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On Presence
Episode 23
Phil stops by JF's Canadian homestead for a raucous IRL conversation on the idea of presence. The range of topics includes objects of power,…
7 years, 9 months ago
Divining the World with Joshua Ramey
Episode 22
American philosopher Joshua Ramey, author of The Hermetic Deleuze: Philosophy and the Spiritual Ordeal, and Politics of Divination: Neoliber…
7 years, 9 months ago
The Trash Stratum - Part 2
Episode 21
The writings of underground filmmaker Jack Smith serve as a starting point for Phil and JF's second tour of the trash stratum. In their wand…
7 years, 10 months ago
The Trash Stratum - Part 1
Episode 20
Is the Holy Grail a crushed beer can in the gutter? JF and Phil consider the implications of Philip K. Dick's line, "the symbols of the divi…
7 years, 10 months ago
Intermezzo
Episode 19
After announcing that Weird Studies will be going to a bi-weekly release schedule for the summer, Phil and JF talk about how the podcast has…
7 years, 11 months ago
Does 'Consciousness' Exist? - Part Two
Episode 18
JF and Phil finally get down to brass tacks with William James's essay "Does Consciousness Exist?" At the heart of this essay is the concept…
7 years, 11 months ago
Does 'Consciousness' Exist? - Part One
Episode 17
In this first part of their discussion of William James' classic essay in radical empiricism, "Does 'Consciousness' Exist?", Phil and JF tal…
7 years, 11 months ago
On Dogen Zenji's 'Genjokoan'
Episode 16
JF and Phil tackle Genjokoan, a profound and puzzling work of philosophy by Dogen Zenji. In it, the 13th-century Zen master ponders the ques…
7 years, 11 months ago
On Tarkovsky's 'Stalker' - Part Two
Episode 15
In this second of a two-part conversation on Andrei Tarkovsky's 1979 film Stalker, Phil and JF explore the film's prophetic dimension, relat…
8 years ago
On Tarkovsky's 'Stalker' - Part One
Episode 14
Journey into the Zone to uncover some of the strange artifacts buried in Tarkovsky's cinematic masterpiece, Stalker (1979). In this first of…
8 years ago