Episode 77: What a Fool Believes: On the Unnumbered Card in the Tarot
"What a fool believes he sees, no wise man can reason away." This line from a Doobie Brothers song is probably one of the most profound in the history of rock-'n'-roll. It is profound for all the reas...
8 Jul 20201h 9min
Episode 76: Below the Abyss: On Bergson's Metaphysics
According to the French philosopher Henri Bergson, there are two ways of knowing the world: through analysis or through intuition. Analysis is our normal mode of apprehension. It involves knowing what...
24 Jun 20201h 19min
Bonus: The Duke of Ellington
When the quarantine began, professors around the world raced to put their classes online, and for the Jacobs School's big undergraduate music history course (M402 represent!) Phil created a series of ...
18 Jun 20201h 4min
Episode 75: Our Old Friend the Monolith: On Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey'
"You don't find reality only in your own backyard, you know," Stanley Kubrick once told an interviewer. "In fact, sometimes that's the last place you'll find it." Oddly, this episode of Weird Studies ...
10 Jun 20201h 27min
Episode 74: A Luminous Parasite: Jung on Art, Part Two
In this second part of their exploration of C. G. Jung's essay "On the Relation of Analytical Psychology to Poetry," JF and Phil try to discern the psychological and metaphysical implications of the g...
27 Mai 20201h 11min
Episode 73: Carl Jung and the Power of Art, Part One
This is the first of two conversations that Phil and JF are devoting to C. G. Jung's seminal essay, "On the Relation of Analytical Psychology to Poetry," first delivered in a 1922 lecture. It was in t...
13 Mai 20201h 4min
Episode 72: Morning of the Mutants: On the Castrati
For over two centuries in early modern Italy, boys were selected for their singing talent castrated before the onset of puberty. The goal was to preserve the qualities of their voice even as they grew...
29 Apr 20201h 14min
Episode 71: The Medium is the Message
On the surface, the phrase "the medium is the message," prophetic as it may have been when Marshall McLuhan coined it, points a now-obvious fact of our wired world, namely that the content of any medi...
15 Apr 20201h 25min
