Weird Studies
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Mar 17, 2022
May 27, 2020
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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 190 – Here Be Shrubs: On Algernon Blackwood's 'The Willows'
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May 07, 2025 |
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Episode 189: Care of the Dead, with Jacob G. Foster
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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Episode 188: Pioneers of the Untimely: On the Hermit Card in the Tarot
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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Episode 187: The Affirmation of Imagination: On John Crowley's 'Little, Big,' with Erik Davis
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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Episode 186: Meeting at the Center: The Wedge, Part Two
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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Episode 185: Intuition and Reality: The Wedge, Part One
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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Special Release: Poltergeists, Fairies, Skeptics, and the Managerial Class
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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Episode 184: On David Lynch
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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Episode 183: On Hermann Hesse's 'Siddhartha'
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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Episode 182: Providence of Evil: On Robert Eggers' 'Nosferatu'
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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Holiday Bonus: Waiting for the Next Sentence
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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Episode 181: On 'The X Files,' with Meredith Michael
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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Episode 180: The Player: On the Magician Card in the Tarot
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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Episode 179: The Final Frontier, with Lionel Snell
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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Episode 178: Edge of Reality: On John Carpenter's 'In the Mouth of Madness'
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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Episode 177: Riddles in the Dark: On Fairy Tales, Interpretation, and 'Rapunzel'
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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Episode 176: On Charles Burns' 'Black Hole' and the Medium of Comics
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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Mid-Break Bonus: The Quiet Earth
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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Episode 175: Don't Look Now: Live at Lily Dale
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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Episode 174: Magick and Enlightenment, with Alan Chapman and Duncan Barford
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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Episode 173: By Heart: On Memory, Poetry, and Form
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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Episode 172: Head Over Heels: On the Hanged Man of the Tarot
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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Episode 171: The Beauty and the Horror
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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Episode 170: Art is Another Word for Truth: On Orson Welles's 'F for Fake'
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May 29, 2024 |
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Episode 169: On Free Expression
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May 15, 2024 |
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Episode 168: Visions of the Wasteland: On George Miller's 'Mad Max' Films
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May 01, 2024 |
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Episode 167: The Hand of Ithell, with Amy Hale
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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Episode 166: Make Believe: On the Power of Pretentiousness
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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Episode 165: Tatters of the King: On Robert Chambers' 'The King in Yellow'
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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Episode 164: Towards a Weird Materialism: On Expressionism in Cinema
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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Episode 163: The Source of All Abysses: On the Devil Card in the Tarot
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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Episode 162: The Incarnation of Meaning: Greenwich Village After the War
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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Episode 161: Scene of the Crime: On Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's 'From Hell'
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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Mid-Hiatus Bonus: On Horror and the Retail Experience
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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Episode 160: The Way of All Flesh: On John Carpenter's 'The Thing'
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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Episode 159: Three Songs, with Meredith Michael
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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Episode 158: As Above, So Below: On Plato's 'Timaeus'
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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Episode 157: Long Live the New Flesh: On David Cronenberg's 'Videodrome'
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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Episode 156: The Only Possible End: On Donna Tartt's 'The Secret History'
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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Episode 155: Dispatches From the Inside: On Planet Weird's 'The Unbinding'
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Episode 154: Into the Night Land, with Erik Davis
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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Episode 153: Celestial Machine: On the Temperance Card in the Tarot
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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Summer Bonus #2: Art and AI
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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Summer Bonus: On Affectation, with a Special Announcement
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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Episode 152: The Science of Things Spiritual: Live in Lily Dale
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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Episode 151: The Real and the Possible: Live at the Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute, with Jacob G. Foster
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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Episode 150: Sacramental Reality: On Arthur Machen's "A Fragment of Life"
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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Episode 149: Song Swap: On Judee Sill's 'The Kiss' and Wilco's 'Jesus, Etc.'
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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Episode 148: Mythos of the Moment: On 'Twin Peaks,' Season 3
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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Episode 147: You Must Change Your Life
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May 24, 2023 |
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Episode 146: An Air of Great Power: On the Chariot in the Tarot
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May 10, 2023 |
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Episode 145: Waiting for the Miracle: On Vanessa Onwuemezi's "Dark Neighbourhood"
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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Episode 144: On Clive Barker's 'Hellraiser' and 'The Hellbound Heart,' with Conner Habib
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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Episode 143: On UFOs
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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Episode 142: The Music of the Spheres: On Jóhann Jóhannsson's "Last and First Men"
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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Episode 141: Actual Magic: On Ramsey Dukes' SSOTBME
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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Episode 140: That Ain't Plot: On Hayao Miyazaki's 'Spirited Away,' with Meredith Michael
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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Episode 139: Sex, Money, and Power are YOURS with our SECRET Art-Power Formula!
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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Episode 138: Yours and Yours Alone: On the Death Card in the Tarot
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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The Weird Studies Christmas Special
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Dec 25, 2022 |
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Episode 137: Brute Force: on Sunn O)))'s 'Life Metal'
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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Episode 136: The Things That Were And Shall Be Again: On 'Evil Dead II'
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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Episode 135: On 'The Secret Life of Puppets,' with Victoria Nelson
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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Episode 134: On Federico Campagna's 'Technic and Magic'
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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Episode 133: On Weirding, and the Virtues of Unknowing Everything
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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Episode 132: Art Is an Alien Technology: Live at the Supernormal Festival
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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Off-Week Bonus: On Worlds and Stories, with a Special Announcement
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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Episode 131: Knocking on the Abyssal Door: Live at the Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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Episode 130: Holiday Memories
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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Episode 129: Luminous Miasma: On Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher"
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Aug 03, 2022 |
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Episode 128: Demon Workshop: On Victoria Nelson's 'Neighbor George'
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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Episode 127: Leaving the Mechanical Dollhouse: On Abeba Birhane's "The Impossibility of Automating Ambiguity"
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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Episode 126: The Daemon Speaks, with Matt Cardin
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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Episode 125: Strange Brews: Weird Studies Live at Illuminated Brew Works
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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Episode 124: Dark Night Radio of the Soul, with Duncan Barford
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May 25, 2022 |
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Episode 123: Off-Week Patreon Bonus: On Modern Miracles
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May 18, 2022 |
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Episode 122: Spirals and Crooked Lines: On the Star Card in the Tarot
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May 11, 2022 |
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Episode 121: Dream Theater: On 'Mandy' and 'The Band Wagon'
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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Episode 120: On Radical Mystery
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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Episode 119: Behind the Cosmic Curtain: On Stanislaw Lem's 'The New Cosmogony,' with Meredith Michael
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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Episode 118: The Unseen and the Unnamed, with Meredith Michael
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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Episode 117: Time is a Child at Play: On the Mystery of Games
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Mar 02, 2022 |
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Episode 116: On 'Blade Runner'
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Feb 16, 2022 |
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Episode 115: Transience & Immersion: On Brian Eno's 'Music for Airports'
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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Episode 114: On the Wheel of Fortune, the Tenth Card of the Tarot
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Jan 19, 2022 |
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Episode 113: Framing the Invisible, with Shannon Taggart
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Dec 22, 2021 |
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Episode 112: Readings from the 'Book of Probes': The Mysticism of Marshall McLuhan
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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Episode 111: What Is Best in Life: On "Conan the Barbarian"
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Nov 24, 2021 |
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Episode 110: Monks of the Cultural Apocalypse: 'The Glass Bead Game,' Part Two
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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Episode 109: Infinite Play: On 'The Glass Bead Game,' by Hermann Hesse
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Oct 27, 2021 |
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Episode 108: On Skepticism and the Paranormal
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Oct 13, 2021 |
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Episode 107: On Joy Williams' 'Breaking and Entering,' with Conner Habib
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Sep 29, 2021 |
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Episode 106: The Wanderer: On Weird Studies
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Sep 01, 2021 |
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Episode 105: Fire Walk with Tamler Sommers
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Aug 18, 2021 |
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Episode 104: We'd Love to Turn You On: 'Sgt. Pepper' and the Beatles
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Aug 04, 2021 |
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Episode 103: On the Tower, the Sixteenth Card of the Tarot
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Jul 21, 2021 |
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Episode 102: On Pan, with Gyrus
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Jul 07, 2021 |
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Episode 101: Our Fear of the Dark: On Tanizaki's 'In Praise of Shadows'
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Jun 23, 2021 |
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Episode 100: The Price of Beauty is Horror: On the Films of John Carpenter
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Jun 09, 2021 |
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Episode 99: Curing the Human Condition: On 'Wild Wild Country'
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May 26, 2021 |
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Episode 98: Taboo: Time and Belief in Exotica
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May 12, 2021 |
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Episode 97: Art in the Age of Artifice
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Apr 28, 2021 |
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Episode 96: Beautiful Beast: On Jean Cocteau's 'La Belle et la Bête'
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Apr 14, 2021 |
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Episode 95: Demon Seed: On Doris Lessing's 'The Fifth Child'
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Mar 31, 2021 |
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Episode 94: All is Mysterious: On the Moon Card in the Tarot
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Mar 17, 2021 |
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Episode 93: Living and Dying in a Secular Age: On Charles Taylor and Disenchantment
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Mar 03, 2021 |
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Episode 92: Glitch in the Matrix: A Conversation with Rodney Ascher
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Feb 17, 2021 |
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Episode 91: On Susanna Clarke's 'Piranesi'
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Feb 03, 2021 |
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Episode 90: 'The Owl in Daylight': On Philip K. Dick's Unwritten Masterpiece
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Jan 20, 2021 |
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Episode 89: On Ishmael Reed's 'Mumbo Jumbo,' or, Why We Need More Magical Thinking
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Jan 06, 2021 |
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Holiday Bonus: Magic, Madness, and Sadness
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Dec 21, 2020 |
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Episode 88: On Neil Gaiman & Dave McKean's 'Mr Punch'
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Dec 09, 2020 |
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Episode 87: Glyphs, Rifts, and Ecstasy: On Arthur Machen's Vision of Art
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Nov 25, 2020 |
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Episode 86: On E. T. A. Hoffmann's "The Sandman," and Freud's Sequel to It
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Nov 11, 2020 |
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Episode 85: On 'The Wicker Man'
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Oct 28, 2020 |
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Episode 84: Mona Lisa Smile: On the Empress, the Third Card in the Tarot
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Oct 14, 2020 |
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Episode 83: On David Lynch's 'Lost Highway'
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Sep 30, 2020 |
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Episode 82: On The I Ching
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Sep 16, 2020 |
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Episode 81: Gnostic Lit: On M. John Harrison's 'The Course of the Heart'
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Sep 02, 2020 |
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Episode 80: The Pit and the Pyramid, or, How to Beat the Philosopher's Blues
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Aug 19, 2020 |
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Episode 79: Love, Death, and the Dream Life
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Aug 05, 2020 |
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Episode 78: On John Keel's 'The Mothman Prophecies'
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Jul 22, 2020 |
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Episode 77: What a Fool Believes: On the Unnumbered Card in the Tarot
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Jul 08, 2020 |
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Episode 76: Below the Abyss: On Bergson's Metaphysics
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Jun 24, 2020 |
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Bonus: The Duke of Ellington
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Jun 18, 2020 |
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Episode 75: Our Old Friend the Monolith: On Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey'
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Jun 10, 2020 |
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Episode 74: A Luminous Parasite: Jung on Art, Part Two
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May 27, 2020 |
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Episode 73: Carl Jung and the Power of Art, Part One
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May 13, 2020 |
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Episode 72: Morning of the Mutants: On the Castrati
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Apr 29, 2020 |
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Episode 71: The Medium is the Message
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Apr 15, 2020 |
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Episode 70: Masks All the Way Down, with James Curcio
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Apr 01, 2020 |
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Episode 69: Special Episode: On Some Mental Effects of the Pandemic
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Mar 25, 2020 |
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Weird Stories: "On Some Mental Effects of the Earthquake" by William James
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Mar 23, 2020 |
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Episode 68: On James Hillman's 'The Dream and the Underworld'
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Mar 18, 2020 |
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Episode 67: Goblins, Goat-Gods and Gates: On 'Hellier'
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Mar 04, 2020 |
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Episode 66: On Diviner's Time
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Feb 19, 2020 |
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Episode 65: Touched by that Fire: On Visionary Literature, with B. W. Powe
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Feb 05, 2020 |
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Episode 64: Dreams and Shadows: On Ursula Le Guin's 'A Wizard of Earthsea'
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Jan 22, 2020 |
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Episode 63: Faculty X: On Colin Wilson's 'The Occult'
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Jan 08, 2020 |
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Episode 62: It's Like 'The Shining', But With Nuns: On 'Black Narcissus'
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Dec 18, 2019 |
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Episode 61: Evil and Ecstasy: On 'The Silence of the Lambs'
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Dec 04, 2019 |
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Episode 60: Space is the Place: On Sun Ra, Gnosticism, and the Tarot
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Nov 20, 2019 |
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Episode 59: Green Mountains Are Always Walking
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Nov 06, 2019 |
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Episode 58: What Do Critics Do?
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Oct 23, 2019 |
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Episode 57: Box of God(s): On 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'
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Oct 09, 2019 |
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Episode 56: On Jean Gebser, with Jeremy D. Johnson
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Sep 25, 2019 |
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Episode 55: The Great Weird North: On Algernon Blackwood's 'The Wendigo'
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Sep 11, 2019 |
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Episode 54: Lobsters, Pianos, and Hidden Gods
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Aug 28, 2019 |
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Episode 53: Astral Jet Lag: On William Gibson's 'Pattern Recognition'
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Aug 14, 2019 |
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Episode 52: On Beauty
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Jul 31, 2019 |
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Episode 51: Blind Seers: On Flannery O'Connor's 'Wise Blood'
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Jul 17, 2019 |
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Episode 50: Demogorgon: On 'Stranger Things'
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Jul 03, 2019 |
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Episode 49: Out of Time: Nietzsche on History
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Jun 19, 2019 |
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Episode 48: Walking the Tightrope with Erik Davis
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Jun 05, 2019 |
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Episode 47: Machines of Loving Grace: Technology and the Unabomber
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May 22, 2019 |
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Episode 46: Thomas Ligotti's Angel
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May 08, 2019 |
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Episode 45: Jeffrey J. Kripal on 'Flipping' Out of Materialism
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Apr 24, 2019 |
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Episode 44: Doomed to Enchantment: The Psychical Research of William James
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Apr 09, 2019 |
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Episode 43: On Shirley Jackson
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Mar 27, 2019 |
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Episode 42: On Pauline Oliveros, with Kerry O'Brien
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Mar 13, 2019 |
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Episode 41: On Speculative Fiction, with Matt Cardin
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Feb 27, 2019 |
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Episode 40: On Jonathan Glazer's 'Under the Skin'
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Feb 13, 2019 |
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Episode 39: The Challenge of the Paranormal, with Jeffrey J. Kripal
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Jan 30, 2019 |
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Episode 38: Style as Analysis
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Jan 16, 2019 |
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Episode 37: Entities, with Stuart Davis
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Jan 02, 2019 |
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Christmas Bonus: Hyperstition Addendum
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Dec 25, 2018 |
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Episode 36: On Hyperstition
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Dec 19, 2018 |
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Episode 35: Whirl Without End: On M.C. Richards' 'Centering'
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Dec 05, 2018 |
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Episode 34: The Weird Realism of Robert Aickman
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Nov 21, 2018 |
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Episode 33: The Fine Art of Changing the Subject: On Duchamp's 'Fountain'
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Nov 07, 2018 |
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Episode 32: Orbis Tertius: Borges on Magic, Conspiracy and Idealism
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Oct 31, 2018 |
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Episode 31: Scarcely Human at All: On Glenn Gould's 'Prospects of Recording'
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Oct 24, 2018 |
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Episode 30: On Stanley Kubrick's 'Eyes Wide Shut'
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Oct 14, 2018 |
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Episode 29: On Lovecraft
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Oct 09, 2018 |
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Episode 28: Weird Music, Part Two
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Oct 02, 2018 |
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Episode 27: Weird Music, Part One
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Sep 26, 2018 |
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Episode 26: Living in a Glass Age, with Michael Garfield
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Sep 19, 2018 |
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Episode 25: David Cronenberg's 'Naked Lunch'
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Sep 12, 2018 |
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Episode 24: The Charlatan and the Magus, with Lionel Snell
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Aug 28, 2018 |
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Episode 23: On Presence
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Aug 15, 2018 |
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Episode 22: Divining the World with Joshua Ramey
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Aug 01, 2018 |
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Episode 21: The Trash Stratum - Part 2
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Jul 13, 2018 |
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Episode 20: The Trash Stratum - Part 1
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Jul 04, 2018 |
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Episode 19: Intermezzo
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Jun 20, 2018 |
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Episode 18: Does 'Consciousness' Exist? - Part Two
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Jun 13, 2018 |
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Episode 17: Does 'Consciousness' Exist? - Part One
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Jun 06, 2018 |
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Episode 16: On Dogen Zenji's 'Genjokoan'
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May 30, 2018 |
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Episode 15: On Tarkovsky's 'Stalker' - Part Two
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May 23, 2018 |
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Episode 14: On Tarkovsky's 'Stalker' - Part One
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May 16, 2018 |
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Episode 13: The Obscure: On the Philosophy of Heraclitus
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May 09, 2018 |
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Episode 12: The Dark Eye: On the Films of Rodney Ascher
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May 02, 2018 |
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Episode 11: Art is a Haunting Spirit
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Apr 25, 2018 |
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Weird Stories: M. R. James' "The Mezzotint"
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Apr 23, 2018 |
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Episode 10: Philip K. Dick: Adrift in the Multiverse
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Apr 18, 2018 |
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Episode 9: On Aleister Crowley and the Idea of Magick
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Apr 11, 2018 |
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Episode 8: On Graham Harman's "The Third Table"
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Apr 04, 2018 |
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Episode 7: The Unspeakable Mystery at the Heart of Boxing
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Mar 28, 2018 |
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Episode 6: Dungeons & Dragons, or the Reality of Illusions
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Mar 21, 2018 |
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Episode 5: Reading Lisa Ruddick's "When Nothing is Cool"
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Mar 13, 2018 |
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Episode 4: Exploring the Weird with Erik Davis
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Mar 07, 2018 |
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Episode 3: Ecstasy, Sin, and "The White People"
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Feb 21, 2018 |
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Weird Stories: Arthur Machen's "The White People"
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Feb 19, 2018 |
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Episode 2: Garmonbozia
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Feb 01, 2018 |
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Episode 1: Introduction to Weird Studies
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Jan 31, 2018 |