web02.fireside.fm Fri, 01 May 2026 09:43:59 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Weird Studies - Episodes Tagged with “Zones” https://www.weirdstudies.com/tags/zones Wed, 01 Sep 2021 05:30:00 -0400 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 106: The Wanderer: On Weird Studies https://www.weirdstudies.com/106 13dd5696-cdff-4bfa-991a-d2e2585afcc2 Wed, 01 Sep 2021 05:30:00 -0400 Phil Ford and J. F. Martel 106 The Wanderer: On Weird Studies full Phil Ford and J. F. Martel JF and Phil discuss consciousness, free will, and podcasting in context of the artwork that is Weird Studies. 1:26:36 yes In this episode, Weird Studies turns meta, reflecting on the peculiar medium that is podcasting, and how it has shaped the Weird Studies project itself. JF and Phil provide a glimpse into what it feels like to create the show from the inside, where each recording session is like a journey into an unknown Zone. The conversation also occasions sojourns into the flow state, or experience of pure durée, its implications for our conception of free will, and surprising parallels between modern materialists’ adherence to nihilism and ancient religious ascetic practices. Ultimately, JF and Phil explore the archetypal image of the wanderer as representative of Weird Studies’s existence so far, and of the kind of impact and legacy this project can have. N.B. Weird Studies will be on a haitus for the month of September, and will return on September 29. In the meantime: Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/weirdstudies): Find us on Discord (https://discord.com/invite/Jw22CHfGwp) Get your Weird Studies merchandise (https://www.redbubble.com/people/Weird-Studies/shop?asc=u) (t-shirts, coffee mugs, etc.) Visit the Weird Studies Bookshop (https://bookshop.org/shop/weirdstudies) Buy the Weird Studies soundtrack (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/weird-studies-music-from-the-podcast-vol-1) References Robert Sapolsky, Interview with Pau Guinart (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihhVe8dKNSA) Bruno Latour, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Latour) French philosopher Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780198788607) Peter Sloterdijk, You Must Change Your Life (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780745649221) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780061339202) Paul Tillich, Dynamics of Faith (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780060937133) Nina Simone, “Feeling Good” Robert Anton Wilson, Illuminatus (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780440539810) Richard Wagner, Siegfried Lewis Carol, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781954839199) John David Ebert, American cultural critic Patrick Harpur Daimonic Reality (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780937663097) Marshall McLuhan, The Global Village (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780195079104) Phil Ford, “What was Blogging?” (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01411896.2019.1601982) Weird Studies, Episode 71 on Marshall McLuhan (https://www.weirdstudies.com/71) podcasting, media, zones, consciousness, free will, philosophy, flow, improvisation, auditory space In this episode, Weird Studies turns meta, reflecting on the peculiar medium that is podcasting, and how it has shaped the Weird Studies project itself. JF and Phil provide a glimpse into what it feels like to create the show from the inside, where each recording session is like a journey into an unknown Zone. The conversation also occasions sojourns into the flow state, or experience of pure durée, its implications for our conception of free will, and surprising parallels between modern materialists’ adherence to nihilism and ancient religious ascetic practices. Ultimately, JF and Phil explore the archetypal image of the wanderer as representative of Weird Studies’s existence so far, and of the kind of impact and legacy this project can have.

N.B. Weird Studies will be on a haitus for the month of September, and will return on September 29. In the meantime:

Support us on Patreon:
Find us on Discord
Get your Weird Studies merchandise (t-shirts, coffee mugs, etc.)
Visit the Weird Studies Bookshop
Buy the Weird Studies soundtrack

References

Robert Sapolsky, Interview with Pau Guinart
Bruno Latour, French philosopher
Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
Peter Sloterdijk, You Must Change Your Life
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow
Paul Tillich, Dynamics of Faith
Nina Simone, “Feeling Good”
Robert Anton Wilson, Illuminatus
Richard Wagner, Siegfried
Lewis Carol, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
John David Ebert, American cultural critic
Patrick Harpur Daimonic Reality
Marshall McLuhan, The Global Village
Phil Ford, “What was Blogging?”
Weird Studies, Episode 71 on Marshall McLuhan

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N.B. Weird Studies will be on a haitus for the month of September, and will return on September 29. In the meantime:

Support us on Patreon:
Find us on Discord
Get your Weird Studies merchandise (t-shirts, coffee mugs, etc.)
Visit the Weird Studies Bookshop
Buy the Weird Studies soundtrack

References

Robert Sapolsky, Interview with Pau Guinart
Bruno Latour, French philosopher
Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
Peter Sloterdijk, You Must Change Your Life
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow
Paul Tillich, Dynamics of Faith
Nina Simone, “Feeling Good”
Robert Anton Wilson, Illuminatus
Richard Wagner, Siegfried
Lewis Carol, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
John David Ebert, American cultural critic
Patrick Harpur Daimonic Reality
Marshall McLuhan, The Global Village
Phil Ford, “What was Blogging?”
Weird Studies, Episode 71 on Marshall McLuhan

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