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 creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions.
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Episode 203 – Distant Early Warnings: A Return ...
86 min
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Episode 202 – The Human is Two: On 'The Strange...
81 min
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Episode 201 – On James Whale's 'Frankenstein' a...
70 min
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Halloween Special: A Reading of Arthur Machen's...
99 min
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Episode 200 – On 'The Call of Cthulhu'
87 min
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Episode 199 – On Michael Jackson, with Shannon ...
74 min
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Episode 198 – Breaking the Frame: On the High P...
79 min
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Episode 197 - Sounding the Otherworld: On Bryn ...
70 min
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Weird Studies Trailer
1 min
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Mid-Break Bonus: On Trust
56 min
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Episode 196 – Lost and Never Found: On 'The Bla...
91 min
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Episode 195 – On John Keel: Live at the Lily Da...
110 min
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Episode 194: Animal Songs, with Meredith Michael
82 min
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Episode 193: On Conversion, or Arousing the Bod...
88 min
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Episode 192 - A Dream of Landscape: On Walking
73 min
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Special Episode: Theory, Philosophy, and Uranus
61 min
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Special Episode: Myth, History, and Form
46 min
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Episode 191 — The Acid Queen, with Susannah Cah...
Susannah Cahalan joins JF and Phil to talk about the life of psychedelic pioneer Rosemary Woodruff Leary.
87 min
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Episode 190 – Here Be Shrubs: On Algernon Black...
Phil and JF discuss Algernon Blackwood's 1907 weird fiction masterwork.
74 min
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Episode 189: Care of the Dead, with Jacob G. Fo...
Jacob Foster joins Phil and JF to discuss our relationship with the dead.
95 min
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Episode 188: Pioneers of the Untimely: On the H...
JF and Phil discuss the mysteries of the ninth major trump.
82 min
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Episode 187: The Affirmation of Imagination: On...
Erik Davis joins Phil and JF to discuss John Crowley’s visionary novel, wherein fantasy, memory, and the everyday blend into a single enchanted world.
93 min
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Episode 186: Meeting at the Center: The Wedge, ...
Phil and JF conclude their discussion of the "wedge."
88 min
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Episode 185: Intuition and Reality: The Wedge, ...
JF and Phil discuss the role of intuition in knowing the world in this first of two shows on the metaphysics of the Weird.
76 min
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Special Release: Poltergeists, Fairies, Skeptic...
Unscheduled hiatus this week—enjoy this unlocked bonus episode, a perfect lead-in to next week’s release.
33 min