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