Podcast Episodes

Reading Lisa Ruddick's "When Nothing is Cool"

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Episode 5

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Phil and JF discuss Lisa Ruddick's "When Nothing is Cool," an essay on the postmodern humanities and its allergy to essences -- especially that personal essence we call soul. Maybe the soul …

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Published on 7 years, 6 months ago

Exploring the Weird with Erik Davis

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Episode 4

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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. Lovecra…

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Published on 7 years, 6 months ago

Ecstasy, Sin, and "The White People"

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Episode 3

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JF and Phil delve deep into Arthur Machen's fin-de-siècle masterpiece, "The White People," for insight into the nature of ecstasy, the psychology of fairies, the meaning of sin, and the chal…

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Published on 7 years, 6 months ago

Weird Stories: Arthur Machen's "The White People"

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Weird Stories is a series of readings for Weird Studies listeners who want to dig deeper into the themes and ideas discussed on the Weird Studies podcast.

In his seminal essay "Supernatural …

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Published on 7 years, 6 months ago

Garmonbozia

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Episode 2

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Phil and JF use a word from the Twin Peaks mythos, "garmonbozia," to try to understand what it was that the detonation of atomic bomb brought into the world. We use the fictional world of Tw…

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Published on 7 years, 7 months ago

Introduction to Weird Studies

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Episode 1

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Phil and J.F. share stories of sleep paralysis and talk about Charles Fort's sympathy for the damned, Jeff Kripal's phenomenological approach to Fortean weirdness, Dave Hickey's notion of be…

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Published on 7 years, 7 months ago