Sean and Lucy discuss the landmark sci-fi/horror teleplay: Nigel Kneale's 'The Stone Tape' talking about Derrida, Marx, H.P. Lovecraft, M.R. James, ancient aliens and occult media, in this inaugural transmission of WYRD_SIGNAL.

References, materials and side notes are available through our Stone Tape megathread over on our Twitter page: https://twitter.com/wyrdsignalpod/status/990254127316983808

episode 001_THE_STONE_TAPE Nigel Kneale(1971)

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In the first of what we're intending to be a series of conversations around the theme, Lucy joins Jonathan Kennedy (@getradified) to discuss the onging events taking place in Gaza and the Western media's role in facilitating Israel's onging war on the Palestinian people.

WYRD_SIGNAL is still on hiatus but we've opted to use this channel while we figure out our long term plans with this project.

Palestine, the media and the manufacture of consent

In the latest in our ongoing interview series, Sean talks with horror writer and literal ex-High Priest of Set Don Webb about weird America, the Left Hand Path, and eyebrows.

episode: 041_INTERVIEW_SERIES [010] Don Webb

Sean and Lucy join up with Bobsy (of Diane and DEEP STATUS fame) get to grips with an entity that has loomed large over the history of the 20th century and the history of WYRD_SIGNAL since its inception - the archangel of high strangeness: Mothman!

[UNLOCKED] episode - 038_THE_MOTHMAN_PROPHECIES - Pellington (2002)

Sean and Lucy team up with video essayist, musician, author and actress May Leitz to discuss internet horror, mediated reality and the hybrid geography of late capitalism in Jane Schoenbrun's 2021 film We're All Going to the World's Fair

[UNLOCKED] episode - 035_WE'RE ALL GOING TO THE WORLD'S FAIR - Schoenbrun (2021)

Sean is joined by none other than M. John Harrison to discuss science fiction and the limits of genre, failures of personal identity, landscape weirdness, and an untranslatable word in Portuguese.

Author photograph by Hugo Glendinning (cropped and grayscaled by Lucy to fit design conventions)

episode 001_THE_STONE_TAPE Nigel Kneale(1971)

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