web02.fireside.fm Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:08:16 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Weird Studies - Episodes Tagged with “Sin” https://www.weirdstudies.com/tags/sin Wed, 21 Feb 2018 10:00:00 -0500 Professor Phil Ford and writer J. F. Martel host a series of conversations on art and philosophy, dwelling on ideas that are hard to think and art that opens up rifts in what we are pleased to call "reality." en-us episodic Art and philosophy at the limits of the thinkable Phil Ford and J. F. Martel Professor Phil Ford and writer J. F. Martel host a series of conversations on art and philosophy, dwelling on ideas that are hard to think and art that opens up rifts in what we are pleased to call "reality." yes weird, art, philosophy Phil Ford and J. F. Martel admin@weirdstudies.com Episode 3: Ecstasy, Sin, and "The White People" https://www.weirdstudies.com/3 bce082e5-bd88-4ddd-b2ea-35ea50af4f23 Wed, 21 Feb 2018 10:00:00 -0500 Phil Ford and J. F. Martel 3 Ecstasy, Sin, and "The White People" full Phil Ford and J. F. Martel JF and Phil discuss key themes and ideas from Arthur Machen's weird story, "The White People." 1:19:55 yes JF and Phil delve deep into Arthur Machen's fin-de-siècle masterpiece, "The White People," for insight into the nature of ecstasy, the psychology of fairies, the meaning of sin, and the challenge of living without a moral horizon. WORKS CITED OR DISCUSSED Arthur Machen, "The White People" - full text (https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_White_People_(Machen)) or Weird Stories audiobook (http://www.weirdstudies.com/3a) read by Phil Ford Arthur Machen, Hieroglyphics: A Note Upon Ecstasy (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/40241/40241-h/40241-h.htm) H. P. Lovecraft, "Supernatural Horror in Literature" (http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/essays/shil.aspx) J.F. Martel, Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice (https://www.northatlanticbooks.com/shop/reclaiming-art-in-the-age-of-artifice/) Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (https://www.amazon.com/Jonathan-Strange-Norrell-Susanna-Clarke/dp/B00YTJ4X8I/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=3HJRSB4DNWHR4EF6BNVX) Jack Sullivan (ed)., The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Penguin_Encyclopedia_of_Horror_and_the_Supernatural) John Keel, The Mothman Prophecies: A True Story (https://www.amazon.com/Mothman-Prophecies-True-Story/dp/0765334984/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1519189041&sr=1-1&keywords=the+mothman+prophecies) Patrick Harpur, Daimonic Reality (https://www.amazon.com/Daimonic-Reality-Field-Guide-Otherworld/dp/0937663093/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1519189061&sr=1-1&keywords=daimonic+reality) Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers (https://www.amazon.com/Passport-Magonia-Folklore-Flying-Saucers/dp/0987422480/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1519189093&sr=1-1&keywords=passport+to+magonia) Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier, The Morning of the Magicians (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Morning_of_the_Magicians) Michael Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (https://www.amazon.com/Discipline-Punish-Prison-Michel-Foucault/dp/0679752552) J.K. Huysmans, Against Nature (À rebours) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/À_rebours) JF and Phil delve deep into Arthur Machen's fin-de-siècle masterpiece, "The White People," for insight into the nature of ecstasy, the psychology of fairies, the meaning of sin, and the challenge of living without a moral horizon.

WORKS CITED OR DISCUSSED

Arthur Machen, "The White People" - full text or Weird Stories audiobook read by Phil Ford

Arthur Machen, Hieroglyphics: A Note Upon Ecstasy

H. P. Lovecraft, "Supernatural Horror in Literature"

J.F. Martel, Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice

Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell

Jack Sullivan (ed)., The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural

John Keel, The Mothman Prophecies: A True Story

Patrick Harpur, Daimonic Reality

Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers

Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier, The Morning of the Magicians

Michael Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

J.K. Huysmans, Against Nature (À rebours)

]]> JF and Phil delve deep into Arthur Machen's fin-de-siècle masterpiece, "The White People," for insight into the nature of ecstasy, the psychology of fairies, the meaning of sin, and the challenge of living without a moral horizon.

WORKS CITED OR DISCUSSED

Arthur Machen, "The White People" - full text or Weird Stories audiobook read by Phil Ford

Arthur Machen, Hieroglyphics: A Note Upon Ecstasy

H. P. Lovecraft, "Supernatural Horror in Literature"

J.F. Martel, Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice

Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell

Jack Sullivan (ed)., The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural

John Keel, The Mothman Prophecies: A True Story

Patrick Harpur, Daimonic Reality

Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers

Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier, The Morning of the Magicians

Michael Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

J.K. Huysmans, Against Nature (À rebours)

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