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 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."
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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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Weird Stories: "On Some Mental Effects of the E...
Phil reads an essay by William James on the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake.
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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."
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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."
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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.
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