Episode 108: On Skepticism and the Paranormal
Modern skeptics pride themselves on being immune to unreason. They present themselves as defenders of rationality, civilization, and good sense agains...
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Professor Phil Ford and writer/filmmaker J. F. Martel host a series of conversations on art and philosophy, dwelling on ideas that are hard to think and art that opens up rifts in what we are pleased to call "reality."
Episode 107: On Joy Williams' 'Breaking and Entering,' with Conner Habib
Joy Williams' third novel, Breaking and Entering, is the story of lovers who break into strangers' homes and live their lives for a time before moving...
Episode 106: The Wanderer: On Weird Studies
In this episode, Weird Studies turns meta, reflecting on the peculiar medium that is podcasting, and how it has shaped the Weird Studies project itsel...
Episode 105: Fire Walk with Tamler Sommers
The Twin Peaks mythos has been with Weird Studies from the very beginning, and it is only fitting that it should have a return. In this episode, Phil ...
Episode 104: We'd Love to Turn You On: 'Sgt. Pepper' and the Beatles
It is said that for several days after the release of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in the spring of 1967, you could have driven from one U.S....
Episode 103: On the Tower, the Sixteenth Card of the Tarot
Continuing their series on the tarot, Phil and JF discuss the card nobody wants to see in a reading – The Tower. Featuring lightning bolts, plumes of ...
Episode 102: On Pan, with Gyrus
"What was he doing, the great god Pan, down in the reeds by the river?" With this question, the Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning opens her fa...
Episode 101: Our Fear of the Dark: On Tanizaki's 'In Praise of Shadows'
In modern physics as in Western theology, darkness and shadows have a purely negative existence. They are merely the absence of light. In mythology an...
Episode 100: The Price of Beauty is Horror: On the Films of John Carpenter
Central to the tradition of cosmic horror is the suggestion that the ultimate truth about our universe is at once knowable and unthinkable, such that ...
Episode 99: Curing the Human Condition: On 'Wild Wild Country'
In this never-before-released episode recorded in 2019, Phil and JF travel to rural Oregon through the Netflix docu-series, Wild Wild Country. The ser...