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 188: Conceptual Mummies (Nietzsche's "Twilight of the Idols")
Episode 187: More Zither
Episode 186: The One with Peter Singer
Episode 185: The Devil's Playground
Bonus Episode: Top 5 Deadwood Characters
Episode 184: Tainted Glove
Episode 183: Accept the Mystery (with Paul Bloom)
Episode 182: The Paper That Launched a Thousand Twitter Wars (With Yoel Inbar)
Episode 181: The Fraudulence Paradox (David Foster Wallace's "Good Old Neon")
Episode 180: Chekhov's Schrödinger's Dagger (Kurosawa's "Rashomon")
Episode 179: Talking Shit
Episode 178: Borges' Obsession-Obsession ("The Zahir")
Episode 177: Pure Linguistic Chauvinism
Episode 176: Split-Brains and the (Dis)Unity of Consciousness
Episode 175: At Least We Didn’t Talk About Zombies (Nagel’s “What is it Like to be a Bat?”)
Episode 174: More Chiang for Your Buck ("Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom" Pt. 2)
Episode 173: Talking to Your (Alternate) Self [Ted Chiang's "Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom"]
Episode 172: Are You Free (to like the Chappelle special)?
Episode 171: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Theodicy? (The Book of Job)
Episode 170: Social Psychology Gets an Asch-Kicking
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