William Gillespie's guest appearances

William Gillespie

The Liminalist: The Podcast Between

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Jordan Peterson

John Potash

James Howard Kunstler

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Temple Grandin

William Blake

Jan Irvin

Barry Crimmins

John Michael Greer

William Ray

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Peter Watts

Theodore Dalrymple

Jasun Horsley

Paul Levy

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This past week we have enjoyed these conversations with our commissioners as we hear from our delegation to the 224th General Assembly. Typically, by Thursday of GA we would have engaged some significant work, wrapped up committee work, anticipated our final plenary sessions on Friday, and been moving towards a closing worship. Instead, the agenda has been skeletal and Friday and Saturday will mark the only days of real business. It will begin, however, with worship at 11 a.m. and we invite you to join us on livestream at www.ga-pcusa.org or on the Spirit of GA Facebook Page. There you can also check out previous videos of misison and ministry partners, bible studies, and more. We also invite you to pray for the newly-elected co-moderators, Elder Elona Street-Stewart and Rev. Gregory Bentley as well as the election of the Stated Clerk of the OGA, currently held by the Rev. Dr. J Herbert Nelson. For now, enjoy these three faithful servants, two commissioners, Rev. Pam McShane and Lloyd Higgins, and Young Adult Advisory Delegate, William Gillespie.

This past week we have enjoyed these conversations with our commissioners as we hear from our delegation to the 224th General Assembly. Typically, by Thursday of GA we would have engaged some significant work, wrapped up committee work, anticipated our final plenary sessions on Friday, and been moving towards a closing worship. Instead, the agenda has been skeletal and Friday and Saturday will mark the only days of real business. It will begin, however, with worship at 11 a.m. and we invite you to join us on livestream at <a href="http://www.ga-pcusa.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.ga-pcusa.org</a> or on the Spirit of GA Facebook Page. There you can also check out previous videos of misison and ministry partners, bible studies, and more. We also invite you to pray for the newly-elected co-moderators, Elder Elona Street-Stewart and Rev. Gregory Bentley as well as the election of the Stated Clerk of the OGA, currently held by the Rev. Dr. J Herbert Nelson. For now, enjoy these three faithful servants, two commissioners, Rev. Pam McShane and Lloyd Higgins, and Young Adult Advisory Delegate, William Gillespie.

Conversation with Our Commissioners to GA224: Rev. Pam McShane, Lloyd Higgins, & William Gillespie

Part two of liminal conversation with author and underground artist William Gillespie, on being a writer, the multiple personality game, the Kubrickon &amp; what Stanley Kubrick was doing, the problem with Charlie Kaufman, David Foster Wallace, writing for validation, the myth of the writer, being a community writer, the desire for posterity, a writer’s frustrations, House of Leaves, getting the foot in the door, what you learn in writers’ school, the world’s resistance to meaningful art, an ego trap, CIA sabotage and self-sabotage, David Foster Wallace’s lack of political impact, the power of writing to cause change, Bruce/Caitlin Jenner’s autobiography, do publishers help?, Hakim Bey and temporary autonomous zones, beware of corrosion Aeolus Kephas and the pretense of selling out, writing as individuatory journey, the transmission, below the threshold of the senses, having a cult following, the abuse of intelligence, Robyn Hitchcock, William’s news poems, undermining syntax, academese, tricks against syntax. William’s websites:  http://keyholefactory.comhttp://newspoetry.comhttp://tableofforms.com http://spinelessbooks.com Songs: “El Mariachi”  and “Monkey Said,” by The Freak Fandango Orchestra; “To Be Human,” by Robyn Hitchcock. 

Part two of liminal conversation with author and underground artist William Gillespie, on being a writer, the multiple personality game, the Kubrickon &amp; what Stanley Kubrick was doing, the problem with Charlie Kaufman, David Foster Wallace, writing for validation, the myth of the writer, being a community writer, the desire for posterity, a writer’s frustrations, House of Leaves, getting the foot in the door, what you learn in writers’ school, the world’s resistance to meaningful art, an ego trap, CIA sabotage and self-sabotage, David Foster Wallace’s lack of political impact, the power of writing to cause change, Bruce/Caitlin Jenner’s autobiography, do publishers help?, Hakim Bey and temporary autonomous zones, beware of corrosion Aeolus Kephas and the pretense of selling out, writing as individuatory journey, the transmission, below the threshold of the senses, having a cult following, the abuse of intelligence, Robyn Hitchcock, William’s news poems, undermining syntax, academese, tricks against syntax. <a href="http://williamgillespie.net/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">William’s websites</a>:  <a href="http://keyholefactory.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://keyholefactory.com</a><a href="http://newspoetry.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://newspoetry.com</a><a href="http://tableofforms.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://tableofforms.com</a> <a href="http://spinelessbooks.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://spinelessbooks.com</a> Songs: “El Mariachi”  and “Monkey Said,” by <a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Freak_Fandango_Orchestra/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Freak Fandango Orchestra</a>; “To Be Human,” by <a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Robyn_Hitchcock/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Robyn Hitchcock</a>.

The Liminalist # 40.5: The War on Language (with William Gillespie)

First of a two-part conversation with Keyhole Factory-author William Gillespie, on the idea of capitalism as a virus, end of the world media, being trained as a novelist, the world as a story, anecdotes in place of history, the extinction event, ascribing agency to the ecosystem, the meaning of weather, Patricia Highsmith’s idea of comforting, a spiritual dimension, a golden age of dystopias, industrial proletariat sci-fi, disaster movies and mortality, isolation movies, from abnormal psychology to creative writing, the CIA, creative writing, the Congress for Cultural Freedom, a government plot to discredit reality, yuppie sexuality, Bruce/Caitlin Jenner, the plague of “literally,” is the war on terror a literal war?, Nietzsche’s view on war, human beings within a mechanistic universe, the egocentric idea of agency, the poet-astronaut, relativity and the absence of simultaneity, remembering the future, no present moment, Brian Rotman and the narrated self, George Lakoff &amp; reality, hardwired to create narratives, the relationship between language and time, Castaneda and the flyers, language as invading pathogen, the dilemma of choosing the right pronoun, DNA as virus, a war of consciousness, junk DNA and entropy, the total psyche, everything is inside/there is no outside, what would a projection say, Philip K. Dick, solipsism vs. holisticism, the burden of agency, individuation and autonomy, the pretext of language, how we communicate primarily. William’s websites:  http://keyholefactory.comhttp://newspoetry.comhttp://tableofforms.com http://spinelessbooks.com Songs: “El Mariachi,” by The Freak Fandango Orchestra; “The Dust,” “Fix You,” by Robyn Hitchcock. 

First of a two-part conversation with Keyhole Factory-author William Gillespie, on the idea of capitalism as a virus, end of the world media, being trained as a novelist, the world as a story, anecdotes in place of history, the extinction event, ascribing agency to the ecosystem, the meaning of weather, Patricia Highsmith’s idea of comforting, a spiritual dimension, a golden age of dystopias, industrial proletariat sci-fi, disaster movies and mortality, isolation movies, from abnormal psychology to creative writing, the CIA, creative writing, the Congress for Cultural Freedom, a government plot to discredit reality, yuppie sexuality, Bruce/Caitlin Jenner, the plague of “literally,” is the war on terror a literal war?, Nietzsche’s view on war, human beings within a mechanistic universe, the egocentric idea of agency, the poet-astronaut, relativity and the absence of simultaneity, remembering the future, no present moment, Brian Rotman and the narrated self, George Lakoff &amp; reality, hardwired to create narratives, the relationship between language and time, Castaneda and the flyers, language as invading pathogen, the dilemma of choosing the right pronoun, DNA as virus, a war of consciousness, junk DNA and entropy, the total psyche, everything is inside/there is no outside, what would a projection say, Philip K. Dick, solipsism vs. holisticism, the burden of agency, individuation and autonomy, the pretext of language, how we communicate primarily. <a href="http://williamgillespie.net/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">William’s websites</a>:  <a href="http://keyholefactory.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://keyholefactory.com</a><a href="http://newspoetry.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://newspoetry.com</a><a href="http://tableofforms.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://tableofforms.com</a> <a href="http://spinelessbooks.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://spinelessbooks.com</a> Songs: “El Mariachi,” by <a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Freak_Fandango_Orchestra/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Freak Fandango Orchestra</a>; “The Dust,” “Fix You,” by <a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Robyn_Hitchcock/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Robyn Hitchcock</a>.