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The Medium is the Message
Episode 71
On the surface, the phrase "the medium is the message," prophetic as it may have been when Marshall McLuhan coined it, points a now-obvious …
5 years, 9 months ago
Masks All the Way Down, with James Curcio
Episode 70
James Curcio is an American multidisciplinary artist and nonfiction writer whose works include the novels Join My Cult, The Party at the Wor…
5 years, 9 months ago
Special Episode: On Some Mental Effects of the Pandemic
Episode 69
What is there to say about the COVID-19 virus that hasn't already been said, over and over again, all around the world, in quaratined houses…
5 years, 9 months ago
Weird Stories: "On Some Mental Effects of the Earthquake" by William James
In preparation for an upcoming special episode on living in the early days of the Covid-19 Pandemic, here's Phil Ford reading an essay Willi…
5 years, 9 months ago
On James Hillman's 'The Dream and the Underworld'
Episode 68
In 1979, the American psychologist James Hillman published The Dream and the Underworld, a polemical meditation on the nature of dreams. Rej…
5 years, 9 months ago
Goblins, Goat-Gods and Gates: On 'Hellier'
Episode 67
On the night before this episode of Weird Studies was released, a bunch of folks on the Internet performed a collective magickal working. Pr…
5 years, 10 months ago
On Diviner's Time
Episode 66
In the paper discussed in this episode, Phil Ford coins the term "diviner's time" to denote a particular feeling that will be familiar to an…
5 years, 10 months ago
Touched by that Fire: On Visionary Literature, with B. W. Powe
Episode 65
B. W. Powe is a Canadian poet, novelist, essayist and professor at York University, in Toronto. His work, though it covers an immense range …
5 years, 11 months ago
Dreams and Shadows: On Ursula Le Guin's 'A Wizard of Earthsea'
Episode 64
In her National Book Award acceptance speech in 2014, Ursula K. Le Guin intimated that, far from being superseded by digital technology, fan…
5 years, 11 months ago
Faculty X: On Colin Wilson's 'The Occult'
Episode 63
At its simplest, what Colin Wilson calls Faculty X is "simply that latent power in human beings possess to reach beyond the present." Yet it…
6 years ago