web02.fireside.fm Wed, 20 May 2026 02:09:11 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Weird Studies - Episodes Tagged with “Gothic” https://www.weirdstudies.com/tags/gothic Tue, 19 Jul 2022 17:00:00 -0400 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." en-us episodic Art and philosophy at the limits of the thinkable Phil Ford and J. F. Martel 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." yes weird, art, philosophy Phil Ford and J. F. Martel admin@weirdstudies.com Episode 128: Demon Workshop: On Victoria Nelson's 'Neighbor George' https://www.weirdstudies.com/128 e2a332b7-e769-4df3-92a0-d7b47c709df4 Tue, 19 Jul 2022 17:00:00 -0400 Phil Ford and J. F. Martel 128 Demon Workshop: On Victoria Nelson's 'Neighbor George' full Phil Ford and J. F. Martel Phil and JF discuss Victoria Nelson's novel of psychological horror. 1:27:47 yes <p>The American writer and thinker Victoria Nelson is justly revered by afficionados of the Weird for <em>The Secret Life of Puppets</em> and its follow-up <em>Gothicka</em>. Both are masterful explorations the supernatural as it subsists in the "sub-Zeitgeist" of the modern secular West. In 2021, Strange Attractor Press released <em>Neighbor George</em>, Nelson's first novel. 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E. Evans-Pritchard, <em><a href="https://bookshop.org/books/witchcraft-oracles-and-magic-among-the-azande-9780198740292/9780198740292" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic among the Azande</a></em> <br> Greg Anderson, <a href="https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article/120/3/787/19855?login=true" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">“Retrieving the Lost Worlds of the Past: A Case for the Ontological Turn”</a> <br> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardens_of_Bomarzo" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Orcus Grotto</a>, sculpture<br> Margaret Atwood, <em><a href="https://bookshop.org/books/the-edible-woman/9780385491068" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">The Edible Woman</a></em><br> Nathalie Cooke, <em><a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Margaret_Atwood/zUBaAAAAMAAJ?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Margaret Atwood: A Biography</a></em> <br> Weird Studies, <a href="https://www.weirdstudies.com/96" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Episode 96 on Beauty and the Beast</a> <br> M. C. Richards, <a href="https://bookshop.org/books/the-crossing-point-poems/9780819560292" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">“Wrestling with the Daemonic”</a> </p> Victoria nelson, neighbor George, analysis, strange attractor, secret life of puppets, grotesque, gothic The American writer and thinker Victoria Nelson is justly revered by afficionados of the Weird for The Secret Life of Puppets and its follow-up Gothicka. Both are masterful explorations the supernatural as it subsists in the "sub-Zeitgeist" of the modern secular West. In 2021, Strange Attractor Press released Neighbor George, Nelson's first novel. In this episode, JF and Phil discuss this gothic anti-romance with a mind to seeing how it contributes to Nelson's overall project of acquainting us with the eldritch undercurrents of contemporary life.

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References

Victoria Nelson, Neighbor George
Victoria Nelson, The Secret Life of Puppets
Victoria Nelson, Gothicka
Wendy Lesser, American critic
Ward Sutton Onion cartoons
Extension, metaphysical concept
Terry Castle, The Female Thermometer
Cessation of Miracles, theological belief
E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic among the Azande
Greg Anderson, “Retrieving the Lost Worlds of the Past: A Case for the Ontological Turn”
Orcus Grotto, sculpture
Margaret Atwood, The Edible Woman
Nathalie Cooke, Margaret Atwood: A Biography
Weird Studies, Episode 96 on Beauty and the Beast
M. C. Richards, “Wrestling with the Daemonic”

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Click here for more information on the Supernormal Festival, Aug 12-14, in Oxfordshire, England.

Listen to volume 1 and volume 2 of the Weird Studies soundtrack by Pierre-Yves Martel
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References

Victoria Nelson, Neighbor George
Victoria Nelson, The Secret Life of Puppets
Victoria Nelson, Gothicka
Wendy Lesser, American critic
Ward Sutton Onion cartoons
Extension, metaphysical concept
Terry Castle, The Female Thermometer
Cessation of Miracles, theological belief
E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic among the Azande
Greg Anderson, “Retrieving the Lost Worlds of the Past: A Case for the Ontological Turn”
Orcus Grotto, sculpture
Margaret Atwood, The Edible Woman
Nathalie Cooke, Margaret Atwood: A Biography
Weird Studies, Episode 96 on Beauty and the Beast
M. C. Richards, “Wrestling with the Daemonic”

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