Weird Studies

Episode 189: Care of the Dead, with Jacob G. Foster

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Apr 23, 2025
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INSIGHT

Force Fields in Intellectual Projects

  • Intellectual projects often feel like being pulled by an attractor or force field, drawing you gently toward a compelling idea.
  • Synchronicities and serendipities signal that an idea or set of ideas wants to be expressed.
ADVICE

Be an Open-Minded Bricoleur

  • Cultivate openness to gather disparate tools and ideas as a scholar to generate new concepts through bricolage.
  • Trust and explore unexpected connections; this skill is essential for innovative thinking.
INSIGHT

Dead Shape the Living's Culture

  • The dead still shape our culture, language, and minds, making claims on the living.
  • Modernity has lost the sense of interdependence between the living and the dead, which previous cultures naturally held.
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