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The Weird Studies Christmas Special
We recorded this episode in early December for our Patreon subscribers, but as it's the closest thing to a Christmas special we're ever like…
3 years ago
Brute Force: on Sunn O)))'s 'Life Metal'
Episode 137
What Evil Dead 2 is to the Baroque, Sunn O))) is to Brutalism. Or more like: if the likening of Evil Dead 2 to the Baroque felt like a stret…
3 years, 1 month ago
The Things That Were And Shall Be Again: On 'Evil Dead II'
Episode 136
"We are the things that were and shall be again." So a demonic flesh puppet tells Ash and his allies in a memorable scene from the classic s…
3 years, 1 month ago
On 'The Secret Life of Puppets,' with Victoria Nelson
Episode 135
Victoria Nelson saw it first: Popular culture teems with occult ideas, vestiges of bygone belief, fragments of ancient magic disguised as co…
3 years, 1 month ago
On Federico Campagna's 'Technic and Magic'
Episode 134
In Technic and Magic: The Reconstruction of Reality, the philosopher Federico Campagna argues that we moderns have exhausted the reality sys…
3 years, 2 months ago
On Weirding, and the Virtues of Unknowing Everything
Episode 133
With the term "weird studies" gaining currency inside and outside academia, Phil and JF thought it was time to discuss the philosophical met…
3 years, 2 months ago
Art Is an Alien Technology: Live at the Supernormal Festival
Episode 132
With his 2010 film Cave of Forgotten Dreams, the German filmmaker Werner Herzog peeled away the veneer of familiarity on the Chauvet cave pa…
3 years, 3 months ago
Off-Week Bonus: On Worlds and Stories, with a Special Announcement
In this bonus episode, originally released for Listener's Tier Patreon supporters, a discussion of the books Phil and JF are reading leads t…
3 years, 3 months ago
Knocking on the Abyssal Door: Live at the Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute
Episode 131
The historian of religion Jeffrey J. Kripal writes, "The world is one, and the human is two." The line captures the riddle of reality. What …
3 years, 3 months ago
Holiday Memories
Episode 130
In August, 2022, JF and Phil flew to the UK to attend the Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) at the University of St. Andrews and…
3 years, 4 months ago