Deep Calls to Deep: Reading Together

About Deep Calls to Deep: Reading Together

Going deep together into the "Classics" that have called from "Elsewhere" to the unfathomable depths within. David Tracy thought of a "Classic" as a work that was open to multiple, productive interpretations, which could be anything from a text to a work of art to a religious practice. Jean-Luc Marion thought of "Elsewhere" appearing here as the sort of "Saturated Phenomena" that allowed for radical otherness to speak for itself without exhausting or reducing its meaning to the understandable, which he thought of in terms of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's the invisible appearing without becoming merely visible. Communities of interpretations, called by Hans-Georg Gadamer and Paul Ricoeur "Hermeneutic Circles" after Heidegger's teachings on the matter of the interpretation of being, are religious rituals that form a community of interpreters.

Publisher

martinessig.com

Category

arts · education · religion & spirituality

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

13 Jan 2026

Latest episode

13 Jun 2026

Latest episodes

25 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   13 Jun 2026

   Can Radio Be Re-enchanted? James Reeves of Midnight Radio

   Freud's notion of the "unheimlich," which was translated into English as "Uncanny," might have more literally been translated as "un-homely," which suggests the eerie sensation of the familiar warping into the unfamiliar. "Uncanny" comes from old Scottish meaning not known or safe or prudent. The uncanny for Freud was something previously known becoming unknowable, so that it was the haunting presence of the past but not the past as intentionally remembered. When nostalgia for the past is th...

2. 

   10 Jun 2026

   Deciding to Stay Sick: Backrooms

   What about when we choose our disease? There is a scene in Backrooms in which the protagonist "Clark," played by Chiwetel Ejiofor, decides to stay in his disease because coming out of it would mean taking responsibility for things that he doesn't feel responsible for, and what's more, giving up on the enjoyment of blaming others. There is an ambiguity about who or what is responsible where mental illness is concerned. Is environment, genetics, or something else to blame? Regardless, the conun...

3. 

   3 Jun 2026

   When Isn't Nostalgia Poison? BOC: Inferno

   Nostalgia is poison. So why do I like BOC so much? BOC's nostalgia isn't saccharine but complicated. When remembering is blocked by a nostalgic concept, the past becomes a projection of the rememberer's wish-fulfillment fantasy. The general structure of this sort of fantasy projection is that of the fascist who imagines a past greatness, or a lost Eden, that never was to recover the past from a decadent present. It is a well worn and now all too obvious observation that "Make America Gr...

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