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 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.
78 min
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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.
90 min
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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.
80 min
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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.'
85 min
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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.
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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.
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