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Dispatches From the Inside: On Planet Weird's 'The Unbinding'
Episode 155
One of the most surprising aspects of paranormal experience is how often it takes on a storylike form, unfolding exactly as you would expect…
2 years, 3 months ago
Into the Night Land, with Erik Davis
Episode 154
William Hope Hodgson's The Night Land is without a doubt one of the weirdest entries in the annals of weird fiction. Set in the earth's dist…
2 years, 3 months ago
Celestial Machine: On the Temperance Card in the Tarot
Episode 153
Even learned commentators on the tarot are likely to point out at the fourteenth major arcana, Temperance, is a bit of a boring card. At lea…
2 years, 4 months ago
Summer Bonus #2: Art and AI
In this bonus episode, originally released on July 26th on the Weird Studies Patreon, Phil and JF explore a few ways in which artificial int…
2 years, 4 months ago
Summer Bonus: On Affectation, with a Special Announcement
A bonus offering to break up the summer hiatus, this episode contains a conversation on the virtues of affectation originally available only…
2 years, 4 months ago
The Science of Things Spiritual: Live in Lily Dale
Episode 152
On the last week of July, 2023, Phil and JF were delighted to speak at Shannon Taggart's Science of Things Spiritual Symposium in Lily Dale,…
2 years, 5 months ago
The Real and the Possible: Live at the Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute, with Jacob G. Foster
Episode 151
In The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light, the cultural historian William Irwin Thompson predicted the rise of a new form of knowledge build…
2 years, 5 months ago
Sacramental Reality: On Arthur Machen's "A Fragment of Life"
Episode 150
"A Fragement of Life" opens with Mr. Darnell waking up from a dream and going down to breakfast, where it is described that "before he sat d…
2 years, 6 months ago
Song Swap: On Judee Sill's 'The Kiss' and Wilco's 'Jesus, Etc.'
Episode 149
Occasionally, JF and Phil do a song swap. Each host chooses a song he loves and shares it with the other, and then they record an episode on…
2 years, 6 months ago
Mythos of the Moment: On 'Twin Peaks,' Season 3
Episode 148
David Lynch and Mark Frost's Twin Peaks has been a touchstone of Weird Studies since the podcast's inception. Back in 2018, Phil and JF reco…
2 years, 7 months ago