Displaying all 10 Episode of Weird Studies with the tag “history”.
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Episode 187: The Affirmation of Imagination: On John Crowley's 'Little, Big,' with Erik Davis
Episode | March 26th, 2025 | 1 hr 33 mins
daimonic reality, erik davis, fantasy, guest episode, history, imagination, literature, magic
Erik Davis joins Phil and JF to discuss John Crowley’s visionary novel, wherein fantasy, memory, and the everyday blend into a single enchanted world.
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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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Episode 104: We'd Love to Turn You On: 'Sgt. Pepper' and the Beatles
Episode | August 4th, 2021 | 1 hr 22 mins
beatles, history, media studies, music, pop culture
JF and Phil mine the weird in the Beatles' iconic 1967 album.
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Episode 98: Taboo: Time and Belief in Exotica
Episode | May 12th, 2021 | 1 hr 20 mins
aesthetics, culture, exotica, history, music
JF and Phil discuss the ethics and metaphysics of the obscure musical genre known as exotica.
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Episode 89: On Ishmael Reed's 'Mumbo Jumbo,' or, Why We Need More Magical Thinking
Episode | January 6th, 2021 | 1 hr 19 mins
conspiracy, history, literature, magic
JF and Phil discuss Ishmael Reed's masterpiece of conspiracy fiction.
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Episode 72: Morning of the Mutants: On the Castrati
Episode | April 29th, 2020 | 1 hr 13 mins
biology, history, music, tricksters
Phil and JF discuss the curious phenomena of castrati, the famous singing eunuchs of early modern Europe.
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Weird Stories: "On Some Mental Effects of the Earthquake" by William James
Episode | March 23rd, 2020 | 22 mins 24 secs
history, psychology, readings, william james
Phil reads an essay by William James on the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake.
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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 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.