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 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.
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."
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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."
82 min
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Episode 54: Lobsters, Pianos, and Hidden Gods
JF and Phil discuss Errol Morris's fascinating essay, "The Pianist and the Lobster."
77 min
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Episode 53: Astral Jet Lag: On William Gibson's...
Phil and JF discuss Gibson's masterwork of speculative naturalism.
62 min
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Episode 52: On Beauty
JF and Phil discuss the nature and power of beauty.
75 min
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Episode 51: Blind Seers: On Flannery O'Connor's...
Phil and JF discuss Flannery O'Connor first novel, interpreting it as an investigation into the implications of the modern.
95 min
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Episode 50: Demogorgon: On 'Stranger Things'
JF and Phil discuss the eldritch metaphysics of the Netflix series 'Stranger Things.'
96 min
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Episode 49: Out of Time: Nietzsche on History
Phil and JF discuss Nietzsche's seminal essay, "On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life," from Untimely Meditations.
82 min
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Episode 48: Walking the Tightrope with Erik Davis
JF and Phil sit down with Erik Davis to discuss his new book, "High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies."
84 min
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Episode 47: Machines of Loving Grace: Technolog...
A wide-ranging conversation on technology, utopia, and the ethics of cybernetics.
67 min
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Episode 46: Thomas Ligotti's Angel
An in-depth discussion of horror writer Thomas Ligotti's short story, "Mrs. Rinaldi's Angel."
89 min
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Episode 45: Jeffrey J. Kripal on 'Flipping' Out...
JF and Phil talk to Jeffrey Kripal about his new book, "The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge"
69 min
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Episode 44: Doomed to Enchantment: The Psychica...
Phil and JF discuss two articles by William James on the early years of psychical research in Britain and the US.
93 min
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Episode 43: On Shirley Jackson
JF and Phil discuss two weird masterworks, "The Lottery" and "The Summer People" by the American horror luminary, Shirley Jackson.
76 min
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Episode 42: On Pauline Oliveros, with Kerry O'B...
Music scholar Kerry O'Brien join Phil and JF for a conversation on the work of American composer Pauline Oliveros.
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