Episode 124: Dark Night Radio of the Soul, with Duncan Barford
For several episodes now, Phil and JF have been circling what St. John of the Cross called the Dark Night of the Soul, that moment in the spiritual journey where all falls a way and an abyss seems to ...
25 Maj 20221h 28min
Episode 123: Off-Week Patreon Bonus: On Modern Miracles
Every off-week, JF and Phil record a bonus episode for Patreon supporters. The conversations on that stream are shorter, less formal, and more improvisitory than those of the flagship show. To give th...
18 Maj 202240min
Episode 122: Spirals and Crooked Lines: On the Star Card in the Tarot
The Star is one of the most iconic of the major trumps of the traditional tarot deck. It is also one of the most ambiguous. A woman is shown emptying two urns of water onto the parched ground. She is ...
11 Maj 20221h 21min
Episode 121: Dream Theater: On 'Mandy' and 'The Band Wagon'
In this episode, each of your hosts bullies the other into watching a movie he would normally not touch with a bargepole. Phil has been (unsuccessfully) trying to get JF to watch Vincente Minnelli's 1...
27 Apr 20221h 4min
Episode 120: On Radical Mystery
Though it is seldom acknowledged in the weirdosphere, there is a difference between weirdness and mystery. Most of the time, the Weird confronts us with a problem, an impersonal epistemic obstacle whi...
13 Apr 20221h 17min
Episode 119: Behind the Cosmic Curtain: On Stanislaw Lem's 'The New Cosmogony,' with Meredith Michael
Over the last several centuries, there has been one thing on which science and religion have generally agreed, and that is the fixity of the laws under which the universe came to be. At the moment of ...
30 Mars 20221h 8min
Episode 118: The Unseen and the Unnamed, with Meredith Michael
In this episode, Phil and JF are joined by music scholar and Weird Studies assistant Meredith Michael to discuss two strange and unsettling short stories: J.G. Ballard's "The Gioconda of the Twilight ...
16 Mars 20221h 16min
Episode 117: Time is a Child at Play: On the Mystery of Games
The topic of games and play has fascinated JF and Phil since the launch of Weird Studies. Way back in 2018, they recorded back-to-back episodes on tabletop roleplaying games and fighting sports, and m...
2 Mars 20221h 9min
