his curatorial projects and co-direction of Lulu, a project space in Mexico City. ABOUT CHRIS SHARP: Chris Sharp is a writer and independent curator currently based in Mexico City, where he runs the project space Lulu with Mexican artist Martin Soto Climent. He has curated numerous international exhibitions, including most recently, Against Nature, co-curated with Edith Jerabkova at the National Gallery of Prague, 2016; A Change of Heart at Hannah Hoffman gallery, Los Angeles, 2016, and As if in a foreign country, at Galerie Nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, 2016. A contributing editor of Art Review and Art Agenda, Sharp was recently appointed co-curator (with Dr Zara Stanhope) of New Zealand artist Dane Mitchell’s presentation for the 58th Venice Biennale. ABOUT ACCA MASTERCLASSES: ACCA’s masterclasses are a series of presentations designed to cater to art and curatorial students at a postgraduate tertiary level. This particular masterclass is suited for artists and students studying art history, curatorial practice and arts management at postgraduate tertiary level. Recorded on Monday 23 April 2018 Further information: http://www.luludf.com/ http://acca.melbourne/exhibition/dwelling-poetically-mexico-city-a-case-study/

JF and Phil delve deep into Arthur Machen's fin-de-siècle masterpiece, "The White People," for insight into the nature of ecstasy, the psychology of fairies, the meaning of sin, and the challenge of living without a moral horizon. WORKS CITED OR DISCUSSED Arthur Machen, "The White People" - full text (https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_White_People_(Machen)) or Weird Stories audiobook (http://www.weirdstudies.com/3a) read by Phil Ford Arthur Machen, Hieroglyphics: A Note Upon Ecstasy (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/40241/40241-h/40241-h.htm) H. P. Lovecraft, "Supernatural Horror in Literature" (http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/essays/shil.aspx) J.F. Martel, Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice (https://www.northatlanticbooks.com/shop/reclaiming-art-in-the-age-of-artifice/) Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (https://www.amazon.com/Jonathan-Strange-Norrell-Susanna-Clarke/dp/B00YTJ4X8I/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=3HJRSB4DNWHR4EF6BNVX) Jack Sullivan (ed)., The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Penguin_Encyclopedia_of_Horror_and_the_Supernatural) John Keel, The Mothman Prophecies: A True Story (https://www.amazon.com/Mothman-Prophecies-True-Story/dp/0765334984/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1519189041&sr=1-1&keywords=the+mothman+prophecies) Patrick Harpur, Daimonic Reality (https://www.amazon.com/Daimonic-Reality-Field-Guide-Otherworld/dp/0937663093/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1519189061&sr=1-1&keywords=daimonic+reality) Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers (https://www.amazon.com/Passport-Magonia-Folklore-Flying-Saucers/dp/0987422480/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1519189093&sr=1-1&keywords=passport+to+magonia) Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier, The Morning of the Magicians (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Morning_of_the_Magicians) Michael Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (https://www.amazon.com/Discipline-Punish-Prison-Michel-Foucault/dp/0679752552) J.K. Huysmans, Against Nature (À rebours) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/À_rebours)

Summary of Brenda’s September 8, 2017, channeled 15-minute Creation Energies show at http://www.BlogTalkRadio.com/brenda-hoffman: The earth is processing its dark night of the soul. Humanity believed the earth should and could be controlled. The earth is now tossing that belief aside, along with the human hate and rage earth internalized for eons. Soon the earth will display its need for harmony with all earth beings, but such won’t happen until the human need for control is released. With or Against Nature? is the title of last week’s Brenda’s Blog – her weekly channeled blog for http://www.LifeTapestryCreations.com. Overview of Brenda's September 15, 2017, Creation Energies show: You've removed the cornerstones of your earth structures, to create new pieces. These cornerstones will stabilize earth and earth beings instead of requiring all to readdress similar issues decade after decade as has been true of 3D. You and your New Earth community are creating the perfect puzzle piece to end the trauma of the area(s) that most interests you. My next Blogtalkradio.com Creation Energies channel will be Friday, September 29. Brenda’s Creation Energies show and Brenda’s Blog contain different channeled information.

Romans 1:26-32 (Against Nature) from Romans sermon series (2016-05-22). Slides: http://goodnewsgathering.net/sermons

Rehmannia Dean Thomas Is a Taoist Tonic herbalist in the Gate of Life Lineage. He received the traditional 8 year (1998-2006) master-pupil apprentiship under World recognized Taoist Master herbalist Ron Teeguarden, and earned the title “Teamaster”, as well as “Superior Herbalist.” He made teas with whole Tonic herbs daily, and came to know their deep healing powers. Rehmannia is a purist and sources the highest quality herbs. You can see for yourself when you receive his products and/or take the Gate of Life course. Rehmannia studied Traditional Chinese diagnosis at Alhambra Medical University, and holds a degree as a Master Herbalist. WHAT WE DISCUSS IN THIS INTERVIEW: THE HISTORY BEHIND TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE THE TRUE ESSENCE OF TAOIST TONIC HERBALISM WHAT EXACTLY IS A TONIC HERB AND WHY IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW HERBS THAT NOURISH THE THREE TREASURES OF LIFE FORCE NOT ALL HERBS SHOULD BE USED EVERY DAY AND SOME SHOULD BE ALL FORMS OF WESTERN MEDICATION CAUSE IMBALANCES IN THE BODY THE WORD "ALLOPATHIC" TRANSLATES TO "AGAINST NATURE" WHAT IS THE CONNECTION BETWEEN CANDIDA CONSCIOUSNESS AND A SHEN DISTURBANCE THE SECRETS BEHIND LIVING A LONG AND VIBRANTLY HEALTHY LIFE HOW COMBINING RAW FOODS & TONIC HERBS CREATES INCREDIBLE HEALTH AND SO MUCH MORE! Rehmannia Dean Thomas: http://www.gateoflife.org Ronnie Landis: http://www.ronnie-landis.com The Holistic Health Mastery Program: http://www.holistichealthmastery.com

Peanut butter was the common ingredient this week, and the guys went in some unusual directions. Rob made a PBBB&FJ: crunchy peanut butter, bacon, banana, and fig jam sandwich on fresh ciabatta (ENTICE: 28). Ryan was inspired by pad thai, making a sandwich with crunchy peanut butter, popcorn shrimp, pad thai sauce, bean sprouts and egg on Portugeuse sweet muffin (ENTICE: 27). It's the highest combined ENTICE score in Sandwich Wingman history, and the guys celebrate by dwelling on Forrest Gump before moving to the Joyce Carol Oates essay "Against Nature" and the nuggets of wisdom within. There is no miscalculation in nature -- but is that because there is no calculation in nature at all?

Tune in nightly for hot topics, news headlines, special guest interviews and more! Visit www.unschriptedradio.com for more information. John Nelson is a retired Air Force Master Sergeant and former Special Forces Medic–Air Commando. He left his home in Kingston, Massachusetts at the age of eighteen for an adventure in Uncle Sam's Fun House. He now lives a queiter life as a healthcare executive in the Rocky Mountains. His debut novel Against Nature was released in April by Wild Child Publishing.  Visit John at: http://johngnelson.blogspot.com/  You can email him at: againstnature@hotmail.com More about Against Nature The U.S. is ground-zero for a mysterious global pandemic. The disease is highly infectious and kills its victims within two weeks of exposure. It's neither bacteria nor a virus and all traditional treatment regimens have failed. Serena Salus, a radical scientist, discovers the organism is an extraterrestrial dust mite brought to earth by a shuttle astronaut. The government contends it's a genetically-engineered organism created on earth by enemies of freedom. Dr. Salus uncovers a vile plan for distributing her experimental vaccine and finds herself in a deadly confrontation with powerful forces that'll stop at nothing to control the distribution of her vaccine.