Absolutely recommended: the latest Weird Studies podcast episode on The Fellowship of the Ring. Their approach to LotR as a novel of the Weird chimes with how I've always understood the novel (and not so much in the manner Jackson interpreted it). Their description of the "ambient magic" in the novel is so well observed. Such a great listen!
I fell deep down the Weird Studies weirdosphere rabbit hole last year while in between day gigs. Super happy to heal Phil and J.F. cover Orson Welles’ greatest movie (for me anyway), “F For Fake”
#WeirdStudies #OrsonWelles #FForFake #Podcasts #Movies #NowListening
JF and Phil discuss Orson Welles's 1973 film essay on the strange overlap of fraud, art, and truth.
This episode of Backlisted is devoted to A Life in Movies (1986), the first volume of memoirs of the filmmaker Michael Powell who, with his partner Emeric Pressburger , is responsible for some of the finest, most magical and soulful films ever to come out of the UK: The Life and Death of Co
Ever get the feeling that you've already died and we're all living in some kind of afterlife?
That's kind of what this thought-provoking and very #weird philosophical essay is about.
Any other Weird Studies fans out there? Are there other great podcasts on matters of weirdness that I should know about?
I'm listening to a great episode of one of my new favourite #podcast, #weirdStudies.
It examines and illuminates a diverse range of subjects involving (but not limited to): the #occult, #philosophy, counter-culture, art, film, music, etc.
This episode on visionary Marshall McLuhan!
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5y96YZgSIK5SYZ37Tw9z78?si=bJE2kYKXSGanKOZVEqbKZg
Listen to this episode from Weird Studies on Spotify. On the surface, the phrase "the medium is the message," prophetic as it may have been when Marshall McLuhan coined it, points a now-obvious fact of our wired world, namely that the content of any medium is less important than its form. The advent of email, for instance, has brought about changes in society and culture that are more far-reaching than the content of any particular email. On the other hand, this aphorism of McLuhan's has the ring of an utterance of the Delphic Oracle. As Phil proposes in this episode of Weird Studies, it is an example of what Zen practitioners call a koan, a statement that occludes and illumines in equal measures, a jewel whose shining surface is an invitation to descend into dark depths. Join JF and Phil as they discuss the mystical and cosmic implications of McLuhan's oracular vision. REFERENCES McLuhan, [Understanding Media](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UnderstandingMedia)_ The Playboy interview (https://nextnature.net/2009/12/the-playboy-interview-marshall-mcluhan) McLuhan and Quentin Fiore, [The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheMediumIstheMassage) Graham Harman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Harman), American philosopher Clement Greenberg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement_Greenberg), American critic Dale Pendell, [Pharmako/Poeia: Plant Powers, Poisons, and Herbcraft](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1556438052/ref=dbsadefrwtbiblvppii2) Brian Eno (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Eno), British composer Marshall and Eric McLuhan, The Laws of Media: The New Science (https://utorontopress.com/ca/laws-of-media-1) _ Jonathan Sterne, _The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction (https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-audible-past) Eric McLuhan and Frank Zingrone (editors), The Essential McLuhan (https://www.amazon.com/Essential-McLuhan-Eric/dp/0465019951) Charles A. Reich, [The Greening of America](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheGreeningofAmerica)_ David Fincher (director), The Social Network (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1285016/) _ Gilles Deleuze, _Cinema I (https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/cinema-1) _and _Cinema II (https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/cinema-2) Jean Gebser, The Ever-Present Origin (https://www.amazon.com/Ever-Present-Origin-Part-Aperspectival-Manifestations/dp/0821407694) Eric Havelock,_ Preface to Plato (https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674699069)_ Walter J. Ong (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_J._Ong), American theorist Plato, [Republic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic(Plato))_
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