Kevin Hart (editor) grew up in London and Brisbane, and now lives in the USA. He is the author of nine collections of poetry, including Flame Tree: Selected Poems (2002). He has won both the Victorian and NSW Premiers’ Awards for Poetry, and the Christopher Brennan Award for a sustained contribution to Australian poetry. His published works include studies of Jacques Derrida, A.D. Hope, Samuel Johnson, and Maurice Blanchot, and a translation of the poems of Giuseppe Ungaretti. In this episode, w...
Dec 24, 2023•1 hr
In this episode I'm joined by Bryan Counter to discuss Cormac McCarthy's novel Outer Dark, alongside discussions on Schopenhauer, Plato, and Nihilism. --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod Hermitix Merchandise - http://teespring.com/stores/hermitix-2 Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLK Ethereum Don...
Dec 20, 2023•1 hr 6 min
Sebastjan Vörös is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His research interests encompass philosophy of science, epistemology, phenomenology, and philosophy of religion. He is the author of Podobe neupodobljivega (The Images of the Unimaginable; KUD Logos & University of Ljubljana Press 2013, 2015), in which he investigates the phenomenon of mystical experiences from neuroscientific, phenomenological, and gnoseological perspectives. ...
Dec 13, 2023•1 hr 4 min
This episode I'm joined once again by writer and occultist John Michael Greer, to discuss John Gilbert's book The Tree of Spirit: Lessons on Tarot, Cabala, and the Spiritual Path . Book link: https://spirit.aeonbooks.co.uk/product/tree-of-spirit/95193 --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod Hermitix Merchandise - http://teespring.co...
Dec 06, 2023•1 hr 7 min
A review of Philip K Dick's book 'VALIS', alongside discussion on Dickean Gnosticism. PKD Gnostic site: https://dickiangnosticism.wordpress.com/ --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod Hermitix Merchandise - http://teespring.com/stores/hermitix-2 Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLK Ethereum D...
Dec 01, 2023•42 min
Adrian Nathan West has translated more than twenty books from Spanish, Catalan, and German. His first book, The Aesthetics of Degradation, was published in 2016. His essays and criticism have appeared in the New York Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, and other journals in print and online. West's site: https://anathanwest.com/ --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/hermitix Do...
Nov 29, 2023•50 min
Steve Dowden is a Professor of German language and literature in the Department of German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literatures. He graduated in 1984 from the University of California with a Ph.D in German literature. After a decade teaching at Yale and a year as a Humboldt Fellow at the University of Konstanz he joined the Brandeis faculty in 1994. Dowden has published on German literature, art, music, and intellectual history from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. --- --- Bec...
Nov 22, 2023•57 min
Steven Moore is an American author and literary critic. Best known as the primary authority on the novelist William Gaddis, he is the author of the two-volume study The Novel: An Alternative History. In this episode we discuss the work of William Gaddis. Moore's website: https://www.stevenmoore.info/ --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/herm...
Nov 15, 2023•1 hr 4 min
This episode I'm joined by Eric Adler who is a Professor of Classics at the University of Maryland. We discuss the book he recently edited: Humanistic Letters: The Irving Babbitt-Paul Elmer More Correspondence Book link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Humanistic-Letters-Irving-Babbitt-Paul-Correspondence/dp/0826222900 --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/hermitix Donations: - https://www.pa...
Nov 08, 2023•1 hr
Dr. Gottfried M. Heuer, Jungian Training-psychoanalyst, -supervisor and teacher, Neo-Reichian body-psychotherapist and trainer for nearly 50 years in West London; lectures, group-work and teaching in many European countries, North, Middle and South America, Africa and Australia; independent scholar with some 70 papers published in 7 languages. His books include 10 Otto Gross Congress–proceedings (LiteraturWissenschaft.de); Sacral Revolution (Routledge 2010); Sexual Revolutions (Routledge 2011; R...
Nov 01, 2023•1 hr 8 min
Review of 2666 by Roberto Bolaño --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod Hermitix Merchandise - http://teespring.com/stores/hermitix-2 Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLK Ethereum Donation Address: 0x31e2a4a31B8563B8d238eC086daE9B75a00D9E74...
Oct 31, 2023•1 hr 1 min
Mark Blacklock is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of the cultural history The Emergence of the Fourth Dimension, and his most recent novel Hinton was longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction in 2021. In this episode we discuss 'J.G. Ballard Selected Nonfiction 1962-2007' Book link: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262048323/selected-nonfiction-19622007/ --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix T...
Oct 25, 2023•56 min
Lars Iyer is a British novelist and philosopher of Indian/Danish parentage. He is best known for a trilogy of short novels: Spurious, Dogma, and Exodus, all published by Melville House. Iyer has been shortlisted for both the Believer Book Award and the Goldsmiths Prize. In this episode we discuss his most recent book My Weil. --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/hermitix Donations: - ...
Oct 18, 2023•54 min
Peder Anker is a historian of environmental sciences, specializing in the history of ecology and ecological architecture and design. Anker is currently a Professor of History of Science at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University. Book PDF Link: https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/7070AC66999C30D35EAE07F0A290963A/9781108477567AR.pdf/The_Power_of_the_Periphery.pdf?event-type=FTLA --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twit...
Oct 13, 2023•40 min
This episode I'm joined by Damian Catani, who is a senior lecturer in French in the Department of Cultures and Languages at Birkbeck, University of London. We discuss his book Louis-Ferdinand Céline: Journeys to the Extreme Book link: https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/louis-ferdinand-cline --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod Herm...
Oct 11, 2023•1 hr 10 min
Roe Fremstedal is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at NTNU, Trondheim. He is the author of Kierkegaard and Kant on Radical Evil and the Highest Good (2014), and has published extensively on German philosophy, existentialism, ethics, and religion. In this episode we discuss his book Kierkegaard on Self, Ethics, and Religion - Purity and Despair. --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast Hermitix Discord - ...
Oct 04, 2023•52 min
Barry Allen is Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at McMaster University, in Hamilton, Ontario. He has held visiting appointments at universities in Jerusalem, Shanghai, Istanbul, and Hong Kong, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is the author of Empiricisms and Vanishing Into Things: Knowledge in Chinese Tradition . Book link: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/living-in-time-9780197671610 --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - https://t...
Sep 27, 2023•57 min
Dr. Chris Muller is Senior Lecturer, Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature at Macquarie University. Book link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Prometheanism-Technology-Critical-Perspectives-Politics/dp/1783482389 “Apocalypse Blindness”, Climate Trauma and the Politics of Future oriented Affect (Anders and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road): https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/SXZQBDNCNMRRZFXYZT6P/full?target=10.1080/0969725X.2023.2233808 (50 free downloads) “Utopia Inverte...
Sep 13, 2023•1 hr 10 min
David Edmonds is a British philosopher, and a radio feature maker at the BBC World Service. He studied at Oxford University, has a PhD in philosophy from the Open University and has held fellowships at the University of Chicago and the University of Michigan. Edmonds is the author of Caste Wars: A Philosophy of Discrimination and co-author with John Eidinow of Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers and Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How the Soviets Lo...
Sep 06, 2023•55 min
Kevin Hart (editor) grew up in London and Brisbane, and now lives in the USA. He is the author of nine collections of poetry, including Flame Tree: Selected Poems (2002). He has won both the Victorian and NSW Premiers’ Awards for Poetry, and the Christopher Brennan Award for a sustained contribution to Australian poetry. His published works include studies of Jacques Derrida, A.D. Hope, Samuel Johnson, and Maurice Blanchot, and a translation of the poems of Giuseppe Ungaretti. In this episode, w...
Aug 30, 2023•59 min
Tim is Junior Research Fellow in Political Theology at Campion Hall, University of Oxford, and Researcher Director at the "Laudato Si' Research Institute", a new institute conducting academic research in the field of ecology and social change. He is also an ordained Priest in the Church of England. In this episode we discuss Bruno Latour and Nikolaj Schultz text On the Emergence of an Ecological Class: A Memo Book link: https://www.wiley.com/en-us/On+the+Emergence+of+an+Ecological+Class:+A+Memo-...
Aug 23, 2023•1 hr
Review of Carpenter's Gothic by William Gaddis --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod Hermitix Merchandise - http://teespring.com/stores/hermitix-2 Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLK Ethereum Donation Address: 0x31e2a4a31B8563B8d238eC086daE9B75a00D9E74...
Aug 22, 2023•41 min
Ryan R. Holston is Professor and holder of the Jonathan Myrick Daniels ’61 Chair for Academic Excellence at Virginia Military Institute. In this episode we discuss his book Tradition and the Deliberative Turn: A Critique of Contemporary Democratic Theory . Book link: https://sunypress.edu/Books/T/Tradition-and-the-Deliberative-Turn --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast Hermitix Discord - https://discord.gg/63yWMrG Support Hermitix...
Aug 16, 2023•1 hr 18 min
Review of They Shoot Horses, Don't They? by Horace McCoy --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod Hermitix Merchandise - http://teespring.com/stores/hermitix-2 Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLK Ethereum Donation Address: 0x31e2a4a31B8563B8d238eC086daE9B75a00D9E74...
Aug 15, 2023•25 min
This episode I'm joined once again by writer and occultist John Michael Greer, to discuss his book A World Full of Gods: An Inquiry into Polytheism . Book link: https://spirit.aeonbooks.co.uk/product/world-full-of-gods/95189 --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod Hermitix Merchandise - http://teespring.com/stores/hermitix-2 Bitcoin...
Aug 09, 2023•1 hr 7 min
Marc Lowell Andreessen is an American entrepreneur, venture capital investor, and software engineer. He is the co-author of Mosaic, the first widely used web browser with a graphical user interface; co-founder of Netscape; and co-founder and general partner of Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. In this episode we discuss AI, Accelerationism, Effective Accelerationism (E/Acc), Energy, the future, and more. Andreessen's blog: https://pmarca.substack.com/ Andreessen's Twitter:...
Aug 04, 2023•1 hr 7 min
Roe Fremstedal is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at NTNU, Trondheim. He is the author of Kierkegaard and Kant on Radical Evil and the Highest Good (2014), and has published extensively on German philosophy, existentialism, ethics, and religion. In this episode we discuss the work of Peter Wessel Zapffe, Kierkegaard, and the topic of anti-natalism. --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast Hermitix Discord ...
Aug 02, 2023•1 hr 5 min
Ben Turner is a Senior Lecturer in Political Theory in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent. His research addresses questions relating to technology, work, ideology and ontology. In this episode we discuss his book Returning to Judgment: Bernard Stiegler and Continental Political Theory Book link: https://sunypress.edu/Books/R/Returning-to-Judgment Turner's site: https://www.benturnerpoliticaltheory.com/ --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix...
Jul 26, 2023•1 hr 10 min
A talk on the work of Ludwig Klages, Wilhelm Reich, and Ray Peat in relation to bioenergy. Klages talk 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJZS9mhri7w&ab_channel=HermitixPodcast Klages talk 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njct-mk0U3Y&ab_channel=HermitixPodcast Reich talk 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9HX8eMFM7s&ab_channel=HermitixPodcast Reich talk 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dITFFrXaX2k Peat talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXCnwaEiB5I&t Become part of the He...
Jul 21, 2023•1 hr 54 min
Professor Paul Bishop is the author of multiple books on the work of Carl Jung, Friedrich Nietzsche, alongside other texts on analytical psychology and German thought. He is also the author of Ludwig Klages and the Philosophy of Life, a Vitalist Toolkit, one of the few English texts on the philosophy of Ludwig Klages who we’ll be talking about today. In this episode we discuss Klages' text 'The Science of Character' alongside discussions on characterology, Geist, and Seele Ludwig Klages and the ...
Jul 19, 2023•1 hr 1 min
