Episode 302: Metaphysical Edging
Very Bad Wizards
11 Feb 2025
1:17:08
What makes something weird? What makes something eerie? David and Tamler wander into Mark Fisher’s The Weird and the Eerie to explore the nature and boundaries of these concepts. How does weird art expand our imagination of what’s possible? Why does the feeling of eeriness dissolve when discover an explanation for what we witness? What draws us to phenomena that evoke these unsettling feelings?
Plus – the arrival of DeepSeek causes panic in Silicon Valley and the American markets. But is it really all that it’s cracked up to be? We run an experiment comparing Deepseek to ChatGPT.
The Weird and the Eerie by Mark Fisher [amazon.com affiliate link]
What makes something weird? What makes something eerie? David and Tamler wander into Mark Fisher’s The Weird and the Eerie to explore the nature and boundaries of these concepts. How does weird art expand our imagination of what’s possible? Why does the feeling of eeriness dissolve when discover an explanation for what we witness? What draws us to phenomena that evoke these unsettling feelings?
Plus – the arrival of DeepSeek causes panic in Silicon Valley and the American markets. But is it really all that it’s cracked up to be? We run an experiment comparing Deepseek to ChatGPT.
The Weird and the Eerie by Mark Fisher [amazon.com affiliate link]