Phaneron 02 • Rimbaud and the Poetic Imagination (audio-only‪)‬ The Phaneron

It is possible to access the Unknown/access one’s own Unconscious through a paradigm shift in one’s ways of knowing; in one's epistemology. One of the seminal figures of the Symbolist movement in poetry was Arthur Rimbaud, who exemplifies the implications of adopting a poetic imagination as an attitude towards life. Enjoy this video-essay'ish format for this podcast; I will be implementing lecture-type podcasts together-with the interview content.

“…I want to be a poet, and I am working to make myself a Seer: you will not understand at all, and I hardly know how to explain it to you. The point is to arrive at the unknown by the de-arrangement of all the senses..."



Quoted Sources/Further Readings:

• 1. Arthur Rimbaud: http://www.mag4.net/Rimbaud/en/DocumentsE1.html

• 2. Mircea Eliade: https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.233748/2015.233748.Rites-And_djvu.txt

• 3. On Terence McKenna: https://hraf.yale.edu/cross-culturally-exploring-the-concept-of-shamanism/

• 4. Salvador Dali and Friederich Nietzsche: https://philosophynow.org/issues/112/How_Nietzsche_Inspired_Dali