19. Anamnesis & Prosthetic Imagination (w/ Jonathan Impett)

Here’s a gem from our archive, a recording with Jonathan Impett — Director of Research at the Orpheus Instituut (orpheusinstituut.be).

Impett has had a MAJOR impact on Roberto and Marek, a kind of intellectual godfather to the two of us. His staggering breadth of knowledge continues to blow our minds. You can find more about Impett's work here (jonathanimpett.com).

A number of references from the discussion include:
• Impett's chapter in Choreomata (taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.1201/978100331…) is awesome. Buy our book! :)
• Impett references Alexander Nagel and Chris Wood's Anachronic Renaissance (press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9781942130…) an unbelievably ambitious tome that delves into the situatedness of art both inside and outside of the Renaissance.
• A few California references -- Jonathan tags in Swarm (santafe.edu/research/results/working-papers/th…) and references the composer Brian Ferneyhough.
• We're all Reza Negarestani fans here -- for more about computational interactionism, check out Reza's epsiode of the pod, Anil Bawa-Cavia's episode of the pod, and Reza's absolutely mondo Intelligence and Spirit (mitpress.mit.edu/9780997567403/intelligence-an…).
• At the time of the interview, Matteo Pasquinelli's influential The Eye of the Master (mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/book/9781788730068) had not yet been released and is referenced as an upcoming release.
• For more information on the "waste product" -- Alain Badiou's Immanence of Truths (bloomsbury.com/us/immanence-of-truths-97813501…) is actually pretty forthcoming in this respect.
• Jonathan also references After Sound (bloomsbury.com/us/after-sound-9781501308109), a very timely read by G. Douglas Barrett.