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 Des 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 Des 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 Des 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
Episode 32: Orbis Tertius: Borges on Magic, Conspiracy and Idealism
Jorge Luis Borges's story "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" is a metaphysical detective story, an armchair conspiracy thriller, and a masterpiece of weird fiction. In this tale penned by a true literary ma...
31 Okt 20181h 11min
Episode 31: Scarcely Human at All: On Glenn Gould's 'Prospects of Recording'
Most people know Glenn Gould as a brilliant pianist who forever changed how we receive and interpret the works of Europe's great composers: Bach, Beethoven, Schoenberg... But Gould was also an aesthet...
24 Okt 20181h 16min
Episode 30: On Stanley Kubrick's 'Eyes Wide Shut'
No dream is ever just a dream. Or so Tom Cruises tells Nicole Kidman at the end of Eyes Wide Shut. In this episode, Phil and JF expound some of the key themes of Kubrick's film, a masterpiece of cinem...
14 Okt 20181h 6min
