Episode 29: On Lovecraft
Phil and JF indulge their autumnal mood in this discussion of Howard Phillips Lovecraft's work, specifically the essay "Notes on the Writing of Weird Fiction" and the prose piece "Nyarlathotep." Phili...
9 Okt 20181h 15min
Episode 28: Weird Music, Part Two
"Music is worth living for," Andrew W.K. sings in his latest rock anthem. In this second episode on the weirdness of music, JF and Phil focus on two works steeped in ambiguity and paradox: Bob Dylan's...
2 Okt 20181h 4min
Episode 27: Weird Music, Part One
In this first of two episodes devoted to the music of the weird, Phil and JF discuss two works that have bowled them over: the second movement of Ligeti's Musica Ricercata, used to powerful effect in ...
26 Sep 20181h 18min
Episode 26: Living in a Glass Age, with Michael Garfield
Stone, bronze, iron... glass? In his recent thought and writing, transdisciplinary artist and thinker Michael Garfield defines modernity as an age of glass, arguing that the entire ethos of our era in...
19 Sep 20181h 19min
Episode 25: David Cronenberg's 'Naked Lunch'
JF and Phil head for Interzone in an attempt to solve the enigma of Naked Lunch, David Cronenberg's 1991 screen adaptation of William S. Burroughs' infamous 1959 novel. A treatise on addiction, a diag...
12 Sep 20181h 20min
Episode 24: The Charlatan and the Magus, with Lionel Snell
As Lionel Snell, also known as Ramsey Dukes, observes in his seminal esoteric essay, "The Charlatan and the Magus" (1984), the series of trumps in a tarot deck doesn't begin with the noble Emperor or ...
28 Aug 201858min
Episode 23: On Presence
Phil stops by JF's Canadian homestead for a raucous IRL conversation on the idea of presence. The range of topics includes objects of power, the magic of books, the mystery of the event, modernity's k...
15 Aug 20181h 43min
Episode 22: Divining the World with Joshua Ramey
American philosopher Joshua Ramey, author of The Hermetic Deleuze: Philosophy and the Spiritual Ordeal, and Politics of Divination: Neoliberal Endgame and the Religion of Contingency, joins Phil and J...
1 Aug 20181h 9min
