
Episode 47: Machines of Loving Grace: Technology and the Unabomber
Made in 2003, Lutz Dammbeck's documentary The Net: The Unabomber, LSD, and the Internet is a film about many things, but the gist of it is something like what William Burroughs called the doctrine of ...
22 Touko 20191h 8min

Episode 46: Thomas Ligotti's Angel
In his short story "Mrs. Rinaldi's Angel," contemporary horror author Thomas Ligotti contrasts the chaotic monstrosity of dreams with the cold, indifferent, and no less monstrous purity of angels. It...
8 Touko 20191h 29min

Episode 45: Jeffrey J. Kripal on 'Flipping' Out of Materialism
"May the present 'you' not survive this little book," Jeffrey Kripal writes in the prologue to The Flip. "May you be flipped in dramatic or quiet ways." Indeed, Kripal's latest is a kind of manifesto,...
24 Huhti 20191h 10min

Episode 44: Doomed to Enchantment: The Psychical Research of William James
The great American thinker William James knew well that no intellectual pursuit is purely intellectual. His interest in the "supernormal," whether it take the form of spiritual apparition or extrasens...
9 Huhti 20191h 33min

Episode 43: On Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson's stories and novels rank among the greatest weird works produced in America during the 20th century. However, unlike authors such as Philip K. Dick and H.P. Lovecraft, Jackson didn't ...
27 Maalis 20191h 16min

Episode 42: On Pauline Oliveros, with Kerry O'Brien
In the mid-1960s, Pauline Oliveros was a composer of experimental electronic music. But at the end of the 1960s, shocked by the political violence around her, she turned away from electronic technolog...
13 Maalis 20191h 4min

Episode 41: On Speculative Fiction, with Matt Cardin
Neil Gaiman wrote, "If literature is the world, then fantasy and horror are twin cities, divided by a river of black water." Flame Tree Publishing underwrites this claim with their recent publication,...
27 Helmi 20191h

Episode 40: On Jonathan Glazer's 'Under the Skin'
In Jonathan Glazer's loose screen adaptation of Michel Faber's novel Under the Skin, a creature of mysterious origin drives around Scotland in a white van, collecting lonely men and spiriting them awa...
13 Helmi 20191h 18min




















