Special Episode: Theory, Philosophy, and Uranus
This conversation was originally recorded in August 2024 and released for our Patreon supporters. Weird Studies will be back with a new episode on June 25, 2025. What is cultural theory? How is phil...
18 Jun 20251h 2min
Special Episode: Myth, History, and Form
This special release is a Patreon extra we’re making available to all listeners, in lieu of the official episode originally scheduled for today. As explained in the introduction, we will be back with ...
4 Jun 202546min
Episode 191 — The Acid Queen, with Susannah Cahalan
Best known as the wife and partner of Timothy Leary, Rosemary Woodruff was in fact a central figure in the psychedelic movement in her own right—a political radical, underground fugitive, and neglecte...
21 Mai 20251h 28min
Episode 190 – Here Be Shrubs: On Algernon Blackwood's 'The Willows'
In this episode, JF and Phil paddle into the marshlands of Algernon Blackwood’s 1907 masterpiece The Willows, a tale Lovecraft once called the finest weird story of all time. They explore how a narrat...
7 Mai 20251h 15min
Episode 189: Care of the Dead, with Jacob G. Foster
In this episode, JF and Phil are joined by Jacob G. Foster—sociologist, physicist, and researcher at Indiana University Bloomington and the Santa Fe Institute—for a conversation about their recent col...
23 Apr 20251h 35min
Episode 188: Pioneers of the Untimely: On the Hermit Card in the Tarot
In this continuation of their non-linear journey through the tarot, Phil and JF discuss the ninth Arcanum: the Hermit. Walking through darkness with his lantern and staff, the Hermit invites us to bre...
9 Apr 20251h 22min
Episode 187: The Affirmation of Imagination: On John Crowley's 'Little, Big,' with Erik Davis
John Crowley’s Little, Big is, at once, a family saga, a fairy tale, an occult thriller, an idyll, a dystopia, as well as a meditation on myth and history, the real and the fantasy, memory and imagina...
26 Mar 20251h 34min
Episode 186: Meeting at the Center: The Wedge, Part Two
In this episode, JF and Phil continue their conversation on the wedge, their figure for the epistemological divide between approaching reality from the heart and exploring it with the mind. As the dis...
12 Mar 20251h 29min
