Weird Studies

By Phil Ford and J. F. Martel

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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."

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