Weird Studies
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."
SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions.
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Episode 122: Spirals and Crooked Lines: On the ...
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Episode 121: Dream Theater: On 'Mandy' and 'The...
Phil and JF discuss the film musical comedy "The Band Wagon" and the psychedelic horror film "Mandy" and discover that these films actually have a lot in common.
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Episode 120: On Radical Mystery
JF and Phil cope with the unexpungable fact of mystery.
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Episode 119: Behind the Cosmic Curtain: On Stan...
Meredith, Phil, and JF dig into Stanislaw Lem's short story, "The New Cosmogony."
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Episode 118: The Unseen and the Unnamed, with M...
Meredith Michael joins JF and Phil to discuss short fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin and J.G. Ballard.
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Episode 117: Time is a Child at Play: On the My...
Phil and JF discuss the mystery of games and the play function in culture and cosmos.
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Episode 116: On 'Blade Runner'
JF and Phil discuss philosophical ideas in Ridley Scott's 1982 film.
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Episode 115: Transience & Immersion: On Brian E...
Phil and JF discuss the 1978 album that established the ambient music genre.
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Episode 114: On the Wheel of Fortune, the Tenth...
JF and Phil continue their occasional series on the major trumps of the Tarot with a discussion on the tenth major arcanum, the Wheel of Fortune.
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Episode 113: Framing the Invisible, with Shanno...
Phil and JF talk spiritualism and photography to American artist and paranormal researcher Shannon Taggart.
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Episode 112: Readings from the 'Book of Probes'...
JF and Phil discuss Marshall McLuhan and David Carson's enigmatic 'Book of Probes.'
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Episode 111: What Is Best in Life: On "Conan th...
Phil and JF explore the ethics and metaphysics of sword and sorcery through the lends of John Milius' 1982 film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Earl Jones.
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Episode 110: Monks of the Cultural Apocalypse: ...
JF and Phil resume their discussion on Hermann Hesse's "The Glass Bead Game," this time with a focus on what the novel reveals about the value of culture in our times.
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Episode 109: Infinite Play: On 'The Glass Bead ...
Phil and JF discuss Hesse's final novel, a quiet masterwork of science fiction about a game that encompasses all of reality.
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Episode 108: On Skepticism and the Paranormal
JF and Phil discuss modern skepticism in light of George P. Hansen's "The Trickster and the Paranormal."
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Episode 107: On Joy Williams' 'Breaking and Ent...
Writer, podcaster, and spiritual thinker Conner Habib joins Phil and JF to discuss Williams' novel and the primacy of style in literature.
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Episode 106: The Wanderer: On Weird Studies
JF and Phil discuss consciousness, free will, and podcasting in context of the artwork that is Weird Studies.
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Episode 105: Fire Walk with Tamler Sommers
Phil and JF are joined by philosophy professor Tamler Sommers to discuss the film "Fire Walk with Me."
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Episode 104: We'd Love to Turn You On: 'Sgt. Pe...
JF and Phil mine the weird in the Beatles' iconic 1967 album.
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Episode 103: On the Tower, the Sixteenth Card o...
Phil and JF continue their series on the major arcana of the tarot with a discussion on The Tower.
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Episode 102: On Pan, with Gyrus
Writer and independent scholar Gyrus joins JF and Phil to talk about Pan, the Greek god of fear and desire.
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Episode 101: Our Fear of the Dark: On Tanizaki'...
Phil and JF discuss Jun'ichirō Tanizaki's meditation on the aesthetics of darkness.
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Episode 100: The Price of Beauty is Horror: On ...
JF and Phil discuss the themes and ideas in the films of one of the great American directors.
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Episode 99: Curing the Human Condition: On 'Wil...
Phil and JF work through the differences between spirituality and religion in the context of the documentary series about Bhagwan Rajneesh.
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Episode 98: Taboo: Time and Belief in Exotica
JF and Phil discuss the ethics and metaphysics of the obscure musical genre known as exotica.
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