Episode 139: Sex, Money, and Power are YOURS with our SECRET Art-Power Formula!

Episode 139: Sex, Money, and Power are YOURS with our SECRET Art-Power Formula!

Author: SpectreVision Radio February 1, 2023 Duration: 1:34:14
"YOU MUST CHANGE YOUR LIFE!" Tired of failure and self-loathing? Want to be rich and famous while having a good time all the time? Wondering how to turn your banal opinions into Transcendent Truths? Look no further than this special, exclusive episode of Weird Studies, where we reveal, once and for all, the secrets of ART-POWER! Listen to volume 1 and volume 2 of the Weird Studies soundtrack by Pierre-Yves Martel Support us on Patreon Find us on Discord Get the T-shirt design from Cotton Bureau! Get your Weird Studies merchandise (t-shirts, coffee mugs, etc.) Visit the Weird Studies Bookshop SHOW NOTES Ramsey Dukes, BLAST Your Way to Megabuck$ with My SECRET Sex-Power Formula James Raggi's statements on artistic freedom in tabletop roleplaying games: Proud to Commit Commercial Suicide 2023 and On Potential Inclusivity/Morality Clauses in RPG Licenses David Cronenberg, "I Would Like to Make a Case for the Crime of Art" Oscar Wilde, Preface to The Picture of Dorian Grey Alfred Gell, The Art of Anthropology Susanne Langer, “On the Cultural Importance of the Arts” Weird Studies, Episodes 73 and 74 on Carl Jung’s Theory of Art Kodo Sawaki, Japanese zen teacher Eric Voegelin, The New Science of Politics Gilles Deleuze, Pure Immanence Werner Herzog, Cave of Forgotten Dreams John Dewey, Art as Experience Susanne Langer, Philosophy in a New Key Neil Gaiman, “Make Good Art” Leon Wieseltier, “Perhaps Culture is Now the Counterculture” Eugene Vodolazkin, Laurus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

At the heart of Weird Studies, a podcast from SpectreVision Radio, you’ll find long-form conversations between Professor Phil Ford and writer J. F. Martel. Their discussions aren’t simple reviews or straightforward analyses; instead, they wander through the tangled undergrowth where art and philosophy meet, giving generous time to concepts that resist easy understanding and to creative works that fracture our ordinary sense of the world. This podcast deliberately lingers in that ambiguous space, treating the “weird” not as a genre but as a particular mode of experience-one that reveals the cracks in what we comfortably assume is real. Each episode feels like joining a deep, meandering dialogue between two friends who are both deeply knowledgeable and endlessly curious, covering a vast terrain that includes literature, film, music, and esoteric thought. It’s a show for anyone who suspects that the most profound truths are often found in the shadows, the anomalies, and the strangely beautiful. As part of the SpectreVision Radio network, which specializes in content that explores the uncanny edges of creativity, Weird Studies builds a unique community of listeners who are eager to think differently. You won’t find pat answers here, but you will encounter compelling questions and a shared sense of exploration that makes each installment a distinctive journey.
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Episode 133: On Weirding, and the Virtues of Unknowing Everything [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:12:04
With the term "weird studies" gaining currency inside and outside academia, Phil and JF thought it was time to discuss the philosophical method they've been developing on the podcast since 2018. Borrowing a term from Eri…
Off-Week Bonus: On Worlds and Stories, with a Special Announcement [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 57:54
In this bonus episode, originally released for Listener's Tier Patreon supporters, a discussion of the books Phil and JF are reading leads to a debate about the place of plot, story, and worldbuilding in narrative art. T…
Episode 130: Holiday Memories [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:17:11
In August, 2022, JF and Phil flew to the UK to attend the Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) at the University of St. Andrews and the Supernormal Festival in Oxfordshire. In addition to recording two live show…
Episode 128: Demon Workshop: On Victoria Nelson's 'Neighbor George' [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:28:29
The American writer and thinker Victoria Nelson is justly revered by afficionados of the Weird for The Secret Life of Puppets and its follow-up Gothicka. Both are masterful explorations the supernatural as it subsists in…
Episode 126: The Daemon Speaks, with Matt Cardin [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:22:37
Returning guest Matt Cardin is a writer of fiction and nonfiction whose focus on numinous horror places him in the literary lineage as Arthur Machen and Algernon Blackwood. His new book, What the Daemon Said, collects tw…

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