Weird Studies

More curated sources for you...

I’ve been busy while spinning in hyperspace. One of the things I’ve been doing is looking for good sources for us in the future. This podcast has been around for several years so there is a lot of material, especially for Patreon subscribers (which I am not, yet). I’ve listened to several of the episodes in the past few days and I can recommend these guys - they’re very good. And they cover all sorts of things, including quite a few that we have covered in past classes. The episodes are a treasure trove for those of us trying to get our bearings in this world of “rejected knowledge” and the “esoteric.”

They did an episode on the band Sunn O))). !!!!! Some of you will remember that I got super excited when I discovered them during one of the musicologies courses. Stay for the whole segment - it’s gets better at the end while discussing Brutalism in architecture!

Also an fine interview with Victoria Nelson on her book The Secret Life of Puppets which Kripal pointed me to in one of his books.

They also interviewed Federico Campagna who we very nearly read last year, but I bumped him for Emanuele Coccia. We’ll have to engage his book Technics and Magic. He knows Corbin’s work.

And maybe most wonderfully, they open up Ramsay Duke’s S.S.O.T.B.M.E.: An Essay on Magic in a way that makes me quite sure I have to read it as soon as I finish Mutants & Mystics by Kripal.

ALSO we have a brand new podcast from Matthew Dillon from the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard called

This promises to be really excellent based on the first two episodes. Plus the music is by Trey Spruance and Secret Chiefs 3.

Good listening!!!

[NOTE: The Rice University Conference WILL be available online in recorded form for those of us who can’t listen to all of it in real time.]