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Where No One Can Hear You Scream: On Ridley Scott's 'Alien'

6/24/2026 • 89 min

In this episode, JF and Phil discuss Ridley Scott's 1979 sci-fi/horror blockbuster Alien. Together, they wipe off the patina of familiarity that beclouds the film, restoring it to its original weirdness. What is the organism that terrorizes the Nostromo? What's its relation to technology, evolution, industry? How does it differ from the monsters of older horror… Play episode

Fortune's Fools: On Gordon White's Philosophy of Fortune-Telling
Episode 213 – Comics, Surf Rock, and the Weirdness of Time: On Tom Manning…
Episode 212 – Beyond Music and Back Again: On Glenn Gould
Episode 211 – You've Always Been the Caretaker: On Kubrick's 'The Shining'
M.C. Richards's "Wrestling with the Daimonic," read by Phil Ford
Angels & Daimons, with M.C. Richards and Cristina Campo
At Home in the Labyrinth, with Murakami and Borges
Episode 208 – Unbridled Creation: On Kenneth Batcheldor's Theory of the Pa…
Magic Mirror: On J.R.R. Tolkien's 'The Fellowship of the Ring'
Episode 206 – On Ken Russell's 'Altered States': Live at Indiana Universit…
Discipline and Delight: On the Hierophant Card in the Tarot
The Perilous Realm: J.R.R. Tolkien's 'On Fairy Stories'
Holiday Bonus: Scavengers in the Ruins of Heaven
Distant Early Warnings: A Return to Marshall McLuhan's 'Book of Probes'
Episode 202 – The Human is Two: On 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr H…
On James Whale's 'Frankenstein' and 'The Bride of Frankenstein,' with Pete…
Halloween Special: A Reading of Arthur Machen's "The White People"
On 'The Call of Cthulhu'
On Michael Jackson, with Shannon Taggart
Breaking the Frame: On the High Priestess in the Tarot
Episode 197 - Sounding the Otherworld: On Bryn Chainey's 'Rabbit Trap'
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On Trust
Lost and Never Found: On 'The Blair Witch Project'
On John Keel: Live at the Lily Dale Symposium, with Erik Davis
Animal Songs, with Meredith Michael
On Conversion, or Arousing the Bodhi-Mind
A Dream of Landscape: On Walking
Theory, Philosophy, and Uranus
Myth, History, and Form
The Acid Queen, with Susannah Cahalan
Here Be Shrubs: On Algernon Blackwood's 'The Willows'
Care of the Dead, with Jacob G. Foster
Pioneers of the Untimely: On the Hermit Card in the Tarot
The Affirmation of Imagination: On John Crowley's 'Little, Big,' with Erik…
Meeting at the Center: The Wedge, Part Two
Intuition and Reality: The Wedge, Part One
Special Release: Poltergeists, Fairies, Skeptics, and the Managerial Class
On David Lynch
On Hermann Hesse's 'Siddhartha'
Providence of Evil: On Robert Eggers' 'Nosferatu'
Holiday Bonus: Waiting for the Next Sentence
On 'The X Files,' with Meredith Michael
The Player: On the Magician Card in the Tarot
The Final Frontier, with Lionel Snell
Edge of Reality: On John Carpenter's 'In the Mouth of Madness'
Riddles in the Dark: On Fairy Tales, Interpretation, and 'Rapunzel'
On Charles Burns' 'Black Hole' and the Medium of Comics
Mid-Break Bonus: The Quiet Earth

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