Podcasts about Negative capability

For more information, pictures, how to contact the zine editors, and zine updates, visit https://tonyfletcher.substack.com/p/relaunching-your-fanzine Most fanzines are not designed to be permanent: their editors grow up, get "proper" jobs, start families, or just grow bored and want to move on. But occasionally, years down the line, fanzine editors come back around and decide to have another go at it. For this episode, we welcome back from Episode 17 Alison B, whose Confessions of an Ex-Zine Editor, dedicated to exorcising the addictive demons created through her original zine Bubblegum Slut, has resulted in a Guest Ex-Editor 'zine, for which she cajoled and convinced 14 other ex-editors to resurrect their zines, if only for 2-3 pages. Two of those ex-editors, Jøsh Saitz of Negative Capability, and Clint Evans of Peppermint Iguana, are now at work on new print issue after years away, and they join Alison, and host Tony Fletcher, in discussing why they would want to go through it all over again. Listen on to learn what an Adult Activity Book looks like, why Jøsh named his son Damon, why Clint was going off to Turkey the day after our interview, and whether Alison puts fake fur on her back covers (hint: she does).Other zines mentioned: Black Velvet, Abaxis, Artcore, Lunchtime For Wild Youth, Meal Deal Zine, Festival A, Golf Sale, Pretty But Schizo, Adventures In Reality, Pint Sized Punk, Myth & Lore, Mondo Grebo,.Please visit https://tonyfletcher.substack.com/p/relaunching-your-fanzine for way more content.Thanks to Noel Fletcher for the theme music, and Greg Morton at Omnibus Press for the logo template. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Inspired by a conversation with my son, today we explore John Keats' idea of “Negative Capability” and how it relates to flow psychology and peak performance. Keats' insight into embracing uncertainty without needing immediate answers can help us find peace and unlock deeper levels of creativity and focus. Key Takeaways: • ✔️ “Negative Capability” teaches us to embrace uncertainty.• ✔️ Letting go of control helps unlock creativity and flow.• ✔️ Sometimes, peace comes from being okay with not knowing.• ✔️ Mastery and the pursuit of beauty drive transcendence.• ✔️ Sensory immersion enhances flow. Make sure to subscribe and follow me for updates, tips, and more ways to stay in the flow! You can connect with me on:• Instagram: @flow_network__• YouTube: @flow_network__• TikTok: @theflownetwork• LinkedIn Newsletter: Daily Flow Stay tuned for more great content, and as always, stay in the flow!

Zac and Bob read Dan Simmons' essay, "Shapeshifters and Skinwalkers: The Writer's Curse of Negative Capability," first published in the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. This article explores Simmons' reinterpretation of John Keats' concept of Negative Capability in genre fiction, as well as how it fits into his Hyperion Cantos. It is available exclusively to our Patreon subscribers... See you there!

Why is it so difficult to talk about a positive future? How or where can we find ways to do it anyway? The guys explore what happens when we have the capacity to wait and withstand frustration, and what happenss when we dont. They talk about a moral imperative to act in the world; and about finding those people who need you as additional conduits to creatively co-dream a possible future. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/real-it-in-cast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/real-it-in-cast/support

Keep the carriage curtains open as we  chug into the post-industrial midlands of The Black Country. We're in the company of Liz Berry as she coins resonant new myths from her midland's dialect word hoard. But next stop is Liverpool, following orphaned Eliza The Home Child  as she sets off for Nova Scotia in Berry's heartbreaking, just-published novel in verse about a girl sent to work as an indentured servant. Peter and Robin also report back on the winning poems they heard at  the awards ceremony for the UK's National Poetry Competition 2022 -- and Robin is inspired by an essay from Forgive the Language by Katy Evans-Bush. Support the show

The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link:https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2023/03/spiritual-values-and-negative-capability.htmlPlease feel to post any comments you have about this episode there.Paul Wienpahl's (1916-1980) essay mentioned in this podcast called “Spiritual Values in a Scientific Age” can be downloaded at this link.Music, "New Heaven", written by Andrew J. Brown and played by Chris Ingham (piano), Paul Higgs (trumpet), Russ Morgan (drums) and Andrew J. Brown (double bass) Thanks for listening. Just to note that all the texts of these podcasts are available on my blog. You'll also find there a brief biography, info about my career as a musician, & some photography. Feel free to drop by & say hello. Email: caute.brown[at]gmail.com

If you want to be an air bender you have to let go of fear Belief isn't necessary and constitutes an active hindrance to Upaya, U&CD, Negative Capability, etc.

The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link:https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2022/12/catching-sight-of-world-bud-advent.htmlPlease feel to post any comments you have about this episode there.Music, "New Heaven", written by Andrew J. Brown and played by Chris Ingham (piano), Paul Higgs (trumpet), Russ Morgan (drums) and Andrew J. Brown (double bass) Thanks for listening. Just to note that all the texts of these podcasts are available on my blog. You'll also find there a brief biography, info about my career as a musician, & some photography. Feel free to drop by & say hello. Email: caute.brown@gmail.com

This week, we discussed another fantastic Oliver Burkeman book. The Antidote - Happiness for people who can't stand positive thinking. Hope you enjoy. Will & Luke. 00:00 Introductions 03:40 What the book is about? (How we try to be happy and misdirections of self help) 08:30 If we don't address our motivations 'to be happy' (feel we aren't good enough or have low self worth) then we can't be content. Attachments to certain outcomes. Clinging to pleasant, pushing away the negative. (Happiness through uncertainty). 11:30 Negative Capability (learning to tolerate discomfort) 15:00 Law of reversed effort 16:20 Positive Visualisation and Intention setting 20:15 Death reminders (living with life and death a companion) 24:40 Goals can be counterproductive (sacrificing the process by over focusing on the result). Other ways of approaching goals (effectual:resource first then decide goal vs causal: goal first and select resources). 29:45 Approach to habits and systems (when is enough) 38:00 Confronting failure as a vehicle to growth and perfectionism being fear driven 48:10 The safety catch - the hidden catch of insecurity (Longing for futures that we can't control) (Feel vulnerability to experience full range of reactions to the world around us). 54:00 Conclusions Buy the book: https://www.oliverburkeman.com/ This specific episode can also be seen on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C52ac9Bn7cw Check our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1Y_SKLFpax13442jA3giaw/videos Listen to us on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2R1BRcriKWcvOU1XMJQhyW Listen to us on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/will-luke-discuss/id1572512365 Listen to us on Google Podcasts: https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy81Zjk2YTNmYy9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw== Also available on: Anchor, Breaker, Pocket Casts, Radio Public.

An interview with Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst Dr. Catherine Mallouh about negative capability, what it is, why it is important and how it is developed. Dr. Mallouh will also consider how consumer technology may impact the development and maintenance of negative capability and creativity.

ひゃくえむ。、自己目的化、人事評価などについて話しました。 ひゃくえむ。 チ。―地球の運動について― 走ることについて語るときに僕の語ること 18. Clubhouse、アンガーマネジメント、職業としての小説家 | yancan.fm イチロー「合理的になるには無駄なことをたくさんしないとダメ」 マネージャーとNegative Capability マイクロソフト　再始動する最強企業 科挙とは何か――あらゆる制度は自己目的化し、腐敗する

This week, we revisit Lauren's conversation with physician and writer Laura Kolbe, author of ‘Little Pharma' (University of Pittsburgh Press, Pitt Poetry Series), a book that uses poetry as the doctor's tool into empathy, into the interior lives of patients and beyond the material relationships between bodies.

This week, we revisit Lauren's conversation with physician and writer Laura Kolbe, author of ‘Little Pharma' (University of Pittsburgh Press, Pitt Poetry Series), a book that uses poetry as the doctor's tool into empathy, into the interior lives of patients and beyond the material relationships between bodies.

Another episode on people and growth with random snippets of my life. I'm reluctant to call this a life update, but let's just say these past few weeks have been really insightful --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ora5/message

The gift of life is the gift of opportunity. The choice is ours. Should we aim for greatness, or satisfy ourselves with mediocrity?  Choosing to pursue greatness is only the beginning. From the start, distractions and frustration litter the road before us. How we deal with these impediments will define the type of life we build. How we respond to this question isn't a personal matter, because the person we become for ourselves is the person we become for others. Successful leadership is simply successful living, perhaps with bigger and broader stakes. The aim of this (podcast) is to showcase two approaches to success – on a personal and leadership level. There are two pathways up the mountain: the path of focused strength, and the path of resilience. The former is the path of Yosef and the latter is the path of Yehuda and his descendant King David. Yosef was a tzadik; the paradigm of moral strength, he always managed to turn dust to gold. As a young slave, recently torn from his family, he does well enough to become head of household for an important court official. Handsome, uber successful, and lonesome at the age of seventeen, he had the inner strength and focus to resist the daily advances of his master's wife.  Yosef teaches us to set our moral compass early in life, and never waver. He knew where he wanted to go, and nothing could distract him. Yosef was a dreamer, he had ambitions, and he set out to conquer them. Calm and composed, he had an intuitive sense of who he was, and the faith to know that he would eventually arrive. Failure was simply not in Yosef's lexicon.  Yehuda and David, on the other hand, were all about resiliency. While Yosef taught us how to avoid failure, Yehuda and David taught us how to succeed despite and indeed because of failure.  Yehuda was seduced by Tamar. Compounding the problem was the very difficult choice he faced: admit to it, or see an innocent woman killed. He admits to his lapse, and from this embarrassing union Mashiach is born. Resiliency isn't about recovery but about transformation. Yehuda uses a powerful formula of humility, faith and hope to bounce back from failure stronger than ever. There are the things we excel at. There are times and situations that bring out the best in us. We must grab those opportunities and soar. But there are also moments that test us, and sometimes we fail.  Yosef and Yehuda, resilience and excellence, aren't mutually exclusive. With Yosef as our guide, we discover our strengths and learn to focus our efforts where they matter most. But what happens when we fall - and if we travel the road to greatness, we will falter. It is inevitable. But - does that spell the end?  Do we stop dreaming, stop trying? Yehuda and David teach us to dust ourselves off, get up, and get back to work. We will prevail because it TOO, is inevitable. One day in the future, we'll look back at this moment, not as our greatest failure, but as the catalyst for our greatest success. Let's see how these two approaches play out in some common scenarios.  Scenario number one: A corporation achieves major success, but confidence quickly gives way to arrogance, and high standards to a stifling bureaucracy. Leadership has forgotten that the past should inform, but not define, the future. The great poet John Keats advised that we acquire 'Negative Capability'. According to Keats we need to fight the need for control. Our ego loves a nice clean explanation. It delights in saying, “I got this.” Instead, we should suspend our judgment and humbly embrace uncertainty. With humility, we sneak a peek at that which is beyond us. It puzzles us; it annoys us; it stretches us beyond our comfort zone. It challenges us to rethink our paradigms. Our deeply held beliefs, indeed our entire world, comes under careful scrutiny. Yesterday, we had a nice neat way of explaining the world, but today we're simply confused. Initially, this process will be...

A short “thought for the day” offered to the Cambridge Unitarian Church as part of the Sunday Service of Mindful Meditation The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link:https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2022/01/john-keats-negative-capability-and.htmlPlease feel to post any comments you have about this episode there.Music, "New Heaven", written by Andrew J. Brown and played by Chris Ingham (piano), Paul Higgs (trumpet), Russ Morgan (drums) and Andrew J. Brown (double bass)

Producer/Host: R.W. Estela The post A Word in Edgewise 12/20/21: Keats' Negative Capability and Winter Solstice 2021 . . . first appeared on WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives.

Producer/Host: R.W. Estela The post A Word in Edgewise 12/20/21: Keats' Negative Capability and Winter Solstice 2021 . . . first appeared on WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives.

This week, Lauren talks with physician and writer Laura Kolbe, author of Little Pharma (University of Pittsburgh Press, Pitt Poetry Series), a book that uses poetry as the doctor's tool into empathy, into the interior lives of patients and beyond the material relationships between bodies.

This week, Lauren talks with physician and writer Laura Kolbe, author of Little Pharma (University of Pittsburgh Press, Pitt Poetry Series), a book that uses poetry as the doctor's tool into empathy, into the interior lives of patients and beyond the material relationships between bodies.

During her stormy and mysterious life, Eliza Haywood (1693?-1756) was one of the most prolific writers in England. Her "amatory fictions" were unapologetically sensationalistic, earning her the opprobrium of her mostly male critics. But in spite of being described (some might say slandered) by Alexander Pope in his Dunciad, Haywood kept going - acting, writing, translating, publishing - and set many trends even as she bridged the divide from one era to another. Today, she stands as a remarkable figure, with novels like Fantomina demonstrating her willingness to explore themes of gender politics, sexual passion, and contemporary scandals long before it was common to do so. PLUS Jacke takes a look at one of the most famous letters in literature, Keats's epiphanic description of Shakespeare's "negative capability," including the painting Keats had just gone to see. Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/shop. The History of Literature Podcast is a member of Lit Hub Radio and the Podglomerate Network. Learn more at www.thepodglomerate.com/historyofliterature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Thu, 23 Sep 2021 22:00:00 +0000 https://businessunplugged.podigee.io/13-larslinnekogel-ttestrategy e1fe2489a6eb399ce7e778d6358a917e Mein heutiger Gast ist Lars Linnekogel, CEO und Gründer von TTE Strategy. An einem gemütlichen Abend in der Hafenstadt in Hamburg haben Lars und ich Transformationsprozesse in Unternehmen näher besprochen und sind intensiv auf die von Lars und seinem Team vertretene Fair Process Methode eingegangen. Dabei sind wir unter anderem auf folgende Fragen eingegangen: „Was heißt fair im Kontext von Transformationen?“, „Welche Aufgaben fallen dabei den Führungskräften zu und welche den Mitarbeitern?“, „Warum ist Negative Capability so wichtig?“, „Was haben unsere beiden Hirnhälften mit der Methode zu tun?“ und „Warum hilft ein Elefant das alles zu verstehen?“. Mein Gast: Lars Linnekogel (LinkedIn), Lars Linnekogel (XING) TTE Strategy GmbH Feedback & Wunschgäste: podcast@peopex.de Instagram Über mich: LinkedIn, XING PEOPEX GmbH 13 full no Strategie,Transformation,Change Management,Fairprocess Methode,Führung,Leadership,Motivation,Engagement Dr. Johannes Pohl, Gründer & Managing Partner

He co-founded Vonage; he helped change the way the world communicates; he spends his time these days helping others. You can thank him later. Actually, you can thank him at 9pm EDT tonight when he comes on Joseph Jaffe is not Famous (because obviously Jeff Pulver is famous!) We'll discuss everyone's favorite topic, NFT's, how we communicate and riff on fear, greed, and disruption. Plus Tom Morris on Negative Capability and Poet the Poet performs. Have any questions for Jeff or want a shoutout on air? You can potentially ask your question live or get a shoutout using $JAFFE coins which you can purchase via my creator coin link: www.rally.io/creator/JAFFE. I'll also be giving away $JAFFE coins every episode to viewers who tune in live. Watch full episodes at youtube.com/c/josephjaffeisnotfamous. Subscribe at bit.ly/subscribetotheshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Booker longlisted, Women's Prize shortlisted Michèle Roberts is, like her books, wonderfully erudite, perceptive and expressive. Michèle has been writing professionally for more than 40 years and has published 17 novels, 2 memoirs and has contributed to many poetry and essay collections too. She was once poetry editor at the feminist magazine Spare Rib and her 2007 memoir Paper Houses is a vivid account of her involvement is 70s socialism and feminism. Her new novel Cut Out, about the women who helped Matisse create his art, is out in August. She is by any metric a literary success. But it is her second memoir that we discuss in this interview. Negative Capability, which came out last year, kicks off with a series of personal and professional rejections - including her publisher saying no to her latest manuscript - and which sent Michèle into a spiral of self doubt and panic where she initially thought she was having a breakdown. Negative Capability is the story of her recovery and it is a joyful, amusing account of a rich everyday life, but also an honest, clear-eyed view of what it feels like to fail at something that, 16 books in, you think you've become pretty adept at doing. I found Michèle a funny and fascinating guest - and particularly enjoyed her advice about how to make a friend of your inner critic. You can find and buy books by Michèle and all my guests here: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/francescasteele Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

Listen and explore:#1: A business partnership is like a marriage without the sex#2: Plan for failure#3: Everything is on the table#4: If you aren't having hard conversations you aren't doing it right#5: Don't work with a jerk#6: Take baby steps and feel it out slowly#7: Do it for loveMentioned on this episode:FAR OUT#97 ~ Your Body is not the Obstacle, It's the Way: Will Johnson on the Posture of MeditationJoin our free book club over at Wild WithinDiscover Your Wild Gifts: 4-week personality workshop with Wild WithinConnect with us:Website: www.thefarout.lifeEmail us at info@thefarout.lifeOn Instagram: @thefaroutcoupleJulie-Roxane on Instagram: @julieroxaneAlasdair @ www.alasdairplambeck.comSupport this podcast:Discount link to purchase organic, raw cacao locally sourced and made in Guatemala (a portion of the proceeds support this podcast)Become a patron at: https://www.patreon.com/thefaroutcoupleMake one-time donation with PayPal (our account is aplambeck22@gmail.com)Leave a review on iTunes!Share this episode with a friend! :DCredits:Intro music: "Complicate ya" by Otis McDonaldOutro music: "Running with wise fools" written & performed by Krackatoa (www.krackatoa.com)

This week Richard Watts is joined by co-curators Amy Forbes and Caitlin Mullaly of Veils of Cirrus introduce ‘Negative Capability’, an immersive, tactile exploration based on John Keats’ Ode to a Nightingale.Award winning playwright Yve Blake chats about the Melbourne debut of ‘Fangirls’ at Arts Centre Melbourne. Inspired by interviews with teenage fangirls, this musical celebrates generations of passionate fan culture.Finally, playwright Joanna Murray-Smith talks about ‘Berlin’, an MTC NEXT STAGE commission blending history and seduction into a taut romantic thriller. 

John Keats spoke of ‘Negative Capability' — as explained by Robert Greene in Mastery. Our ego loves to explain and define. This leads to complacency, to a complete lack of sustained growth. Humility is the key. We can humbly recognize our complete insignificance before the Infinite. We know nothing. Now, we can rethink, redefine, everything. The sky is the limit. We no longer feel the need to hold onto our rigid thought patterns. Photo by https://unsplash.com/@cristofer?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText (Cristofer Jeschke) on https://unsplash.com/s/photos/searching?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText (Unsplash)

A four-film Special Subject episode, Joan Harrison, Producer, Part 1 looks at: Phantom Lady (1944), The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945), Nocturne (1946), and They Won't Believe Me (1947). These idiosyncratic noirs and Jamesian melodramas by the former Hitchcock screenwriter and honorary family member interrogate gender roles, flip gendered tropes, and deconstruct male resentment of women in ways that faintly anticipate Elaine May's work. We also discuss the Negative Capability of George Raft, the void-like charisma of Robert Young, the appealing androgyny of Ella Raines and very different vibe of Susan Hayward, Geraldine Fitzgerald's ability to be sexy and Victorian at the same time, and George Sanders' subtle way of showing us his soul dying inside of him. It's a big episode!  Time Codes: 0h 01m 00s:                  Brief introduction to Joan Harrison 0h 19m 08s:                  PHANTOM LADY (1944) [dr. Robert Siodmak] 0h 48m 41s:                 NOCTURNE (1946) [dir. Edwin L. Marin] 1h 15m 08s:                  THE STRANGE AFFAIR OF UNCLE HARRY (1945) [dir. Robert Siodmak] 1h 43m 41s:                 THEY WON’T BELIEVE ME (1947) [dir. Irving Pichel]                                +++ * Marvel at our meticulously ridiculous Complete Viewing Schedule for the 2020s *Intro Song: “Sunday” by Jean Goldkette Orchestra with the Keller Sisters (courtesy of The Internet Archive) * Find Elise’s latest film piece on Billy Wilder and 1930s Romantic Comedy *And Read lots of Elise’s Writing at Bright Wall/Dark Room, Cléo, and Bright Lights.* Follow us on Twitter at @therebuggy Write to us at therebuggy@gmail.com

Let's have a conversation about faith from Ecclesiastes 3.

In this first ever episode we compare writing fiction to being a hermit living in a dark cave. We also touch on John Keats' concept of "negative capability", and how it relates to writing short stories versus novels.

Questions can't be asked forever, so when is optimal to stop inquiring? In this episode of 'Musings' Juan and I discuss: Juan's recent ankle rolling fiasco and being able to appreciate running, John Keats concept of negative capability, learning the ability to live in paradox, are we capable of making music if we had the drive and my gripe with the artistic mindset.As always, we hope you enjoy, Mere Mortals out!Timeline:(0:00) - Yes yes yes yes(0:33) - Rolling your ankle and appreciating competition(4:30) - Enjoying the scenery while running(7:29) - Negative Capability(10:17) - When is a good point to stop researching?(19:52) - Could we create a song to reach the top 100 Australian chart?(24:08) - Talent vs Hard Work in the artistic world(26:08) - Mere Mortal Moments(27:06) - We're coming for you Steve!Connect with Mere Mortals:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meremortalspodcast/

Learn why Camden Town is so special!What was Mr. Keat’s sexual orientation? - His status as a gay icon.Learn about Keat’s painful and lingering death from consumption.What is the longest epitaph on a tombstone in literature?  the shortest?0:00 Introduction0:53 Over 1,000 downloads1:31 Camden Town, London4:07 Entrance of Ghost of Poe and  Keats5:11 Ode to a Nightingale13:12 Sexual Orientation vs. Gay Icon17:16 Suffering and Consumption20:02 Final trip to Italy22:00 Death23:40 Grave24:37 Visit and Sonnet from Oscar Wilde27:40 Poetry of the Earth28:40 Negative Capability and COVID30:33 Sources and Outro

John Keats is a Romantic poet. In this episode, we discuss a letter he wrote in 1817 where he talked about something he called "Negative Capability".

Lovely to have Timothy on the show. Quite fittingly, there was a really nice narrative thread running through our chat linking British Romanticism, cognitive dissonance and negative capability, favourite books, the impact of the internet on narrative in works of fiction, and Timothy's upcoming literature study course built around the theme of the sea. I had never heard of the concept of negative capability before and so I was fascinated to learn about it. Likewise, I also enjoyed learning about British Romanticism, even though I'm English I didn't know that much about the movement. Timothy Wilcox has a Ph.D. in English from Stony Brook University, where he taught literature for five years. He studies British Romanticism, digital literature, and imagination. Timothy's new course 'Literature at Sea: A Brief History of Existence' is available here. Registration closes on 9 November 2020 in advance of the first reading and discussion on 14th November: https://hyperlink.academy/discount?discount=9f6cd281-f93a-402b-b0bc-f5e3fc497651 Timothy's Twitter: https://twitter.com/PreCursorPoets Timothy's Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0qk9W4w-6hLBiY18g4dElQ Timothy's webpage: https://www.precursorpoets.com/ Get Primitive! If you'd like to join my mailing list to receive Primitive Accumulation content updates please fill out this form: https://fantastic-crafter-4544.ck.page/0305a6cdc8 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/james-simpkin/message

Will and Lyra navigate the dangers of Will's Oxford. Lyra meets an unsettling man while investigating some trepanned skulls in a museum, before heading off to explore further mysteries about Dust with an overworked physicist. Will delves into the archives to learn (a little) more about the strange disappearance of his father…Join us as we get confused about how post works, speculate about dark matter and reminisce on our favourite Oxford museums!------A video of someone demonstrating how to use (the very fiddly) microfilm in a microfilm reader can be found here.Some very general information about the I Ching can be found here.A rough introduction to Dark matter here.Here is the full letter from Keats to his brothers, which Mary Malone quotes in this chapter. You can read more on this concept of ‘Negative Capability' that Keats wrote about here.Here is an interesting article on the history of radar installations in the Arctic.Continuing the Virtual Tour of Oxford:Inside the Covered MarketOutside and inside the Natural History Museum, within which is the Pitt Rivers museum (museum within the museum!)Display case in the Pitt Rivers Museum where Lyra sees her Arctic clothingPhoto of Philip Pullman in the Pitt Rivers Museum, with the Trepanned skulls and instruments which inspired this scene in the book.Park which Lyra consults the alethiometer inDenys Wilkinson Building (part of the dept. of Physics) within which the real-world LUX-ZEPELIN Dark Matter research project is housed.You can view the wonderful collections at the Ashmolean museum online, here. If you want to view what it looks like for Will when he takes refuge here in this chapter, then you can view inside the museum here.------Music by: Jaymen Persaud, performed by Claire Wickeswww.thedarkmaterialpodcast.comPatreon: www.patreon.com/darkmaterialpodcastTwitter: @darkmaterialpodInstagram: @thedarkmaterialpodcastFacebook: www.facebook.com/thedarkmaterialpodcast

How do you cope with a sense of failure? Michèle Roberts has been Booker shortlisted and has 12 novels under her belt but her latest book is a clear eyed account of a year spent rewriting after having a novel rejected. What sustained her in part were her female friends and cooking. Lara Feigel is the author of acclaimed non fiction books and her first novel takes the template of Mary McCarthy's 1963 novel about female friendship and examines the lives of women now set against the backdrop of the publishing world. Alexandra Reza has been thinking about the place of the kitchen in novels such as Maryse Condé’s Morsels and Marvels, Marie N’Diaye’s The Cheffe, Calixthe Beyala’s How to cook your husband the African way, and Sarah Maldoror’s Pudding for Constance. Shahidha Bari presents. Michèle Roberts's latest book is called Negative Capability. You can find her talking to Free Thinking about smell and her novel The Walworth Beauty https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08n24f5 Lara Feigel's novel is called The Group. You can hear her in Free Thinking discussions about Doris Lessing https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09tml77 and a debate about Fiction of 1946 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07wrq03 Alexandra Reza is a 2020 New Generation Thinker on the scheme run by the BBC and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to select ten academics each year to turn their research into radio. Producer: Robyn Read

On this episode we consider different aspects of the publishing world— from the perspective of an author, an agent and a publisher. Author Michèle Roberts discusses her new book Negative Capability, a candid and refreshing honest diary of a year in which she delves into the daily world of an artist and explores the relationships with her agent and publisher following their rejection of her novel. We also talk to two prominent figures in the Scottish literary scene, Jenny Brown of Jenny Brown Associates and Francis Bickmore, Publishing Director of Canongate Books, to get their insight into the publishing world during lockdown and their thoughts about what will happen after restrictions are lifted. Incidental music by Ragland.

An editorial in the British Medical Journal reported that one in five harmful and dependent drinkers got the help they needed, and now the proportion will be lower. How do you cope with an alcohol problem under lockdown? We hear the experience of a listener, the journalist Catherine Renton who has been sober for over 3 years, and from Julia Sinclair, professor of Addiction Psychiatry, University of Southampton and consultant in alcohol addiction. She’s also chair of the Royal College of Psychiatry’s addiction faculty. It is fifty years since the Equal Pay Act became law. However, it’s proved tricky over the years for women to find out what their male comparators were earning. It’s also proved tricky for women without financial and legal support to use the law. However, cases have been brought over the years and as the law has been strengthened. Frances O’Grady, General Secretary of the TUC and Jane Hannon, Employment partner at the law firm DLA Piper discuss. The writer Michele Roberts discusses her memoir Negative Capability - written after the rejection of a novel by her publisher caused hurt and depression. Lizzie tells her story of giving birth during lockdown. We also hear from the obstetrician Dr Kenga Sivarajah. Council cuts have meant that there are 50% fewer public toilets than a decade ago. Coronavirus has caused even more closures – albeit temporarily. But where does that leave people who need urgent access to the loo? Jo Umbers from the Bladder and Bowel community explains how this issue is affecting women of all ages. Raymond Martin, from the British Toilet Association, discusses the economic and health importance of public toilets in a post-Covid world. Jackie Kay, the National Poet for Scotland, discusses her new online poetry and music festival Makar to Makar, which is streaming via the National Theatre of Scotland's YouTube channel. We also hear poetry from Gerda Stevenson and music from Claire Brown, who are both performing in the festival. Presenter: Jane Garvey Producer: Dianne McGregor

Last week an editorial in the BMJ reported that before Covid-19 only one in five harmful and dependent drinkers got the help they needed, and now the proportion will be lower. There is concern for those struggling with dependence and those on the brink of dependence. How do you cope with an alcohol problem under lockdown? And what support is out there? We hear the experience of a listener, the journalist Catherine Renton who has been sober for over 3 years and from Julia Sinclair, professor of Addiction Psychiatry, University of Southampton and consultant in alcohol addiction. She’s also chair of the Royal College of Psychiatry’s addiction faculty. Jenny Colgan's latest novel is called Five Hundred Miles From You. It's about a nurse in London and a nurse in the Scottish Highlands. It explores everything they've seen in their careers and whether or not they can help each other. Coronavirus has made visible a group of people who were often invisible – volunteers. Thousands of people signed up to help the NHS as a volunteer. Local residents’ groups have got together to help those who can’t get to the shops, or to call people who might be experiencing severe isolation. Before lockdown, Woman’s Hour began interviewing women who volunteered in all sorts of areas – community cafes, at food banks, working with the homeless. Women who see a gap, or a problem to be solved, and just get on with it – Troopers. They told their stories to Laura Thomas. Today Annie Taylor and Wendy Robinson, the founders of the Profanity Embroidery Group in Whitstable. How do authors cope with the rejection of the books they are writing? Struggling after her latest novel was rejected by publishers Michèle Roberts decided to write down everything that had happened. In the resulting memoir of a year, Negative Capability, Michèle reckons with the hurt and depression caused by the rejection. She rewrites and edits her novel, reconnects with and loses treasured friends, ultimately finding acceptance and understanding. Presented by Jenni Murray Produced by Sarah Crawley Interviewed guest: Catherine Renton Interviewed guest: Julia Sinclair Interviewed guest: Jenny Colgan Interviewed guest: Annie Taylor Interviewed guest: Wendy Robinson Interviewed guest: Michèle Roberts Reporter: Laura Thomas

John Keats (1795-1821) was born in humble circumstances, the son of a man who took care of horses at a London inn, and he died in near obscurity. We know him today as onen of a handful of the greatest poets who ever lived. Part Two of our look at John Keats discusses his impact on Jorge Luis Borges; his poems On First Reading Chapman's Homer; his passion for Shakespeare (including his invention of the concept of Negative Capability). Along the way we look at Shelley and Byron and their attitudes toward Keats; the savage reviews Keats received; his trip to Rome; his two great loves; his death; and what might be his greatest poem, "Ode to a Nightingale." Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/shop. (We appreciate it!) Find out more at historyofliterature.com, jackewilson.com, or by following Jacke and Mike on Twitter at @thejackewilson and @literatureSC. Or send an email to jackewilsonauthor@gmail.com. Music Credits: “Allemande Sting" and "Ersatz Bossa Sting" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BIO: I am a writer, teacher, director, and editor. And now I am a widow. I was married for just under thirty years to Steve “Sproutman” Meyerowitz. Originally from NYC, we moved to the Berkshires in western Massachusetts where we raised our three children: Gabrielle (31 years old), Ari (29 years old), and Noah (20 years old). The summer after Steve’s death I attended Oxford University. It was there that I found my voice as a writer. Or, perhaps, rather, recognized it. I began to play with form. I discovered the permeability of once-perceived boundaries. I began to put my voice in conversation with John Keats, with Walt Whitman, with Emily Dickinson. I began to explore in my writing the liminal. The difference between an intellectual or emotional response to a work of art, and an imbibing of it––this is not only possible but necessary. In 2017, the Bread Loaf Journal published my personal essay––“Fragments in Liminality: A Lover’s Discourse.” This has since been expanded into a book, A Grief Sublime, published in December of 2019 by Keats & Company Publishers. I have been a high school English and drama teacher in a Waldorf school for the last 15 years. I have worked as an editor for a small publishing house. I have always believed in the necessity for an authentic engagement with literature and the development and validity of every one’s voice. My work with my students has been punctuated by dialogue and passionate debate, and with a focused effort on crafting writing that speaks both to the texts studied and in a voice that is true to the student. In our increasingly fragmented chaotic world, connection is ever more important. The fragmentation of our world begs for conversation, reconnection, dialogue. I have developed curriculum around the Romantics and Transcendentalists, among many other subject areas including Beowulf and Chaucer, Dante and Shakespeare, Virginia Woolf, Jorge Luis Borges, and many others. Keats and the Romantic poets have always been favorites, but after my husband’s unexpected death I entered into Keats’s poetry and the notion of liminality in a life-changing way. From that moment, romanticism and liminality have been touchstones for me, informing my work in my teaching and in the projects I’ve done at Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College, and subsequently. This became the way I moved from incomprehension and confusion to some sense of peace and acceptance. Or, at least, an ability to live, as Keats would say in his so-called Negative Capability letter, “in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.” Keats helped me remain somehow if not content, well then at least okay with half-knowledge. To be with what was rather than what was not. I have discovered a vibrant living experience of literature. I have learned to quiet the self to allow the truth of the other (whether living or nonliving) to speak. Words and experiences become portals to transformation and, possibly, reconfiguration that renews and recreates. https://www.keatsandcompanypublishers.com/books --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/deathdialogues/message

Here is the audio recording of Rabbi Sacks' Covenant & Conversation commentary essay on the Torah portion of Vayera 5780. You can download a PDF of this commentary, as well as an accompanying Family Edition, from rabbisacks.org/vayera-5780/. Covenant & Conversation is kindly sponsored by the Maurice Wohl Charitable Foundation.

Marianne Faithfull sem er 72 ára gömul fær mesta plássið í Rokklandi vikunnar. Hún sendi frá sér plötu í nóvember, fína plötu sem ýmsum finnst ein af bestu plötum ársins. Platan sem heitir Negatice Capability er yfirmáta einlæg og mannleg og dálítið sorgleg. Það flýtur í gegnum plötuna að Marianne hefur verið að missa talsvert af góðum vinum yfir til dauðans á undanförnum árum. Við heyrum viðtal við Marianne sem kollegi minn og vinur hjá EBU tók við Marianne í París þegar platan kom út og lög af plötunni. Við heyrum líka frá tónleikum Marianne á Broadway í Reykjavík árið 2004, Rás 2 tók tónleikana hennar þá upp. Hún er ekki sérlega góð til heilsunnar, hún fór illa með sig um langt skeið og eflasust tekur það sinn toll þegar fólk er komið á hennar aldur. Hún gengur við staf og er hásari en nokkru sinin fyrr, en það kemur þó ekki í veg fyrir að hún syngi eins og engill, hás og raddhrjúfur engill. Það eru ýmsir góðir gestir á þessari nýju plötu hennar eins og Ed Harcourt, Nick Cave og Mark Lenagan og upptökustjórar plötunar eru galdra-fiðluleikarinn úr Bad Seeds bandi Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, og Rob Ellis sem er best þekktur fyrir störf sín með Pj Harvey. Negative Capability er tuttugasta og fyrsta plata Marianne Faithful og fyrsta platan hennar í fjögur ár. Þetta er einlæg plata full af trega, eftirsjá og dauða en Marianne er komin á þann aldur að vinir hennar hafa verið að falla frá einn af öðrum og hún syngur um einmanaleika á plötunni og missi. Lögin eru flest ný eftir hana í samstarfi við gestina, Nick Cave, Mark Lanegan og Ed Harcourt, en svo eru þarna líka tvö lög sem hún heimsækir í annað og eitt í þriðja sinn. It´s all over now eftir Bob Dylan er þarna en hún gaf það áður út 1985. Witches song sem er á plötunni Broken English sem kom út 1979 er þarna líka og As tears go by, gamla Stóns lagið eftir Jagger og Richard sem startaði ferli Marianne þegar hún var 17 ára gömul árið 1964. Hún tók það upp aftur þegar hún var fertug 1987 á plötuna Strange Weather og enn og aftur núna. Og svo er eitt gamalt Pretty things lag líka sem heitir Loneliest person, kom út með Pretty Things 1968 á plötunni S.F. Sorrow. Við heyrum líka í þættinum nýja músík frá td. Hozier, Vampire Weekend, Dido, Florence and the Machine, Bryan Adams og Ryan Adams.

Marianne Faithfull sem er 72 ára gömul fær mesta plássið í Rokklandi vikunnar. Hún sendi frá sér plötu í nóvember, fína plötu sem ýmsum finnst ein af bestu plötum ársins. Platan sem heitir Negatice Capability er yfirmáta einlæg og mannleg og dálítið sorgleg. Það flýtur í gegnum plötuna að Marianne hefur verið að missa talsvert af góðum vinum yfir til dauðans á undanförnum árum. Við heyrum viðtal við Marianne sem kollegi minn og vinur hjá EBU tók við Marianne í París þegar platan kom út og lög af plötunni. Við heyrum líka frá tónleikum Marianne á Broadway í Reykjavík árið 2004, Rás 2 tók tónleikana hennar þá upp. Hún er ekki sérlega góð til heilsunnar, hún fór illa með sig um langt skeið og eflasust tekur það sinn toll þegar fólk er komið á hennar aldur. Hún gengur við staf og er hásari en nokkru sinin fyrr, en það kemur þó ekki í veg fyrir að hún syngi eins og engill, hás og raddhrjúfur engill. Það eru ýmsir góðir gestir á þessari nýju plötu hennar eins og Ed Harcourt, Nick Cave og Mark Lenagan og upptökustjórar plötunar eru galdra-fiðluleikarinn úr Bad Seeds bandi Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, og Rob Ellis sem er best þekktur fyrir störf sín með Pj Harvey. Negative Capability er tuttugasta og fyrsta plata Marianne Faithful og fyrsta platan hennar í fjögur ár. Þetta er einlæg plata full af trega, eftirsjá og dauða en Marianne er komin á þann aldur að vinir hennar hafa verið að falla frá einn af öðrum og hún syngur um einmanaleika á plötunni og missi. Lögin eru flest ný eftir hana í samstarfi við gestina, Nick Cave, Mark Lanegan og Ed Harcourt, en svo eru þarna líka tvö lög sem hún heimsækir í annað og eitt í þriðja sinn. It´s all over now eftir Bob Dylan er þarna en hún gaf það áður út 1985. Witches song sem er á plötunni Broken English sem kom út 1979 er þarna líka og As tears go by, gamla Stóns lagið eftir Jagger og Richard sem startaði ferli Marianne þegar hún var 17 ára gömul árið 1964. Hún tók það upp aftur þegar hún var fertug 1987 á plötuna Strange Weather og enn og aftur núna. Og svo er eitt gamalt Pretty things lag líka sem heitir Loneliest person, kom út með Pretty Things 1968 á plötunni S.F. Sorrow. Við heyrum líka í þættinum nýja músík frá td. Hozier, Vampire Weekend, Dido, Florence and the Machine, Bryan Adams og Ryan Adams.

Marianne Faithfull sem er 72 ára gömul fær mesta plássið í Rokklandi vikunnar. Hún sendi frá sér plötu í nóvember, fína plötu sem ýmsum finnst ein af bestu plötum ársins. Platan sem heitir Negatice Capability er yfirmáta einlæg og mannleg og dálítið sorgleg. Það flýtur í gegnum plötuna að Marianne hefur verið að missa talsvert af góðum vinum yfir til dauðans á undanförnum árum. Við heyrum viðtal við Marianne sem kollegi minn og vinur hjá EBU tók við Marianne í París þegar platan kom út og lög af plötunni. Við heyrum líka frá tónleikum Marianne á Broadway í Reykjavík árið 2004, Rás 2 tók tónleikana hennar þá upp. Hún er ekki sérlega góð til heilsunnar, hún fór illa með sig um langt skeið og eflasust tekur það sinn toll þegar fólk er komið á hennar aldur. Hún gengur við staf og er hásari en nokkru sinin fyrr, en það kemur þó ekki í veg fyrir að hún syngi eins og engill, hás og raddhrjúfur engill. Það eru ýmsir góðir gestir á þessari nýju plötu hennar eins og Ed Harcourt, Nick Cave og Mark Lenagan og upptökustjórar plötunar eru galdra-fiðluleikarinn úr Bad Seeds bandi Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, og Rob Ellis sem er best þekktur fyrir störf sín með Pj Harvey. Negative Capability er tuttugasta og fyrsta plata Marianne Faithful og fyrsta platan hennar í fjögur ár. Þetta er einlæg plata full af trega, eftirsjá og dauða en Marianne er komin á þann aldur að vinir hennar hafa verið að falla frá einn af öðrum og hún syngur um einmanaleika á plötunni og missi. Lögin eru flest ný eftir hana í samstarfi við gestina, Nick Cave, Mark Lanegan og Ed Harcourt, en svo eru þarna líka tvö lög sem hún heimsækir í annað og eitt í þriðja sinn. It´s all over now eftir Bob Dylan er þarna en hún gaf það áður út 1985. Witches song sem er á plötunni Broken English sem kom út 1979 er þarna líka og As tears go by, gamla Stóns lagið eftir Jagger og Richard sem startaði ferli Marianne þegar hún var 17 ára gömul árið 1964. Hún tók það upp aftur þegar hún var fertug 1987 á plötuna Strange Weather og enn og aftur núna. Og svo er eitt gamalt Pretty things lag líka sem heitir Loneliest person, kom út með Pretty Things 1968 á plötunni S.F. Sorrow. Við heyrum líka í þættinum nýja músík frá td. Hozier, Vampire Weekend, Dido, Florence and the Machine, Bryan Adams og Ryan Adams.

In this episode Sarah and David discuss a research briefing looking at negative capability and why organisations should be developing it. 

       We listen to Negative Capability from Urinals? The Urinals? Before we even had musical taste, these guys bashed away in film school with hits like "Sex" and "Male Masturbation". If you have ever recorded your band in the pool house/garage/basement then you know what this sounds like. It's young and dumb rock that's not thinking about the past or future, just rocking the 4th floor dorms on Halloween. You get it or you don't. It's the best documentation of that impossible moment of a great party when everything is new. Don't think too much - we are old enough to really appreciate this for being first and oblivious of everything else. Nice Job. Email - records@harveylovesharvey.com Twitter - @welisten21 Instagram - welisten2records Leave a message on the Welisten hotline - 978-707-9899 

La nueva versión de "As Tears Go By" grabada por Marianne Faithfull para su último disco, "Negative Capability" (54 años después de la anterior, con la que debutó) me lleva a recopilar otras versiones femeninas de canciones de Rolling Stones bajo el nombre común de "Some Girls", como el disco de 1978 de la banda de Mick & Keith. Marianne Faithfull: AS TEARS GO BY 2018 + AS TEARS GO BY 1964 / Tina Turner UNDER MY THUMB + LET'S SPEND THE NIGHT TOGETHER / Aretha Franklin SATISFACTION / Etta James MISS YOU / Patti Smith GIMME SHELTER / Melanie RUBY TUESDAY / Linda Ronstadt TUMBLIN' DICE / Bette Midler BEAST OF BURDEN / Alice Russell BROWN SUGAR / Sonia AQUÍ EN MI NUBE / Tori Amos ANGIE //

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As Lionel Snell, also known as Ramsey Dukes, observes in his seminal esoteric essay, "The Charlatan and the Magus" (1984), the series of trumps in a tarot deck doesn't begin with the noble Emperor or august Hierophant, but with the lowly Fool, followed by the Juggler. Trickery or illusion, Snell suggests, may not be the dealbreaker we've thought it to be in parapsychological investigation. It may even be a feature, not a bug, of the magical process. In this episode of Weird Studies, JF and Phil talk to Lionel Snell about trickster magic, and all we miss out on when we make rational truth the only measure by which we know reality. Ramsey Dukes [Lionel Snell], "The Charlatan and the Magus" (http://the-philosophers-stone.com/articles/charlatn/magus.htm) Darren Brown, Tricks of the Mind (https://www.amazon.com/Tricks-Mind-Paperback-DERREN-BROWN/dp/1905026358) Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (https://www.amazon.com/Sapiens-Humankind-Yuval-Noah-Harari/dp/0062316117/) Phil Ford, “Birth of the Weird" (http://www.weirdstudies.com/articles/birth-of-the-weird) Ramsey Dukes [Lionel Snell], How to See Fairies: Discover Your Psychic Powers in Six Weeks (https://www.amazon.com/How-See-Fairies-Discover-Psychic/dp/1904658377) Ramsey Dukes [Lionel Snell], S.S.O.T..B.M.E. (https://www.amazon.com/SSOTBME-Revised-essay-Ramsey-Dukes/dp/0904311082) John Keats, Negative Capability (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_capability) Weird Studies, Episode 9: "On Aleister Crowley and the Idea of Magick" (http://www.weirdstudies.com/9) Special Guest: Lionel Snell [Ramsey Dukes].

Things start to get weird this week at SoSnSbSb. Andrew wants you to chill out and listen to A Wolf in the Doorway by The Ballroom Thieves. Nick loves Talking Heads, but how does he feel about David Byrne's new album American Utopia? Lastly, Erik Hart (aka Erik Nervous) shows us some of his inspiration via Negative Capability... Try It! by The Urinals. It's a weird, new SoSnSbSb! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sosnsbsbpodcast/support

The ability to lean into the unknown and make it your home is at the heart of the first of two episodes wtih Andy "Roo" Forrest, my first boss out of college, vocalist for the underground Bay Area improv band, "Chained Down Cheese," and co-founder of the hottest board game design company on the planet. Andy gets into how being the descendant of Holocaust Survivors is informing how he packs his GO BAG for Crazy Town (super charged Winnebago's, Guns, Gold in the walls of his Grandfather's booby-trapped Palo Alto Home,) and how to stay out of the national crazy by focusing on doing good work. We get into why practicing NEGATIVE CAPABILITY in uncertain times feels right right about now, and why the J curve is a good jumping off point for a musical about Overpopulation and consumption.  Also, ignore it when I say, "I hate Bob Dylan." I just find his son, Jacob, way more listenable.  The Wall Street Journal called the  interactive playpen/nightclub ENTROS that Andy and his partner, Stephen Brown founded in Seattle in the 90's: "The Future of Entertainment." Like most mid 90's prognostications, they were totally wrong, but unless you were across town discovering Nirvana, it was the most fun you could have with your clothes on in those days. Andy is a songwriter, a taiji practitioner, and a serial entrepreneur. He was all of 23 when he hatched Pearl's Oyster Bar in his home town.  Now, Forrest Pruzan Creative, the board game design company he started with Alan Pruzan spawns 50 games a year, invented most of the early Cranium games, and is responsible for many of the games on the shelves at Target, Wal-Mart, and your favorite game store.  I think this conversation, above all, will remind you about those friends that you have in your life that maybe you don’t see very often, but when you do – it’s a soul connection of love and respect run through a $h!t flipping machine nestled in a holy web.* www.packingforcrazytown.com for full show notes.  

Within the traditions of the East and Japan, Zen has been attracting attention from around the world, and, on our program, a Zen monk will be speaking to you about the world of Zen. Meditation cleans the mind and body. Won't you try experiencing Japanese spirituality?

Game designer and co-host of the Smash Fiction podcast Colin Mulkerin is here to discuss Magic the Gathering. Along the way we discuss rejecting the rules and substituting your own, the sort of awakenings one can have watching an Austin Powers movie, and I get an honest-to-God Math of You exclusive that I'm really happy happened. Signature Cocktail: The Crystal Gem When the Crystal gem enters the barroom, if you didn't order it, you lose the game. When the Crystal Gem is drank by a player, that player wins the game. 1.5oz tequila 3/4oz lime juice 1/4oz peach schnapps 1/3oz simple syrup 1/2oz blue curaçao Run a lime wedge around the rim of the glass, and dip in salt. Combine ingredients, except blue curaçao in a shaker with ice. Shake vigorously, then strain into glass. Using a straw or an eye-dropper. Garnish with a lime wedge. Follow Colin on Twitter at @colinmulkerin, follow the show at @TheMathOfYou, and my wacky adventures at @lokified. If you'd like to be a guest on the show, send an email to themathofyou@gmail.com. If you like the music on the show, go to bit.ly/TheMathOfYou See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hamlet (ca 1599-1602) has been called the greatest play ever written in English – and even that might not be giving it enough credit. Many would rank it among the greatest achievements in the history of humankind. Jacke Wilson takes a deeper look at the Prince of Negative Capability and his famous soliloquy.  Show Notes:  You can find more literary discussion at jackewilson.com and more episodes of the series at historyofliterature.com. Contact the host at jackewilsonauthor@gmail.com or by leaving a voicemail at 1-361-4WILSON (1-361-494-5766). Music Credits: “Handel – Entrance to the Queen of Sheba” by Advent Chamber Orchestra (From the Free Music Archive / CC by SA).   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Roshi expounds on the transformation of doubt, rootlessness, suffering and meaninglessness into a true “refuge of truth.” At this time of the horrific terror events in Paris, Beirut and Mali, how do we come to terms with severe crisis, either individual or societal? How does the Romantic poet John Keats’s “negative capability” fit into this unavoidable, desperately difficult dynamic of living? Roshi explores the moment of the shock of recognition and how it can change us from the depths. Even the Dalai Lama spoke of those moments of extreme doubt and pain, or as Mr. Dylan sang “Even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked…” Roshi’s upcoming book “Standing At the Edge” is about just this – it’s not all light and love, and yet somehow things can open up after adversity, “the lucky dark” as Roshi wrote.

Kevin Prufer is a rare poet who manages to layer narratives and weave metrical variations seamlessly into his work, all while placing it on the page in an organic and “effortless” way. This is especially notable when we come to understand the process by which his poems are born; the disparate connections and glorious jumps, as though into blackness, that he makes in each piece. Churches (Four Way Books, 2014) is a collection that dazzles with sound and macabre landscapes where anything is possible. The title of a poem that we did not feature (and listeners must seek out) is “The Idea of the Thing and Not the Thing Itself” is, in my opinion, an excellent representation of the entire collection. It is as though ideas manifest into characters and anecdotes just to explain themselves better, then turn back into the intangible and unreachable, leaving only a hint of themselves in the verse. Prufer is a poet that you can trust with your mind. He may bring you to the reaches of subjective reality but you always return somehow more whole and with a greater understanding of the human conditions of suffering, grief, love, and fear. He is modern poet whose lines you can scan for meter and device! Just as the Romantics, he brings the abstract of Negative Capability to life on the page. It is for these reasons and many more that I suggest lovers of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and all semblances of the written word, pick up Kevin Prufer’s newest collection, Churches and let him take you where he will. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kevin Prufer is a rare poet who manages to layer narratives and weave metrical variations seamlessly into his work, all while placing it on the page in an organic and “effortless” way. This is especially notable when we come to understand the process by which his poems are born; the disparate connections and glorious jumps, as though into blackness, that he makes in each piece. Churches (Four Way Books, 2014) is a collection that dazzles with sound and macabre landscapes where anything is possible. The title of a poem that we did not feature (and listeners must seek out) is “The Idea of the Thing and Not the Thing Itself” is, in my opinion, an excellent representation of the entire collection. It is as though ideas manifest into characters and anecdotes just to explain themselves better, then turn back into the intangible and unreachable, leaving only a hint of themselves in the verse. Prufer is a poet that you can trust with your mind. He may bring you to the reaches of subjective reality but you always return somehow more whole and with a greater understanding of the human conditions of suffering, grief, love, and fear. He is modern poet whose lines you can scan for meter and device! Just as the Romantics, he brings the abstract of Negative Capability to life on the page. It is for these reasons and many more that I suggest lovers of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and all semblances of the written word, pick up Kevin Prufer’s newest collection, Churches and let him take you where he will. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Three Poisons is a simple and elegant Tibetan Buddhist teaching that identifies three foundational emotions that underlie all others—passion, aggression, and ignorance—much the way the three primary colors combine to make all others. For writers, awareness of the three poisons, which point to the ultimate equality and emptiness of all emotions, can be as profoundly beneficial as Keats’s idea of Negative Capability. Through discussion, examples, and writing exercises, this lecture will seek to convey those benefits.

The Overthinkers tackle New York Comic-Con and the changing landscape of the American holiday. Episode 119: Negative Capability originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]