We found 10 episodes of Weird Studies with the tag “aesthetics”.
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Episode 167: The Hand of Ithell, with Amy Hale
Episode | April 17th, 2024 | 1 hr 28 mins
aesthetics, art, celticism, goes episodes, occult, scholarship, surrealism
Independent scholar Amy Hale joins Phil and JF to discuss the life and work of esoteric artist Ithell Colquhoun.
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Episode 164: Towards a Weird Materialism: On Expressionism in Cinema
Episode | March 6th, 2024 | 1 hr 29 mins
aesthetics, cinema, expressionism, literature, metaphysics, music, visual art
JF and Phil discuss the expressionist sensibility in the history of film.
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Summer Bonus #2: Art and AI
Episode | September 8th, 2023 | 51 mins 6 secs
aesthetics, bonus episodes, creativity, technology
Another Patreon bonus, released for your listening pleasure as we prepare the first episode of the new season, which begins on September 13th.
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Episode 148: Mythos of the Moment: On 'Twin Peaks,' Season 3
Episode | June 7th, 2023 | 1 hr 17 mins
aesthetics, cinema, late style, metaphysics, myth, twin peaks
JF and Phil discuss the aesthetics and metaphysics of David Lynch's landmark series.
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Episode 147: You Must Change Your Life
Episode | May 24th, 2023 | 1 hr 33 mins
aesthetics, ethics, metaphysics, poetry, religion
Phil and JF discuss the famous poem "Archaic Torso of Apollo" by Rainer Maria Rilke.
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Episode 139: Sex, Money, and Power are YOURS with our SECRET Art-Power Formula!
Episode | February 1st, 2023 | 1 hr 33 mins
aesthetics, art, ethics, formalism, politics
You must change your life.
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Episode 115: Transience & Immersion: On Brian Eno's 'Music for Airports'
Episode | February 2nd, 2022 | 1 hr 15 mins
aesthetics, buddhism, consciousness, music, politics
Phil and JF discuss the 1978 album that established the ambient music genre.
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Episode 107: On Joy Williams' 'Breaking and Entering,' with Conner Habib
Episode | September 29th, 2021 | 1 hr 26 mins
aesthetics, guest episodes, literature, style
Writer, podcaster, and spiritual thinker Conner Habib joins Phil and JF to discuss Williams' novel and the primacy of style in literature.
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Episode 101: Our Fear of the Dark: On Tanizaki's 'In Praise of Shadows'
Episode | June 23rd, 2021 | 1 hr 51 secs
aesthetics, literature, modernity, technology
Phil and JF discuss Jun'ichirō Tanizaki's meditation on the aesthetics of darkness.
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Episode 98: Taboo: Time and Belief in Exotica
Episode | May 12th, 2021 | 1 hr 20 mins
aesthetics, culture, exotica, history, music
JF and Phil discuss the ethics and metaphysics of the obscure musical genre known as exotica.