Blake Bites: Who is Urizen?
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- Опубліковано 4 лют 2024
- Urizen is one of the most fascinating figures in Blake's mythology, and also the one to appear most consistently between the 1790s and Blake's death in 1827. This short video explores what Urizen represents and some of his sources.
Hi, this is the first video of yours I have seen, and it is fantastic! Immediately subscribed. I adore Blake and have been learning a lot about gnosticism recently, so this was such an interesting watch. thank you!
Thank you very much! I've been obsessed by Blake for more than 30 years - I hope that you find more to enjoy here.
Fascinating and I don't remember this poem being in the Leaving Certificate Anthology of Poetry book back in1980's Ireland when our country was under the control of the Catholic Church.
It didn’t feature much in my Catholic education either… Can’t for the life of me think why…
The book of Urizen is like the birth of an AI.
Indeed! I hadn't considered this when making this video, but I like this take more and more.
Ok... It can't be coincidence that Penrose model of consciousness is called orc.
Is Blake's orc also a play on the word orchestration as opposed to urizen being reason?
The Blake scholar Mark Lussier has done work over the years on Blake's use (and misuse) by quantum physicists. Interestingly, speculation about the origin of Orc's name is more tentative. My own personal favourite is from Orcus, a Roman god of the underworld who is adapted by Ludovico Ariosto in his Orlando Furioso, one of the first books that Blake provided a commercial engraving for in the 1780s.
@@ZoavisionMedia sorry. I wasn't clear. Penrose has a new model he is working on that is incomplete. Iirc he has called the model Orc and I recall him saying in an interview that it was short for orchestration but that he honestly couldn't say what that meant or why he chose to call it that.
Blake would have had to have been even more prophetic if he were copying a model that hadn't been written. (Joking)
But as the other 'gods' have names that reflect their relative function in the mind I wonder if his view was similar to the one Penrose currently holds but didn't have the science at the time to express it.
Doh! I was being a stupid literalist (which is rather ironic for a video about Urizen...)
Thanks for the clarification.
♫ At the gaaaaates of Urizen! ♫
I like how Blake's art style is so original, so unconventional. You can't fit his illustrations neatly in any well defined movement.
And his ideas are so subversive, it's wild to think people in the 20th and 21th centuries have been promoting satanic panics over music and entertainment, while back in the 18th and 19th centuries, there was Blake.
The guy who, unlike Milton, was knowingly of the devil's party...
🤘 Yeah! Bruce Dickinson. 🎵=🔑>🧩
This is debatable, of course, but I think it's pronounced "Your Reason."
I see what you did there. Lol
“Your reason for fighting”