We found 10 episodes of Weird Studies with the tag “art”.
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Episode 184: On David Lynch
Episode | February 5th, 2025 | 1 hr 41 mins
art, cinema, horror, lynchian, supernatural
Phil and JF discuss the work of David Lynch, focusing especially on his first film, "Eraserhead.'
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Episode 178: Edge of Reality: On John Carpenter's 'In the Mouth of Madness'
Episode | October 23rd, 2024 | 1 hr 12 mins
art, cinema, horror, hyperstition, metaphysics
A live recording of JF and Phil's conversation following a screening of John Carpenter's cult classic.
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Episode 177: Riddles in the Dark: On Fairy Tales, Interpretation, and 'Rapunzel'
Episode | October 9th, 2024 | 1 hr 27 mins
art, fairy tales, mythology, storytelling
Phil and JF discuss the weirdness of fairy tales as objects infinitely interpretable, yet resolutely unexplainable.
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Episode 176: On Charles Burns' 'Black Hole' and the Medium of Comics
Episode | September 25th, 2024 | 1 hr 21 mins
art, body horror, comics, formalism, grotesque
JF and Phil discuss Charles Burns' masterful graphic novel "Black Hole."
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Mid-Break Bonus: The Quiet Earth
Episode | August 21st, 2024 | 1 hr 1 min
art, bonus episodes, cinema, clowns, literature, speculative fiction
A rollicking ride of a bonus episode, previously exclusive to our Patreon supporters.
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Episode 170: Art is Another Word for Truth: On Orson Welles's 'F for Fake'
Episode | May 29th, 2024 | 1 hr 25 mins
aesthetics, art, cinema, forgery, magic
JF and Phil discuss Orson Welles's 1973 film essay on the strange overlap of fraud, art, and truth.
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Episode 169: On Free Expression
Episode | May 15th, 2024 | 1 hr 37 mins
art, philosophy, politics
Phil and JF tackle the thorny issue of freedom of expression in politics, academia, and the arts.
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Episode 167: The Hand of Ithell, with Amy Hale
Episode | April 17th, 2024 | 1 hr 28 mins
aesthetics, art, celticism, goes episodes, occult, scholarship, surrealism
Independent scholar Amy Hale joins Phil and JF to discuss the life and work of esoteric artist Ithell Colquhoun.
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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 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.