We found 10 episodes of Weird Studies with the tag “metaphysics”.
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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.
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Episode 157: Long Live the New Flesh: On David Cronenberg's 'Videodrome'
Episode | November 8th, 2023 | 1 hr 14 mins
cinema, horror, media theory, metaphysics, politics
Phil and JF discuss David Cronenberg's 1983 masterpiece of body horror.
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Episode 154: Into the Night Land, with Erik Davis
Episode | September 26th, 2023 | 1 hr 23 mins
fantasy, literature, metaphysics, science fiction
JF and Phil are joined by Erik Davis to discuss William Hope Hodgson's masterfully weird 1912 novel.
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Episode 152: The Science of Things Spiritual: Live in Lily Dale
Episode | August 1st, 2023 | 1 hr 48 mins
live recording, metaphysics, parapsychology, spiritualism
JF and Phil discuss Frederic Myers, founding member of the Society for Psychical Research, at the 2023 Science of Things Spiritual Symposium in Lily Dale, New York.
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Episode 151: The Real and the Possible: Live at the Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute, with Jacob G. Foster
Episode | July 19th, 2023 | 1 hr 15 mins
art, epistemology, metaphysics, pragmatism, science
Jacob G. Foster joins Phil and JF to discuss art, science, and the reality of the possible.
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Episode 148: Mythos of the Moment: On 'Twin Peaks,' Season 3
Episode | June 7th, 2023 | 1 hr 17 mins
aesthetics, cinema, late style, metaphysics, myth, twin peaks
JF and Phil discuss the aesthetics and metaphysics of David Lynch's landmark series.
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Episode 147: You Must Change Your Life
Episode | May 24th, 2023 | 1 hr 33 mins
aesthetics, ethics, metaphysics, poetry, religion
Phil and JF discuss the famous poem "Archaic Torso of Apollo" by Rainer Maria Rilke.
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Episode 143: On UFOs
Episode | March 29th, 2023 | 1 hr 29 mins
metaphysics, paranormal, psychology, ufos
JF and Phil discuss the UFO phenomenon in light of ongoing government disclosures.