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 the anomalous, the luminous, and the numinous. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions.
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Episode 133: On Weirding, and the Virtues of Un...
JF and Phil discuss making things weird as a survival strategy for the Weird Age.
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Episode 132: Art Is an Alien Technology: Live a...
Phil and JF discuss Werner Herzog's "Cave of Forgotten Dreams" at the 2022 Supernormal Festival in England.
81 min
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Off-Week Bonus: On Worlds and Stories, with a S...
After announcing a new online course they will be teaching together, JF and Phil talk storytelling and worldbuilding.
57 min
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Episode 131: Knocking on the Abyssal Door: Live...
Phil and J.F. talk about magic, synchronicity, and prophecy to an audience composed of scientists, scholars, and artists at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.
71 min
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Episode 130: Holiday Memories
Phil and JF discuss their recent adventures in the United Kingdom.
76 min
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Episode 129: Luminous Miasma: On Edgar Allan Po...
JF and Phil visit the House of Usher.
93 min
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Episode 128: Demon Workshop: On Victoria Nelson...
Phil and JF discuss Victoria Nelson's novel of psychological horror.
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Episode 127: Leaving the Mechanical Dollhouse: ...
JF and Phil discuss Abeba Birhane's essay on the ethical, psychological, and political cost of universal automation.
76 min
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Episode 126: The Daemon Speaks, with Matt Cardin
Matt Cardin joins JF and Phil to discuss daimonic reality and the idea of dark enlightenment.
82 min
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Episode 125: Strange Brews: Weird Studies Live ...
Phil, Meredith, and JF discuss ritual and potion-making in a live recording hosted by Illuminated Brew Works in Chicago.
97 min
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Episode 124: Dark Night Radio of the Soul, with...
Spiritual practitioner Duncan Barford joins JF and Phil to talk about the Dark Night of the Soul.
88 min
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Episode 123: Off-Week Patreon Bonus: On Modern ...
A free Patreon episode exploring more of the affordances of a spiral universe.
39 min
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Episode 122: Spirals and Crooked Lines: On the ...
81 min
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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.
63 min
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Episode 120: On Radical Mystery
JF and Phil cope with the unexpungable fact of mystery.
77 min
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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.
76 min
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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.
68 min
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Episode 116: On 'Blade Runner'
JF and Phil discuss philosophical ideas in Ridley Scott's 1982 film.
88 min
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Episode 115: Transience & Immersion: On Brian E...
Phil and JF discuss the 1978 album that established the ambient music genre.
75 min
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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.
95 min
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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.
81 min
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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.'
89 min
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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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