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Episode 171: The Beauty and the Horror

Episode 171: The Beauty and the Horror

Update: 2024-06-142
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This week on Weird Studies, Phil and JF explore the intersections of the beautiful and the terrible in art and literature. There is a conventional beauty that calms and placates, and there is a radical beauty which, taking horror’s pale-gloved hand, gives up all pretense to permanence and fixity and joins the danse macabre of our endless becoming. This episode is a preamble to a five-week course of lectures and discussions starting June 20th on Weirdosphere, JF and Phil’s new online learning platform. For more information and to enroll in The Beauty and the Horror, visit www.weirdosphere.org.



REFERENCES



JF Martel, Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice, the audiobook, with a new introduction written and read by Donna Tartt.

Denis Villeneuve, Dune: Part Two

William Blake, “The Tyger”

Junichiro Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows

Steven Spielberg, Raiders of the Lost Ark

Walter Pater, The Renaissance

David Lynch, Twin Peaks: The Return

Anna Aikin, “On the Pleasure Derived from Objects of Terror

Donna Tartt, The Secret History

Keiji Nishitani, Religion and Nothingness

Charles Baudelaire, “Le Voyage”

Franz Schubert, “Death and the Maiden” Quartet

Franz Schubert, Piano Sonata in C major, D. 840

J.R.R. Tolkein, The Hobbit

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Episode 171: The Beauty and the Horror

Episode 171: The Beauty and the Horror

Phil Ford and J. F. Martel