Leaves in the Wind - By David Bentley Hart

Capitalism, Myth, Helen of Troy, Jonathan Pageau's Hysterics, Automated Vistas... https://genemccarraher.substack.com/p ... Eugene McCarraher and David Bentley Hart resume their monthly conversation after a hiatus occasioned by David's house move and the submission of Eugene's manuscript, The Automated Vistas , to Yale University Press. The conversation begins by touching on AI-generated correspon...

#30 - A conversation on Magic, Media, Machines, Modernity ... and ever so many other things beginning with M - with Eugene McCarraher, PhD., and Tara Isabella Burton, PhD. https://genemccarraher.substack.com/p ... Eugene McCarraher, PhD., is an Associate Professor of Humanities at Villanova and author of The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity. Tara Isabella Bur...

Episode #35 - "On the Road to Christman" with Eugene McCarraher A Wandering Conversation https://genemccarraher.substack.com/p ... Eugene McCarraher, PhD., is an Associate Professor of Humanities at Villanova and author of The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity.

Episode #33 - "Before Minniecon" with Eugene McCarraher A desultory exchange between two elderly man wearied by the interesting times they live in... https://genemccarraher.substack.com/p ... Eugene McCarraher, PhD. , is an Associate Professor of Humanities at Villanova and author of The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity.

Episode #31 - "Before Seymour" with Eugene McCarraher The Moment We Are In https://genemccarraher.substack.com/p ... Eugene McCarraher, PhD., is an Associate Professor of Humanities at Villanova and author of The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity.

You may notice that neither I nor my interviewer made any attempt here to appear especially elegantly turned out. The recording was for an audio article, but I have been given leave to use the video record (though, if I had any sense of shame or style, I would not). The young man interviewing me is named Gabriel Ellison-Scowcroft, a journalist for the CBC in Montreal (though on Anglophone radio)....

It has been some time since I lasted posted a video here. The past year and a half has been a physical challenge. This is the record of what for me was an altogether delightful encounter. It was, I suppose, an interview, with me in the place of the interviewee. Bryn Morris is a reader of my works who lives in Sunshine Coast, Australia: A husband, father to a nine month old baby, a musician, and a...

Episode #28 - A Conversation with My Brother (the other one) Though my brother Robert is an Anglican rector down in the Research Triangle down in North Carolina, he was a musician will before he ever considered ordination. Our conversation here, consequently, is on matters strictly musical. You can see he dressed for the occasion. The exchange took an unexpected turn. We began by discussing aspect...

#27 - "The Light of Tabor: Notes Toward a Monistic Christology", Lecture 5 of 5 And, at last, the final chapter in the sprawling epic that was this year's Stanton Lectures. That infernal machine the "Owl" seems to me to have done an especially bad job of separating voices from the ambient sound in the lecture theatre, but that's what makes technological progress so exciting: it's as likely to make...

Episode #26 - "The Light of Tabor: Notes Toward a Monistic Christology", Lecture 4 of 5 The penultimate chapter in this year's Stanton Lectures, again recorded--with questionable success--by the diabolical contraption known as the "Owl."

#25 - "The Light of Tabor: Notes Toward a Monistic Christology", Lecture 3 This is the third of this year's Stanton Lectures, once again captured by that unpleasant little automaton the "Owl." How well that device dealt with the acoustics of the lecture theatre is something of an open question; much depended upon how it was placed on any given day.

#24 - "The Light of Tabor: Notes Toward a Monistic Christology" - Lecture 2 Here is the second of this year's Stanton Lectures, delivered at the University of Cambridge earlier this month. In this case, the lecture was recorded at the time of its public delivery. The device that captured the "performance" was something called an "Owl," a rather macabre little object that tracked movement and sound...

It turns out that the audio recording of the first Stanton Lecture, captured on Catherine Pickstock's phone, was successfully made. It also does not include the questions that followed the lecture, but it does include Catherine's introduction to the series; and so I post it here for anyone who may wish to hear that.

Episode #22 - "The Light of Tabor" Lecture 1: "Notes Toward a Monistic Christology" by David Bentley Hart This is the first of the Stanton Lectures that I delivered at the University of Cambridge at the end of April and through the first week and a half of May this year. It is not, however, a recording of the lecture as delivered on the first night of the series. Due to some errors of planning, wh...

Episode #21 - "Fields as Formal Causes" [I am DBH’s temporary guest-editor while he and his family take time to themselves to continue to adjust to the loss of someone they love.] This conversation was recorded on the evening of 10 May, at the London home of Dr. Rupert Sheldrake and his wife Jill Purce. Dr. Hart and his son (Patrick) were visiting for dinner, at which A. N. Wilson and his wife Rut...

Recently, Giulia Leo, a student at Columbia University's Graduate School for Journalism, conducted a short interview with me for an audio story to be broadcast on Columbia's own Uptown Radio (for information regarding which, one may go to uptownradio.org ). The topic of the piece is eclipses and it is directly related to the book "Eclipse and Revelation: Total Solar Eclipses in Science, History, L...

Episode #19 - A Conversation Between Philip Ball and David Bentley Hart I spoke recently with Philip Ball, the prolific and extremely gifted writer on the sciences, principally about his recent Book How Life Works, but with occasional oblique references to other of his books, such as The Book of Minds and Beyond Weird. We discussed many things: a possible shift of paradigms in the life-sciences, t...

Episode #18 - A Conversation with Norman Finkelstein (the poet, that is) I recently had a conversation with the poet and literary essayist Norman Finkelstein. The conversation touched on his work and mine, as well as on poetry, prose, dreams, gnosticism, psychotherapy, consciousness, thin places, dogs, cats, and a number of other things. I will say only that I found it all immensely enjoyable.

Episode #17 - An Interview by James Mumford The philosopher and essayist James Mumford (and yes, for those who have heard the rumor, he is the brother of Marcus Mumford of Mumford & Sons fame) recently interviewed me for an article he was writing. The chief topic was the second edition of my translation of the New Testament, and the conversation ranged over a broad variety of topics: the absen...

#16 - An Interview with Ross Allen of "The Christian Century" On nature and supernature, grace, traditionalist Thomism, resurrection bodies, socialism, mystic dogs, talking dogs...dogs... I was interviewed many, many months back by Ross Allen for The Christian Century (which I know is quite evident from the title above, but I have to say something here), and the conversation ranged widely. A conde...

Episode #15 - A Conversation Between Eugene McCarraher, PhD., and David Bentley Hart I recently conducted a conversation with the spry and sprightly Eugene McCarraher, Associate Professor of Humanities at Villanova and author of The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity. We ranged widely but not erratically over a number of topics (enchantment and disenchantment,...

#14 - A Conversation Between Iain McGilchrist and David Bentley Hart On the mind, the structure of the brain, the structure of life, the arts, perceptions of reality, the pervasiveness of consciousness... Scientist, physician, psychiatrist, writer, literary scholar, and philosopher Iain McGilchrist (PhD.,) is as genial as his work is fascinating. As anyone familiar with his books could attest, thi...

On prose styles, Artificial Intelligence, consciousness, materialism, disenchantment and re-enchantment, animal minds... When the novelist, essayist, and political theorist China Miéville and I last spoke, we left a few topics hanging, and so we resolved to return and address them later. This time we were joined by China’s fellow editor at the journal Salvage, Richard Seymour, essayist, cultural c...

Several readers of my Substack journal Leaves in the Wind, as well as some viewers of this, its podcast emanation, have expressed their desire that I record another conversation with the novelist (and all-around good egg) Salley Vickers, revisiting some of the themes we merely touched lightly upon the first time around. I found this a very pleasant request to grant.

David Armstrong writes a delightful Substack newsletter called "A Perennial Digression," for which he also recorded several interviews, available online (somewhere), and he has kindly provided me copies of the four interviews he recorded with me.