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Weird Studies

Weird Studies

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Professor Phil Ford and writer J. F. Martel host a series of conversations on art and philosophy, dwelling on ideas that are hard to think and art that opens up rifts in what we are pleased to call "reality." SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring the anomalous, the luminous, and the numinous. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. ⁠spectrevisionradio.com⁠ ⁠linktr.ee/spectrevision⁠© 2025 Phil Ford and J.F. Martel Art Philosophy Social Sciences
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  • Special Episode: M.C. Richards's "Wrestling with the Daimonic," read by Phil Ford

    Special Episode: M.C. Richards's "Wrestling with the Daimonic," read by Phil Ford
    Apr 22 2026
    We regret that we were unable to release a new episode this week. Episode 211 will drop on Wednesday, April 29, and will be devoted to Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, a film we have long wanted to revisit in depth. In the meantime, we are pleased to offer Phil’s spirited reading of M. C. Richards’ essay “Wrestling with the Daimonic,” discussed in our previous episode and available only to Patreon members until now. To support Weird Studies and get access to exclusive essays and bonus episodes, visit our Patreon page. And go to Weirdosphere to learn more about JF's upcoming course on Deleuzian philosophy, which starts on May 7th, 2026. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    58 mins
  • Episode 210 – Angels & Daimons, with Cristina Campo and M.C. Richards

    Episode 210 – Angels & Daimons, with Cristina Campo and M.C. Richards
    Apr 8 2026
    In this episode, JF and Phil bring together two visionary essays on the daimonic and the imaginal: Cristina Campo’s “On Fairy Tales” and M.C. Richards’s “Wrestling with the Daimonic.” What emerges is a conversation about imagination, personhood, and a world shot through with meaning. Notably, this episode opens with a discussion of what your hosts mean by "imaginal." Phil’s reading of Richards’s essay can be found on our Patreon page. Thanks to Wesleyan University Press for permission to share this with our listeners. Go to Pierre-Yves Martel's Bandcamp page to preorder his marvellous new album, Weird Studies Volume 3. Click here to sign up for JF's seminar on Henri Bergson, happening on the Mutations learning platform on Saturday, April 11, 2026. Click here for details on JF's upcoming Weirdosphere course, "What is Philosophy?". Music in this Episode "Scavenger," from ⁠Weird Studies Vol. 3⁠ "Domes and Spires," from ⁠Weird Studies Vol. 2⁠ References M. C. Richards, American artist and philosopher Cristina Campo, Italian poet and essayist M. C. Richards, “Wrestling with the Daimonic” Cristina Campo, “On Fairy Tales” Henri Bergson, Matter and Memory William Blake, “Auguries of Innocence” Weird Studies, Episode 8 on Graham Harmon Susan Chang, The Tarot Podcast Ramsey Dukes, The Little Book of Demons “The Boy Who Knew No Fear,” fairy tale Una Voce, Catholic movement Franz Liszt, Hungarian Pianist Walter Benjamin, The Storyteller William Shakespeare, Othello M. C. Richards, Centering Robert Duncan, American poet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 33 mins
  • Episode 209 – At Home in the Labyrinth, with Murakami and Borges

    Episode 209 – At Home in the Labyrinth, with Murakami and Borges
    Mar 25 2026
    In this episode, Phil and JF discuss Haruki Murakami’s “Cream,” from First Person Singular, alongside Jorge Luis Borges’s classic tale, “The Garden of Forking Paths.” Together, these two stories occasion a meditation on time, perplexity, and the strange possibility that meaning isn't found at the end of the maze, but discovered only in the course of wandering it. Photo by DMzlC via Wikimedia Commons. Pierre-Yves Martel's Bandcamp page, home of Weird Studies Vol. 3 (to be released May 22, 2026). Joel Plaskett's website and Substack References Geoffrey Cornelius, “Chicane: Double-Thinking and Divination among the Witch-Doctors,” in Divination: Perspectives for a New Millennium, ed. Patrick Curry (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010), 119– 42. Joe Leduc's Blood Oath Jorge Luis Borges, “The Garden of Forking Paths” Haruki Murakami, “Cream” Marc Augé, Non-Places Federico Campagna, Technic and Magic Phil Ford, “The View from the Cheap Seats at the UFO Show” Nicholas of Cusa, “On the Quadrature of the Circle” Ethan Weed, “A Labyrinth of Symbols” Kids in the Hall, “Premise Beach” David Lynch, Twin Peaks: The Return David Lynch, Lost Highway Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Don Giovanni Weird Studies, Episode 66 on “Diviner’s Time” Gottfried Leibniz, Theodicy Quentin Meillasoux, After Finitude Alejandro Jodorowsky, The Way of Tarot Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 33 mins
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