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 Juni 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 Maj 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 Maj 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
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 Mars 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 Mars 202022min
