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."
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Episode 97: Art in the Age of Artifice
Phil and JF discuss the ideas in JF's 2015 book, 'Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice.'
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Episode 96: Beautiful Beast: On Jean Cocteau's ...
JF and Phil discuss Jean Cocteau's masterful film, "Beauty and the Beast."
80 min
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Episode 95: Demon Seed: On Doris Lessing's 'The...
Phil and JF discuss Nobel Prize-winning novelist Doris Lessing's unsettling story of a woman who gives birth to a monster.
85 min
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Episode 94: All is Mysterious: On the Moon Card...
JF and Phil continue their series on the tarot with a discussion of the eighteenth major arcanum.
74 min
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Episode 93: Living and Dying in a Secular Age: ...
Phil and JF discuss Charles Taylor's monumental work of philosophy, "A Secular Age."
87 min
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Episode 92: Glitch in the Matrix: A Conversatio...
JF and Phil are joined by American filmmaker Rodney Ascher to discuss film, music, mood, and his new documentary about people who believe we are in living in a computer simulation.
87 min
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Episode 91: On Susanna Clarke's 'Piranesi'
JF and Phil explore the mysterious world of Susanna Clarke's incredible new novel.
84 min
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Episode 90: 'The Owl in Daylight': On Philip K....
Phil and JF discuss the novel that would have been Philip K. Dick's magnum opus ... if he had written it.
70 min
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Episode 89: On Ishmael Reed's 'Mumbo Jumbo,' or...
JF and Phil discuss Ishmael Reed's masterpiece of conspiracy fiction.
79 min
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Holiday Bonus: Magic, Madness, and Sadness
In this special winter solstice release, Phil and JF discuss a memorable episode of the bizarro animated series Adventure Time.
50 min
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Episode 88: On Neil Gaiman & Dave McKean's 'Mr ...
A discussion of Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean's 1994 graphic novel, "The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr. Punch"
80 min
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Episode 87: Glyphs, Rifts, and Ecstasy: On Arth...
JF and Phil talk art and ecstasy in this episode on Arthur Machen's aesthetic treatise, "Hieroglyphics".
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Episode 86: On E. T. A. Hoffmann's "The Sandman...
Phil and JF discuss E.T.A. Hoffmann's classic tale of weird horror and Sigmund Freud's treatment of it in a famous essay.
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Episode 85: On 'The Wicker Man'
JF and Phil discuss the 1973 masterpiece of folk horror cinema.
77 min
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Episode 84: Mona Lisa Smile: On the Empress, th...
Phil and JF discuss the third major arcana of the traditional tarot deck.
79 min
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Episode 83: On David Lynch's 'Lost Highway'
JF and Phil take a joy ride into the dark heart David Lynch's surreal 1997 film.
78 min
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Episode 82: On The I Ching
Phil and JF discuss the great Chinese oracle.
89 min
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Episode 81: Gnostic Lit: On M. John Harrison's ...
JF and Phil discuss M. John Harrison's masterpiece of weird fiction.
77 min
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Episode 80: The Pit and the Pyramid, or, How to...
Phil and JF discuss the Neoplatonism of Radiohead and the dark side of Beat culture, as revealed on Broadway.
77 min
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Episode 79: Love, Death, and the Dream Life
JF and Phil discuss decadence and vision in Nina Simone's rendition of "Lilac Wine" and Ghostface Killah's "Underwater."
64 min
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Episode 78: On John Keel's 'The Mothman Prophec...
Phil and JF discuss John Keel's classic work of weird nonfiction.
73 min
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Episode 77: What a Fool Believes: On the Unnumb...
JF and Phil discuss the figure of the Fool in the tarot, society, and literature.
68 min
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Episode 76: Below the Abyss: On Bergson's Metap...
Phil and JF discuss Henri Bergson's 1903 essay, "Introduction to Metaphysics."
78 min
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Bonus: The Duke of Ellington
Weird Studies presents the first of Phil's solo music history podcasts as an off-week bonus.
64 min
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Episode 75: Our Old Friend the Monolith: On Sta...
JF and Phil discuss a film they've been bringing up since the beginning of the podcast: Kubrick's masterful 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).
86 min