JF Martel is the author of the Substack publication The Imp of the Possible.
Books
Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice (Basic Books)
Vindicación del arte en la era del artificio, translated by Fernando Almansa (Ediciones Atalanta)
Reality is Analog: Philosophizing with Stranger Things (Untimely Books)
Vindicación del arte en la era del artificio, translated by Fernando Almansa (Ediciones Atalanta)
Reality is Analog: Philosophizing with Stranger Things (Untimely Books)
Essays
"Mediarchy: Storytelling as 'soft power'." In Times Literary Supplement, February 20, 2026.
"The Weirdness of Brutalism." In The North American Review, spring 2025, volume 310, number 1.
"Care of the Dead." With Phil Ford and Jacob G. Foster. In Daedalus, winter 2025, volume 154, number 1.
"How Symbols Matter." February 2025, Metapsychosis.
Foreword for Michael Olivo's Saints & Sand. Harpy Books, 2024.
"Being At Sea." April 2024, Metapsychosis.
"We are Ghosts. This is Hades." March 2024, Metapsychosis.
"Photography is Haunted." In Shannon Taggart's Séance. Atelier Editions, 2022.
Foreword for Jobe Bittman's The Book of Antitheses. Lamentations of the Flame Princess, 2021.
"Making Mystery: An Interview with Andrew Antoniou." April 2021, Metapsychosis.
"Stay with Mystery: Hiroshima Mon Amour, Melancholia, and the Truth of Extinction." In Canadian Notes and Queries, Issue #106 (Winter, 2020).
"The Beautiful Madness: Primacy of Wonder in the Work of Thomas Ligotti." In Masks: Bowie and the Artists of Artifice, James Curcio, ed. Intellect Books, 2020.
"On the World-Disclosing Rifts of Cinema: J.F. Martel and Christopher Yates in Dialogue". April 2018, Metapsychosis.
"Reality is Analog: Philosophizing with Stranger Things". September 2016, Metapsychosis.
"Notes on Wallace Stevens and Animism." August 2016, Metapsychosis.
"Consciousness in the Aesthetic Imagination". July 2016, Metapsychosis. (Based on a talk given at the Science and Nonduality Conference of 2015)
"Beauty Will Save the World". 2016, Reality Sandwich.
"Pluto and the Death of God". 2016, Reality Sandwich. (Reprinted in Pluto: New Horizons for a Lost Horizon. North Atlantic Books; Richard Grossinger, ed.)
"The Future is Immanent: Speculations on a Possible World". Reality Sandwich. (Reprinted in Zarez, September 2010.)
"The Kubrick Gaze". Reality Sandwich. (Reprinted in Toward 2012: Perspectives on the Next Age (Daniel Pinchbeck and Ken Jordan, eds.)
"The Weirdness of Brutalism." In The North American Review, spring 2025, volume 310, number 1.
"Care of the Dead." With Phil Ford and Jacob G. Foster. In Daedalus, winter 2025, volume 154, number 1.
"How Symbols Matter." February 2025, Metapsychosis.
Foreword for Michael Olivo's Saints & Sand. Harpy Books, 2024.
"Being At Sea." April 2024, Metapsychosis.
"We are Ghosts. This is Hades." March 2024, Metapsychosis.
"Photography is Haunted." In Shannon Taggart's Séance. Atelier Editions, 2022.
Foreword for Jobe Bittman's The Book of Antitheses. Lamentations of the Flame Princess, 2021.
"Making Mystery: An Interview with Andrew Antoniou." April 2021, Metapsychosis.
"Stay with Mystery: Hiroshima Mon Amour, Melancholia, and the Truth of Extinction." In Canadian Notes and Queries, Issue #106 (Winter, 2020).
"The Beautiful Madness: Primacy of Wonder in the Work of Thomas Ligotti." In Masks: Bowie and the Artists of Artifice, James Curcio, ed. Intellect Books, 2020.
"On the World-Disclosing Rifts of Cinema: J.F. Martel and Christopher Yates in Dialogue". April 2018, Metapsychosis.
"Reality is Analog: Philosophizing with Stranger Things". September 2016, Metapsychosis.
"Notes on Wallace Stevens and Animism." August 2016, Metapsychosis.
"Consciousness in the Aesthetic Imagination". July 2016, Metapsychosis. (Based on a talk given at the Science and Nonduality Conference of 2015)
"Beauty Will Save the World". 2016, Reality Sandwich.
"Pluto and the Death of God". 2016, Reality Sandwich. (Reprinted in Pluto: New Horizons for a Lost Horizon. North Atlantic Books; Richard Grossinger, ed.)
"The Future is Immanent: Speculations on a Possible World". Reality Sandwich. (Reprinted in Zarez, September 2010.)
"The Kubrick Gaze". Reality Sandwich. (Reprinted in Toward 2012: Perspectives on the Next Age (Daniel Pinchbeck and Ken Jordan, eds.)