JHK’s Three-Act Play
A conversation with Jasun Horsley of the Liminalist podcast and the Auticulture.com blog. A self-described high-functioning Asperger personality, Jasun explores the margins of culture. A liminal condition is one of transition, sometimes turbulent, and we explore this in relation to politics and culture of the day — everything from corn-pone Nazis to sexual transgression. This is another effort to reach out a bit beyond my usual community of financial observers and energy commentators.
By a strange misunderstanding, Jasun thought I’d agreed to be a guest on his podcast, and I thought Jasun agreed to be a guest on mine — so we ended up doing two podcasts in sequence, one for each site. This one, obviously, is me interviewing Jasun. To listen to his Liminalist podcast with me, go here. (Note: that link had not gone “live” when I posted Saturday morning at 10:00am EDT.
Direct download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/kunstlercast/KunstlerCast_267.mp3
Please send questions and comments to jhkunstler@mac.com.
The third World Made By Hand novel
!! Is available !!
(The Fourth and final is near completion)
“Kunstler skewers everything from kitsch to greed, prejudice, bloodshed, and brainwashing in this wily, funny, rip-roaring, and profoundly provocative page- turner, leaving no doubt that the prescriptive yet devilishly satiric A World Made by Hand series will continue.” — Booklist
My local indie booksellers… Battenkill Books (Autographed by the Author) … or Northshire Books…
or Amazon…
Also: Published as an E-book for the first time!
The 20th Anniversary edition
With an entertaining new introduction by the author
Bargain Price $3.99
Amazon Kindle …or … Barnes & Noble Nook …or… Kobo
Hey, Jim!
KMO here. I was really happy to hear you and Jasun find so much common ground. I first had him on the C-Realm Podcast back in 2009 after the end of his first podcast series, Stormy Weather. He and Doug Lain were both on a pretty recent episode of C-Realm.
http://c-realm.com/podcasts/crealm/448-zero-cubed/
Keep on keepin’ on!
-KMO
Thanks, KMO, for introducing Jasun to your listeners: I first heard him on that 3-way interview with Doug you did a few months ago. And thanks to Jim for introducing you (that’s how I found out about C-Realm). Now that all three of you guys appear on each other’s podcasts, the circle is complete.
aaahh.
& I just invited john michael greer onto the liminalist
Is it all too cozy!? 😉
Here’s the piece on liminality which JHK refers to: http://zero-books.net/blogs/zero/history-through-a-liminal-looking-glass-part-1/
Greer is always a pleasure to listen to and his impressive words-per-minute rate makes him a good deal almost at any price.
So let me get this right, it was a self-diagnosis, or rather a girlfriend’s offhanded comment?
That’s the way it is these days, I am what I identify with… a woman, a black person, a savant, and nobody can tell me otherwise. Ugh.
Or is it, “I am any uninformed knee-jerk comment I can toss out there”?
Fascinated by this podcast and the crossover to Auticulture. It really got to me when Jim said (on Jasun’s podcast) that he was tired of interfacing with technology and wanted to reduce his contact with it. This gave voice to my own feelings.
My work requires me to do the vast majority of tasks on line, especially through one or another ugly, rigid, password-protected portal. I hate it—to the point where I feel physical discomfort when I have to log back in.
I long for those days (which I am old enough to remember) when you could just handed your work directly to a colleague, perhaps with a little conversation about the project. When you could go for a walk and be unreachable. When you knew what to do with yourself besides looking at a screen. Technology has changed me for the worse. Time to take heed from the podcast and reduce my connection to devices.