Rainer Maria Rilke's poem "Archaic Torso of Apollo" ends on a note that has puzzled and inspired readers for more than a century: "For there is no place that does not see you. You must change your life." In this episode, JF and Phil search for the meaning of this ethico-aesthetic imperative that Rilke heard resounding from a fragment of Greek statuary. This episode is special because the hosts were able to record it in person while on a writing retreat in Western Quebec. Enroll in THE TWIN PEAKS MYTHOS (https://www.nuralearning.com/twin-peaks-mythos), a 4-week Weird Studies view-along starting June 8th. Listen to Meredith Michael and Gabriel Lubell's podcast, Cosmophonia (https://cosmophonia.podbean.com/). Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/weirdstudies) and gain access to Phil's podcast on Wagner's Ring Cycle. Download Pierre-Yves Martel's new album, Mer Bleue (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/mer-bleue). Visit the Weird Studies Bookshop (https://bookshop.org/shop/weirdstudies) Find us on Discord (https://discord.com/invite/Jw22CHfGwp) Get the T-shirt design from Cotton Bureau (https://cottonbureau.com/products/can-o-content#/13435958/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s)! REFERENCES Rainer Maria Rilke, “Archaic Torso of Apollo” (https://poets.org/poem/archaic-torso-apollo) Peter Sloterdijk, You Must Change Your Life (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780745649221) Michel Foucault, The Order of Things (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780679753353) He Man (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He-Man), superhero Munich Terrorist Photo (https://www.npr.org/2022/09/04/1116641214/munich-olympics-massacre-hostage-terrorism-israel-germany) Albert Camus, The Rebel (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780679733843) Franz Kafka, "The Trial" (https://www.kafka-online.info/the-trial.html) and “In the Penal Colony" (https://www.kafka-online.info/in-the-penal-colony.html) Auguste Rodin, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_Rodin) French sculptor

Of the twenty-two figures that make up the major arcana of the tarot, the Chariot is probably the most commonplace. While the tenth arcanum is a wheel, it's The Wheel of Fortune, not just any old wagon wheel. But arcanum VII is neither the Chariot of Fire or the Chariot of the Gods – just the plain old chariot. Usually, it is interpreted as a symbol of the will in its lower and higher aspects. In this episode, Phil notes that the Chariot can also symbolize something as ordinary as new car. Of course, here on Weird Studies, no car is just a car, and we like to think that Youngblood Priest, the protagonist of the 1972 film Super Fly, would agree. A car also a tool, a medium, a token of mastery, an atmospheric disturbance, a means of manifestation, a spaceship... Enroll in THE TWIN PEAKS MYTHOS (https://www.nuralearning.com/twin-peaks-mythos), a 4-week Weird Studies view-along starting June 8th. Listen to Meredith Michael and Gabriel Lubell's podcast, Cosmophonia (https://cosmophonia.podbean.com/). Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/weirdstudies) and gain access to Phil's podcast on Wagner's Ring Cycle. Download Pierre-Yves Martel's new album, Mer Bleue (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/mer-bleue). Visit the Weird Studies Bookshop (https://bookshop.org/shop/weirdstudies) Find us on Discord (https://discord.com/invite/Jw22CHfGwp) Get the T-shirt design from Cotton Bureau (https://cottonbureau.com/products/can-o-content#/13435958/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s)! REFERENCES Rachel Pollack, Tarot Wisdom (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780738713090) Jordan Parks Jr., Super Fly (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069332/) Our Known Friend, Meditations on the Tarot (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781585421619) Weird Studies, Episode 144 on “Hellraiser” (https://www.weirdstudies.com/144) Plato, Phaedrus (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780140449747) Vanessa Onwuemezi, Dark Neighborhood (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781913097707) J. G. Ballard, Crash (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781250171511) Paul Virilio, War and Cinema (https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/979442) Karl Marx, Grundrisse (https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1857/grundrisse/) Weird Studies, Episode 26 with Michael Garfield (https://www.weirdstudies.com/26)

In this episode, Phil and JF discuss Vanessa Onwuemezi's, "Dark Neighbourhood," a tale of scintillant darkness from her debut collection of the same name. This strangest of strange stories is set in a vast encampment of destitute yet hopeful people whose lives consist entirely of waiting for their turn to step through the iron gates of the Beyond. Living off the dregs of civilization, they seem the last of our kind. They are the ones who, having made it to the front of the line, have the dubious honour of contemplating directly the mystery that awaits us all. Unlike anything we've covered on the show, "Dark Neighbourhood" is a chilling and moving story that elicits interpretation as elegantly as it resists it. Pierre-Yves Martel's album Mer bleue (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/mer-bleue) drops on May 1st, 2023! Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/weirdstudies) and gain access to Phil's ongoing podcast on Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle. Listen to volume 1 (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/weird-studies-music-from-the-podcast-vol-1) and volume 2 (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/weird-studies-music-from-the-podcast-vol-2) of the Weird Studies soundtrack by Pierre-Yves Martel (https://www.pymartel.com) Find us on Discord (https://discord.com/invite/Jw22CHfGwp) Get the T-shirt design from Cotton Bureau (https://cottonbureau.com/products/can-o-content#/13435958/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s)! Get your Weird Studies merchandise (https://www.redbubble.com/people/Weird-Studies/shop?asc=u) (t-shirts, coffee mugs, etc.) Visit the Weird Studies Bookshop (https://bookshop.org/shop/weirdstudies) REFERENCES Show Notes.docx Vanessa Omwuemezi, Dark Neighbourhood (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781913097707) Peter Breugel, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus (https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/landscape-with-the-fall-of-icarus) Weird Studies, Episode 140 on “Spirited Away” (https://www.weirdstudies.com/140) Karl Marx, Capital (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781453716540) Phil Ford, Dig (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780199939916) Murray Bookchin, Post-Scarcity Anarchism (https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-post-scarcity-anarchism-book) Weird Studies, Episode 98 on “Taboo” (https://www.weirdstudies.com/98 https://www.weirdstudies.com/98) Michael Wadleigh (dir.), Woodstock (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066580/) Samuel R. Delaney, Dahlgren (https://bookshop.org/p/books/dhalgren-samuel-r-delany/8507517?ean=9780375706684) Leonard Cohen, “Waiting for the Miracle (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXvG0SMP7tw) Martin Esslin, The Theatre of the Absurd (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781400075232) One red paperclip (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_red_paperclip), story of guy who traded a paper clip for a house Weird Studies, Episode 101 on Tanizaki (https://www.weirdstudies.com/101) James Hillman, The Dream and the Underworld (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780060906825) George Steiner, Real Presences (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780226772349) H. P. Lovecraft, “Nyarlothotep” (https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/n.aspx) Alexander Wendt and Raymond Duvall, “Sovereignty and the UFO” (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0090591708317902) Weird Studies, Episode 144 on Hellraiser (https://www.weirdstudies.com/144) Weird Studies, Episode 29 on Lovecraft (https://www.weirdstudies.com/29)

In the 1980s, Clive Barker burst onto the cultural scene with The Books of Blood, collections of unforgettable tales of horror, depravity, and decadence the likes of which had been seldom seen since the days of Lautréamont's Les Chants de Maldoror and Huysmans' Là-Bas. In the decades that followed, he went on to create an astounding body of work in fantasy and horror as a writer, artist, and film director. In this episode, author, lecturer, and podcaster Conner Habib joins JF and Phil to discuss what is arguably Barker's best-known work, the 1987 horror classic Hellraiser, as well as the novella that inspired it, "The Hellbound Heart." Preorder Pierre-Yves Martel's album Mer bleue (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/mer-bleue). Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/weirdstudies) and gain access to Phil's ongoing podcast on Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle. Listen to volume 1 (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/weird-studies-music-from-the-podcast-vol-1) and volume 2 (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/weird-studies-music-from-the-podcast-vol-2) of the Weird Studies soundtrack by Pierre-Yves Martel (https://www.pymartel.com) Find us on Discord (https://discord.com/invite/Jw22CHfGwp) Get the T-shirt design from Cotton Bureau (https://cottonbureau.com/products/can-o-content#/13435958/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s)! Get your Weird Studies merchandise (https://www.redbubble.com/people/Weird-Studies/shop?asc=u) (t-shirts, coffee mugs, etc.) Visit the Weird Studies Bookshop (https://bookshop.org/shop/weirdstudies) References Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart (https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-hellbound-heart-clive-barker/8956965?ean=9780061452888) Clive Barker (dir.), Hellraiser (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093177/) Tod Browning (dir.), Freaks (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022913/) Clive Barker, “In the Hills, The Cities” in Books of Blood (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780425165584) Wes Craven, A Nightmare on Elm Street (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087800/) Angela Carter, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Carter) English writer Susan Sontag, “Happenings: An Art of Radical Juxtaposition” (https://www.robertspahr.com/teaching/hnm/susan_sontag_an_art_of_radical_juxtaposition.pdf) Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, What is Philosophy? (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780231079891) Sturm und Drang, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturm_und_Drang) 18th-century artistic movement Gayle Rubin, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gayle_Rubin) American cultural anthropologist Stephen King, It (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781501142970) Robert Wise (dir.), The Sound of Music (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059742/) Slavoj Zizek, The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0828154/) Robert Wise (dir.), The Haunting (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057129/) David Mamet, On Directing Film (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780140127225) Mark Hedsel and David Ovason, [The Zealotor](https://www.google.com/books/edition/TheZelator/1UEAAAAACAAJ?hl=en)_ David Lynch (dir.), Mulholland Drive (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166924/) Stanley Kubrick, The Shining (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081505/) Coil, Hellraiser Themes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZS7eM_-jEA) Bela Bartok, [Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicforStrings,PercussionandCelesta)_ Golden Section, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio) mathematical ratio Kevin Williamson, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Williamson_(screenwriter)), American screenwriter Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780312280864) Special Guest: Conner Habib.

In the 1950s, Carl Jung expressed frustration at the impenetrability of the UFO mystery, the "strange, unknown, and indeed contradictory nature" of this "ostensibly physical phenomenon" with "an extremely important psychic component." Throughout his writings on the topic, he marvels at the impossibility of coming to even preliminary conclusions. Fastforward to 2023, after a series of astounding disclosures on the part of qualified government people, and we have as much reason to be baffled as we ever had. In this episode, Phil and JF discuss the mercurial, tricksterish fact of ortherwordly things seen in the sky. Learn more about the Ohio UFO Heritage Conference (https://ufoheritage.com) on May 5-6, 2023. Preorder Pierre-Yves Martel's album Mer bleue (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/mer-bleue). Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/weirdstudies) and gain access to Phil's ongoing podcast on Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle. Listen to volume 1 (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/weird-studies-music-from-the-podcast-vol-1) and volume 2 (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/weird-studies-music-from-the-podcast-vol-2) of the Weird Studies soundtrack by Pierre-Yves Martel (https://www.pymartel.com) Find us on Discord (https://discord.com/invite/Jw22CHfGwp) Get the T-shirt design from Cotton Bureau (https://cottonbureau.com/products/can-o-content#/13435958/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s)! Get your Weird Studies merchandise (https://www.redbubble.com/people/Weird-Studies/shop?asc=u) (t-shirts, coffee mugs, etc.) Visit the Weird Studies Bookshop (https://bookshop.org/shop/weirdstudies) REFERENCES Patrik Harpur, [Daimonic Reality](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/920181.DaimonicReality)_ John Keel The Mothman Prophecies (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780765334985) Jaques Vallee Passport to Magonia (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780987422484) William Shakespeare, Macbeth (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780743477109) UFO Rabbit Hole Podcast (https://uforabbithole.com/) Carl Jung, Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Sky (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780415278379) Weird Studies, Episode 141 on SSOTBME (https://www.weirdstudies.com/141) Henri Bergson, Matter and Memory (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781420937800) Weird Studies, Episodes 73 and 74 on Jung (https://www.weirdstudies.com/74) Weird Studies, Episode 44 on William James’s Psychical Research (https://www.weirdstudies.com/44) Jacques Vallée and Paola Leopizzi, Harris, Trinity: The Best-Kept Secret (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781667113647) Jacques Vallée, "Physical Analyses in Ten Cases of Unexplained Aerial Objects with Material Samples" (https://www.academia.edu/8412505/Physical_Analyses_in_Ten_Cases_of_Unexplained_Aerial_Objects_with_Material_Samples) Shepard tone (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzNzgsAE4F0) Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781803414300) Twin Peaks Mark Pilkington, [Mirage Men](https://www.google.com/books/edition/TheZelator/1UEAAAAACAAJ?hl=en)_ Graham Harman, Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781780992525) Weird Studies, Episode 59 on Walking (https://www.weirdstudies.com/59) Weird Studies, Episode 142 on “Last and First Men” (https://www.weirdstudies.com/142)