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In this episode Justin Pearl speaks with author and journalist A.M. Gittlitz about the strange intersection of left-wing political organizing with UFOlogy, apocalypticism, and more. Gittlitz is the author of "I Want to Believe: Posadism, UFOs and Apocalypse Communism" and is a journalist and social critic based in Brooklyn, New York. He has contributed to The New Inquiry, The New York Times, The Outline, Baffler, Real Life, Salon, and Vice GITTLITZ: https://gittlitz.wordpress.com/ I Want to Beli...
This episode features a talk recently given by Matt Valler exploring a New Materialist conception of time in alchemy as a way to rethink apocalyptic imagination in climate activism. The talk was presented as part of the Material Religion panel at the International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture conference at the University of Chester, UK.
This episode features an essay by philosopher, writer, and priest Steven Shakespeare titled Becoming Mystic, Becoming Monster: The Logic of the Infinite in Kierkegaard, Cusa and Deleuze. Read by Matt Baker. https://www.dropbox.com/s/y9v5rhx2dhlxf41/Becoming_Mystic_Becoming_Monster_The_Log.pdf?dl=0 For more information on Steven's work, go to https://www.stevenshakespeare.com/ Music for this episode: Kingdom of Ice, Treha Sektori In the Temple of Wind and Flame, Veiled Monk A Path Unwoven, Atrox ...
In this episode, Justin Pearl and Matt Baker speak with Randy Dible who is a doctoral student in philosophy at The New School for Social Research whose work focuses on phenomenology and Ancient Greek philosophy. Randy is the preeminent English speaking scholar working with German phenomenologist Hedwig Conrad-Martius who was a 2oth century thinker concerned with the ontological constitution of reality and consciousness. Music for this episode: Exhausted Divinity, Niky Nine Nomad's Theme, Matt Ba...
In this episode Justin Pearl and Matt Baker speak with Jeffrey Kripal to discuss aliens, UFOs, and related matters of paranoia and the paranormal. Jeffrey Kripal is J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University and is the associate director of the Center for Theory and Research at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California. He has previously taught at Harvard Divinity School and Westminster College and is the author of eight books, including his most recent proje...
In this episode Justin Pearl and Matt Baker speak with Ben Burgis who is a columnist for /Jacobin/ Magazine, an adjunct philosophy professor at Rutgers University, an online instructor at the School for Social and Cultural Change, and the host of the podcast and YouTube show Give Them An Argument. He’s also an author who frequently debates conservatives and libertarians from a democratic socialist perspective. Ben Burgis Stuff: Amazon Author Link: https://www.amazon.com/Ben-Burgis/e/B07RWNFXM9%3...
In this episode, Justin Pearl and Matt Baker speak with Pablo Sender who is a microbiologist, theosophist, and Madame Blavatsky scholar to discuss key theosophical ideas and Blavatsky's influence on esoteric philosophy, spirituality, culture, and more. Pablo's work can be found here: http://pablosender.com/ The Secret Doctrine, Vol 1+2: https://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/sd-pdf/sdpdf-hp.html TheologyBeer.camp Music for this episode: Exhausted Divinity, Niky Nine Birds ov Paradise, Adonis Isis ...
Wherein Matt Baker speaks with Kazi Adi Shakti whose research is a creative synthesis of Whiteheadian process thought, critical Marxian political economy, Madhyamaka negative dialectic, Buddhist soteriology, and eco-feminism. Among the topics discussed are dreams, panpsychism, gender, the possible confluence of deconstructive/death-of-god-radical theology with Buddhist notions of emptiness, process thought, and magic, and more. Bio/Blog/YouTube: https://oscillations.one/Assets/People/Kazi+Adi+Sh...
Wherein Matt Valler and Matt Baker conclude their discussion of Bernard Stiegler's "Technics and Time: The Fault of Epimetheus". Discussed in this episode is chapter 6: "The Disengagement of the What". Bernard Stiegler, Technics and Time: https://monoskop.org/images/6/6f/Stiegler_Bernard_Technics_and_Time_1_The_Fault_of_Epimetheus.pdf Theology Beer Camp Event: https://homebrewedchristianity.lpages.co/tbc22/ War Machine is the podcast of the Radical Theology Seminar: https://www.patreon.com/radic...
Wherein Justin Pearl speaks with musician, educator, scholar, and composer Delvyn Case about the recent premiere of his solo cantata, The Binding of Isaac According to the Elohist which explores themes of faith, sacrifice, ethics, and the absurd. Learn more about Delvyn's work here: https://www.delvyncase.com/ The Binding of Isaac According to the Elohist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czmlakSUGwA War Machine is the podcast of The Radical Theology Seminar: https://www.patreon.com/radicaltheolo...
Wherein Matt Valler and Matt Baker continue their discussion of Bernard Stiegler's Technics and Time: The Fault of Epimetheus. Discussed in this episode is chapter 5, "Already There." PDF to the full text: calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/r?pli=1 Part 2: https://www.entheosdesigns.net/items/technics-and-time-%2F%2F%2F-part-2 Part 1: https://www.entheosdesigns.net/items/technics-and-time-%2F%2F%2F-part-1 War Machine is the podcast of the Radical Theology Seminar: https://www.patreon.com/radicalth...
Wherein Emery Jones, Justin Pearl, and Matt Baker speak with Jeffrey Kripal and touch on panpsychism, the paranormal, ontology, consciousness, psychedelics, and more. Jeffrey Kripal is J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University and is the associate director of the Center for Theory and Research at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California. He has previously taught at Harvard Divinity School and Westminster College and is the author of eight books, including h...
Wherein Matt Baker speaks with Calvin Warren, Associate Professor in African American Studies at Emory College, about Afro-pessimism, Ontological Terror, lynching, glossolalia, the inadequacy of humanism, and more. Calvin's book Ontological Terror is available here: https://www.dukeupress.edu/ontological-terror War Machine is the podcast of The Radical Theology Seminar: https://www.patreon.com/radicaltheology Music for this episode: Prey, Niky Nine Love Always, Nu Alchemi Birds ov Paradise, Tamm...
Wherein Matt Valler and Matt Baker continue their discussion of Bernard Stiegler's Technics and Time: The Fault of Epimetheus. Discussed in this episode is chapter 4 "Prometheus' Liver". War Machine is the podcast of the Radical Theology Seminar: https://www.patreon.com/radicaltheology Bernard Stiegler, Technics and Time: https://monoskop.org/images/6/6f/Stiegler_Bernard_Technics_and_Time_1_The_Fault_of_Epimetheus.pdf Theology Beer Camp: https://homebrewedchristianity.lpages.co/tbc22/ Music for ...
Wherein Matt Valler, Justin Pearl, and Matt Baker pick up and riff on ideas from the recent episode with Andrew McLuhan which can be heard here: https://www.entheosdesigns.net/podcast/episode/916b6ad5/andrew-mcluhan-techno-maelstrom-28 Music for this episode: Nu Alchemist, Love Always Birds of Prey, Tammuz Hello Meteor, Smoke Nocturno Birds of Prey, Adonis
Wherein Justin Pearl, Matt Valler, and Matt Baker speak with Andrew McLuhan, grandson of Marshall McLuhan, son of Eric McLuhan, and the founder of the McLuhan institute. We touch on media ecology, what ‘the medium is the message’ is all about, understanding media as activism, and more. McLuhan Institute: https://themcluhaninstitute.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheMcLuhanInstitute Polidicks EP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8jBveJd744 The Radical Theology Seminar: https://www.patreon...
In this Interrupted podcast excerpt, Jordan Miller and Matt Baker speak with Mary Jane Rubenstein, Professor of Religion and Science in Society at Wesleyan University. We discuss goats, Elon Musk, technology, theological method, telescopes, Ukraine, and more. MJR's most recent project, Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race, is forthcoming from University of Chicago Press. Preorder is available here: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo184287883.html To ...
Wherein Matt Valler and Matt Baker discuss chapter 3 of Bernard Stiegler's Technics and Time: The Fault of Epimetheus. Matt's website: https://mattvaller.com/ Technics and Time Vol 1: https://www.amazon.com/Technics-Time-Epimetheus-Meridian-Aesthetics/dp/0804730415/ref=sr_1_1?crid=25JZROYHNRTO3&keywords=Bernard+stiegler+technics+and+time&qid=1649890787&sprefix=bernard+stiegler+technics+and+time%2Caps%2C110&sr=8-1
Wherein Justin Pearl and Matt Baker speak with author and literary scholar Ed Simon about his recent book, Pandemonium: A Visual Guide of Demonology; as well as all manner of things related to demons and the demonic. Pandemonium: https://www.abramsbooks.com/product/pandemonium_9781419756382/ The Radical Theology Seminar: https://www.patreon.com/radicaltheology Intro sample from the Netflix animated series Castlevania, Season 3. (Which is very good by the way) Music for this episode: Niky Nine, "...
Petra, Matt, and Justin are joined by Jordan Miller, cohost of the Interrupted podcast, to discuss and respond to the most recent episode of Interrupted which featured a round table discussion by several Westar scholars and practitioners reflecting on the Christianity Seminar's recent landmark publication on Christian Origins, "After Jesus, Before Christianity". That discussion can be heard here: https://www.westarinterrupted.com/episodes/ep8-christianity-interrupted-roundtable Westar Institute:...
This episode features a short talk by Matt Baker anticipating the recent seminar led by Petra Carlsson on the topic of 'Activist Art and Radical Theology' for the Radical Theology Seminar. For more details, go to: https://www.patreon.com/radicaltheology Sources: Crockett & Robbins, "Religion, Politics, and the Earth:The New Materialism". Horkheimer & Adorno, "Dialectic of Enlightenment." Grosz, "Chaos, Territory, Art: Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth".
In this episode, Justin Pearl and Matt Baker discuss several short texts centering on the theme of Ash Wednesday: Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra (prologue); Emily Dickinson, Ashes Denote the Fire that Was; Jeffrey Robbins, Radical Theology: A Vision for Change (excerpt); and T.S. Eliot, Ash Wednesday. War Machine is the un///official podcast of the Radical Theology Seminar: https://www.patreon.com/radicaltheology Music for this episode: The Longest Johns, Ashes Nu Alchemist, Love Always 아버지, ...
This episode features a talk by Matt Valler titled "In Other Wor(l)ds: the conundrum of anthropocentrism in the Anthropocene" which was given recently at the Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre History of the Academy of Sciences in Vienna. (Great sausages). If you would like to respond to this episode in any way, please email an audio or text response to mc-baker@live.com More on Matt Valler's work. can be found here: https://mattvaller.com
A world beyond the logic of dominance? A conversation (in Swedish) between animal communicator Emelie Cajsdotter and Petra Carlsson Redell. När teologistudenten Tova Melin får i uppgift att göra ett podd-avsnitt inom ramen för en kurs i feministisk teologi väljer hon att föra samman två av sina lärare: Mig, Petra Carlsson Redell, docent i teologi, och Emelie Cajsdotter, djurkommunikatör och författare. Det blir ett samtal om hur vi kan leva på jorden bortom den dominansens logik som så ofta föru...
Matt Valler, Clayton Crockett, Tim Ingold*, and Petra Carlsson respond to our recent Terence McKenna episode: Pt 1: https://www.entheosdesigns.net/podcast/episode/8f99fe72/terence-mckenna-elven-eschatology-pt-1-with-justin-pearl-16 Pt 2: https://www.entheosdesigns.net/podcast/episode/8ffa53af/terence-mckenna-elven-eschatology-pt-2-with-justin-pearl-17 Matt Valler: https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/matt-valler Clayton Crockett: https://uca.edu/philosophy/facultystaff/clayton-crockett/ Tim Ingold:...
In this episode, Italian philosopher Federico Campagna delves into his book "Prophetic Culture: Recreation for Adolescents." He differentiates between a cataclysmic apocalypse and a neutral "apocatastasis," where civilizations naturally end, giving way to new "worlds" formed by shared hypotheses of reality. The conversation explores the concept of "dying well" by embracing our role in shaping future pasts, the artificiality of our perceived reality, and the "tetrapharmakon" – a four-part wisdom legacy comprising the metaphysician, shaman, mystic, and prophet – as tools for navigating societal shifts and engaging with the ineffable.
Petra Carlsson and Matt Baker conclude their conversation with Justin Pearl about turn-of-the-millenia psychonaut, philosopher, and mathematician Terence MCKenna. The conversation centers on McKenna's final interview given in 1999: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdEKhIk-8Gg Part 1: https://www.entheosdesigns.net/podcast/episode/8f99fe72/terence-mckenna-elven-eschatology-pt-1-with-justin-pearl-16 Justin Leavitt Pearl is the director of The Atkins Center for Ethics at Carlow University, the Disci...
In this episode of War Machine, Petra Carlsson and Matt Baker speak with Justin Pearl about turn-of-the-millenia psychonaut, philosopher, and mathematician Terence MCKenna. The conversation centers on McKenna's final interview given in 1999: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdEKhIk-8Gg Justin Leavitt Pearl is the director of The Atkins Center for Ethics at Carlow University, the Discipleship and Youth Coordinator at Baldwin Community United Methodist Church, and a member of the experimental theol...
This episode of War Machine features the second half of an audio essay by Matthew Baker titled, Staying With America's Troubles. Part 1 can be heard here: https://www.entheosdesigns.net/podcast/episode/917cdcfb/staying-with-americas-troubles-part-1
