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 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."
59 min
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Weird Stories: "On Some Mental Effects of the E...
Phil reads an essay by William James on the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake.
22 min
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Episode 68: On James Hillman's 'The Dream and t...
JF and Phil discuss James Hillman's archetypal psychology as it pertains to dreams and death.
75 min
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Episode 67: Goblins, Goat-Gods and Gates: On 'H...
Phil and JF discuss the hit documentary series "Hellier."
83 min
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Episode 66: On Diviner's Time
JF and Phil discuss Phil's work-in-progress, an essay on synchronicity, divination, and cosmic meaning entitled "Diviner's Time."
91 min
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Episode 65: Touched by that Fire: On Visionary ...
Phil and JF discuss the visionary tradition in art and literature with Canadian poet and scholar, B. W. Powe.
79 min
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Episode 64: Dreams and Shadows: On Ursula Le Gu...
JF and Phil discuss Ursula Le Guin's great coming-of-age fantasy novel, the first of the Earthsea cycle.
78 min
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Episode 63: Faculty X: On Colin Wilson's 'The O...
Phil and JF discuss Faculty X, a key notion from Colin Wilson's classic study of the supernatural and Western esotericism, "The Occult."
79 min
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Episode 62: It's Like 'The Shining', But With N...
JF and Phil discuss the 1947 British film, "Black Narcissus."
93 min
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Episode 61: Evil and Ecstasy: On 'The Silence o...
Phil and JF discuss Jonathan Demme's 1991 film, "The Silence of the Lambs."
66 min
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Episode 60: Space is the Place: On Sun Ra, Gnos...
JF and Phil discuss Sun Ra's strange and prophetic film, "Space is the Place."
85 min
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Episode 59: Green Mountains Are Always Walking
Phil and JF discuss the mysteries of our oldest, and strangest, mode of transportation.
79 min
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Episode 58: What Do Critics Do?
JF and Phil discuss Dave Hickey's 1997 essay, "Air Guitar".
60 min
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Episode 57: Box of God(s): On 'Raiders of the L...
Phil and JF discuss Steven Spielberg's classic film, "Raiders of the Lost Ark."
90 min
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Episode 56: On Jean Gebser, with Jeremy D. Johnson
JF and Phil talk to Jeremy Johnson about his new book, "Seeing Through the World: Jean Gebser and Integral Consciousness."
78 min
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Episode 55: The Great Weird North: On Algernon ...
Phil and JF discuss Algernon Blackwoods tale of the Canadian forest, "The Wendigo."
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