Wyrd Signal

05/06/2020

We did it. We did Martyrs. Join Lucy, Sean and YouTube's NyxFears in a descent into abjection, New French Extremity, and Bataille's cult of the headless...

Lucy and Sean are joined by video essayist, composer and fellow horror nerd May Leitz ()to explore all that is shocking, painful and unwholesome in the world of extreme cinema from the surrea

09/05/2020

With all the manic energy of an 18th century French lunatic asylum, we're back. Sean and Lucy are joined again by Max Feldman as they discuss revolution, enlightenment, insanity, and the lost art of cruelty...

Sean and Lucy team up once again with Max Feldman to explore Sadeian liberty, the principles of Enlightenment, the history of madness, Artaud's theatre of cruelty and the still ongoing the repercussio

07/05/2020

Rest in beeps, Herr Schneider :(

Jude Rogers celebrates the life and times of a wry and humble musical pioneer dedicated to the reconfiguration of German identity

29/04/2020

For $5 a month you can listen to our rambling bonus episodes!

This month's tangents involved Dune ... again!
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23/04/2020

'Across five decades, Burl more than anyone has inspired and enabled widespread, direct engagement with the stones themselves. Demystifying whilst re-enchanting. Revealing and emphasising these potent remnants of our ancient past, not as solitary colossi confined to a handful of restricted sites in the South West of England; but an undying communal heritage, diverse and distributed across every region and nation of these islands.'

John McMahon & Mark Williamson reflect upon the life and career of the archaeologist and antiquary Aubrey Burl (1926-2020), and his unexpected influence on recent generations of experimental artists and musicians. With thanks to Neil Mortimer

22/04/2020

Friend of the 'cast David Roden has contributed to the Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture.

'This is not the real body, or even the form of the real, but that which empowers us to intervene in it, explore and shape.'

This is LOCKDOWN THEORY #30: "Bodiless" by David Roden: "Yet, as with the case of technical change, the contingency of human life they portend, is embodied too much, like a phlegm. We feel, our personal isolation, our fear of the unseen one walking into our path from an alley, foraging excess bodies strung out on panic across the lay lines of the Event. We’re blundering like rabbits into Area X. It’s like Lovecraft’s Old Ones returned but edited themselves into vision or memory as cursed emojis."
https://identitiesjournal.edu.mk/index.php/IJPGC/announcement/view/40

08/04/2020

Needin' some quarantine tunes? Friend of the 'cast Dr David Roden is a dab hand at electronicore.

I teach philosophy at the Open University, UK for a living. Interests include: posthumanism, deconstruction, philosophical naturalism, the philosophy of sound and computer music. When time allows I am

05/04/2020

Happy Palm Sunday y'all

Sean and Lucy - totally twisted on frustrated wanderlust - sojourn into the sultry, introxicating climate of the Italian Peninsula to discuss Lucino Visconti's adaptation of Thomas Mann's 1912 novella

30/03/2020

Thirsting for more high-octane think-noises than even we can give you? Check out the Urbanomic PlaguePod.

A live podcast from Urbanomic with music and speculative views on the Coronavirus era

17/03/2020

The Godstar still pulsates

in Memoriam Genesis P-Orridge. feat. Niel Mitra Voice Samples from flake93, taken in New Orleans.

06/03/2020

And we're back.

Lucy and Sean return - spectre-like - to discuss the core WYRD_SIGNAL tenets of Hauntology, occult technology, fringe religious ideas and weird psychology in the ontological uncertainty of Reagan's Am

14/02/2020

[callsign]

01/11/2019

The last full episode for 2019! See you in Space Year 2020!

Sean and Lucy are joined by journalist Max [von] Feldman for the pre-hiatus/end of season wrap party in which we participate in the dissection of Tobe Hooper's Lifeforce and the career and mind of the

25/09/2019

We've decided that after a Hallowe'en episode, we're going to go on hiatus until 2020!

This is just to give us both time to catch up with other projects and get some more solid research done for the new year.

Watch this space...

04/09/2019

WYRD_SIGNAL cordially invites you to dinner.

[there's some interference in a couple of places, we left the mic too close to a window and it was windy and we're sorry]

Lucy and Sean are joined by Matt Colquhoun () to discuss cannibalism, art, q***rness and the mythological and psychos*xual dimensions of serial killing through the lens of Thomas Harris's H

22/08/2019

While waiting for the next WYRD_SIGNAL, have a read of Jack Graham's latest essay.

19/08/2019

Rune Soup is an entertaining podcast about magic and culture. This week it features Stephen Barber, who wrote the book on Artaud Sean used in our House episode.

This week, novelist, non-ficition author and professor of art and film, Stephe Barber, joins us to talk about about Heliogabalus or The Crowned Anarchist. Fu...

17/06/2019

'... and with a great, wet, rending noise the shapeless form lurched out of the tomb, and -- God, would that I could forget this! -- howled "Hello! Welcome to WYRD_SIGNAL..."'

Lucy and Sean take take a deep dive into the q***r themes present in the works of H.P. Lovecraft, exploring ideas of weirdness, degeneration, erotofascism, Freudian Narcissism and the wold of Oscar Wi

17/06/2019

Friend of the 'cast Cuck Philosophy has a new video out

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cuck Twitter: https://twitter.com/PhilosophyCuck I will get a better microphone sometime this summer, don't worry. Working o...

14/06/2019

Embrace the haunting

Burial · Single · 2019 · 2 songs.

01/06/2019

Sean Oscar has contributed an essay to Creeper Magazine, who are raising funds on Kickstarter.

If you wanna chuck some dollar their way, there are some cool bonuses!

Creeper is an independent magazine curating strange stories at the intersection of fiction and reality.

14/05/2019

Vote for your favourite podcast in the Listeners' Choice Award supported by BBC Sounds.

14/05/2019

Hey guys - let's make this a thing!

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14/05/2019

Guys - if you've got a minute before 17:00 tomorrow - please vote for WYRD SIGNAL for the Listeners' Choice British Podcast Award. You can vote from anywhere! The website is clunky as hell but if you put the full name 'wyrd signal' into the search bar and hit enter it should come up!
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14/05/2019

Lucy and Sean make their first excursion outside of the Anglophone sphere* to explore the world of malevolent ghosts, cruel theatrics, hyperrealistic violence and the spectres of nuclear conflagration

14/05/2019

Lucy and Sean make their first excursion outside of the Anglophone sphere* to explore the world of malevolent ghosts, cruel theatrics, hyperrealistic violence and the spectres of nuclear conflagration in Nobuhiko Obayashi's psychedelic fantasy horror film House/ハウス(1977)

*Nosferatu doesn't count because it didn't have sound

Lucy and Sean make their first excursion outside of the Anglophone sphere* to explore the world of malevolent ghosts, cruel theatrics, hyperrealistic violence and the spectres of nuclear conflagration

14/05/2019

[NEW EPISODE ALERT] The WYRD_SIGNAL team make their first steps into the world of Japanese cinema in Nobuhiko Obayashi's psychedelic fantasy horror House (1977)
https://soundcloud.com/wyrdsignalpodcast/episode-020_house-nobuhiko-obayashi1977

Lucy and Sean make their first excursion outside of the Anglophone sphere* to explore the world of malevolent ghosts, cruel theatrics, hyperrealistic violence and the spectres of nuclear conflagration

10/05/2019

Of interest to fans of our episode on The Man Who Fell To Earth, Sean's favourite living theologian on Gnosticism and Eastern Christianity.

by David Bentley Hart Among a great many Orthodox scholars in the academic world (especially when they gather together in hushed colloquy among the shadows and feel at liberty to speak strictly ent…

06/05/2019

Sean chats with YouTuber Cuck Philosophy about Mark Fisher, Joy Division and the politics of pessimism and depression.

06/05/2019

Sean chats with YouTuber Cuck Philosophy about Mark Fisher, Joy Division and the politics of pessimism and depression.

29/04/2019

19/04/2019

Shuffling out of the abyss, Hexus, in its diseased majesty

The latest Tweets from HexusPress (). Publisher gnawing at the crispy edge of things; focusing on the unfocused, prismatic, bumpy, mouldering, &c, &c. Norwich, England

18/04/2019

You -- yes, YOU, dear listener -- can vote for your favourite podcast of the weird, eerie and hauntological.

Let's get freaky.

Vote for your favourite podcast in the Listeners' Choice Award supported by BBC Sounds.

10/04/2019

You can also hear Lucy's drone arrangement of the Trad-Cath Age of Sin declaration via our SoundCloud here:
https://soundcloud.com/wyrdsignalpodcast/preview-encrypted_transmission-001-ufosage_of_sin-3-19

Sean and Lucy discuss nuclear eschatology in the Age of Sin, the speculative prehistory of 17th Century UFO culture, and the peregrinations of the prophet Daniel in this first, proper inaugural Encryp

10/04/2019

Our first Encrypted Transmission is now available for our INDIGO class Operators: Sean and Lucy discuss nuclear eschatology in the Age of Sin, the speculative prehistory of 17th Century UFO culture, and the peregrinations of the prophet Daniel

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08/04/2019

Lucy joins the director Gabriel Gettman to discuss performance theory, Jungian psychology, Lovecraftian cosmology in contemporary horror and the uncanny realms of postmodern goblin cinema.

Lucy joins the director Gabriel Gettman to discuss performance theory, Jungian psychology, Lovecraftian cosmology in contemporary horror and the uncanny realms of postmodern goblin cinema. More infor

03/04/2019

'...Denis proposes the erotic drive as the fuel to use when there’s nothing left to live for.'

This shocking and amazing sci-fi drama directed by Claire Denis follows a group of voyaging astronauts who switch their attention from black holes to s*x

23/03/2019

Please Pinky watch the road
Please Pinky watch the road
Please Pinky watch the road
Please Pinky

Kicking off another visionary director's non-sequential trilogy, Lucy and Sean are joined by writer and journalist Philippa Snow to plunge into the strange liminal territory of sociological metamorpho

13/03/2019

Having our attention drawn to signs and markers (navigation markers, road signs, etc.) produces an hauntological effect.

These are objects that aren't meant to draw our attention to themselves as themselves, but rather in order to point our attention away again, towards whatever it is they are meant to inform or warn us of.

When we scrutinise these objects in themselves, they become uncanny, as these are things that are, in a sense, always meant to go unnoticed.

Photographer Paul Thompson's pictures of navigation markers that dot the coastline of Britain.