Weird Studies

Episode 167: The Hand of Ithell, with Amy Hale

Ithell Colquhoun (1906-1988) was a British painter, poet, and occultist, long identified as a...

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Episode 166: Make Believe: On the Power of Pretentiousness

In culture and the arts, labeling something you don't like (or don't understand) "pretentious" is...

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• 16 días

Episode 165: Tatters of the King: On Robert Chambers' 'The King in Yellow'

"Let the red dawn surmise / What we shall do, / When the blue starlight dies / And all is...

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• 30 días

Episode 164: Towards a Weird Materialism: On Expressionism in Cinema

What is expressionism? A school? A movement? A philosophy? At the end of this episode, Phil and...

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Episode 163: The Source of All Abysses: On the Devil Card in the Tarot

"The Devil's finest ruse," Baudelaire wrote, "is to persuade you that he doesn't exist." In this...

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Episode 162: The Incarnation of Meaning: Greenwich Village After the War

In this second of two episodes on "scenes," Phil and JF set their sights on Greenwich Village in...

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Episode 161: Scene of the Crime: On Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's 'From Hell'

Listener discretion advised: This episode delves into the disturbing details of the Whitechapel...

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Mid-Hiatus Bonus: On Horror and the Retail Experience

Every off-week, listeners who have chosen to support Weird Studies by joining our Patreon at the...

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Episode 160: The Way of All Flesh: On John Carpenter's 'The Thing'

As a horror movie, John Carpenter's The Thing seems to have it all: amazing practical effects,...

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Episode 159: Three Songs, with Meredith Michael

Every once in a while, JF and Phil like to do a “song swap.” Each picks a song, and the ensuing...

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Episode 158: As Above, So Below: On Plato's 'Timaeus'

In this episode of Weird Studies, we delve into the mysterious depths of Plato's Timaeus, one of...

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Episode 157: Long Live the New Flesh: On David Cronenberg's 'Videodrome'

"Death to Videodrome! Long live the New Flesh!" It was perhaps inevitable that the modern...

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Episode 156: The Only Possible End: On Donna Tartt's 'The Secret History'

There are works of weird fiction that dispense their strangeness so subtly that many readers...

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Episode 155: Dispatches From the Inside: On Planet Weird's 'The Unbinding'

One of the most surprising aspects of paranormal experience is how often it takes on a storylike...

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Episode 154: Into the Night Land, with Erik Davis

William Hope Hodgson's The Night Land is without a doubt one of the weirdest entries in the...

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Episode 153: Celestial Machine: On the Temperance Card in the Tarot

Even learned commentators on the tarot are likely to point out at the fourteenth major arcana,...

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Summer Bonus #2: Art and AI

In this bonus episode, originally released on July 26th on the Weird Studies Patreon, Phil and JF...

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Summer Bonus: On Affectation, with a Special Announcement

A bonus offering to break up the summer hiatus, this episode contains a conversation on the...

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• 8 meses

Episode 152: The Science of Things Spiritual: Live in Lily Dale

On the last week of July, 2023, Phil and JF were delighted to speak at Shannon Taggart's Science...

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Episode 151: The Real and the Possible: Live at the Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute, with Jacob G. Foster

In The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light, the cultural historian William Irwin Thompson...

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• 9 meses