Phil Ford and J.F. Martel from the great "Weird Studies" podcast join us for a whirling discussion of Edgar Allan Poe’s mesmerizing tale of decadence and disease “The Masque of the Red Death." We also talk about weird fiction more generally, why it’s so suited to the short story genre, how it creates a mood that drips and bursts from the seam of the page.
Plus David and Tamler in the opening segment talk about Aella’s data-driven, chart and graph filled birthday orgy. Is she the sex symbol for our times?
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Episode 227: A Terrible Master (David Foster Wallace's "This Is Water").
Episode 226: Unraveling Time Traveling (with Barry Lam and Christina Hoff Sommers)
Episode 225: Forbidden Modules
Episode 224: Hurts So Good (With Paul Bloom)
Episode 223: The Hopeless Dream of Being (Bergman's "Persona")
Episode 222: Choosing Sartre for All Mankind
Episode 221: Granite Cocks vs Robot Overlords
Episode 220: On Your Marx
Episode 219: Multiplied by Mirrors
Episode 218: ...But You Can't Hide (Michael Haneke's "Caché")
Episode 217: Dropping Paradigms (Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions")
Episode 216: Oral Judgments
Episode 215: Touch My Pink Monkey
Episode 214: You Shouldn't Feel Bad (Except You Should)
Episode 213: What Is It Like To Be a Robot Fish Man? (with Ted Chiang)
Episode 212: Follow Your Nose (with Yoel Inbar)
Episode 211: To Live and Die in Kurosawa's "Ikiru"
Episode 210: The Priming of the American Mind (with Jesse Singal)
Episode 209: Basic Instincts (with Paul Bloom)
Episode 208: Dream Theater
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