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 | November 20th, 2024 | 1 hr 21 mins

divination, magic, metaphysics, scholarship, tarot, trickster

Episode | November 6th, 2024 | 1 hr 17 mins

guest episode, lionel snell, metaphysics, occult, psychology

Episode | October 23rd, 2024 | 1 hr 12 mins

art, cinema, horror, hyperstition, metaphysics

Episode | October 9th, 2024 | 1 hr 27 mins

art, fairy tales, mythology, storytelling

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