Weird Studies

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.

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

Episode  |  January 24th, 2024  |  1 hr 30 mins

comics, history, occult, politics, true crime

Phil and JF discuss Victorian London through the lens of Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's occult reimagining of Jack the Ripper.

Episode 125: Strange Brews: Weird Studies Live at Illuminated Brew Works

Episode  |  June 8th, 2022  |  1 hr 36 mins

alchemy, beer, metaphysics, occult, tea, witchcraft

Phil, Meredith, and JF discuss ritual and potion-making in a live recording hosted by Illuminated Brew Works in Chicago.

Episode 124: Dark Night Radio of the Soul, with Duncan Barford

Episode  |  May 25th, 2022  |  1 hr 27 mins

meditation, occult, psychology

Spiritual practitioner Duncan Barford joins JF and Phil to talk about the Dark Night of the Soul.

Episode 122: Spirals and Crooked Lines: On the Star Card in the Tarot

Episode  |  May 11th, 2022  |  1 hr 20 mins

fate, metaphysics, occult, tarot

Episode 108: On Skepticism and the Paranormal

Episode  |  October 13th, 2021  |  1 hr 19 mins

occult, parapsychology, psi, skepticism

JF and Phil discuss modern skepticism in light of George P. Hansen's "The Trickster and the Paranormal."

Episode 77: What a Fool Believes: On the Unnumbered Card in the Tarot

Episode  |  July 8th, 2020  |  1 hr 8 mins

archetypes, literature, occult, tarot

JF and Phil discuss the figure of the Fool in the tarot, society, and literature.

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."

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."

Episode 53: Astral Jet Lag: On William Gibson's 'Pattern Recognition'

Episode  |  August 14th, 2019  |  1 hr 2 mins

capitalism, consumer culture, occult, technology

Phil and JF discuss Gibson's masterwork of speculative naturalism.