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James Machin is a writer and researcher and coeditor of Faunus, the journal of the Friends of Arthur Machen. He has published work in journals including Textual Practice, and taught at Birkbeck, University of London, and the Royal College of Art. Machin's Twitter: https://twitter.com/JFMachin16 Tim Jarvis is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at ARU, and a writer of supernatural fiction. He...

Aaron J. French is a post-doctoral researcher in Religious Studies at the University of Erfurt in Germany.  His main research focuses on the History of Esotericism, the History and Philosophy of Science, Sacred Space and Architecture, modern German Philosophy, and Science and Technology Studies. In this episode we discuss weird fiction. French's edited collection: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Azat...

This episode I'm joined once again by writer and occultist John Michael Greer, to discuss collapse, history, consciousness, cyclicity, and the work of Spengler and Toynbee. --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod Hermitix Merchand...

Kevin Hart  (editor) grew up in London and Brisbane, and now lives in the USA. He is the author of nine collections of poetry, including Flame Tree: Selected Poems (2002). He has won both the Victorian and NSW Premiers’ Awards for Poetry, and the Christopher Brennan Award for a sustained contribution to Australian poetry. His published works include studies of Jacques Derrida, A.D. Hope, Samuel Jo...

In this episode I'm joined by Bryan Counter to discuss Cormac McCarthy's novel Outer Dark, alongside discussions on Schopenhauer, Plato, and Nihilism. --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - ⁠https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast⁠ Support Hermitix: Patreon - ⁠https://www.patreon.com/hermitix⁠ Donations: - ⁠https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod⁠ Hermitix Merchandise - ⁠http:...

Sebastjan Vörös is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His research interests encompass philosophy of science, epistemology, phenomenology, and philosophy of religion. He is the author of Podobe neupodobljivega (The Images of the Unimaginable; KUD Logos & University of Ljubljana Press 2013, 2015), in which he investigates the phenome...

This episode I'm joined once again by writer and occultist John Michael Greer, to discuss John Gilbert's book The Tree of Spirit: Lessons on Tarot, Cabala, and the Spiritual Path . Book link: https://spirit.aeonbooks.co.uk/product/tree-of-spirit/95193 --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Patreon - https://www.pa...

A review of Philip K Dick's book 'VALIS', alongside discussion on Dickean Gnosticism. PKD Gnostic site: https://dickiangnosticism.wordpress.com/ --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - ⁠⁠https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast⁠⁠ Support Hermitix: Patreon - ⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/hermitix⁠⁠ Donations: - ⁠⁠https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod⁠⁠ Hermitix Merchandise - ⁠⁠...

Adrian Nathan West has translated more than twenty books from Spanish, Catalan, and German. His first book, The Aesthetics of Degradation, was published in 2016. His essays and criticism have appeared in the New York Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, and other journals in print and online. West's site: https://anathanwest.com/ --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitt...

Steve Dowden is a Professor of German language and literature in the Department of German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literatures. He graduated in 1984 from the University of California with a Ph. D in German literature. After a decade teaching at Yale and a year as a Humboldt Fellow at the University of Konstanz he joined the Brandeis faculty in 1994. Dowden has published on German literatu...

Steven Moore is an American author and literary critic. Best known as the primary authority on the novelist William Gaddis, he is the author of the two-volume study The Novel: An Alternative History. In this episode we discuss the work of William Gaddis. Moore's website: https://www.stevenmoore.info/ --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodc...

This episode I'm joined by Eric Adler who is a Professor of Classics at the University of Maryland. We discuss the book he recently edited: Humanistic Letters: The Irving Babbitt-Paul Elmer More Correspondence Book link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Humanistic-Letters-Irving-Babbitt-Paul-Correspondence/dp/0826222900 --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter.com/...

Dr. Gottfried M. Heuer, Jungian Training-psychoanalyst, -supervisor and teacher, Neo-Reichian body-psychotherapist and trainer for nearly 50 years in West London; lectures, group-work and teaching in many European countries, North, Middle and South America, Africa and Australia; independent scholar with some 70 papers published in 7 languages. His books include 10 Otto Gross Congress–proceedings (...

Review of 2666 by Roberto Bolaño --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod Hermitix Merchandise - http://teespring.com/stores/hermitix-2 Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLK Ethereum Donation Address: 0x31e2a4a31...

Mark Blacklock is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of the cultural history The Emergence of the Fourth Dimension, and his most recent novel Hinton was longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction in 2021. In this episode we discuss 'J.G. Ballard Selected Nonfiction 1962-2007' Book link: https://mitpre...

Lars Iyer is a British novelist and philosopher of Indian/Danish parentage. He is best known for a trilogy of short novels: Spurious, Dogma, and Exodus, all published by Melville House. Iyer has been shortlisted for both the Believer Book Award and the Goldsmiths Prize. In this episode we discuss his most recent book My Weil. --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - https://tw...

Peder Anker is a historian of environmental sciences, specializing in the history of ecology and ecological architecture and design. Anker is currently a Professor of History of Science at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University. Book PDF Link: https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/7070AC66999C30D35EAE07F0A290963A/9781108477567AR.pdf/The...

This episode I'm joined by Damian Catani, who is a senior lecturer in French in the Department of Cultures and Languages at Birkbeck, University of London. We discuss his book Louis-Ferdinand Céline: Journeys to the Extreme Book link: https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/louis-ferdinand-cline --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast Support...

Roe Fremstedal is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at NTNU, Trondheim. He is the author of Kierkegaard and Kant on Radical Evil and the Highest Good (2014), and has published extensively on German philosophy, existentialism, ethics, and religion. In this episode we discuss his book Kierkegaard on Self, Ethics, and Religion - Purity and Despair. --- Become part of t...

Barry Allen is Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at McMaster University, in Hamilton, Ontario. He has held visiting appointments at universities in Jerusalem, Shanghai, Istanbul, and Hong Kong, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is the author of Empiricisms and Vanishing Into Things: Knowledge in Chinese Tradition . Book link: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/...

Dr. Chris Muller is Senior Lecturer, Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature at Macquarie University. Book link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Prometheanism-Technology-Critical-Perspectives-Politics/dp/1783482389 “Apocalypse Blindness”, Climate Trauma and the Politics of Future oriented Affect (Anders and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road): https://www.tandfonline.com/eprin...

David Edmonds is a British philosopher, and a radio feature maker at the BBC World Service. He studied at Oxford University, has a PhD in philosophy from the Open University and has held fellowships at the University of Chicago and the University of Michigan. Edmonds is the author of Caste Wars: A Philosophy of Discrimination and co-author with John Eidinow of Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story o...

Kevin Hart  (editor) grew up in London and Brisbane, and now lives in the USA. He is the author of nine collections of poetry, including Flame Tree: Selected Poems (2002). He has won both the Victorian and NSW Premiers’ Awards for Poetry, and the Christopher Brennan Award for a sustained contribution to Australian poetry. His published works include studies of Jacques Derrida, A.D. Hope, Samuel Jo...

Tim is Junior Research Fellow in Political Theology at Campion Hall, University of Oxford, and Researcher Director at the "Laudato Si' Research Institute", a new institute conducting academic research in the field of ecology and social change. He is also an ordained Priest in the Church of England. In this episode we discuss Bruno Latour and Nikolaj Schultz text On the Emergence of a...

Review of Carpenter's Gothic by William Gaddis --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod Hermitix Merchandise - http://teespring.com/stores/hermitix-2 Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLK Ethereum Donation Ad...