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On Pauline Oliveros, with Kerry O'Brien
Episode 42
In the mid-1960s, Pauline Oliveros was a composer of experimental electronic music. But at the end of the 1960s, shocked by the political vi…
6 years, 10 months ago
On Speculative Fiction, with Matt Cardin
Episode 41
Neil Gaiman wrote, "If literature is the world, then fantasy and horror are twin cities, divided by a river of black water." Flame Tree Publ…
6 years, 10 months ago
On Jonathan Glazer's 'Under the Skin'
Episode 40
In Jonathan Glazer's loose screen adaptation of Michel Faber's novel Under the Skin, a creature of mysterious origin drives around Scotland …
6 years, 11 months ago
The Challenge of the Paranormal, with Jeffrey J. Kripal
Episode 39
"The world is not simply composed of physical causes strung together in strictly materialistic and mechanical fashion," writes Prof. Jeffrey…
6 years, 11 months ago
Style as Analysis
Episode 38
Music writing has always been something of an occult practice, trying by some weird alchemy to use concepts to describe stuff that defies th…
6 years, 11 months ago
Entities, with Stuart Davis
Episode 37
Several years ago, on New Year’s Eve, a tall, purple-robed praying mantis appeared to multidisciplinary artist Stuart Evan Davis as he medit…
7 years ago
Christmas Bonus: Hyperstition Addendum
Happy holidays, Weird Studies listeners! In this short "Christmas Bonus" episode, your intrepid hosts finish up what began as a discussion o…
7 years ago
On Hyperstition
Episode 36
Hyperstition is a key concept in the philosophy of Nick Land. It refers to fictions which, given enough time and libidinal investment, becom…
7 years ago
Whirl Without End: On M.C. Richards' 'Centering'
Episode 35
The first step in any pottery project is to center the clay on the potter's wheel. In her landmark essay Centering: In Pottery, Poetry and t…
7 years, 1 month ago
The Weird Realism of Robert Aickman
Episode 34
Although he is one of the luminaries of the weird tale, Robert Aickman referred to his irreal, macabre short works as strange stories. Born …
7 years, 1 month ago