In this episode, Justin and Matt speak with Andrew Culp. Andrew Culp (MA 2009, Ph.D. 2013) is a Professor of Media History and Theory and Program Director of the MA Aesthetics and Politics program (starting Spring 2023) in the School of Critical Studies and in the MA Aesthetics and Politics Program, California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). In his first book, Dark Deleuze (University of Minnesota Press, 2016), he proposes a revolutionary new image of Gilles Deleuze’s thought suited to our 24/7 always-on media environment, and it has been translated into eight languages. With his second book, A Guerrilla Guide to Refusal (University of Minnesota Press, 2022), he arms the reader with critical theory as part of a journey through anarchist infowar, queer outlaws, and Black insurgency. He is currently working on two projects: a new structuralist theory of the state’s arkhḗ, and a critical history of cybernetics from those subverting it from its inside. Culp’s writing on these and other topics has appeared in Flügschriften, Radical Philosophy, symplokē, parallax, angelaki, Deleuziana, The Alienocene, and Boundary 2 online. As part of The Destructionist International, he also makes films and other media. His most recent is the experimental documentary Machines in Flames (2022), which explores the legacy of techno-sabotage.

Andrew Culp: http://www.andrewculp.org/

Link to PDF of Guerilla Guide to Refusal: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ml50d6vO80Ev2bF03yZGkP1RjNPGhpo1/view?usp=drive_link

Destructionist International: https://destructionist.international/

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Music for this episode:

Exhausted Divinity, Niky Nine https://lazerdiscs.bandcamp.com/track/exhausted-divinity-2

Primitivo, Axons https://onsetaudio.bandcamp.com/track/primitivo

Bone Orchard, Void Stasis https://cryochamber.bandcamp.com/track/bone-orchard

In this episode, Matt, Justin, and Jake discuss audio clips from Alan Moore, George P. Hansen, and Robert Anton Wilson. Sympathies emerge.

Art as Sorcery: https://www.entheosdesigns.net/items/art-as-sorcery-%2F%2F%2F

Alan Moore on Magic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1qACd0wHd0

George P. Hansen on The Trickster and the Paranormal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x5iRq3v9mQ

Robert Anton Wilson on Consciousness & Coincidence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0uImc27Ico

Music for this episode:

Exhausted Divinity, Niky Nine

Give me More Time, Hotel Pools

Bone Orchard, Void Stasis

Nomad's Theme, Matt Baker

In this episode, Justin and Matt speak with Matt Valler who recently completed a PhD in Translation Studies at Queen’s University Belfast. We spoke with him about his dissertation which is titled “Taking the Measure of High Cross: Translating the Many Worlds of Truro at the Time of the Anthropocene”. Matt's work concerns the philosophy of translation, particularly in relation to New Materialism, and the materiality of narrative time in the context of environmental and ecological crises. He is also an associate researcher with the Institute of Cornish Studies at the University of Exeter where he curates a cross-departmental seminar series called Complex Cornwall, which has to do with theoretical and practical innovations in interdisciplinary research.

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Music for this episode:

Black Rainbow, Moskva Kassiopeya

Along the Creek, Hotel Pools

Nomad's Theme, Matt Baker

In this episode, Justin provides an introduction to the work of Michel Henry, a French philosopher who was a major figure in 20th-century phenomenology. The introduction was delivered as part of the Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center's series "Phenomenology is for Beginners".

Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center: https://dsc.duq.edu/phenomenology-center/

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In this episode, Justin and Matt speak with anthropologists Adam Louis-Klein and Justin Shaffner about their collaborative project, “The Sky-Earth System: A Manifesto for Learning to See and Think as a Generic Ancient”.

Adam Louis-Klein is a musician, philosopher and anthropologist from Seattle and New York. He studied Philosophy at Yale College (B.A) and at the New School for Social Research (M.A), Anthropology (M.A) at the University of Chicago, and is now a PHD student in the Anthropology department at McGill University. https://www.adamlouisklein.com/

Justin Shaffner: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=n4VX4kYAAAAJ&hl=en

Read the Text: https://www.academia.edu/105365384/The_Sky_Earth_System_A_Manifesto_for_Learning_to_See_and_Think_as_a_Generic_Ancient

Abstract: The Sky is falling and there are too few who recognize the importance of holding it up. We contend that many of the pressing problems of our times, including climate catastrophe and global inequality, are direct consequences of the cosmology of the Moderns. We argue that anthropology as a discipline should think with ordinary people everywhere and with the Universe at once. We propose the Sky-Earth System as a cosmology in which to think and live as Ancients, to suspend the impersonal World of the Moderns. The Sky-Earth System is a metaframe that replaces the Nature/Culture schema of the Moderns and puts the Human back at the Center of the Universe, ending the Copernican era as seen from within the history of the Moderns. It allows us to think generically, meaning to think with everyone anywhere and anywhen. We think-with revival movements of the Ancients that are taking place everywhere across the Sky-Earth System, practices of symmetric anthropology in the Upper Rio Negro of the Amazon, in the city of Manaus and in Brazil, the Village-as-University in Melanesia and the Boazi revival, Afro-Centric, Polytheist, Psychedelic, and other movements occurring in North America and elsewhere at the ends of the World.

Music for this episode:

Exhausted Divinity, Niky Nine

Knots, Hania Rani

Nomad's Theme, Matt Baker

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In this episode, Justin and Matt speak with Robert Saler about his book Death to the World, and Apocalyptic Theological Aesthetics which explores the Death to the World movement.

Get the book: https://a.co/d/1MPLoOe

Robert is Associate Dean and theology professor at Christian Theological Seminary, where he directs the Lilly Endowment Clergy Renewal Programs. He is known for his work on ecclesiology, theological creativity, and the theology of the cross, with notable publications including Between Magisterium and Marketplace and Theologia Crucis. Having transitioned from Lutheranism to Eastern Orthodoxy, Saler explores the intersection of American Eastern Orthodoxy, anti-modernism, and online religious subcultures. He is also a fellow at Indiana University/Purdue University, focusing on the impact of internet culture on Orthodox parish ministry.

Music for this episode:

Echoes, Emil Rottmayer

Nomad's Theme, Matt Baker

In this episode, Justin and Matt speak with Taylor Thomas who recently completed a PhD in theology, ethics, and philosophy at Boston University School of Theology. Taylor is also Lindamood Fellow at the Center for Mind and Culture and hosts the Tillich Today Podcast, dedicated to exploring the profound and often revolutionary ideas of Paul Tillich, a towering figure in the world of philosophy, theology, and religion.

https://taylormariethomas.squarespace.com/mindful-musings/tillich-today

In this episode, Clayton Crockett joins Matt and Justin to discuss Catherine Malabou's recent book, "Stop Thief! Anarchism and Philosophy".

Clayton Crockett is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion and the Director of the interdisciplinary Religious Studies program at University of Central Arkansas. He regularly teaches courses on Exploring Religion; Philosophy of Religion; Religion, Science and Technology; and Religion and Psychology. He has authored or edited a number of books, including Religion, Politics and the Earth; The Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion, Derrida After the End of Writing, and Energy and Change: A New Materialist Cosmo-theology. He is a member of a national organization that promotes religious literacy, the Westar Institute, and their “Seminar on God and the Human Future.” He is also a Distinguished Research Fellow for the Global Centre for Advanced Studies, an online graduate school (www.gcas.ie). Finally, he is a co-editor of an academic book series called “Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture” for Columbia University Press.

Get the book: https://www.amazon.com/Stop-Thief-Philosophy-Catherine-Malabou/dp/1509555234/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2MQOAK76CXRV8&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Y-B1tad_2xDcPgoLNWGrC_wQRtwCQ80-bc5wMe9LnPk.ykUS4H8Lmhiv7i7PKAj4PTgAm1RGGIDioDxJEfpBJNQ&dib_tag=se&keywords=stop+thief+malabou&qid=1719253683&sprefix=stop+thief+malabou%2Caps%2C97&sr=8-1

Music for this episode:

Primitivo, Axons

In this episode, Matt speaks with John "Apollonius" Opsopaus who is a magician, scholar, and computer scientist who has practiced magic, divination, and Neopaganism since the 1960s. He has more than 40 publications in various magical and Neopagan magazines and designed the Pythagorean Tarot and wrote the comprehensive Guide to the Pythagorean Tarot. He is the author of The Oracles of Apollo, and The Secret Texts of Hellenic Polytheism.

John's Website: http://opsopaus.com/

Read the first chapter of Pythagorean Theology: http://opsopaus.com/OM/BA/ETP/I.html

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Music for this episode:

Exhausted Divinity, Niky Nine

French Inhale, bsd.u

Flare, Frederic Robinson

Nomad's Theme, Matt Baker

In this episode, Matt speaks with Kester Brewin who is an author, educator, and head of communications at the Institute for the Future of Work, about his recently published book called “Godlike a 500 year history of artificial intelligence in myths, machines, monsters”.

"It's not only '100% zesty, it's also a powerful telling of humanity’s ongoing relationship with technology and a reflection on the current questions surrounding AI. It is the most compelling radical theological text I have read.” - Tripp Fuller

Get the book: https://a.co/d/hNGFlAU

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Music for this episode:

Exhausted Divinity, Niky Nine

Love Always, Nu Alkemi

Void Figures, Redlum and Primal Tribes

Nomad's Theme, Matt Baker