# Weird Studies

A podcast by SpectreVision Radio. 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

Feed: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/IMP7332460748

## Latest episodes

- [Episode 221 – On 'The Exorcist'](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1343819177/44ccf93e15ab) (2026-10-21, 82 min): audio https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/PHTE1021680124.mp3
- [Episode 220: The Dream of a Ridiculous Man: Live at the Dream Mapping Symposium](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1343819177/c62a0ca644f8) (2026-10-07, 115 min): audio https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/PHTE9023377138.mp3
- [Episode 219 – Composing the Cosmos, with Meredith Rigby](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1343819177/8d614594f083) (2026-09-23, 86 min): audio https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/PHTE4379544951.mp3
- [Episode 218 — A Mighty Matter of Legend: On J.R.R. Tolkien's 'The Two Towers'](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1343819177/ebcb4cd5775f) (2026-09-09, 75 min): audio https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/PHTE9253285434.mp3
- [Mid-Hiatus Bonus: A Door in the Fourth Wall](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1343819177/10f672951759) (2026-08-26, 46 min): audio https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/PHTE5724541322.mp3
- [Episode 217 – Books, Spirits, and Hysteria, with Asti Hustvedt](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1343819177/d335879890c9) (2026-08-05, 78 min): audio https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/PHTE8828331095.mp3
- [Episode 216 – Artworks Are People Too](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1343819177/9e71c1395537) (2026-07-22, 94 min): audio https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/PHTE6173631157.mp3
- [Special Episode: Make Art!](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1343819177/3cccad3fc6f0) (2026-07-08, 42 min): audio https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/PHTE2591407290.mp3
- [Episode 215 – Where No One Can Hear You Scream: On Ridley Scott's 'Alien'](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1343819177/03c2f7d4e472) (2026-06-24, 90 min): audio https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/PHTE7913758005.mp3
- [Episode 214 – Fortune's Fools: On Gordon White's Philosophy of Fortune-Telling](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1343819177/9ebe9a4a4645) (2026-06-10, 76 min): audio https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/PHTE5601359924.mp3
- [Episode 213 – Comics, Surf Rock, and the Weirdness of Time: On Tom Manning's 'Eric'](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1343819177/0e5f9e04f671) (2026-05-27, 80 min): audio https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/PHTE2908514395.mp3
- [Episode 212 – Beyond Music and Back Again: On Glenn Gould](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1343819177/76ad47bfccd9) (2026-05-13, 85 min): audio https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/PHTE5430903625.mp3
- [Episode 211 – You've Always Been the Caretaker: On Kubrick's 'The Shining'](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1343819177/2b624091978b) (2026-04-29, 88 min): audio https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/PHTE1774745164.mp3?updated=1777465397
- [Special Episode: M.C. Richards's "Wrestling with the Daimonic," read by Phil Ford](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1343819177/cac15a91fe87) (2026-04-22, 58 min): audio https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/PHTE8891758356.mp3
- [Episode 210 – Angels & Daimons, with Cristina Campo and M.C. Richards](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1343819177/a2fb69bfdddd) (2026-04-08, 94 min): audio https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/PHTE1197443066.mp3
- [Episode 209 – At Home in the Labyrinth, with Murakami and Borges](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1343819177/71b546c0eeab) (2026-03-25, 94 min): audio https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/PHTE6151784769.mp3
- [Episode 208 – Unbridled Creation: On Kenneth Batcheldor's Theory of the Paranormal](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1343819177/12fb3b218f0c) (2026-03-11, 80 min): audio https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/PHTE5589672838.mp3
- [Episode 207 – Magic Mirror: On J.R.R. Tolkien's 'The Fellowship of the Ring'](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1343819177/6f2789b7627d) (2026-02-25, 93 min): audio https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/PHTE5129807475.mp3
- [Episode 206 – On Ken Russell's 'Altered States': Live at Indiana University Bloomington](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1343819177/7e043eda0bd3) (2026-02-11, 82 min): audio https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/PHTE9424413057.mp3?updated=1770816229
- [Episode 205 – Discipline and Delight: On the Hierophant Card in the Tarot](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1343819177/8b551f5fff59) (2026-01-28, 94 min): audio https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/PHTE4645305751.mp3
- [Episode 204 – The Perilous Realm: J.R.R. Tolkien's 'On Fairy Stories'](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1343819177/7ac672861179) (2026-01-14, 77 min): audio https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/PHTE2413105389.mp3
- [Holiday Bonus: Scavengers in the Ruins of Heaven](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1343819177/7df1bf9ae8c5) (2025-12-31, 33 min): audio https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/PHTE7986213728.mp3
- [Episode 203 – Distant Early Warnings: A Return to Marshall McLuhan's 'Book of Probes'](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1343819177/6383e8e8b2e1) (2025-12-10, 87 min): audio https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/PHTE3265386698.mp3
- [Episode 202 – The Human is Two: On 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1343819177/04b4d972392d) (2025-11-26, 82 min): audio https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/PHTE4502695512.mp3
- [Episode 201 – On James Whale's 'Frankenstein' and 'Bride of Frankenstein,' with Peter Bebergal](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1343819177/57fc6d97117b) (2025-11-12, 71 min): audio https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/PHTE8208195281.mp3
- [Halloween Special: A Reading of Arthur Machen's "The White People"](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1343819177/a9e63a42aed6) (2025-10-31, 100 min): audio https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/PHTE4411048823.mp3
- [Episode 200 – On 'The Call of Cthulhu'](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1343819177/e7ff6bd4dbe8) (2025-10-29, 88 min): audio https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/PHTE2334330114.mp3
- [Episode 199 – On Michael Jackson, with Shannon Taggart](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1343819177/79fb91d3812a) (2025-10-15, 76 min): audio https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/PHTE6545948465.mp3
- [Episode 198 – Breaking the Frame: On the High Priestess in the Tarot](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1343819177/a3bb349b63db) (2025-10-01, 80 min): audio https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/PHTE2435574534.mp3
- [Episode 197 - Sounding the Otherworld: On Bryn Chainey's 'Rabbit Trap'](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1343819177/8799944f4828) (2025-09-17, 71 min): audio https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/PHTE6472771892.mp3
- [Weird Studies Trailer](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1343819177/3852d66c9b31) (2025-09-07, 2 min): audio https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/PHTE8084731033.mp3
- [Mid-Break Bonus: On Trust](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1343819177/56becf48fa26) (2025-09-03, 58 min): audio https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/PHTE8499178744.mp3
- [Episode 196 – Lost and Never Found: On 'The Blair Witch Project'](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1343819177/a8d74dfe8314) (2025-08-13, 93 min): audio https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/PHTE3299076818.mp3
- [Episode 195 – On John Keel: Live at the Lily Dale Symposium, with Erik Davis](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1343819177/5ec350a2a6c4) (2025-08-06, 112 min): audio https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/PHTE4021072806.mp3?updated=1754493374
- [Episode 194: Animal Songs, with Meredith Michael](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1343819177/2f8dc1b74f42) (2025-07-23, 84 min): audio https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/PHTE1866201655.mp3?updated=1753277548
- [Episode 193: On Conversion, or Arousing the Bodhi-Mind](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1343819177/1d8c070ccd53) (2025-07-09, 89 min): audio https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/PHTE4366640264.mp3?updated=1752079600
- [Episode 192 - A Dream of Landscape: On Walking](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1343819177/49122c5d2409) (2025-06-25, 74 min): audio https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/PHTE7538858179.mp3?updated=1750864341
- [Special Episode: Theory, Philosophy, and Uranus](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1343819177/ed210f12b445) (2025-06-18, 63 min): audio https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/PHTE9913379039.mp3?updated=1750591288
- [Special Episode: Myth, History, and Form](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1343819177/bfacf2c86ca7) (2025-06-04, 47 min): audio https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/IMP4520524347.mp3?updated=1749045320
- [Episode 191 — The Acid Queen, with Susannah Cahalan](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1343819177/bff1b0976fa4) (2025-05-21, 89 min): audio https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/IMP3331166375.mp3?updated=1747841836
- [Episode 190 – Here Be Shrubs: On Algernon Blackwood's 'The Willows'](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1343819177/027c94759eab) (2025-05-07, 76 min): audio https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/IMP2505035993.mp3?updated=1746557344
- [Episode 189: Care of the Dead, with Jacob G. Foster](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1343819177/f9b862bd2a5d) (2025-04-23, 96 min): audio https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/IMP8569680845.mp3?updated=1745413912
- [Episode 188: Pioneers of the Untimely: On the Hermit Card in the Tarot](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1343819177/6a10c6e6264a) (2025-04-09, 83 min): audio https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/IMP3761696840.mp3?updated=1745335105
- [Episode 187: The Affirmation of Imagination: On John Crowley's 'Little, Big,' with Erik Davis](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1343819177/417844ab6de2) (2025-03-26, 95 min): audio https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/IMP6991619124.mp3?updated=1744045590
- [Episode 186: Meeting at the Center: The Wedge, Part Two](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1343819177/2bddc3d0fa4b) (2025-03-12, 90 min): audio https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/IMP5177404789.mp3?updated=1744045590
- [Episode 185: Intuition and Reality: The Wedge, Part One](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1343819177/4471d21b845b) (2025-02-26, 78 min): audio https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/IMP8634676702.mp3?updated=1744045591
- [Special Release: Poltergeists, Fairies, Skeptics, and the Managerial Class](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1343819177/2fb7936d3eda) (2025-02-19, 34 min): audio https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/IMP7050058576.mp3?updated=1744045591
- [Episode 184: On David Lynch](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1343819177/361641072e8c) (2025-02-05, 103 min): audio https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/IMP4347805284.mp3?updated=1744045592
- [Episode 183: On Hermann Hesse's 'Siddhartha'](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1343819177/24a9527aa03a) (2025-01-22, 82 min): audio https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/IMP2700736485.mp3?updated=1744045593
- [Episode 182: Providence of Evil: On Robert Eggers' 'Nosferatu'](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1343819177/3fdfbd6bfab7) (2025-01-08, 81 min): audio https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/IMP5251197771.mp3?updated=1744045593

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