War Machine

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 Polidic...

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....

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%2C...

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 animate...

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:...

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, "C...

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....

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'...

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 förfat...

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...

Petra Carlsson and Matt Baker speak with Italian philosopher, anarchist, and theologian Federico Campagna about his most recent book from Bloomsbury, Prophetic Culture: Recreation for Adolescents, and related topics such as world-making, the end of the world, narrative, time, metaphysics, death, and what it means to die well. https://www.federicocampagna.eu/blank-3 Prophetic Culture: https://www.b...

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...

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 Yo...

This episode of War Machine features a short talk by Matt Baker on the topic of Individualism titled, De/Centering the Self.

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

This episode of War Machine features part 1 of an audio essay by Matthew Baker, Staying With America's Troubles. Part 2 forthcoming.

In this episode of War Machine, Matt Valler and Matt Baker speak with British Anthropologist Tim Ingold about education during covid, writing, 'interfacing' vs 'facing-between', the downside of agency, animism, the imagination, the task of anthropology, and so on. Check out Tim's Amazon author page: https://www.amazon.com/Tim-Ingold/e/B001ITWVXQ?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1607786123&sr=8-1 Here are...

Preston Price and Matt Baker speak with Saul Newman on post-anarchism, Max Stirner, voluntary servitude, the political theology of Gaia, the death of god, anarchist spirituality, among other things. Saul works in the area of continental political theory as applied to a study of contemporary forms of radical politics. His research has also led him to an exploration of sovereignty, political theolog...

Matt Baker and Preston Price speak with Matt Valler about translation, semiotics, Karen Barad, morphology, alchemy, and piracy, among other things. Matt Valler is a specialist in stories and how they shape the way we live. With a wide range of expertise and experience, Matt has worked with organisations all over the world on strategy, communications, and product design. He holds an MA (distinction...

In this episode of War Machine Matt Baker and Preston Price speak with Swedish radical theologian Petra Carlsson about Thomas Altizer, immanence, icons, post-humanism, the insane god, Foucault, Christ as machine, theological constructivism, etc. Petra Carlsson Redell is an ordained minister in the Lutheran Church of Sweden and a scholar of systematic theology at Uppsala University. Her research in...

In this episode of War Machine, Preston Price and Matt Baker Speak with Erik Davis about critical thought and scholarship in the midst of a collapsing academia, podcasting, systems theory and radical ecology, otters, conspiracy theory, the challenges of pluralism, etc. Erik Davis is a writer, journalist, scholar, and author of several books which explore art, film, occulture, technology, religion,...

Preston Price and Matt Baker conclude their conversation with Tripp Fuller about his recent book Divine Self Investment: An Open and Relational Constructive Theology. Tripp Fuller is an American theologian, minister, professor, and broadcaster. He is the founder and host of Homebrewed Christianity, one of the most downloaded theology programs in podcasting. He is currently a Postdoctoral Research...

Preston Price and Matt Baker speak with Tripp Fuller about his recent book Divine Self Investment: An Open and Relational Constructive Theology, process theology, christian animism, Jesus as shaman, comparative semiotics, and the challenge of technology for religion. Tripp Fuller is an American theologian, minister, professor, and broadcaster. He is the founder and host of Homebrewed Christianity,...

In this episode of War Machine, Matt Baker and Preston Price conclude their conversation with author, teacher, activist, neo-shamanic practitioner, psychonaut, and academic rogue Joshua Ramey about misapprehensions about Deleuze, finance power, sovereignty, economy, and the divination of politics. Joshua studies political economy and anti-capitalist political theory. He holds a Ph. D. in philosoph...

In this first of a two part episode, Matt Baker and Preston Price speak with author, teacher, activist, neo-shamanic practitioner, psychonaut, and academic rogue Joshua Ramey about the Hermetic Deleuze, shamanic practice, medicine, and psychedelics. Joshua studies political economy and anti-capitalist political theory. He holds a Ph. D. in philosophy from Villanova University (2006) and is current...