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By Heart: On Memory, Poetry, and Form
Episode 173
In this computerized age, we tend to see memory as a purely cerebral faculty. To memorize is to store information away in the brain in such …
1 year, 6 months ago
Head Over Heels: On the Hanged Man of the Tarot
Episode 172
The Hanged Man is arguably the most enigmatic card in the traditional tarot deck. Divested of any archetypal apparel – he is neither emperor…
1 year, 6 months ago
The Beauty and the Horror
Episode 171
This week on Weird Studies, Phil and JF explore the intersections of the beautiful and the terrible in art and literature. There is a conven…
1 year, 7 months ago
The Beauty and the Horror
Episode 171
This week on Weird Studies, Phil and JF explore the intersections of the beautiful and the terrible in art and literature. There is a conventional be…
1 year, 7 months ago
Art is Another Word for Truth: On Orson Welles's 'F for Fake'
Episode 170
Orson Welles made F for Fake in the early seventies, while still bobbing in the wake of a Pauline Kael essay accusing him of being cinema's …
1 year, 7 months ago
On Free Expression
Episode 169
The ongoing crackdown on protests at many American universities prompts a discussion on the politics, ethics, and metaphysics of free expres…
1 year, 7 months ago
Visions of the Wasteland: On George Miller's 'Mad Max' Films
Episode 168
There are artists who express the vision of a place, person, or thing so vividly and originally that it sets the bar for all future imaginin…
1 year, 8 months ago
The Hand of Ithell, with Amy Hale
Episode 167
Ithell Colquhoun (1906-1988) was a British painter, poet, and occultist, long identified as a pioneer of the Surrealist movement in the UK. …
1 year, 8 months ago
Make Believe: On the Power of Pretentiousness
Episode 166
In culture and the arts, labeling something you don't like (or don't understand) "pretentious" is the easy way out. It's a conversation kill…
1 year, 9 months ago
Tatters of the King: On Robert Chambers' 'The King in Yellow'
Episode 165
"Let the red dawn surmise / What we shall do, / When the blue starlight dies / And all is through." This short poem, an epigraph to "The Yel…
1 year, 9 months ago