J.F. Martel is an author, screenwriter, and film & TV director from Ottawa, Canada. His screen work includes French and English-language documentary series and features focused on culture and the arts. He is the author of Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice, a book about the nature and power of art published by Evolver Editions in 2015, and released in Spanish by Ediciones Atalanta in 2016. J.F.'s writings on art, culture and philosophy have appeared in Reality Sandwich, Metapsychosis, The Finch, Disinfo, and other online magazines.
J.F. Martel has hosted 173 Episodes.
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Episode 165: Tatters of the King: On Robert Chambers' 'The King in Yellow'
Episode | March 20th, 2024 | 1 hr 26 mins
cosmic horror, decadence, literature, religion
Phil and JF discuss four stories from Robert W. Chambers' pioneering work of weird fiction.
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Episode 164: Towards a Weird Materialism: On Expressionism in Cinema
Episode | March 6th, 2024 | 1 hr 29 mins
aesthetics, cinema, expressionism, literature, metaphysics, music, visual art
JF and Phil discuss the expressionist sensibility in the history of film.
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Episode 163: The Source of All Abysses: On the Devil Card in the Tarot
Episode | February 21st, 2024 | 1 hr 10 mins
divination, esotericism, evil, religion, tarot, the devil
Phil and JF continue their occasional series on the major trumps of the tarot with a discussion on the fifteenth Arcanum, the Devil.
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Episode 162: The Incarnation of Meaning: Greenwich Village After the War
Episode | February 7th, 2024 | 1 hr 18 mins
america, art, cities, decadence, film, history, literature
JF and Phil discuss post-war Greenwich Village, by way of Anatole Broyard's "Kafka Was the Rage" and John Cassavetes' "Shadows."
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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.
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Mid-Hiatus Bonus: On Horror and the Retail Experience
Episode | January 10th, 2024 | 54 mins 20 secs
bonus episodes, horror, patreon extra, shopping
A bonus episode, previously exclusive to our Patreon supporters.
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Episode 160: The Way of All Flesh: On John Carpenter's 'The Thing'
Episode | December 20th, 2023 | 1 hr 15 mins
body horror, cinema, horror, john carpenter, metaphysics
JF and Phil discuss the great 1982 horror film starring Kurt Russell.
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Episode 159: Three Songs, with Meredith Michael
Episode | December 6th, 2023 | 1 hr 30 mins
buddhism, control, memory, music, politics, religion, song swap, time
Music scholar Meredith Michael joins Phil and JF to discuss songs by Vienna Teng, Lili Boulanger, and Iron & Wine.
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Episode 158: As Above, So Below: On Plato's 'Timaeus'
Episode | November 22nd, 2023 | 1 hr 36 mins
cosmopolitics, metaphysics, philosophy, plato
JF and Phil discuss Plato's speculative retelling of the creation of the universe.
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Episode 157: Long Live the New Flesh: On David Cronenberg's 'Videodrome'
Episode | November 8th, 2023 | 1 hr 14 mins
cinema, horror, media theory, metaphysics, politics
Phil and JF discuss David Cronenberg's 1983 masterpiece of body horror.
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Episode 156: The Only Possible End: On Donna Tartt's 'The Secret History'
Episode | October 25th, 2023 | 1 hr 32 mins
crime, fate, literature, paganism
JF and Phil discuss Donna Tartt's classic debut novel.
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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 154: Into the Night Land, with Erik Davis
Episode | September 26th, 2023 | 1 hr 23 mins
fantasy, literature, metaphysics, science fiction
JF and Phil are joined by Erik Davis to discuss William Hope Hodgson's masterfully weird 1912 novel.
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Episode 153: Celestial Machine: On the Temperance Card in the Tarot
Episode | September 13th, 2023 | 1 hr 19 mins
angelology, art, cybernetics, religion, technology
Phil and JF discuss the fourteenth arcanum, traditionally known as Temperance.
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Summer Bonus #2: Art and AI
Episode | September 8th, 2023 | 51 mins 6 secs
aesthetics, bonus episodes, creativity, technology
Another Patreon bonus, released for your listening pleasure as we prepare the first episode of the new season, which begins on September 13th.
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Summer Bonus: On Affectation, with a Special Announcement
Episode | August 15th, 2023 | 49 mins 46 secs
affectation, bonus episodes, courses, patreon extras
Phil and JF discuss the virtues of affectation in this bonus episode, previously available only to Patreon members.