Ranked #1
Episode 36: On Hyperstition
Episode 36: On Hyperstition
Hyperstition is a key concept in the philosophy of Nick Land. It refers to fictions which, given enough time and libidin... Read more
19 Dec 2018
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1hr 13mins
Ranked #2
Episode 29: On Lovecraft
Episode 29: On Lovecraft
Phil and JF indulge their autumnal mood in this discussion of Howard Phillips Lovecraft's work, specifically the essay "... Read more
9 Oct 2018
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1hr 15mins
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Episode 62: It's Like 'The Shining', But With Nuns: On 'Black Narcissus'
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The 1947 British film Black Narcissus is many things: an allegory of the end of empire, a chilling ghost story with nary... Read more
18 Dec 2019
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Episode 39: The Challenge of the Paranormal, with Jeffrey J. Kripal
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"The world is not simply composed of physical causes strung together in strictly materialistic and mechanical fashion," ... Read more
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Episode 30: On Stanley Kubrick's 'Eyes Wide Shut'
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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... Read more
14 Oct 2018
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Episode 52: On Beauty
Episode 52: On Beauty
The idea that beauty might denote an actual quality of the world, something outside the human frame, is one of the great... Read more
31 Jul 2019
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Episode 44: Doomed to Enchantment: The Psychical Research of William James
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The great American thinker William James knew well that no intellectual pursuit is purely intellectual. His interest in ... Read more
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Episode 9: On Aleister Crowley and the Idea of Magick
Episode 9: On Aleister Crowley and the Idea of Magick
The plan was to discuss the introduction to Aleister Crowley's classic work, Magick in Theory and Practice (1924), a pow... Read more
11 Apr 2018
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Episode 14: On Tarkovsky's 'Stalker' - Part One
Episode 14: On Tarkovsky's 'Stalker' - Part One
Journey into the Zone to uncover some of the strange artifacts buried in Tarkovsky's cinematic masterpiece, Stalker (197... Read more
16 May 2018
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Episode 60: Space is the Place: On Sun Ra, Gnosticism, and the Tarot
Episode 60: Space is the Place: On Sun Ra, Gnosticism, and the Tarot
Somebody once said, "No prophet is welcome in his own country." Whether this was true in the case of jazz musician and c... Read more
20 Nov 2019
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1hr 25mins
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Episode 37: Entities, with Stuart Davis
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 Ev... Read more
2 Jan 2019
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1hr 14mins
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Episode 20: The Trash Stratum - Part 1
Episode 20: The Trash Stratum - Part 1
Is the Holy Grail a crushed beer can in the gutter? JF and Phil consider the implications of Philip K. Dick's line, "the... Read more
4 Jul 2018
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1hr 15mins
Ranked #13
Episode 49: Out of Time: Nietzsche on History
Episode 49: Out of Time: Nietzsche on History
In his essay "On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life," Nietzsche attacks the notion that humans are totally d... Read more
19 Jun 2019
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1hr 22mins
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Episode 59: Green Mountains Are Always Walking
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"Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around a lake." This line from Wallace Stevens' "Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction" ca... Read more
6 Nov 2019
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1hr 19mins
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Episode 27: Weird Music, Part One
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 ove... Read more
26 Sep 2018
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1hr 18mins
Ranked #16
Episode 25: David Cronenberg's 'Naked Lunch'
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 adaptati... Read more
12 Sep 2018
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1hr 20mins
Ranked #17
Episode 8: On Graham Harman's "The Third Table"
Episode 8: On Graham Harman's "The Third Table"
JF and Phil discuss Graham Harman's "The Third Table," a short and accessible introduction to "object-oriented ontology.... Read more
4 Apr 2018
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1hr 12mins
Ranked #18
Episode 4: Exploring the Weird with Erik Davis
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Scholar, journalist and author Erik Davis joins Phil and JF for a freewheeling conversation on the permutations of the w... Read more
7 Mar 2018
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1hr 21mins
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Episode 22: Divining the World with Joshua Ramey
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 ... Read more
1 Aug 2018
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1hr 9mins
Ranked #20
Episode 10: Philip K. Dick: Adrift in the Multiverse
Episode 10: Philip K. Dick: Adrift in the Multiverse
In 1977, Philip K. Dick read an essay in France entitled, "If You Find this World Bad, You Should See Some of the Others... Read more
18 Apr 2018
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1hr 23mins
