Displaying all 8 Episode of Weird Studies with the tag “science fiction”.
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Episode 168: Visions of the Wasteland: On George Miller's 'Mad Max' Films
Episode | May 1st, 2024 | 1 hr 20 mins
apocalypse, cinema, civilization, science fiction
JF and Phil find glimmers of the Weird in George Miller's post-apocalyptic outback.
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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 145: Waiting for the Miracle: On Vanessa Onwuemezi's "Dark Neighbourhood"
Episode | April 26th, 2023 | 1 hr 29 mins
death, literature, poetry, politics, science fiction, ufos
JF and Phil discuss the title story from Vanessa Onwuemezi's debut collection of short fiction from Fitzcarraldo Press.
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Episode 142: The Music of the Spheres: On Jóhann Jóhannsson's "Last and First Men"
Episode | March 15th, 2023 | 1 hr 21 mins
brutalism, cinema, extinction, music, science fiction
Phil and JF discuss the Icelandic's composer posthumous science fiction film.
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Episode 127: Leaving the Mechanical Dollhouse: On Abeba Birhane's "The Impossibility of Automating Ambiguity"
Episode | July 6th, 2022 | 1 hr 16 mins
artificial intelligence, ethics, metaphysics, politics, science fiction, technology
JF and Phil discuss Abeba Birhane's essay on the ethical, psychological, and political cost of universal automation.
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Episode 119: Behind the Cosmic Curtain: On Stanislaw Lem's 'The New Cosmogony,' with Meredith Michael
Episode | March 30th, 2022 | 1 hr 7 mins
gnosticism, literature, meredith michael, metaphysics, science, science fiction
Meredith, Phil, and JF dig into Stanislaw Lem's short story, "The New Cosmogony."
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Episode 116: On 'Blade Runner'
Episode | February 16th, 2022 | 1 hr 28 mins
cinema, philosophy, science fiction, technology
JF and Phil discuss philosophical ideas in Ridley Scott's 1982 film.
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Episode 40: On Jonathan Glazer's 'Under the Skin'
Episode | February 13th, 2019 | 1 hr 17 mins
cinema, film scores, horror, science fiction, synchronicity
Phil and JF discuss the recent masterwork of weird cinema starring Scarlett Johansson.