Episode 39: The Challenge of the Paranormal, with Jeffrey J. Kripal
"The world is not simply composed of physical causes strung together in strictly materialistic and mechanical fashion," writes Prof. Jeffrey J. Kripal in his seminal book, Authors of the Impossible. "...
30 Jan 20191h 2min
Episode 38: Style as Analysis
Music writing has always been something of an occult practice, trying by some weird alchemy to use concepts to describe stuff that defies the basic categories of intellect. So long as we stick to clas...
16 Jan 20191h 10min
Episode 37: Entities, with Stuart Davis
Several years ago, on New Year’s Eve, a tall, purple-robed praying mantis appeared to multidisciplinary artist Stuart Evan Davis as he meditated while running a fever. “Remember who you work for,” the...
2 Jan 20191h 15min
Christmas Bonus: Hyperstition Addendum
Happy holidays, Weird Studies listeners! In this short "Christmas Bonus" episode, your intrepid hosts finish up what began as a discussion of Nick Land's concept of hyperstition. Following last week's...
25 Dec 201824min
Episode 36: On Hyperstition
Hyperstition is a key concept in the philosophy of Nick Land. It refers to fictions which, given enough time and libidinal investment, become realities. JF and Phil explore the notion using one of tho...
19 Dec 20181h 13min
Episode 35: Whirl Without End: On M.C. Richards' 'Centering'
The first step in any pottery project is to center the clay on the potter's wheel. In her landmark essay Centering: In Pottery, Poetry and the Person (1964), the American poet M. C. Richards turns thi...
5 Dec 20181h 1min
Episode 34: The Weird Realism of Robert Aickman
Although he is one of the luminaries of the weird tale, Robert Aickman referred to his irreal, macabre short works as strange stories. Born in London in 1914, Aickman wrote less than fifty such storie...
21 Nov 201855min
Episode 33: The Fine Art of Changing the Subject: On Duchamp's 'Fountain'
In 1917, Marcel Duchamp trolled the New York art scene with Fountain, the famous urinal, whose significance has since swelled in the minds of art aficionados to become the prototype of all modern art....
7 Nov 20181h
