J.F. Martel
Co-Host of Weird Studies
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 198 Episodes.
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Episode 68: On James Hillman's 'The Dream and the Underworld'
Episode | March 18th, 2020 | 1 hr 15 mins
dreams, drugs, mythology, psychology
JF and Phil discuss James Hillman's archetypal psychology as it pertains to dreams and death.
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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."
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Episode 66: On Diviner's Time
Episode | February 19th, 2020 | 1 hr 31 mins
divination, epistemology, metaphysics, time
JF and Phil discuss Phil's work-in-progress, an essay on synchronicity, divination, and cosmic meaning entitled "Diviner's Time."
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Episode 65: Touched by that Fire: On Visionary Literature, with B. W. Powe
Episode | February 5th, 2020 | 1 hr 19 mins
art, literature, mysticism, pedagogy
Phil and JF discuss the visionary tradition in art and literature with Canadian poet and scholar, B. W. Powe.
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Episode 64: Dreams and Shadows: On Ursula Le Guin's 'A Wizard of Earthsea'
Episode | January 22nd, 2020 | 1 hr 17 mins
fantasy, literature, metaphysics, politics
JF and Phil discuss Ursula Le Guin's great coming-of-age fantasy novel, the first of the Earthsea cycle.
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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.