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 to a debate about the place of plot, story, and worldbuilding...
27 Syys 202257min
Episode 131: Knocking on the Abyssal Door: Live at the Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute
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 is it with our species? Equipped with an intellect able to g...
21 Syys 20221h 12min
Episode 130: Holiday Memories
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 the Supernormal Festival in Oxfordshire. In addition to rec...
7 Syys 20221h 17min
Episode 129: Luminous Miasma: On Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher"
Edgar Allan Poe can be lauded as a major inspiration for many innovative artists, genres, and movements, from horror fiction to the music of Maurice Ravel. He has also been a major inspiration for Wei...
3 Elo 20221h 33min
Episode 128: Demon Workshop: On Victoria Nelson's 'Neighbor George'
The American writer and thinker Victoria Nelson is justly revered by afficionados of the Weird for The Secret Life of Puppets and its follow-up Gothicka. Both are masterful explorations the supernatur...
19 Heinä 20221h 28min
Episode 127: Leaving the Mechanical Dollhouse: On Abeba Birhane's "The Impossibility of Automating Ambiguity"
Like Caligula declaring war on Neptune and ordering his troops to charge into the Mediterranean Sea, our technological masters are designing neural networks meant to capture the human soul in all its ...
6 Heinä 20221h 16min
Episode 126: The Daemon Speaks, with Matt Cardin
Returning guest Matt Cardin is a writer of fiction and nonfiction whose focus on numinous horror places him in the literary lineage as Arthur Machen and Algernon Blackwood. His new book, What the Daem...
22 Kesä 20221h 22min
Episode 125: Strange Brews: Weird Studies Live at Illuminated Brew Works
On May 23, 2022, Meredith Michael joined JF and Phil for a live recording at Illuminated Brew Works, a craft brewery in Chicago, Illinois.The occasion was the launch of Weird Studies Black IPA, the fr...
8 Kesä 20221h 37min
