Displaying Episode 1 - 10 of 15 in total of Weird Studies with the tag “magic”.
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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 180: The Player: On the Magician Card in the Tarot
Episode | November 20th, 2024 | 1 hr 21 mins
divination, magic, metaphysics, scholarship, tarot, trickster
Phil and JF resume their journey through the major trumps of the tarot with a discussion of the Magician card.
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Episode 174: Magick and Enlightenment, with Alan Chapman and Duncan Barford
Episode | July 24th, 2024 | 1 hr 29 mins
enlightenment, magic, metaphysics, occult, religion
Magical practitioners Duncan Barford and Alan Chapman join JF and Phil to talk about magic, truth, and the Holy Guardian Angel.
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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 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 141: Actual Magic: On Ramsey Dukes' SSOTBME
Episode | February 28th, 2023 | 1 hr 24 mins
magic, metaphysics, ramsey dukes, science
JF and Phil discuss Dukes' seminal essay on modern magic.
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Episode 134: On Federico Campagna's 'Technic and Magic'
Episode | November 1st, 2022 | 1 hr 32 mins
epistemology, magic, metaphysics, politics
Phil and JF discuss Campagna's proposal of a new reality system rooted in the idea of "magic."
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Episode 131: Knocking on the Abyssal Door: Live at the Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute
Episode | September 21st, 2022 | 1 hr 11 mins
intelligence, live recording, magic, metaphysics, science, synchronicity
Phil and J.F. talk about magic, synchronicity, and prophecy to an audience composed of scientists, scholars, and artists at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.
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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 71: The Medium is the Message
Episode | April 15th, 2020 | 1 hr 24 mins
magic, media theory, metaphysics, religion
JF and Phil discuss the meanings of Marshall McLuhan's famous utterance.