Spector Vision Radio

Hello Weird Studies listeners.

Thanks for tuning in for one of our occasional off-scheduled Patreon sneak peeks.

This is JF.

The audio extras we record for our Patreon supporters are different from the flagship episodes.

They're shorter, less structured, more improvisational,

and often that makes for some pleasant surprises. We like to release one to our wider audience from

time to time to give them a sense of what our patrons get for supporting weird studies.

The extra you're about to hear on worlds and stories was released on September 14th,

and we're happy to make it available for everyone.

Before we begin, however, I have a small announcement. Phil and I have partnered with Jeremy

Johnson of Neuro Learning to offer an eight-week online course of lectures and group discussions

beginning in just a few weeks. In this course, we'll be delving deeper into some of the big themes that have emerged thus

far in the Weird Studies project, ideas like Diviner's Time, the Zone, and the Trash Stratum.

We're actively working on these and a bunch of other ideas for a book we're writing

for Strange Attractor Press.

We call that writing project

Weirding. And that's also how we've titled The Course. What does it mean to weird? It means

seeking out the glitches and rifts in everyday life, the points where the ordinary gives way

to the extraordinary, and the marvelous breaks through the mundane, sometimes subtly,

sometimes not so much. And in the time we happen to live in, which people have started to

describe as one of global weirding, the art of making things weird is more, we think, than a

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