web01.fireside.fm Fri, 15 May 2026 05:40:31 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Weird Studies - Episodes Tagged with “Weird” https://www.weirdstudies.com/tags/weird Wed, 07 Mar 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 4: Exploring the Weird with Erik Davis https://www.weirdstudies.com/4 97a9990a-22db-415f-b25a-6eaf92677a5c Wed, 07 Mar 2018 10:00:00 -0500 Phil Ford and J. F. Martel 4 Exploring the Weird with Erik Davis full Phil Ford and J. F. Martel Scholar, author and journalist Erik Davis joins Phil and JF to talk about Weird Sh*t. 1:21:08 yes <p>Scholar, journalist and author Erik Davis joins Phil and JF for a freewheeling conversation on the permutations of the weird, Burning Man, speculative realism, the uncanny, the H. P. Lovecraft/Philip K. Dick syzygy, and how the world has gotten weirder (and less weird) since Erik’s groundbreaking Techgnosis was published twenty years ago.</p> <p><strong>WORKS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:</strong></p> <p>Erik Davis’s Techgnosis <a href="https://techgnosis.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">website</a> </p> <p>Erik Davis's podcast, <a href="http://expandingmind.podbean.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><em>Expanding Mind</em></a></p> <p>Erik Davis, <a href="https://www.northatlanticbooks.com/shop/techgnosis/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><em>Techgnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information</em></a> </p> <p>Erik Davis, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Nomad-Codes-Adventures-Modern-Esoterica/dp/1891241540/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1520348249&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><em>Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica</em></a> </p> <p>Erik Davis, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Led-Zeppelins-Zeppelin-IV-33/dp/0826416586/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><em>Led Zeppelin IV</em></a> </p> <p>Mark Fisher, <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/546891/the-weird-and-the-eerie-by-mark-fisher/9781910924389/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><em>The Weird and the Eerie</em></a> </p> <p>Philip K. Dick, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Exegesis-Philip-K-Dick/dp/0547549253/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=x" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><em>Exegesis</em></a> </p> <p><a href="https://shop.goop.com/shop/products/goop-magazine-issue-no-2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><em>Goop Magazine</em>, no. 2</a> </p> <p>Hakim Bey and the <a href="https://hermetic.com/bey/taz_cont" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Temporary Autonomous Zone</a> </p> <p>The <a href="https://burningman.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Burning Man</a> Festival </p> <p>Ian Hacking, <a href="http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/history/history-ideas-and-intellectual-history/taming-chance?format=PB&amp;isbn=9780521388849" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><em>The Taming of Chance</em></a> </p> <p>Erik Davis, <a href="https://boingboing.net/2014/07/14/weird-shit.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">“Weird Shit”</a> </p> <p>JF Martel, <a href="http://thefinch.net/2016/03/10/jf-martel-how-symbols-matter/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">“How Symbols Matter”</a> </p> <p>Henri Bergson, <a href="https://archive.org/details/anintroductiont00berggoog" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><em>Introduction to Metaphysics</em></a></p> <p>Charles Baudelaire, <a href="https://fleursdumal.org/poem/103" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">“Correspondances”</a> from Fleurs du mal </p> <p>Sigmund Freud, <a href="http://web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/freud1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">“The Uncanny”</a> </p> <p>Deleuze and Guattari, <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/305132/anti-oedipus-by-gilles-deleuze-and-felix-guattari/9780143105824/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><em>Anti-Oedipus</em></a> </p> <p><em>The Onion</em>, <a href="https://local.theonion.com/lovecraftian-school-board-member-wants-madness-added-to-1819570587" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">“Lovecraftian School Board Member Wants Madness Added to Curriculum” </a> Special Guest: Erik Davis.</p> Scholar, journalist and author Erik Davis joins Phil and JF for a freewheeling conversation on the permutations of the weird, Burning Man, speculative realism, the uncanny, the H. P. Lovecraft/Philip K. Dick syzygy, and how the world has gotten weirder (and less weird) since Erik’s groundbreaking Techgnosis was published twenty years ago.

WORKS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

Erik Davis’s Techgnosis website

Erik Davis's podcast, Expanding Mind

Erik Davis, Techgnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information

Erik Davis, Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica

Erik Davis, Led Zeppelin IV

Mark Fisher, The Weird and the Eerie

Philip K. Dick, Exegesis

Goop Magazine, no. 2

Hakim Bey and the Temporary Autonomous Zone

The Burning Man Festival

Ian Hacking, The Taming of Chance

Erik Davis, “Weird Shit”

JF Martel, “How Symbols Matter”

Henri Bergson, Introduction to Metaphysics

Charles Baudelaire, “Correspondances” from Fleurs du mal

Sigmund Freud, “The Uncanny”

Deleuze and Guattari, Anti-Oedipus

The Onion, “Lovecraftian School Board Member Wants Madness Added to Curriculum”

Special Guest: Erik Davis.

]]> Scholar, journalist and author Erik Davis joins Phil and JF for a freewheeling conversation on the permutations of the weird, Burning Man, speculative realism, the uncanny, the H. P. Lovecraft/Philip K. Dick syzygy, and how the world has gotten weirder (and less weird) since Erik’s groundbreaking Techgnosis was published twenty years ago.

WORKS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:

Erik Davis’s Techgnosis website

Erik Davis's podcast, Expanding Mind

Erik Davis, Techgnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information

Erik Davis, Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica

Erik Davis, Led Zeppelin IV

Mark Fisher, The Weird and the Eerie

Philip K. Dick, Exegesis

Goop Magazine, no. 2

Hakim Bey and the Temporary Autonomous Zone

The Burning Man Festival

Ian Hacking, The Taming of Chance

Erik Davis, “Weird Shit”

JF Martel, “How Symbols Matter”

Henri Bergson, Introduction to Metaphysics

Charles Baudelaire, “Correspondances” from Fleurs du mal

Sigmund Freud, “The Uncanny”

Deleuze and Guattari, Anti-Oedipus

The Onion, “Lovecraftian School Board Member Wants Madness Added to Curriculum”

Special Guest: Erik Davis.

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