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Chad A. Haag is deeply committed to the project of developing a Philosophy of Peak Oil by joining the insights of John Michael Greer, Dmitry Orlov, and Richard Heinberg with the philosophical rigor of Aristotle, Kant, Zizek, and Heidegger. He left behind the academic path to relocate in India and dedicate himself to sustainability. He lives in the village of Uchakkada with his wife Minu. In this e...

Elliot Neaman (born 1957) is a professor of history at the University of San Francisco, where he began teaching in 1993. He won the USF Distinguished Research Award in 1999. He is the author of *A Dubious Past, Ernst Jünger and the Politics of Literature after Nazism* and *Free Radicals; Agitators, Hippies, Urban Guerillas and Germany's Youth Revolt of the 1960s and 1970s* Ernst Jünger (29 March 1...

John Michael Greer  is an American author who writes on ecology, religion, philosophy, politics, appropriate technology, oil depletion and the occult. He served from December 2003 to December 2015 as the Grand Archdruid of the Ancient Order of Druids in America, and since then has headed the Druidical Order of the Golden Dawn, which he founded in 2013. An initiate in Freemasonry, the Hermetic...

Anthony Malcolm Daniels, who generally uses the pen name Theodore Dalrymple  is an English writer and retired prison doctor and psychiatrist. He worked in a number of Sub-Saharan African countries as well as in the East End of London. Before his retirement in 2005, he worked in City Hospital, Birmingham and Winson Green Prison in inner-city Birmingham, England. He is the author of a number of...

Dmitry Orlov is a Russian-American engineer and a writer on subjects related to "potential economic, ecological and political decline and collapse in the United States. (Wikipedia) He is the author of multiple books including: *Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects*, *The Five Stages of Collapse: Survivor's Toolkit* and more. In this episode we discuss Dmitry's overarchin...

Erik Davis is an American writer, scholar, journalist and public speaker whose writings have ranged from rock criticism to cultural analysis to creative explorations of esoteric mysticism. He is perhaps best known for his book Techgnosis: Myth, Magic and Mysticism in the Age of Information, as well as his work on California counterculture, including Burning Man, the human potential movement, and t...

James Howard Kunstler (born October 19, 1948) is an American author,  social critic, public speaker, and blogger. He is best known for his  books The Geography of Nowhere (1994), a history of American suburbia  and urban development, The Long Emergency (2005), and Too Much Magic  (2012).    ---    Please support Hermitix at:   Hermitix Subscription - ht...

Michel Serres was a French philosopher, theorist and writer. His works  are notable for discussing subjects like death, angels and time. They  are also noted for incorporating prose and multifaceted perspectives.  Serres had a unique approach to translating his works from accounts  rather than from authoritative singular translations. (Wikipedia)   David Webb is a professo...

John Michael Greer is an American author who writes on the environment, various religions, and occult topics. He currently blogs at: www.ecosophia.net     Note: A big thank you to H.E. for helping address audio issues.   ---    Please support Hermitix at:   Hermitix Subscription - https://hermitix.net/subscribe/    Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/herm...

John Zerzan is an anarchist and primitivist ecophilosopher and author.  His works criticize agricultural civilization as inherently oppressive,  and advocate drawing upon the ways of life of hunter-gatherers as an  inspiration for what a free society should look like. (Wikipedia)    ---    Please support Hermitix at:   Hermitix Subscription - https://hermiti...

Charlie Johns is the author of Neurosis and Assimilation, alongside being the editor of The Neurotic Turn. In this episode we talk about the history of neurosis in relation to capitalism and society.    ---    Please support Hermitix at:   Hermitix Subscription - https://hermitix.net/subscribe/    Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/hermitix   Donations: - htt...

Simon Sellars is a writer and editor. He is the custodian of  ballardian.com, and the co-editor of Extreme Metaphors: Interviews with  J.G. Ballard 1967–2008. He has most recently published Applied  Ballardianism: Memoir from a Parallel  Universe http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/applied-ballardianism)    In this episode we discuss the work of J.G. Ballard, Applied &...

Nick Land is an English philosopher, short-story horror writer, blogger, and "the father of accelerationism". His writing is credited with pioneering the genre known as "theory-fiction". A cofounder of the 1990s collective Cybernetic Culture Research Unit, his work has been tied to the development of accelerationism and speculative realism. (Wikipedia)    He can be found on Twitter...

John Cussans currently works as the Associate Lecturer in the Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths. John does research in Politics, Literature and Film, Race, Ethnicity and Politics and History of Religion. His current project, The Skullcracker Suite, is a practice-led artistic research project investigating processes of cultural decolonization in British Columbia with a focus on resurgence o...

Mark Fisher (11 July 1968 – 13 January 2017), also known as "k-punk", was a British writer, critic, cultural theorist, and teacher based in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. He initially achieved acclaim for his blogging as k-punk in the early 2000s, and was known for his writing on radical politics, music, and popular culture. (Wikipedia)  Matt Colquhoun...