We found 10 episodes of Weird Studies with the tag “magic”.
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Episode 155: Dispatches From the Inside: On Planet Weird's 'The Unbinding'
Episode | October 11th, 2023 | 1 hr 30 mins
cinema, ethics, investigation, magic, paranormal
Phil and JF discuss Planet Weird's latest paranormal documentary, "The Unbinding."
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Episode 141: Actual Magic: On Ramsey Dukes' SSOTBME
Episode | February 28th, 2023 | 1 hr 24 mins
magic, metaphysics, ramsey dukes, science
JF and Phil discuss Dukes' seminal essay on modern magic.
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Episode 134: On Federico Campagna's 'Technic and Magic'
Episode | November 1st, 2022 | 1 hr 32 mins
epistemology, magic, metaphysics, politics
Phil and JF discuss Campagna's proposal of a new reality system rooted in the idea of "magic."
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Episode 131: Knocking on the Abyssal Door: Live at the Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute
Episode | September 21st, 2022 | 1 hr 11 mins
intelligence, live recording, magic, metaphysics, science, synchronicity
Phil and J.F. talk about magic, synchronicity, and prophecy to an audience composed of scientists, scholars, and artists at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.
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Episode 89: On Ishmael Reed's 'Mumbo Jumbo,' or, Why We Need More Magical Thinking
Episode | January 6th, 2021 | 1 hr 19 mins
conspiracy, history, literature, magic
JF and Phil discuss Ishmael Reed's masterpiece of conspiracy fiction.
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Episode 71: The Medium is the Message
Episode | April 15th, 2020 | 1 hr 24 mins
magic, media theory, metaphysics, religion
JF and Phil discuss the meanings of Marshall McLuhan's famous utterance.
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Episode 67: Goblins, Goat-Gods and Gates: On 'Hellier'
Episode | March 4th, 2020 | 1 hr 23 mins
film, magic, occult, synchronicity
Phil and JF discuss the hit documentary series "Hellier."
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Episode 63: Faculty X: On Colin Wilson's 'The Occult'
Episode | January 8th, 2020 | 1 hr 19 mins
antinatalism, magic, metaphysics, occult
Phil and JF discuss Faculty X, a key notion from Colin Wilson's classic study of the supernatural and Western esotericism, "The Occult."
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Episode 60: Space is the Place: On Sun Ra, Gnosticism, and the Tarot
Episode | November 20th, 2019 | 1 hr 25 mins
esotericism, magic, music
JF and Phil discuss Sun Ra's strange and prophetic film, "Space is the Place."
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Episode 36: On Hyperstition
Episode | December 19th, 2018 | 1 hr 13 mins
hyperstition, magic, metaphysics, occult
JF and Phil talk hyperstitions, entities born in the realm of fantasy that slowly become denizens of the real.