Episode Archive
178 episodes of Weird Studies since the first episode, which aired on January 31st, 2018.
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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 62: It's Like 'The Shining', But With Nuns: On 'Black Narcissus'
Episode | December 18th, 2019 | 1 hr 33 mins
cinema, history, psychology, religion
JF and Phil discuss the 1947 British film, "Black Narcissus."
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Episode 61: Evil and Ecstasy: On 'The Silence of the Lambs'
Episode | December 4th, 2019 | 1 hr 6 mins
cinema, morality, psychology
Phil and JF discuss Jonathan Demme's 1991 film, "The Silence of the Lambs."
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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 59: Green Mountains Are Always Walking
Episode | November 6th, 2019 | 1 hr 19 mins
nature, process philosophy, urban studies, walking
Phil and JF discuss the mysteries of our oldest, and strangest, mode of transportation.
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Episode 58: What Do Critics Do?
Episode | October 23rd, 2019 | 59 mins 55 secs
aesthetics, art, criticism, politics
JF and Phil discuss Dave Hickey's 1997 essay, "Air Guitar".
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Episode 57: Box of God(s): On 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'
Episode | October 9th, 2019 | 1 hr 30 mins
cinema, gods, mythology
Phil and JF discuss Steven Spielberg's classic film, "Raiders of the Lost Ark."
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Episode 56: On Jean Gebser, with Jeremy D. Johnson
Episode | September 25th, 2019 | 1 hr 18 mins
gebser, interviews, perception, philosophy
JF and Phil talk to Jeremy Johnson about his new book, "Seeing Through the World: Jean Gebser and Integral Consciousness."
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Episode 55: The Great Weird North: On Algernon Blackwood's 'The Wendigo'
Episode | September 11th, 2019 | 1 hr 22 mins
cryptozoology, folklore, nature, weird fiction
Phil and JF discuss Algernon Blackwoods tale of the Canadian forest, "The Wendigo."
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Episode 54: Lobsters, Pianos, and Hidden Gods
Episode | August 28th, 2019 | 1 hr 17 mins
music, panpsychism, philosophy
JF and Phil discuss Errol Morris's fascinating essay, "The Pianist and the Lobster."
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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.
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Episode 52: On Beauty
Episode | July 31st, 2019 | 1 hr 15 mins
aesthetics, art, morality
JF and Phil discuss the nature and power of beauty.
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Episode 51: Blind Seers: On Flannery O'Connor's 'Wise Blood'
Episode | July 17th, 2019 | 1 hr 35 mins
christianity, literature, morality, nihilism
Phil and JF discuss Flannery O'Connor first novel, interpreting it as an investigation into the implications of the modern.
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Episode 50: Demogorgon: On 'Stranger Things'
Episode | July 3rd, 2019 | 1 hr 36 mins
criticism, metaphysics, stranger things
JF and Phil discuss the eldritch metaphysics of the Netflix series 'Stranger Things.'
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Episode 49: Out of Time: Nietzsche on History
Episode | June 19th, 2019 | 1 hr 22 mins
friedrich nietzsche, history, philosophy
Phil and JF discuss Nietzsche's seminal essay, "On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life," from Untimely Meditations.
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Episode 48: Walking the Tightrope with Erik Davis
Episode | June 5th, 2019 | 1 hr 24 mins
erik davis, interviews, literature, metaphysics
JF and Phil sit down with Erik Davis to discuss his new book, "High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies."