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 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.
83 min
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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
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Episode 74: A Luminous Parasite: Jung on Art, P...
The second part of Phil and JF's discussion C. G. Jung's conception of art.
71 min
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Episode 73: Carl Jung and the Power of Art, Par...
The first of two conversations in which JF and Phil investigate C. G. Jung's thoughts on the psychology of artistic creation.
64 min
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Episode 72: Morning of the Mutants: On the Cast...
Phil and JF discuss the curious phenomena of castrati, the famous singing eunuchs of early modern Europe.
73 min
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Episode 71: The Medium is the Message
JF and Phil discuss the meanings of Marshall McLuhan's famous utterance.
85 min
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Episode 70: Masks All the Way Down, with James ...
James Curcio joins Phil and JF for a discussion on the concept of the mask as elaborated in his anthology, "Masks: Bowie and Artists of Artifice".
76 min
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Episode 69: Special Episode: On Some Mental Eff...
Phil and JF discuss William James's essay "On Some Mental Effects of the Earthquake."
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