The Modern Mythology Podcast

produced by James Curcio.

Pilot Episode - Howard Bloom

[Direct download episode 1]

In the pilot, Rusty Shackleford interviews Howard Bloom, author of The Lucifer Principle, The Global Brain or The God Problem. He was also publicist for top music talent for two decades, including Michael Jackson, Prince, Styx, Billy Joel, and many others. Howard manages to distill the essence of the past hundred years in culture - especially the culture of rebellion evident in music - into a 40 minute interview.

Background music for this episode provided by members of Bradley The Buyer, HoodooEngine, Mankind is Obsolete, and Veil of Thorns. The featured tracks are In The Flesh from HoodooEngine’s album “Murder The World” and Bradley The Buyer’s cover of Prince’s “When Dove’s Cry”

Episode 2: Virtual classroom one from SUNY Binghamton

In this class we discuss many topics raised in The Immanence of Myth:

Sacrifice and the sacred, love, marriage and the apocalypse
Bataille's The absence of myth
Science and mythology
Cosmological models and myths of progress
World War II as a model for enlightenment reason
Suicide and creativity
The senselessness of the body and the unconscious...

[Direct download episode 2]

Episode 3

In this class we discuss many topics raised in The Immanence of Myth:
Pornography and the theatre of cruelty
Abu Ghraib and the subconscious of the United States
School shootings and the psychology of vicariousness

[Direct download episode 3]

Interviews

James talks briefly about the intentions behind Mythos Media (2011)

James Curcio Interview by Rev.R4D4

What-is-personal-myth by agent139

Drawing Outside The Lines, (2007/2010) Discussion with acclaimed comic artist and writer David Mack about his work and relates themes of mythology.
Living in Stories (2010) James Curcio and David Metcalfe discuss the Immanence of Myth project.
Conversation with Elizabeth Spann Craig (2011) James Curcio talks about "why we write" on Elizabeth's award-winning blog.
Conversation with Laurie Lipton (2011) Discussion with Laurie Lipton about her art and the mythic themes therein.
Audio: Solipsistic NATION (2011) interview with James and Johan of Hoodoo Engine, also featuring interviews and new music with Ogre(Skinny Puppy, Ohgr), and Tim Skold (Manson, KMFDM).
Audio: Occult Sentinel 32 (2011) interviewed by Joseph Moore about the Immanence of Myth, Clark, HoodooEngine, and more.

More interviews!

Mission

Managed by James Curcio, the Modern Mythology site is an open nexus for discussion and analysis, on the part of people who are actively engaged in studying and creating modern myths. Though several contributors have advanced degrees, we make no assumption that someone needs a PhD to be actively engaged in this work. In fact, many of the myths of 20th century academia—including the idea of a hard line between one discipline and the next—seem to pose a limitation that individuals need to overcome if they want to actively participate.

Present contributors are engaged in a wide range of work outside of this project: they are film-makers, published authors, they are doing advanced linguistic analysis for behavioral software, they work for ad agencies. It is our belief that the more diverse the pool of contributors, the more unique and relevant the end result will be. As a result our analysis will cross and incorporate many supposedly disparate disciplines: art, writing, linguistics, philosophy, anthropology, systems theory, psychology, film. (Yeah, we're just listing all of that for SEO.)

It is our hope that this project can continue to enter classrooms as well as people's homes through the internet, and that it continues to be an open platform for the discussion and dissemination of original, forward-thinking work.

We welcome you to join the conversation, or simply follow along, as hundreds of thousands of people have done this year.

Mythos Media is a brand / subsidiary of Odd Duck Media, LLC.