Kali Tribune Podcast

Odsjek za metafiziku Kriznog stožera KT za borbu protiv nihilizma, subtržišne strategije i brojanje sitnih bobica Kali Tribune u novom podcastu nudi neka razjašnjenja o naravi i povijesti metafizike. U ovoj epizodi razjašnjavamo zbog čega neka pitanja koja se uvriježilo nazivati "metafizičkim" ili naprosto "filozofskim" to ili uopće nisu ili se ne mogu primijeniti na predmodernu tradiciju filozofi...

To make up for the pain suffered by KT junkies because of the longest withdrawal in the history of this Europe spanning intellectual behemoth, KT Ministry of Non-Current Events and Putting Current Events out of Focus invited the head of our Carpathi-Black Sea division, Mihai Marinescu to join the General Secretary for the high level talks. Topis covered are Covid19 crisis and how we on the outskir...

A lot of buzzwords floating through communication channels from academia to caffeteria seem to rather obscure than reveal their correct meaning. One of those words is "socialism", quite popular and prevalent -ism both to be praised and reviled, depending on which side of popular political debates one takes. But what is the reality behind the -ism? In this podcast we inquire about precisely this: w...

In today's KT podcast we address a number of issues related to the deeper significance of the shift in mentality produced by the advent of Internet. We point out the peculiar instability of political and religious convictions people acquire online and try to offer some guidelines to understanding whence this quality of fleeting unreality that nevertheless informs lives of the real people to an inc...

In the third and final part of our series, we offer some examples of how Hegel's idea of absolute modernity as fulfillment of all ages is mirrored in later spiritual forms of modern age which, at the first sight, seem to be quite non-Hegelian.

In the second episode of our series on Hegel as an exemplar of the modern metaphysics, we go with some depth into main points of this metaphysics - the notion of encyclopedia, absolute knowledge and, above all, his attempt to abolish "the given" in identifying essence and appearance. We proceed to point out his relative convergence with Jacob Boehme in an idea of nature as the "body of God" and wh...

KT presents new series of podcasts on Hegel's speculation as a prototype of modern metaphysics. It will include reflections on some remarkable spiritual forms of modernity and their disturbing congeniality with its "dark side" of totalitarian ideologies, mass warfare and nihilism. The podcast is partially inspired by Glenn Maggee's book "Hegel and Hermetic Tradition" although with reservations due...

"No more great art, no more great figures of art. No more, even, great interest in art. But, above all, no more great writers especially of 'greater than life' variety". This is the lamentation that begs the question, why. In this podcast we'll attempt to indicate why in our day some of the most valued and comprehensible spiritual forms vanished, seemingly, overnight, focusing on the figure of gre...

Widespread and evermore spreading love and affection for animals - dogs in particular - is understood to be a cultural achievement and a sign of advanced society as opposed to such hellholes where dogs are actually forbidden from participating at the family table. We on KT beg to differ. In this ruthless attack on love towards innocent tail wagers we discern how sentimentality as a counterfeit of...

Nationalist of all nations unite! Sounds good, doesn't it? Logical too,  bearing in mind that "globalists" are one unified political block, then  all those opposing them should form a unified political block of their  own. Yet unified nationalists of the world is an idea that can exist  exclusively as such - an idea in virtual mindscape. In this podcast  we'll attempt to o...

Political debate or, rather, debate about politics can resemble the  labor of Sisyphus - nothing particularly new about that. However, what  if we would claim that in present circumstances, with chatter jamming  all communication channels, conversation is in fact impossible on  principle?

In the second part of our Q&A on corrosive influence of Heidegger,  we turn to actual (not in the sense of presence, but in the sense of  energeia) texts, i.e. to concrete examples of how he misinterprets  Aristole's notions of energeia, kinesis, entelehia. We conclude with overall evaluation of Heidegger's influence and remarks on low grade philosophy found online. No...

In this episode of our regular q&a podcast we answer reader's  questions about the influence of Martin Heidegger on Internet based  rightist identiterian movements. In the first episode we give an outline  of the current state of Heideggeriana in the mainstream academia which  seems to lead us to conclusion that Internet fringe apparently  understood him far better tha...

“You don’t have to be religious … it’s just common sense” – one often sees this kind of preface to arguments against practices sometimes branded as fruits of what is sometimes called “culture of death”. But is this so? Compromise is unavoidable in political struggle, but can there be a compromise between mind and reality? In this two parts essay we’ll argue in favor of the negative answer. We take...

In this episode we talk about objections to Stoicism and "Stoic  attitude" in our own day. We discuss two seemingly different, but in  fact quite congenial, attacks, i.e. about APA's document Guidlines for  Psychological Practice with Boys and Men" and the survey "Stoicism and  Well Being". In the process we discuss fruit of contemporary  "dissolution mentality", clearly e...

In the new episode of our "Ask Kali" series, we address MT White's  remarks and questions on the subject of Stoicism and peculiar attitude  contemporary psychologists hold towards what is considered to be  "ideology of masculinity". Whereas the very fact that American  Psychologists Association can indulge into such semantic nonsense as  defining "masculinity" - or even "m...

In this podcast we comment upon some remarkable passages from Eric Voegelin's New Science of Politics explaining his understanding of what he calls Gnostic "dreamworld",  carried over from the Ancient world to modernity. In the first half,  after providing some preliminary explanations of Voegelin's terminology,  we discuss the theoretical, or rather anti-theoretical,...

Metaphysics is due to be resurrected! Or zombified? In this podcast we  compare the Traditional understanding of Being with its inverted  counterpart, we might, for the lack of the better term, call  infraphysics, exemplified by its contemporary philosophical proponents.  We proceed from somewhat simple framing of Traditional understanding of  knowledge as a three phase pr...

In this podcast we provide the exposition of traditional notion of evil as privation , with the customary KT spin: as contemporary intellectual climate tends to reject the old  fashioned metaphysics of evil - where evil is just an addendum to the  metaphysics of good - because it is, supposedly, inadequate to explain  the "horrors of 20th Century", we introduce two real life example...

In the third episode of our Q&A podcast we address the questions  about the nature of substance, being, person and soul, while pointing  out the pitfalls of confusing the popular Science Fiction narratives  with the philosophy proper.

In the third part of his series of essays, Mihai provides us with the exposition of traditional Christian outlook to dogma and its role in ascetic life, a qualification rarely pointed out today, as dogmatic seems to have become a subject of endless discussions instead of the guideline to spiritual life.

In this podcast Mihai attempts to answer questions of ethnicity, race,  nationalism and the ontological place of sexes from the perspective of  Eastern Church and its Tradition.

In the second part of our Q&A session we answer to questions about  what is ethnicity (or people) and can it be defined, whereas Christian  dictum of turning the other cheek is at odds with historical reality,  why the political community should have origin that its member cannot  re-create, how Internet based Right could just be a homosexual grooming  operation and mu...

KT wishes you merry, mask-free, Christmas

In the second part of his series of essays, Mihai puts forward one of the most important subjects one could think of, although it occurs surprisingly rarely: that of memory and the struggle between oblivion and recollection. In the Christian Tradition the faculty of memory is being traditionally understood as a sort of backdoor for the divine influence - aptly so, because we tend to forget about h...