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Jean-François Martel is a writer on art, culture, religion, and philosophy. His essays have appeared in online journals such as Canadian Notes & Queries, Reality Sandwich, The Finch, and Metapsychosis, as well as in print anthologies from Penguin-Tarcher, North Atlantic Books, and …

Professor Phil Ford and writer J. F. Martel host a series of conversations on art and philosophy, dwelling on ideas that are hard to think and art that opens up rifts in what we are pleased to call "reality."

J. F. Martel is a writer and lecturer on art, culture, and philosophy. With musicologist Phil Ford, he cohosts the popular art and philosophy podcast Weird Studies. He lives in Ottawa, Canada.

"On the World-Disclosing Rifts of Cinema: J.F. Martel and Christopher Yates in Dialogue" (Metapsychosis) "Reality is Analog: Philosophizing with Stranger Things" (Metapsychosis) "Consciousness in the Aesthetic Imagination" (Metapsychosis), based on a talk given at the Science and Nonduality Conference of 2015 "How Symbols Matter" (The Finch)

J.F. Martel is an author, screenwriter, and film & TV director from Ottawa, Canada. His screen work includes French and English-language documentary series and features focused on culture and the arts.

J.F. Martel is a Canadian writer, lecturer, and podcaster. He is the author of Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice, a book on the power of art published by North Atlantic Press and forthcoming as an audiobook from Basic Books. As a filmmaker, he has directed French and English documentary series and feature films focusing on art and culture.

My work as a writer and podcaster ranges broadly over questions of aesthetics, ethics, and metaphysics as they pertain to art, storytelling, esotericism, and the idea of the paranormal.