The Catacombic Machine

In this episode of The Catacombic Machine Podcast, Josef speaks to theologian Jordan Miller about his new (so far unpublished) book Resisting Theology, Furious Hope.

Join Barry Taylor and Josef in Utrecht, Holland: Blossom030 en Geestdrift present: Radical Theology

And mark down July 1 in the calendar for The Forest Interface.

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Josef talks to secular humanist chaplain Bart Campolo. Bart has recently published a new book together with his father Tony Campolo: Why I Left, Why I Stayed: Conversations on Christianity Between an Evangelical Father and His Humanist Son. There is also a fresh documentary out about Bart and Tony, made by Belfast filmmaker John Wright: Far From The Tree.

In the episode Bart mentions a recent article about him in The New York Times, written by Mark Oppenheimer: The Evangelical Scion Who Stopped Believing.

Don't forget to buy your tickets to the Katakomb Event in Gothenburg April 21-22: Katakomb.info, and if you're interested in joining Josef and Barry Taylor in Utrecht, Holland, here's information for you: Blossom030 en Geestdrift present.

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Josef talks to Aaron Van Voorhies about his background as a fundamentalist Christian and his move towards radical theology. Aaron is not only a radical theologian, he is also a pastor, which is an interesting combination. And he has written a book: A Survival Guide for Heretics.

Josef speaks to Conner Habib about desires, sex work, identity, religion, politics, activism and much more.

If you want to know more about Conner, check out his homepage: connerhabib.com, follow him on Twitter: @connerhabib. Conner also offers an online course on the occult.

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Josef talks to theologian Jeffrey Robbins about postsecularism, democracy, movements of resistance, the American election, trauma, radical theology and much more.

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Josef talks to theologian and music producer Jonatan Bäckelie about The Subsecular Arts, which is a theological project closely connected to Jonatan's recently released album Darkness On The Edge Of Ecstasy.

The reactive identity politics of the Democrats reduced the complexity of people's hopes and dreams to "black votes," "Hispanic votes," and so on. Hence both the politicians and the metrics people became blind to the excess of possible worlds hiding beneath the surface of skin color, gender, sexuality, religion. Ultimately they were all reduced to a Hillary or Trump vote--the eternal binary code. The silver lining is that many people's refusal to be reduced to a number in a vicious game for power shows that there's a willingness to scramble the code. So while many mourn the lack of votes for Hillary, we're hopeful since the refusal to vote is a sign of people affirming their own difference, and that's the kind of strength that will be needed to overcome the tyranny that now awaits.

In today's episode, Josef speaks to James Hill Jr., who is a long time friend of the podcast, about the American election, Malcolm X, evangelicalism and the times ahead.

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Music by Jonatan Bäckelie

Josef speaks to comedian Aron Flam about the connection between philosophy and comedy, Nietzsche, Deleuze, antisemitism, feminism, and much more.

Check out Aron's YouTube channel, and listen to his Swedish podcast Dekonstruktiv kritik.

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Episode number 1 of The Catacombic Machine features a conversation between Josef and philosopher Peter Sjöstedt-H, about his book Noumenautics, published by Psychedelic Press. The book navigates through subjects such as the sentience of cells, the constrictions of consciousness, the metaphysics of might, the magic of mushrooms, the narcotics of Nietzsche, and the neologism neo-nihilism.

In this episode, Joel talks with Andreas Engh Seland, phd candidate in philosophy of religion at Lund University, Sweden. Writing on Sören Kierkegaard's book on the faith of Abraham, Fear and Trembling, Seland develops a innovative concept of "suspense" as a means of explicating a tricky text full of repetitions, paradoxes and references to the philosophy of Hegel.