Episode 44: Doomed to Enchantment: The Psychical Research of William James
The great American thinker William James knew well that no intellectual pursuit is purely intellectual. His interest in the "supernormal," whether it take the form of spiritual apparition or extrasens...
9 Apr 20191h 33min
Episode 43: On Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson's stories and novels rank among the greatest weird works produced in America during the 20th century. However, unlike authors such as Philip K. Dick and H.P. Lovecraft, Jackson didn't ...
27 Mar 20191h 16min
Episode 42: On Pauline Oliveros, with Kerry O'Brien
In the mid-1960s, Pauline Oliveros was a composer of experimental electronic music. But at the end of the 1960s, shocked by the political violence around her, she turned away from electronic technolog...
13 Mar 20191h 4min
Episode 41: On Speculative Fiction, with Matt Cardin
Neil Gaiman wrote, "If literature is the world, then fantasy and horror are twin cities, divided by a river of black water." Flame Tree Publishing underwrites this claim with their recent publication,...
27 Feb 20191h
Episode 40: On Jonathan Glazer's 'Under the Skin'
In Jonathan Glazer's loose screen adaptation of Michel Faber's novel Under the Skin, a creature of mysterious origin drives around Scotland in a white van, collecting lonely men and spiriting them awa...
13 Feb 20191h 18min
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
