War Machine

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 Believe: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745340777/i-want-to-believe/

Music for this episode:

Exhausted Divinity, Niky Nine

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 Pestis

Amarps, Universal Ash

Corridors, Tertium Organum

Sunyata, Sun Through Eyelids

Veins of the Planet, Gnadian

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 Baker

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 project called The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge.

The Radical Theology Seminar:

Patreon.com/radicaltheology

Music for this episode:

The Prospect of Our Dismal Wonders: Gdanian

Battle of the Tribes: Spiritual Voices + Aikana.

Scrambled Code: Matt Baker

Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft: The Carpenters

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%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share

Give Them an Argument: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCByZMNYpHFEetI0s3deYH2g

War Machine is the podcast of The Radical Theology Seminar: patreon.com/radicaltheology

Music for Episode:

The Colony, Gdanian

Exhausted Divinity, Niky Nine

Love Always, Nu Alkemi

Nomad's Theme, Matt Baker

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 Unveiled, Matt Baker

Nomad's Theme, Matt Baker

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+Shakti

Process and Reality Reading Group: https://cobb.institute/learning-lab/beginning-process-and-reality/

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

Nomad's Theme, Matt Baker

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/radicaltheology

Music for this episode:

Wind on the Water, Shook

With Love, Nu Alkemi

Nomad's Theme, Matt Baker

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/radicaltheology