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Hermitix is a podcast focusing on one-on-one interviews relating to fringe philosophy, obscure theory, weird lit, underappreciated thinkers and movements, and that which historically finds itself 'outside' the academic canon. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jameshermitix/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hermitix Contact: hermitixpodcast@protonmail.com
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The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet - Deception, Silence, Intelligence with Bogna Konior

Bogna Konior is a scholar and a writer whose work focuses on emerging technologies. She is currently Assistant Professor of Media Theory at NYU Shanghai, where she works at the Artificial Intelligence & Culture Research Center, and the Interactive Media Arts department.Konior's site: https://linktr.ee/bognamkBook links: https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Forest-Theory-Internet-Redux/dp/150956926Xhttps://bookshop.org/p/books/the-dark-forest-theory-of-the-internet-bogna-konior/2268e1733cbab417?ean=97...

Feb 04, 202658 min

Anarchy! - Ozias Plume saves the world by Daisy Waugh

Review of Anarchy! - Ozias Plume saves the world by Daisy WaughBook link: https://www.fisherkingpublishing.co.uk/books-2/anarchy/Waugh's site: https://www.daisywaugh.com/---Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - ⁠⁠ / hermitixpodcast⁠⁠ Support Hermitix: Patreon - ⁠⁠ patreon.com/hermitix⁠⁠ Donations: - ⁠⁠https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod⁠⁠ Hermitix Merchandise - ⁠⁠http://teespring.com/stores/hermitix-2⁠⁠ Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLK Ethereum Donat...

Jan 30, 202634 min

Thomas Bernhard's 'Gathering Evidence' - Origin, Time, Repetition with Bryan Counter

In this episode I'm joined by Bryan Counter to discuss Thomas Bernhard's 'Gathering Evidence'---Become part of the Hermitix community:Hermitix Twitter - ⁠⁠ / hermitixpodcast⁠⁠ Hermitix Discord - ⁠⁠ / discord Support Hermitix:Hermitix Subscription - ⁠⁠https://hermitix.net/subscribe/⁠⁠ Patreon - ⁠⁠ www.patreon.com/hermitix⁠⁠ Donations: - ⁠⁠https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod⁠⁠Hermitix Merchandise - ⁠⁠http://teespring.com/stores/hermitix-2⁠⁠Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLK...

Jan 28, 20261 hr 1 min

Heliogabalus; or, the Crowned Anarchist by Antonin Artaud (Book Review)

Review of Heliogabalus; or, the Crowned Anarchist by Antonin ArtaudNew edition: https://www.infinitylandpress.com/heliogabalus-by-antonin-artaud (not affiliated)---Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - ⁠⁠ / hermitixpodcast⁠⁠ Support Hermitix: Patreon - ⁠⁠ patreon.com/hermitix⁠⁠ Donations: - ⁠⁠https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod⁠⁠ Hermitix Merchandise - ⁠⁠http://teespring.com/stores/hermitix-2⁠⁠ Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLK Ethereum Donation Addre...

Jan 25, 202623 min

The Philosophy of Owen Barfield with Mark Vernon

Mark Vernon is a British psychotherapist and writer In this episode we discuss his book A Secret History of Christianity: Jesus, The Last Inkling, And The Evolution Of Consciousness and the philosophy of Owen BarfieldBook link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Secret-History-Christianity-Evolution-Consciousness/dp/1789041945Vernon's site: https://www.markvernon.com/---Become part of the Hermitix community:Hermitix Twitter - ⁠⁠ / hermitixpodcast⁠⁠ Hermitix Discord - ⁠⁠ / discord Support Hermitix:Hermitix...

Jan 21, 20261 hr 5 min

Renzo Novatore / Creative Nothing

A talk on Renzo Novatore.Collected writings: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/the-collected-writings-of-renzo-novatoreOther Stirner stuff:Bradshaw on Stirner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jtkr8nPRkr4Steiner & Stirner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hvF1oTO8pUBlumenfeld on Stirner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OChFI1vL5FQUnique 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf9AsVIpWlUUnique 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTlj8tBsTLE&t---Become part of the Hermitix community:Hermit...

Jan 18, 202629 min

A Search for the Soul of the West with Sean McGrath

Sean McGrath is a Full Professor of Philosophy at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies at McGill University. After five years in a cloistered Roman Catholic monastic community, he completed doctoral degrees in both Philosophy and Theology. He has taught and researched the philosophy of religion for over twenty years. He is the author of six academically acclaimed books in areas as diverse as psychoanalysis and ecology, but always with a contemplative the...

Jan 14, 20261 hr 5 min

Comet in Moominland by Tove Jansson / Freedom and Domestication (Book Review)

Review of Comet in Moominland by Tove JanssonAbdelrahim book: https://www.routledge.com/Childrens-Literature-Domestication-and-Social-Foundation-Narratives-of-Civilization-and-Wilderness/AbdelRahim/p/book/9781138547810---Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - ⁠⁠ / hermitixpodcast⁠⁠ Support Hermitix: Patreon - ⁠⁠ patreon.com/hermitix⁠⁠ Donations: - ⁠⁠https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod⁠⁠ Hermitix Merchandise - ⁠⁠http://teespring.com/stores/hermitix-2⁠⁠ Bitcoin Donation Address: 3...

Jan 09, 202633 min

The Philosophy of Jean-Luc Nancy with Joseph Turner

Joseph Turner is a PhD student in the English Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, specializing in the dialogue between continental and Japanese philosophical traditions. His dissertation explores the development of a political ontology that bridges Nishitani Keiji's concept of emptiness with Jean-Luc Nancy's shared ontology of "being-with."He holds an MA in Literary Studies from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and has published on Jean Baudrillard's work. Joseph has presented a...

Jan 07, 202656 min

Jiddu Krishnamurti, Part 2: Education and Thought with Valentin Gerlier

Dr Valentin Gerlier is a scholar and musician, who teaches the Poetics of Imagination at Dartington Arts School. In this episode we discuss the thought of Jiddu Krishnamurti--- 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: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDL...

Jan 01, 202657 min

Jiddu Krishnamurti, Part 1: Life and Ego with James Harpur

James Harpur is a British-born Irish poet who has published eight books of poetry. He has won a number of awards, including the Michael Hartnett Award and the UK National Poetry Competition.Harpur's site: https://www.jamesharpur.com/---Become part of the Hermitix community:Hermitix Twitter - ⁠⁠ / hermitixpodcast⁠⁠ Hermitix Discord - ⁠⁠ / discord Support Hermitix:Hermitix Subscription - ⁠⁠https://hermitix.net/subscribe/⁠⁠ Patreon - ⁠⁠ www.patreon.com/hermitix⁠⁠ Donations: - ⁠⁠https://www.paypal.m...

Dec 31, 20251 hr 12 min

Christmas Q&A, 2025

Thanks to all subscribers and supporters this year, and if you would like to support going into 2026, here are the links: --- 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: 0x31e2a4a31B8563B8d238...

Dec 28, 20251 hr 51 min

The Magical Writings of W.B Yeats with John Michael Greer

This episode I'm joined once again by writer and occultist John Michael Greer to discuss the magical writings of W.B. YeatsGreer'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 - ⁠ www.patreon.com/hermitix ⁠Donations: - ⁠https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod⁠Hermitix Merchandise - ⁠http://teespring.co...

Dec 25, 20251 hr 22 min

Kojève, Fukuyama, and the End of Liberalism with David Lloyd Dusenbury

David Lloyd Dusenbury is a Senior Fellow at the Danube Institute and Visiting professor Eötvös Loránd University. Author of The Space of Time (2014), Platonic Legislations (2017). In this episode we discuss his recent piece The Era of Re-Civilization?, alongside discussion on Alexandre Kojève and Francis Fukuyama.Dusenbury and Pilkington's piece: https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2025/11/the-era-of-re-civilization/---Become part of the Hermitix community:Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter.com/H...

Dec 24, 20251 hr 5 min

The Sluts by Dennis Cooper (Book Review)

Review of The Sluts by Dennis Cooper ---Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - ⁠⁠ / hermitixpodcast⁠⁠ Support Hermitix: Patreon - ⁠⁠ 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

Dec 19, 202536 min

On the Abolition of All Political Parties by Simone Weil, with Quinten Weeterings

Quinten Weeterings is a history post-graduate who studied under Rico Sneller at Leiden university. In this episode we discuss Simone Weil's essay 'On the Abolition of All Political Parties 'Text link: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/simone-weil-on-the-abolition-of-all-political-partiesWeetering's book: https://deblauwetijger.com/product/quinten-weeterings-grosso-modo/------Become part of the Hermitix community:Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter.com/HermitixpodcastSupport Hermitix:Patreon...

Dec 17, 20251 hr 12 min

Goethe's Faust and Jung with Paul Bishop

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 his latest book Jung and the Epic of Transformation Vol. 2: Goethe’s “Faust” as a Text of TransformationBook link: https://www.chironpublications.com/shop/jung-and-the-epic-of-transformation-volume-2-goethes-faust-as-a-text-of-transformation/---Become part of the Hermitix community:Hermitix Twitter - x.c...

Dec 10, 202556 min

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (Book Review)

Review of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens---Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - ⁠⁠ / hermitixpodcast⁠⁠ Support Hermitix: Patreon - ⁠⁠ 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

Dec 06, 202543 min

Christianity and Magic with Stephen Mandes Thomas

Stephen Mandes Thomas is a longtime practitioner of magic, astrology, and energetic healing who also happens to be a cradle Catholic. Initially training in the Golden Dawn tradition, he has also been initiated in Taoist and Druid magical traditions and ordained to the subdiaconate in the Liberal Catholic tradition. Rather than drawing away from the Catholic faith of his birth, he found that studying magic in fact drew him back toward his traditional faith, now informed by magical philosophy. He ...

Dec 03, 20251 hr 8 min

Of Cosmogonic Eros by Ludwig Klages (Book Review)

Review of Of Cosmogonic Eros by Ludwig KlagesBook link: https://theionpublishing.com/shop/of-cosmogonic-eros/Discussions on Klages with Bishop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJZS9mhri7whttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njct-mk0U3Y---Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - ⁠⁠ / hermitixpodcast⁠⁠ Support Hermitix: Patreon - ⁠⁠ patreon.com/hermitix⁠⁠ Donations: - ⁠⁠https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod⁠⁠ Hermitix Merchandise - ⁠⁠http://teespring.com/stores/hermitix-2⁠⁠ Bitcoin Donatio...

Nov 28, 202549 min

U.G. Krishnamurti — Anti-Guru, Barking Dog with Louis Brawley

Louis Brawley was born in Ohio and lived and worked in New York, where he met UG Krishnamurti in 2002. Louis works as an artist, photographer and freelance art handler worldwide—occupations which fund his travels around the world writing and recording accounts and impressions from friends of the “Raging Sage.”Brawley's site: https://louisbrawley.com/Book link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Goner-Final-Travels-UG-Krishnamurti/dp/0956643272--- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - ⁠...

Nov 26, 20251 hr 8 min

Wilhelm Reich versus The Flying Saucers with James Reich

James Reich is a novelist, essayist, and journalist, and ecopsychologist and research psychologist. He is the author of Skinship (Anti-Oedipus Press, 2024), Wilhelm Reich versus The Flying Saucers (Punctum Books, 2024), The Moth for the Star (7.13 Books, September 2023), The Song My Enemies Sing, Soft Invasions, Mistah Kurtz! A Prelude to Heart of Darkness (Anti-Oedipus Press), I, Judas, and Bombshell (Counterpoint/Soft Skull). He is also the author of The Holly King, a limited-edition collectio...

Nov 19, 20251 hr 9 min

The Life and Philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer with David Bather Woods

David Bather Woods is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Warwick. He is coeditor with Timothy Stoll of The Schopenhauerian Mind. He has contributed chapters to The Proustian Mind, Schopenhauer’s Moral Philosophy, and The Palgrave Schopenhauer Handbook. In this episode we discuss his book Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy’s Greatest Pessimist.Book link: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo256533513.html--- Become part of the Hermitix com...

Nov 18, 20251 hr 14 min

Phenomenology of Psychedelic Experiences with Danny Forde

Forde's book explores the psychedelic experience from a phenomenological perspective, argues that the psychedelic experience can reveal aspects of reality which would not otherwise be disclosed, and discusses how psychedelic experience can open the subject to the essential nature of realityBook link: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-95203-6--- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - ⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast⁠⁠⁠ Support Hermitix: Patreon - ⁠⁠⁠https:/...

Nov 12, 20251 hr

The Lime Works by Thomas Bernhard (Book Review)

Review of The Lime Works by Thomas Bernhard---Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - ⁠⁠ / hermitixpodcast⁠⁠ Support Hermitix: Patreon - ⁠⁠ 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

Nov 06, 202547 min

Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus with Steve Dowden and John Burt

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. John Burt i...

Nov 05, 20251 hr 11 min

Experiments in Mystical Atheism with Brook Ziporyn

Brook Ziporyn is the Mircea Eliade Professor of Chinese Religion, Philosophy, and Comparative Thought in the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. He is the author and translator of many books, most recently Daodejing.Book link: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/E/bo230169826.html---Become part of the Hermitix community:Hermitix Twitter - / hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix:Patreon - www.patreon.com/hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpodHermitix Merchandis...

Oct 29, 20251 hr 19 min

The Twilight World by Werner Herzog (Book Review)

Review of The Twilight World by Werner Herzog---Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - ⁠⁠ / hermitixpodcast⁠⁠ Support Hermitix: Patreon - ⁠⁠ 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 28, 202528 min

Bioenergetics: Reich, Lowen, and Spirituality with Devaraj Sandberg

Devaraj Sandberg is a body-based therapist, author and workshop leader with a radical perspective on psychology and authenticity. He champions new ideas, loves working with people and is a digital nomad.Devaraj's site: https://bioenergetics.org.uk/author/devaraj/Devaraj's Youtube ⁨@DevarajSandberg⁩ ---Become part of the Hermitix community:Hermitix Twitter - / hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix:Patreon - www.patreon.com/hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpodHermitix Merchandise - h...

Oct 22, 20251 hr 5 min
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