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Infinite Play: On 'The Glass Bead Game,' by Hermann Hesse
Episode 109
JF and Phil have been talking about doing a show on The Glass Bead Game since Weird Studies' earliest beginnings. It is a science-fiction no…
4 years, 7 months ago
On Skepticism and the Paranormal
Episode 108
Modern skeptics pride themselves on being immune to unreason. They present themselves as defenders of rationality, civilization, and good se…
4 years, 7 months ago
On Joy Williams' 'Breaking and Entering,' with Conner Habib
Episode 107
Joy Williams' third novel, Breaking and Entering, is the story of lovers who break into strangers' homes and live their lives for a time bef…
4 years, 7 months ago
The Wanderer: On Weird Studies
Episode 106
In this episode, Weird Studies turns meta, reflecting on the peculiar medium that is podcasting, and how it has shaped the Weird Studies pro…
4 years, 8 months ago
Fire Walk with Tamler Sommers
Episode 105
The Twin Peaks mythos has been with Weird Studies from the very beginning, and it is only fitting that it should have a return. In this epis…
4 years, 9 months ago
We'd Love to Turn You On: 'Sgt. Pepper' and the Beatles
Episode 104
It is said that for several days after the release of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in the spring of 1967, you could have driven fro…
4 years, 9 months ago
On the Tower, the Sixteenth Card of the Tarot
Episode 103
Continuing their series on the tarot, Phil and JF discuss the card nobody wants to see in a reading – The Tower. Featuring lightning bolts, …
4 years, 10 months ago
On Pan, with Gyrus
Episode 102
"What was he doing, the great god Pan, down in the reeds by the river?" With this question, the Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning op…
4 years, 10 months ago
Our Fear of the Dark: On Tanizaki's 'In Praise of Shadows'
Episode 101
In modern physics as in Western theology, darkness and shadows have a purely negative existence. They are merely the absence of light. In my…
4 years, 11 months ago
The Price of Beauty is Horror: On the Films of John Carpenter
Episode 100
Central to the tradition of cosmic horror is the suggestion that the ultimate truth about our universe is at once knowable and unthinkable, …
4 years, 11 months ago