This is the link to a podcast where I speak about the sublime at the Tate Symposium "The Sublime Now", a two day event held at Tate Britain in October 2007. 

http://www.tate.org.uk/onlineevents/podcast/mp3/20-10-07sublime_conference.MP3

The podcast begins with a brief introduction to the second day of the event, followed by a presentation by Peter De Bolla, after which I introduce the panel "Experiencing the Sublime" with a discussion of the kind of experience philosophers refer to when they use the term "sublime".

Details of the event:

Sublime

Friday 19 October 2007, 18.30–20.00
Saturday 20 October 2007, 10.00–18.00

SOLD OUT

Recently, the notion of the sublime has received a new lease of life, enjoying attention from major writers as diverse as Harold Bloom to Jacques Derrida, and warranting interpretations in (quite aside from the expected fields of art and aesthetics) literary history, feminism, post-colonial theory, psychoanalysis, political theory and international relations. Before this, throughout the eighteenth century, the word ‘sublime’ had been in use to describe an aesthetic of incommensurability; it was the publication of Edmund Burke’s Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful in 1757 that cemented the term for art and philosophical aesthetics.

This symposium asks why the Sublime now? What is its legacy today? In what ways has the Sublime acquired an added urgency in our new millennium? And to what extent is this concept a useful or dangerous tool for the understanding of contemporary culture and history?

In collaboration with Middlesex University, London Consortium and part of the Sublime Objectresearch programme, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council

Tate Britain  Auditorium

Full details of the event from the Tate website:

http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/eventseducation/symposia/11245.htm