Image: The Rock Nobody Could Lft, etching by Rain Wu (2018)
Oct 13, 2022•18 min•Ep. 35
Image credit: Ceramic figurine from the Moche culture of the north coast of Peru depicting a flute player.
Oct 06, 2022•33 min•Ep. 34
Image credit: The prophets Elias and Khadir at the fountain of life, late 15th century. Folio from a khamsa (quintet) by Nizami (d. 1209); Timurid period. Opaque watercolor and silver on paper. Herat, Afghanistan.
Sep 30, 2022•26 min•Ep. 33
Image credit: Womb Realm (garbhakosa-dhatu or taizōkai) mandala. Shingon tantric buddhist school, Heian period (794-1185), Tō-ji, Kyōto, Japan.
Sep 22, 2022•21 min•Ep. 32
Image credit: 10th century Chola dynasty bronze sculpture of Shiva, the Lord of the Dance.
Sep 15, 2022•25 min•Ep. 31
Image credit: Detail from the frontispiece of Hobbes’ ‘Leviathan’ by Abraham Bosse,1651
Sep 09, 2022•29 min•Ep. 30
Image credit: Max Stirner in a cartoon by Friedrich Engels (1820-1895)
Sep 02, 2022•32 min•Ep. 29
Image credit: Roman coin celebrating the assassination of Julius Caesar, issued in 42 BC
Aug 25, 2022•28 min•Ep. 28
Image credit: Porphyry column decorated with group of two embracing older Tetrarchs. Rome. 293-305.
Aug 25, 2022•25 min•Ep. 27
Image credits: Geometric nest of a pufferfish.
Aug 11, 2022•44 min•Ep. 26
Image credit: Ernst Jünger and Albert Hoffman.
Aug 04, 2022•33 min•Ep. 25
Image credit: Cosmic Rose Engraving from Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae by Heinrich Khunrath (1595).
Jul 28, 2022•27 min•Ep. 24
Image credit: Throne Angels
Jul 28, 2022•24 min•Ep. 23
Image credit: Antidotum tarantulae , a curative musical score from Athanasius Kircher (c. 1660).
Jul 14, 2022•36 min•Ep. 22
Image credit: Francesco Guardi, Marina in Tempesta , circa 1765/70.
Jul 08, 2022•20 min•Ep. 21
Image credit: Muhammad Ibn 'Ali Ibn Muhammad Ibn 'Arabi (D. 1240 Ad): Fusus Al-Hikam . Mamluk Egypt, dated 19 Dhu'l Hijja Ah 797/4 October 1395 AD.
Jun 30, 2022•25 min•Ep. 20
Image credit: Portrait of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, by Tobias Stimmer, 1589
Jun 24, 2022•30 min•Ep. 19
Musicologist and producer Francesco Fusaro discusses world-building music across the centuries. Credit: Francesco Fusaro, Tafelmusik Var. I, 2021. Collage, 65x92. Courtesy of the artist.
Mar 18, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 18
6-years old Arturo Campagna discusses children’s literature and dispenses advice to writers for children. Image credits: Rain Wu, Arion , 2019. Stoneware clay and glazes, 9x11cm. Courtesy of the artist.
Mar 11, 2021•20 min•Ep. 17
Federico Campagna presents the philosophical take on children’s world-view and culture in Elemire Zolla’s 1994 “Children’s Awe” and Cristina Campo’s 1971 “The Flute and the Rug”. Image credits: Ivan Bilibin, Stage-set design for Scene Two, Act Four of the opera the "Tale of the Lost City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevronia" by Rimsky-Korsakov, 1929.
Mar 04, 2021•20 min•Ep. 16
Liberation theologian Father Paul Butler discusses the radical interpretations of the Christian message. Image credits: The oldest surviving depiction of Saint Francis, Benedictine abbey of Subiaco, painted between March 1228 and March 1229.
Feb 25, 2021•24 min•Ep. 15
Federico Campagna presents Russian theologian (and mathematician, engineer and philosopher) Pavel Florensky’s 1920 essay “Reversed Perspective” and his interpretation of the language of sacred forms. Image credits: Andrey Rublev, The Trinity or The Hospitality of Abraham , 1411-1427.
Feb 18, 2021•27 min•Ep. 14
Ignota publishers Sarah Shin and Ben Vickers discuss their ongoing cultural work on the “techniques of awakening”. Image credits: Hildegard von Bingen, God, Cosmos, and Humanity , 1165.
Feb 11, 2021•26 min•Ep. 13
Federico Campagna presents Russel Hoban’s 1980 science-fiction masterpiece “Riddley Walker” and the problem of post-future life and culture. Image credits: Punch with the Judge and the Hangman , 1870. Litograph.
Feb 04, 2021•18 min•Ep. 12
American philosopher Tom Cheetham discusses the parallels between Henry Corbin and Jungian psychoanalyst James Hillman, looking in particular at the practice of “Creative Imagination”. Image credits: Elijah and Khidr praying together, XI century. Illuminated manuscript version of Stories of the Prophets .
Jan 28, 2021•26 min•Ep. 11
Federico Campagna presents Henry Corbin’s 1964 “History of Islamic Philosophy” and his esoteric interpretation of philosophy and of religion. Image credits: Sultan Mohammed, The Miraj of the Prophet , 1539-1543. Opaque watercolor and ink on paper.
Jan 28, 2021•26 min•Ep. 10
Bill Sherman, director of the Warburg Institute, discusses the work of Frances Yates and Aby Warburg’s library. Image credits: Aby Warburg, Der Bilderatlas Mnemosyne , 2020. Exhibition view. Courtesy of Silke Briel / HKW
Jan 14, 2021•27 min•Ep. 9
Federico Campagna looks at Frances Yates’ work on the philosophy of mnemotechnics in her 1966 book “The Art of Memory”. Image Credits: Giulio Camillo, Memory Theatre , 1510.
Jan 08, 2021•22 min•Ep. 8
Stefano Gualeni presents his philosophical take on digital worlds and virtual subjectivity. Image Credits: ‘Here’, video game by Stefano Gualeni. 2018.
Dec 17, 2020•27 min•Ep. 7
Federico Campagna looks at Stefano Gualeni’s books “Virtual Worlds as Philosophical Tools” (2015) and “Virtual Existentialism” (2020) and at the cosmogonic function of play. Image credits: The Royal Game of Ur, 2600BC-2400BC. Wood game-board. © The Trustees of the British Museum
Dec 10, 2020•23 min•Ep. 6