Weird Studies

About the show

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."

Weird Studies

Art and philosophy at the limits of the thinkable

Episode | September 25th, 2024 | 1 hr 21 mins

art, body horror, comics, formalism, grotesque

Episode | August 21st, 2024 | 1 hr 1 min

art, bonus episodes, cinema, clowns, literature, speculative fiction

Episode | August 7th, 2024 | 1 hr 58 mins

death, ghost stories, grief, literature, live recordings, paranormal, time

Episode | July 24th, 2024 | 1 hr 29 mins

enlightenment, magic, metaphysics, occult, religion

Episode | July 10th, 2024 | 1 hr 18 mins

aesthetics, formalism, literature, memory, poetry

Episode | June 26th, 2024 | 1 hr 19 mins

archetypes, occult, psychology, religion, tarot

Episode | June 13th, 2024 | 1 hr 8 mins

aesthetics, beauty, cinema, literature, metaphysics, music

Episode | May 29th, 2024 | 1 hr 25 mins

aesthetics, art, cinema, forgery, magic

Episode | May 15th, 2024 | 1 hr 37 mins

art, philosophy, politics

Episode | May 1st, 2024 | 1 hr 20 mins

apocalypse, cinema, civilization, science fiction

Episode | April 17th, 2024 | 1 hr 28 mins

aesthetics, art, celticism, goes episodes, occult, scholarship, surrealism

Episode | April 3rd, 2024 | 1 hr 13 mins

creativity, criticism, culture, methodology

Episode | March 20th, 2024 | 1 hr 26 mins

cosmic horror, decadence, literature, religion

Episode | March 6th, 2024 | 1 hr 29 mins

aesthetics, cinema, expressionism, literature, metaphysics, music, visual art

Episode | February 21st, 2024 | 1 hr 10 mins

divination, esotericism, evil, religion, tarot, the devil

Episode | February 7th, 2024 | 1 hr 18 mins

america, art, cities, decadence, film, history, literature