Sophie Sleigh-Johnson, born 1988, is a Southend-on-Sea based writer. She holds a PhD from Goldsmiths College, London, where she now teaches as an Associate Lecturer in Fine Art Critical Studies. Her performance work, comprising sound collage and spoken word with printmaking props, occasions numerous performances both nationally and internationally. She writes for publications including The Darkside, The Leigh Times, and The London Drinker. Book link: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/code-damp-a...
Jan 29, 2025•1 hr 6 min
Review of 'I Am the Brother of XX' by Fleur Jaeggy Publisher link: https://www.andotherstories.org/i-brother-xx/ --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - twitter.com/hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Patreon - www.patreon.com/hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLK Ethereum Donation Address: 0x31e2a4a31B8563B8d238eC086daE9B75a00D9E74...
Jan 26, 2025•25 min
Andreas Wilmes completed his PhD in philosophy at the Paris Descartes University. He is a lecturer at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University (Budapest, Hungary) and editor-in-chief of the Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence. Book link: https://msupress.org/9781611864953/rene-girard-and-the-western-philosophical-tradition-volume-1/ Journal link: https://trivent-publishing.eu/32-philosophical-journal-of-conflict-and-violence-pjcv --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitte...
Jan 23, 2025•55 min
Andreas Wilmes completed his PhD in philosophy at the Paris Descartes University. He is a lecturer at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University (Budapest, Hungary) and editor-in-chief of the Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence. Book link: https://msupress.org/9781611864953/rene-girard-and-the-western-philosophical-tradition-volume-1/ Journal link: https://trivent-publishing.eu/triventvechi/pjcv.html --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - / hermitixpodcast Suppo...
Jan 22, 2025•1 hr 2 min
Review of Early Stories by Alexander Theroux Book link: https://toughpoets.com/theroux_early_stories.htm --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - twitter.com/hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Patreon - www.patreon.com/hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLK Ethereum Donation Address: 0x31e2a4a31B8563B8d238eC086daE9B75a00D9E74
Jan 18, 2025•37 min
In this episode I'm joined by Bryan Counter to discuss Cormac McCarthy's novel Suttree --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - / hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Patreon - / hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod Hermitix Merchandise - http://teespring.com/stores/hermitix-2 Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLK Ethereum Donation Address: 0x31e2a4a31B8563B8d238eC086daE9B75a00D9E74...
Jan 15, 2025•1 hr 22 min
Wheat That Springeth Green by J.F. Powers --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - twitter.com/hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Patreon - www.patreon.com/hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLK Ethereum Donation Address: 0x31e2a4a31B8563B8d238eC086daE9B75a00D9E74
Jan 13, 2025•29 min
Mads Højmark is Chief Advisor at Djøf and a Board Member at The Danish Society for Philosophical Practice (DSFP). Mads' LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hoejmark/ ERA: https://enrichedrealities.com/the-enriched-realities-assembly/ Mythophil site: https://www.thaumas.dk/ --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - / hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Patreon - www.patreon.com/hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod Hermitix Merchandise - http://teespring.com/...
Jan 08, 2025•1 hr 4 min
This episode I'm joined once again by writer and occultist John Michael Greer, to discuss the the rise of populism, the death of the managerial state, and collapse going into 2025. Greer's website: https://www.ecosophia.net/ Greer's astrology patreon: / johnmichaelgreer Greer's books: https://bookshop.org/contributors/joh... --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - / hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Patreon - / hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod Hermiti...
Jan 01, 2025•1 hr 13 min
This episode I'm joined once again by Todd McGowan to discuss his book Pure Excess - Capitalism and the Commodity. Book link: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/pure-excess/9780231217590 --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - / hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Patreon - www.patreon.com/hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod Hermitix Merchandise - http://teespring.com/stores/hermitix-2 Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLK Ethereum Donati...
Dec 31, 2024•1 hr 10 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. In this episode we discuss Nietzsche's 'Thus Spake Zarathustra'. --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - x.com/hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Patreon - patreon.com/hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod Hermitix Merchandise - http://teespring.com/stores/hermitix-2 Bitcoin Donation Address:...
Dec 25, 2024•1 hr 2 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 we ...
Dec 24, 2024•53 min
Simon O ' Sullivan is a theorist and artist working at the intersection of contemporary art practice, performance and continental philosophy. In this episode we discuss his book From Magic and Myth-Work to Care and Repair. Book link: https://www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-press/publications/from-magic-and-myth-work-to-care-and-repair/ --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - / hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Patreon - / hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod He...
Dec 18, 2024•1 hr 5 min
Review of Three Wogs by Alexander Theroux Leaf by Leaf review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk9qFScj55g&ab_channel=LeafbyLeaf Article cited: https://themillions.com/2010/06/linguistic-revenge-an-alexander-theroux-primer.html --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - twitter.com/hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Patreon - www.patreon.com/hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPu...
Dec 15, 2024•46 min
Christopher Satoor is a doctoral candidate (ABD) in the Department of Humanities at York University. His research focuses on Classical German philosophy of the 18th and 19th-century and the German idealist philosophies of Kant and Fichte, with an extra special concentration on Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling. Site: https://philpeople.org/profiles/christopher-satoor Satoor's podcast: https://www.youtube.com/ @TheYoungIdealist --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - / herm...
Dec 11, 2024•1 hr 39 min
Review of The Arabian Nightmare by Robert Irwin Publisher link: https://www.dedalusbooks.com/our-books/book.php?id=00000004 --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - twitter.com/hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Patreon - www.patreon.com/hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLK Ethereum Donation Address: 0x31e2a4a31B8563B8d238eC086daE9B75a00D9E74
Dec 08, 2024•36 min
Julie Reshe is a Ukrainian-born philosopher, a practicing negative psychoanalyst, and a public intellectual. She is currently a visiting professor at University College Cork and University College Dublin. She is also a Director of the Institute of Psychoanalysis at the Global Centre for Advanced Studies. Reshe's site: https://www.juliereshe.com Book link: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-31201-4 ---Become part of the Hermitix community:Hermitix Twitter - / hermitixpodcast Support...
Dec 04, 2024•52 min
Review of A Fan's Notes by Frederick Exley --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - twitter.com/hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Patreon - www.patreon.com/hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLK Ethereum Donation Address: 0x31e2a4a31B8563B8d238eC086daE9B75a00D9E74
Dec 02, 2024•32 min
Stephen Harris is a Lecturer of Indian and Comparative Philosophy at Leiden University. Studying Indian philosophical texts, in particular Buddhist moral philosophy, and their conceptual relationship to issues investigated in contemporary philosophy. Current interests include moral demandingness in the writing of the 8th century Indian Buddhist philosopher, Śāntideva, and cross-cultural study of well-being. In this episode we discuss his book Buddhist Ethics and the Bodhisattva Path: Śāntideva o...
Nov 27, 2024•59 min
Review of Teatro Grottesco by Thomas Ligotti, and a discussion on the Ligottian. --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - twitter.com/hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Patreon - www.patreon.com/hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLK Ethereum Donation Address: 0x31e2a4a31B8563B8d238eC086daE9B75a00D9E74
Nov 24, 2024•34 min
Carlos Alberto Sánchez is Professor of Philosophy at San José State University, USA. Book link: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/mexican-philosophy-for-the-21st-century-9781350319141/ --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - / hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Patreon - / hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod Hermitix Merchandise - http://teespring.com/stores/hermitix-2 Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLK Ethereum Donation Address: 0x3...
Nov 20, 2024•53 min
Review of Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - twitter.com/hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Patreon - www.patreon.com/hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLK Ethereum Donation Address: 0x31e2a4a31B8563B8d238eC086daE9B75a00D9E74
Nov 18, 2024•17 min
Rafael Winkler is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Book link: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/%C5%BEi%C5%BEeks-the-sublime-object-of-ideology-9781350425651/ --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - / hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Patreon - / hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod Hermitix Merchandise - http://teespring.com/stores/hermitix-2 Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGT...
Nov 13, 2024•57 min
Review of Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - twitter.com/hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Patreon - www.patreon.com/hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLK Ethereum Donation Address: 0x31e2a4a31B8563B8d238eC086daE9B75a00D9E74
Nov 11, 2024•31 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. In this episode we discuss Bishop's Nietzsche’s Writing Against Religion and the Crisis of Faith: Twentieth-Century Christian Reactions and Responses. Book link: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-63977-7 --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - / hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Patreon - / her...
Nov 06, 2024•1 hr 5 min
Steven E. Knepper is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Rhetoric, and Humanistic Studies at the Virginia Military Institute. --- Become part of the Hermitix community Hermitix Twitter - https://x.com/Hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Hermitix Subscription - https://hermitix.net/subscribe/Patreon - www.patreon.com/hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod Hermitix Merchandise - http://teespring.com/stores/hermitix-2Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrK...
Oct 30, 2024•1 hr 8 min
Simon Critchley (born 27 February 1960) is an English philosopher and the Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York, USA. Book link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mysticism-Experience-Ecstasy-Simon-Critchley/dp/1800816936 --- Become part of the Hermitix community Hermitix Twitter - https://x.com/Hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Hermitix Subscription - https://hermitix.net/subscribe/ Patreon - www.patreon.com/hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermi...
Oct 23, 2024•1 hr 5 min
Emily Herring is a writer based in Paris. She studied philosophy at the Sorbonne and received her PhD in the history and philosophy of science from the University of Leeds. Her work has appeared in the TLS and Aeon. Herring's website: https://www.wellreadherring.com/ UK book link: https://basicbooks.uk/titles/emily-herring/herald-of-a-restless-world/9781529371918/ US book link: https://www.amazon.com/Herald-Restless-World-Bergson-Philosophy/dp/1541600940
Oct 16, 2024•1 hr 30 min
This episode I'm joined once again by Todd McGowan to discuss his book Embracing Alienation. Book link: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/740010/embracing-alienation-by-todd-mcgowan/9781915672223 --- Become part of the Hermitix community Hermitix Twitter - / hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Hermitix Subscription - https://hermitix.net/subscribe/ Patreon - www.patreon.com/hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod Hermitix Merchandise - http://teespring.com/stores/hermitix-2 B...
Oct 09, 2024•1 hr 4 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. John Burt is Department Chair Paul E. Prosswimmer Professor of American Literature at Brandeis University. In this episode we discuss Thomas Mann's novel, 'The Magic Mountain'. --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - / hermitixpodcast Support Her...
Oct 02, 2024•1 hr 12 min
