E12 Sufi Love with Filip Almansour Holm Love & Its Discontents 2023-04-14 | Let's follow the Sufi path to discover what love is in Islamic mysticism and what diverse expressions it found in some of the key figures that defined it. Our guest is Filip Almansour Holm the host of the erudite and fun podcast Let's Talk Religion (youtube.com/@UC9dRb4fbJQIbQ3KHJZF_z0g )Follow Filip attwitter.com/FilipHolm900:00 What is Sufism05:20 Love in Sufism12:30 Subsisting in God27:43 Love as True Knowledge29:50 Wine43:50 Words for Love52:30 God and Beauty01:01:10 Love of the Prophet01:06:45 Ibn Araby's Poetry
E24 Love & AI with Yusuf Jones Love & Its Discontents 2024-08-17 | Yusuf Jones is a visionary AI Prompt Engineer/Architect and Technology Integrationist at the forefront of the AI revolution in mental health, community development, and spiritual technology. With a unique blend of expertise in artificial intelligence, business automation, and spiritual wisdom, Yusuf bridges the gap between cutting-edge technology and human-centered solutions. Yusuf's approach is deeply rooted in his commitment to Islamic principles and rich cultural heritage, informing his mission to leverage technology for community empowerment, spiritual growth, and social good. As a certified end-of-life doula and mental health advocate, he brings a compassionate, holistic perspective to his technological innovations. His unique technical prowess, spiritual insight, and community focus make him a sought-after consultant and speaker in the rapidly evolving landscape of AI, mental health technology, and digital spirituality.Facebook: @yusuf.journeyman.jonesInstagram: @yusuf.is.just.dust00:20 Intro03:40 AI & End-of-Life Caregiving14:00 AI & Intimacy22:00 AI & God's Love30:00 Migration, Travelling43:15 Speaking with AI47:00 Using "Bismillah" with AI54:00 Virtual Caregiving58:40 Connecting to Source Code1:02:00 AI & Deception1:09:00 Praying on Vulnerabilities1:14:30 Malcom X1:16:00 My Father and ADHD1:27:00 Final Words#love #lovestory #ai #artificialintelligence #virtualreality #migration #hijra #mindset #islam #spirituality #spirituallove #virtualhajj #hajj #reward #care #caringprofession #doula #popularculture #scifi #sf #data #startrek #exmachina #picard #sexuality #deception #thefly #thematrix #soul #neo #prophetmuhammad #miraj #sufi #god #allah #hadith slavery #americansouth #history #freedom #selfhood #community #family #fathers #children #mothers #videogames #imagination #sacred #sacredart #aiart #chatgpt #midjourney #groom #coding #sourcecode #meaningoflife #shaykh #sufiorder #guidance #africanamerican #malcomx #elijahmuhammad #nationofislam #america #usa #world #africa #nerds #programming #luciddreaming #wandavision #vudu #ritualwashing
E23 Love in Shōgun with John Austin Love & Its Discontents 2024-05-21 | In this episode, we explore love in the new adaptation of James Clavell's Shōgun with John Austin.John Austin is an interactive designer, independent researcher, author, filmmaker, cultural critic, and entrepreneur. For over fifteen years, he has worked in augmented reality/virtual reality. Between 2007 and 2009 he divided his time living between the US and Japan where he helped found Autism Family Network. Austin founded Fresh Pulp Magazine, dedicated to "theoretical" science fiction from marginalized communities He leads Dark Matters, a weekly podcast discussing the latest Sci-fi series through a critical race lens. Among other things, Austin has written "How to be Black and Muslim in America” on Muslim futurism, and "Practical approaches to space travel for Muslims" Austin won the Comcast Award for short films in 2008 for the film, "The Jersey Devil."Twitter: @austinyoshinoInstagram: @austinyoshino00:00 Intro02:40 Impressions (details, performances)11:00 Intensity15:15 Quiet Service17:00 Earthquake21:10 Concentric Circles of Love27:00 Sepuku32:00 Courtesans36:00 Japanese Love40:00 Loving a Foreigner43:40 Fraternal Love56:00 Giving Time1:03:40 Fated Love1:07:10 Head Cutting1:14:10 Love and Address1:23:40 Living in the Moment1:24:25 Death Poetry
E22 Love & Genocide with Joy Manesiotis Love & Its Discontents 2024-01-27 | Join me for a deep conversation on love in times and aftermath of traumatic historical events. How do our history and heritage make us and how do they shape the way we love? Focusing on the unique work of poetic theater, A Short History of Anger, about the genocide in Smyrna and the massive movements of peoples across borders of modern Turkey and Greece, we dig into things that help us live meaningful lives, overcome traumas and define love in ways that are healing.Joy Manesiotis is the author of three collections of poems, A Short History of Anger, which won The New Measure Poetry Prize, Revoke, and They Sing to Her Bones, which won the New Issues Poetry Prize. Currently, she is staging A Short History of Anger: A Hybrid Work of Poetry & Theatre at international festivals and universities in the U.S. and Europe. Poems and essays have appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies, including The American Poetry Review, Poetry, and Poetry International, as well as in translation. Previously the Edith R. White Distinguished Chair in Creative Writing at the University of Redlands, she teaches in the MFA in Writing program at OSU/Cascades and serves on the editorial board of Airlie Press.
E21 Love Spells & Potions with Dr. Amila Buturović Love & Its Discontents 2023-12-23 | Join me in this unique conversation on love spells and potions with Dr. Amila Buturovic. Buturovic was born in Sarajevo. She works at the Dept of Humanities and Religious Studies at York University. Her interest lies in the cultural history of Ottoman and post-Ottoman Balkans, specifically Bosnia. Her major works are Stone Speaker: Bosnian Tombstones, Landscape and Identity in the Poetry of Mak Dizdar (2002), Carved in Stone, Etched in Memory: Tombstones and Commemoration in Bosnian Islam (2016). She is a co-editor with Irvin Schick of Women in the Ottoman Balkans (2008). Her most recent project focuses on the culture of health and healing in Ottoman Bosnia, especially in relation to esoteric teachings and occult practices. As part of this project, she has teamed up with the National Museum of BiH to research and help curate their collection of artifacts that speak to the rich and interconfessional heritage of magic and healing in Ottoman Bosnia.Follow Buturovic attwitter.com/amila29500:00 What is Love?09:12 Talismans and Potions13:50 What are Spells For31:00 Gender in Spells & Potions39:00 Adaptation of Recipes59:00 Evoking Esoteric Qualities1:04:00 Black Magic1:12:35 Jinn and Magic1:22:00 Modern Religious Practices1:30:00 Language of Magic1:39:00 Love & Narrative
E20 Love in Toni Morrison with Dr. Alice Sundman Love & Its Discontents 2023-11-10 | In this episode, we delve into the amazing worlds of the African-American Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison. We go in-depth on her masterpiece Beloved but also trace the theme of love throughout her oeuvre.Alice Sundman is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of English, at Stockholm University. Her book Toni Morrison and the Writing of Place (Routledge, 2022) explores the creation and presentation of Toni Morrison’s literary places. Her research interests include Toni Morrison, ecocriticism, place and space studies, genetic criticism, phenomenology, and the intersections between literature and philosophy.00:00 Intro02:26 Beloved14:55 Thick Love21:44 Baby Sugs29:40 Romantic Love36:23 Love of Place45:00 A Mercy
E19 Loving Yusuf with Prof Mieke Bal Love & Its Discontents 2023-09-16 | Join me for a truly unique and rewarding conversation with Professor Mieke Bal about one of the most captivating stories of all time, the story of Joseph and Potiphar's Wife. Bal is a Dutch cultural theorist, video artist, and Professor Emerita in Literary Theory at the University of Amsterdam. She is the author of more than 40 books, many films, and video installations. Her work is often course literature in a wide range of disciplines. Her "Narratology# is a must for all students of narrative.
E18 Love & Money: Mohsin Hamid Love & Its Discontents 2023-08-03 | Conversation with Mohsin Hamid the globally loved author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Exit West, and many more novels.00:00 Intro02:05 What is love for Mohsin Hamid16:03 Love and the global market23:30 Epidemic of loneliness30:50 Reading as profound hallucination39:15 Loving a book44:45 Toni Morrison's "Beloved"51:45 The Reluctant Fundamentalist
E17 Love in Shakespeare with Dr. Ishrat Lindblad Love & Its Discontents 2023-07-16 | In this special episode, I interview my old teacher and mentor Ishrat Lindblad, an expert on Shakespearean drama.00:00 Introductions04:29 Ishrat's relationship to drama06:31 On our background09:10 On Freud's "Civilisation and its Discontents"14:31 Othello23:23 Male friendship love29:22 Love as fantasy43:01 Friendship love, parental love50:16 Love & Death56:25 Love & Revenge in Hamlet58:37 Love & Narrative
E16 Othello Love & Its Discontents 2023-06-23 | Shakespeare's Othello is one of the most tragic heroes, famous for his excessive jealousy. And yet, he thought of himself as not easily jealous? In this episode, we find out how split he was and what ruined love for him.
E15 Dirty Dancing Love & Its Discontents 2023-06-04 | Can romantic love and friendship exist at the same time? Find out in this reflection on this classical romantic drama that shaped us as teenagers.
E14 Frankenstein with Dr. Paul Jaussen Love & Its Discontents 2023-05-13 | Join me and Dr. Paul Jaussen as we dig into Mary Shelley's classic Frankenstein, one the most influential stories of all time. Let us see what it says about love.00:00 Intro01:29 Plot of Frankenstein16:21 Frankenstein as a Love Story26:37 Prometheus Connection33:10 I Am Your Adam36:45 Love and Madness39:05 Love as Justification43:00 Nature vs. Culture50:30 Love and Selfhood53:15 Sexuality1:03:10 Reading is Dangerous1:05:10 Energy of Art
E13 I Am Your Adam Mary Shelleys Frankenstein Love & Its Discontents 2023-04-28 | Everyone knows the story of Frankenstein and his Creation, the Wretch, the Monster. But do they? Let's dig into it from a different angle. What if it is, ultimately, a love story?
E11 Love in The Quran Love & Its Discontents 2023-04-01 | Islam is one of the biggest religions in the world and at its core is The Holy Qur'an. What does it say about love? In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Celine Ibrahim on a journey through the holy text of Islam to explore the multitude of ways in which it evokes, defines, and prescribes love.00:00 Concepts of God and Love08:31 Comparison to Christianity10:50 Turning to God15:16 Loving Others21:17 Selecting26:07 Beautiful Character (Ihsan)30:01 Mercy (Rahma)38:20 Sexual Intimacy as "Ibadah"46:06 Word "Love"52:40 Love as "Pregnancy"1:03:04 Love of The Prophet
E10 Groundhog Day Love & Its Discontents 2023-03-18 | What if there was no tomorrow? What would that do to love? Is love eternal? Find out in this fun episode on the classic romantic comedy "Groundhog Day."
E9 Wide Sargasso Sea with Dr. Nagihan Haliloglu Love & Its Discontents 2023-03-03 | Join me as I dig into Jean Rhys' amazing novel Wide Sargasso Sea and explore the relationship between love and madness and the harms of colonialism.Follow Haliloglu attwitter.com/NHaliloglu
E8 I Will Write My Name in Fire Red (Wide Sargasso Sea) Love & Its Discontents 2023-02-18 | In this episode, we introduce the burning love and the debilitating madness of Bertha a.k.a. "madwoman in the attic." Jean Rhys' prequel to the classic Jane Eyre takes us all the way to the Caribbean and explores how he came to marry a creole woman who would later come to go crazy, be locked up in his attic, and eventually burn down his estate.Host Adnan MahmutovićFilmed and Edited by Mosa MianInstagram @mosa.mianMusic: Bacalao, "Trumpet Tune" (freemusicarchive.org/music/Bacalao/Beats__Boucles_Baroques/6_Trumpet_tune)
E7 Jane Eyre with Dr. Lisa Ann Robertson Love & Its Discontents 2023-02-04 | Join us for an in-depth conversation on love, marriage, and the constraints of the Victorian age in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre with Dr. Lisa Ann Robertson. Dr. Robertson is an Associate Professor in Nineteenth-Century British Literature with expertise in Romanticism and eighteenth-century literature and culture at the University of South Dakota.
E6 Reader, I Married him. Brontës Jane Eyre Love & Its Discontents 2023-01-21 | Jane Eyre, the classical Bildungsroman, established some of the key definitions of love and marriage that still affect the way we think about modern Western love. In this episode, we lay some grounds for future interviews on rebellious love in the Victorian period.Host Adnan MahmutovićFilmed and Edited by Mosa MianInstagram @mosa.mianMusic: Bacalao, "Trumpet Tune" (freemusicarchive.org/music/Bacalao/Beats__Boucles_Baroques/6_Trumpet_tune)#love #lovestory #podcast #podcasttime #victorian #victorianliterature #bronte #janeeyre #rochester #byronic #sex #eros #philia #spirituallove #literature #writing #classic #sacrifice #bildungsroman #reels #mahmutovic #england #englishhistory #history #religion #custom #badblood
E5 Greek Love with Prof Peter Adamson Love & Its Discontents 2023-01-07 | Prof. Peter Adamson, from the podcast History of Philosophy without any Gaps, discusses the philosophy of love in presocratic, Platonic, and Aristotelian thought.Follow Adamson attwitter.com/HistPhilosophy
E4 Platonic Love Love & Its Discontents 2022-12-24 | What was love for the father of Western philosophy, Plato? How did we come to think of "platonic love" as that which is divorced from erotic feelings?Host Adnan MahmutovićFilmed and Edited by Mosa MianInstagram @mosa.mianMusic: Bacalao, "Trumpet Tune" (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ba...)Quotes taken from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophyhttps://plato.stanford.edu/entries/love/
E3 Perforated Sheet: Rushdies Midnights Children Love & Its Discontents 2022-12-09 | How does a sheet with a small hole make people fall in love? Is it a blessed or a cursed sheet and how long does the magic last? Find out in this episode on Salman Rushdie's magical realist novel Midnight's Children.Host Adnan MahmutovićFilmed and Edited by Mosa MianInstagram @mosa.mianMusic: Bacalao, "Trumpet Tune" (freemusicarchive.org/music/Bacalao/Beats__Boucles_Baroques/6_Trumpet_tune)
E2 What We Talk About When We Talk About Love Love & Its Discontents 2022-11-26 | How do we define love? Is love that which kicks in after that initial chemistry has faded? Is love that which happens between the extremes of spirituality and materiality?Join us in a conversation with Dr. Lucy Durneen from the University of Cambridge as we discuss these issues using Raymond Carver's short story "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love."Follow Durneen atinstagram.com/tigercubkintwitter.com/LittleWonders13#lovestory #love#poetry #englishliterature #discontents #lovediscontents #chemistry #lovechemistry #loveafterchemistry #spirtuallove #connection #relationship #marriage #whatislove #mahmutovic #durneen #cambridge #stockholmuniversity #podcasttime
E1 Birdsong: Catullus & Lesbia Love & Its Discontents 2022-11-12 | How can a tiny bird create a wedge between lovers? What in the world did Lesbia's sparrow do to the great Latin poet Catullus so he immortalised his grudge in his poetry? And why does this make Jeffrey Eugenides think love stories give love a bad name?Host Adnan MahmutovićFilmed and Edited by Mosa MianInstagram @mosa.mianMusic: Bacalao, "Trumpet Tune" (freemusicarchive.org/music/Bacalao/Beats__Boucles_Baroques/6_Trumpet_tune)
Love & Its Discontents Intro Love & Its Discontents 2022-10-07 | This is what Love & Its Discontents podcast is about. Love stories, nearly without exception, give love a bad name.Host Adnan MahmutovićFilmed and Edited by Mosa MianInstagram @mosa.mianTitle Sequence made by Esmir Prlja Instagram @esmalehorribleMusic: Bacalao, "Trumpet Tune" (freemusicarchive.org/music/Bacalao/Beats__Boucles_Baroques/6_Trumpet_tune)
