Episode 70: Masks All the Way Down, with James Curcio
James Curcio is an American multidisciplinary artist and nonfiction writer whose works include the novels Join My Cult, The Party at the World's End, and the upcoming Tales from When I Had a Face. Rec...
1 Apr 20201h 17min
Episode 69: Special Episode: On Some Mental Effects of the Pandemic
What is there to say about the COVID-19 virus that hasn't already been said, over and over again, all around the world, in quaratined houses and on TV and social media and countless Zoom chats ... wha...
25 Mar 202059min
Weird Stories: "On Some Mental Effects of the Earthquake" by William James
In preparation for an upcoming special episode on living in the early days of the Covid-19 Pandemic, here's Phil Ford reading an essay William James wrote on his experience of the 1906 San Francisco E...
23 Mar 202022min
Episode 68: On James Hillman's 'The Dream and the Underworld'
In 1979, the American psychologist James Hillman published The Dream and the Underworld, a polemical meditation on the nature of dreams. Rejecting the orthodoxies of both Freud and Jung, Hillman argue...
18 Mar 20201h 15min
Episode 67: Goblins, Goat-Gods and Gates: On 'Hellier'
On the night before this episode of Weird Studies was released, a bunch of folks on the Internet performed a collective magickal working. Prompted by the paranormal investigator Greg Newkirk, they wat...
4 Mar 20201h 23min
Episode 66: On Diviner's Time
In the paper discussed in this episode, Phil Ford coins the term "diviner's time" to denote a particular feeling that will be familiar to anyone who has engaged in divinatory or magical practice, name...
19 Feb 20201h 32min
Episode 65: Touched by that Fire: On Visionary Literature, with B. W. Powe
B. W. Powe is a Canadian poet, novelist, essayist and professor at York University, in Toronto. His work, though it covers an immense range of topics from politics and poetics to magic and technology,...
5 Feb 20201h 20min
Episode 64: Dreams and Shadows: On Ursula Le Guin's 'A Wizard of Earthsea'
In her National Book Award acceptance speech in 2014, Ursula K. Le Guin intimated that, far from being superseded by digital technology, fantastic fiction has never been more important than it is abou...
22 Jan 20201h 18min
