Displaying Episode 1 - 10 of 44 in total of Weird Studies with the tag “metaphysics”.
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Episode 186: Meeting at the Center: The Wedge, Part Two
Episode | March 12th, 2025 | 1 hr 28 mins
epistemology, metaphysics, methodology, style, the wedge
Phil and JF conclude their discussion of the "wedge."
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Episode 185: Intuition and Reality: The Wedge, Part One
Episode | February 26th, 2025 | 1 hr 16 mins
epistemology, intuition, metaphysics, methodology, style, the wedge
JF and Phil discuss the role of intuition in knowing the world in this first of two shows on the metaphysics of the Weird.
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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 179: The Final Frontier, with Lionel Snell
Episode | November 6th, 2024 | 1 hr 17 mins
guest episode, lionel snell, metaphysics, occult, psychology
Lionel Snell joins Phil and JF to discuss magic, metaphysics, and the enchantments of boredom.
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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 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 171: The Beauty and the Horror
Episode | June 13th, 2024 | 1 hr 8 mins
aesthetics, beauty, cinema, literature, metaphysics, music
JF and Phil discuss the interplay between beauty and horror in art, examining how each enhances the other.
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Episode 164: Towards a Weird Materialism: On Expressionism in Cinema
Episode | March 6th, 2024 | 1 hr 29 mins
aesthetics, cinema, expressionism, literature, metaphysics, music, visual art
JF and Phil discuss the expressionist sensibility in the history of film.
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Episode 160: The Way of All Flesh: On John Carpenter's 'The Thing'
Episode | December 20th, 2023 | 1 hr 15 mins
body horror, cinema, horror, john carpenter, metaphysics
JF and Phil discuss the great 1982 horror film starring Kurt Russell.
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Episode 158: As Above, So Below: On Plato's 'Timaeus'
Episode | November 22nd, 2023 | 1 hr 36 mins
cosmopolitics, metaphysics, philosophy, plato
JF and Phil discuss Plato's speculative retelling of the creation of the universe.