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Curtis Yarvin, also known as Mencius Moldbug, is the author of the blog  www.unqualified-reservations.org alongside being the founder of Urbit.  We talk Yarvin’s latest work Gray Mirror of the Nihilist Prince,  alongside discussions on power, WW2, governance and meta-politics.  Gray Mirror of the Nihilist Prince can be found here:  https://graymirror.substack.com/   -...

Justin Murphy is a political scientist whose research has been published in The British Journal of Political Science, and popular outlets such as Foreign Affairs and New Statesman. He is also the author of Based Deleuze: The Reactionary Leftism of Gilles Deleuze. He now works independently as a writer and podcaster. In this episode we discuss academia, political science, community, the internet, b...

Born in Angola, Africa, David Beth is the co-owner of Theion Publishing and the founder of the Pandaemonic Current and Hierophant of its associated initiatic groups. University educated in Germany and the USA, he has received various Western esoteric transmissions and is well known for his past work as the former head of Michael Bertiaux’ Voudon Gnostic orders. For the past decade he has focused m...

Professor Paul Bishop is the author of multiple books on the work of Carl Jung, Friedrich Nietzsche, alongside other texts on analytical psychology and German thought. He is also the author of Ludwig Klages and the Philosophy of Life, a Vitalist Toolkit, one of the few English texts on the philosophy of Ludwig Klages who we’ll be talking about today. I’d also like to thank David Beth and Theion pu...

Welcome to the third episode within a series title ‘The Michel Serres Project’ In this series I aim to interview interview a Michel Serres scholar or researcher on one of Serres’ numerous text, or an aspect of Serres’ philosophy. David Webb is a professor of philosophy at Staffordshire University, specializing in contemporary European philosophy, French epistemology and philosophy of science. He h...

Jasun Horsley is the author of THE VICE OF KINGS: How Socialism, Occultism, & the Sexual Revolution Engineered a Culture of Abuse, PRISONER OF INFINITY: UFOS, Social Engineering, & the Psychology of Fragmentation, SEEN & NOT SEEN: Confessions of a Movie Autist and more. He writes about Ufology, social engineering, Occultism, film and may more topics. He blogs at: https://auticulture.co...

Welcome to the second episode within a series title ‘The Michel Serres Project’ In this series I aim to interview interview a Michel Serres scholar or researcher on one of Serres’ numerous text, or an aspect of Serres’ philosophy. In this episode I’m joined by Bill Ross,the translator of Serres' text The Birth of Physics and an independent researcher into the work of Michel Serres and cosmology. W...

Michael Martin is a biodynamic farmer, philosopher, theologian, poet, and musician and Director of The Center for Sophiological Studies. He is the author of The Incarnation of the Poetic Word: Theological Essays on Poetry and Philosophy/Philosophical Essays on Poetry and Theology and The Submerged Reality: Sophiology and the Turn to a Poetic Metaphysics as well as other works. He edits Jesus the I...

Ran Prieur is a writer and blogger, he is well known for his essay How to Drop Out and consistently blogs on topics such as collapse, society, psychology, freedom, drugs and consciousness. His work can be found at www.ranprieur.com In this episode we discuss collapse, freedom, psychedelics, anxiety, society and dropping out. --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - https://twi...

This week I’m joined once again by John Cussans who is Senior Lecturer of Fine Art at the University of  Worcester. In this episode we discuss consumerism, control, authority, freedom alongside the work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Karl Marx and Michel Foucault.  John’s work can be found at johncussans.com    ---    Become part of the Hermitix community: &nbs...

Welcome to the first episode within a series title ‘The Michel Serres Project’ In this series I aim to interview interview a Michel Serres scholar or researcher on one of Serres’ numerous text, or an aspect of Serres’ philosophy. In this episode I’m joined by Massimiliano Simons, a post-doctoral researcher in the philosophy of science at the University of Ghent. We discuss Michel Serres’ book *The...

Joseph Azize (Fr Yuhanna Azize) is a priest in the Maronite Catholic Church, working chiefly in the Chancery. He is also an honorary associate at the University of Sydney. For twenty-three years he was a practicing attorney for the Commonwealth of Australia, serving at one time as acting Senior Assistant Director of Publications. He has published academically in three areas; ancient history, litig...

The first question and answer session with Meta-Nomad, host of Hermitix podcast.

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. This episode we talk about the ongoing coron...

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).  He blogs at Clusterfuck Nation - https://kunstler.com/writings/cluster...   ---   If you wish to su...

John Michael Greer is an American author who writes on collapse, ecology, religion, philosophy, politics, appropriate technology, oil depletion and the occult. We talk about Coronavirus (Covid-19) and its implications on the future. John currently blogs at www.ecosophia.net/ --- If you wish to support Hermitix please see our links below: Hermitix Subscription - https://hermitix.net/subscribe/ Patr...

Ruben Van Luijk is the author of *Children of Lucifer: The Origins of Modern Religious Satanism* It can be found here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Luc... --- If you wish to support Hermitix please see our links below: Hermitix Subscription - https://hermitix.net/subscribe/ Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod Hermitix Merchandise - http://...

Travis J I Corcoran is a Catholic anarcho-capitalist, a software engineer, and a business owner. He is an amateur at farming, wood turning, blacksmithing, cooking, throwing ceramic pots, and a few other things. He lives on a 50 acre farm in New Hampshire with his wife, dogs, livestock, and a variety of lathes and milling machines. Travis has had non-fiction articles published in several national m...

Richard Kaczynski is an American writer and lecturer in the fields of social psychology, metaphysical beliefs and new religious movements. He is known for his biography of the occultist Aleister Crowley, Perdurabo: The Life of Aleister Crowley. In this episode we discuss his book Perdurabo, alongside other various aspects of Thelema. His website is www.richard-kaczynski.com/ --- If you wish to sup...

John Michael Greer is an American author who writes on ecology, religion, philosophy, politics, appropriate technology, oil depletion and the occult. We talk about the work of H.P. Lovecraft, horror and John’s latest fiction series The Weird of Hali, which is set within Lovecraft’s ‘Cthulhu Mythos’. John currently blogs at www.ecosophia.net/ --- If you wish to support Hermitix please see our links...

Jasun Horsley is the author of THE VICE OF KINGS: How Socialism, Occultism, & the Sexual Revolution Engineered a Culture of Abuse, PRISONER OF INFINITY: UFOS, Social Engineering, & the Psychology of Fragmentation, SEEN & NOT SEEN: Confessions of a Movie Autist and more. He writes about Ufology, social engineering, Occultism, film and may more topics. He blogs at: auticulture.com and ca...

Gregory Marks is an Australian PhD student writing his thesis on the posthuman and the Gothic in Thomas Pynchon. He has presented internationally on Pynchon’s novels and their ambiguous technological visions. He can be found on Twitter @thewastedworld and blogs at thewastedworld.wordpress.com --- If you wish to support Hermitix please see our links below: Hermitix Subscription - https://hermitix.n...

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...