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Lance Strate is an American writer and professor of communication and media studies at Fordham University. He is the author of Amazing Ourselves to Death: Neil Postman's Brave New World Revisited , alongside various other texts on media ecology. In this episode we discuss Neil Postman's text Amusing Ourselves to Death . --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter....

This episode I'm joined once again by writer and occultist John Michael Greer, to discuss his book The Wealth of Nature: Economics as If Survival Mattered, alongside discussions on economics, the free market, consumerism, peak oil and more... --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Hermitix Subscription - https://hermitix....

Adam Lovasz is an independent researcher and philosopher based in Budapest, Hungary. In this episode we discuss his book Updating Bergson: A Philosophy of the Enduring Present , alongside discussions on Deleuze, change, time, --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Hermitix Subscription - https://hermitix.net/subscribe/&nb...

Originally a live discussion on Youtube, repurposed for podcast listeners. --- Become part of the Hermitix community:   Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast   Support Hermitix:   Hermitix Subscription - https://hermitix.net/subscribe/    Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/hermitix   Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod   Hermitix Mercha...

Grafton Tanner is the author of The Circle of the Snake: Nostalgia and Utopia in the Age of Big Tech and Babbling Corpse: Vaporwave and the Commodification of Ghosts. In this episode we discuss his latest book The Hours Have Lost Their Clock: The Politics of Nostalgia , will be available October 12, 2021, with Repeater Books, alongside discussions on exit, agency, the cabin myth and more... --- Be...

Murray Stein, Ph. D.is a training analyst at the International  School for Analytical Psychology in Zurich, Switzerland, Paul Bishop Professor Paul Bishop is the author of multiple books on the work of Carl Jung and analytical psychology. In this first episode on Carl Jung's Black Books, we discuss the genesis of the Black Books, their history, and their relation to Jung's famous Red Book. --...

Matthew Segall is Assistant Professor in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness (PCC) program at California Institute of Integral Studies. In this episode we discuss his book Physics of the World Soul: Whitehead's Adventure in Cosmology, alongside discussions on the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, Schelling, process theology and more...   ---   Become part of the Hermitix com...

Corey Anton is Professor of Communication Studies at Grand Valley State University, Vice-President of the Institute of General Semantics, Past President of the Media Ecology Association, in this episode we discuss his latest book How Non-being Haunts Being: On Possibilities, Morality and Death Acceptance, alongside discussions on Ernest Becker, the mind-body-split, nature, communication and more.....

Robin Bloor is the author of multiple books on the work of George Gurdjieff, including To Fathom the Gist, a 3 volume work on Gurdjieff's Beelzebub's Tales. In this episode we discuss Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson, alongside discussions on the Gurdjieff work, allegory, Shakespeare and more... --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast Supp...

The fifth question and answer session with James, host of Hermitix podcast.

Cristina Chimisso is a Professor of Philosophy for Open University, she is the author of Hélène Metzger: historian and historiographer of the sciences and Writing the History of the Mind: Philosophy and Science in France 1900-1960s, in this episode we talk about her book Gaston Bachelard: Critic of Science and the Imagination, alongside discussions on French epistemology, rationalism, communicatio...

David Director Friedman is an American economist, legal scholar, and anarcho-capitalist theorist. In this episode we discuss his book *The Machinery of Freedom*, alongside discussions on Libertarianism, anarcho-capitalism, cooperation, law and more...   ---   Become part of the Hermitix community:   Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast   Support Hermitix: &nbs...

Bob Dobbs was Marshall McLuhan's archivist, and is a renegade McLuhan scholar. In this second episode on the work of Marshall McLuhan, I discuss further McLuhanesque ideas, alongside a long discussion on Dobb's work with iON.    Cameron McEwen & Bob Dobbs Discuss Bob’s New Book: https://ionandbob.blogspot.com/2020/1...   ---   Become part of the Hermitix community:   H...

Eric O. Springsted is the co-founder of the American Weil Society and  served as its president for thirty-three years.  He is the author and editor of many previous books, including Simone Weil: Late Philosophical Writings. In this episode we discuss his newest book  Simone Weil for the Twenty-First Century. --- Become part of the Hermitix community:   [Hermitix Twitter](https://twitter.com/Hermit...

Mark Sedgwick is a British historian specialising in the study of traditionalism, Islam, Sufi mysticism, and terrorism. In this episode we discuss his book *Western Sufism: From the Abbasids to the New Age*, alongside discussions on Neoplatonism, J.G. Bennett, George Gurdjieff and more... --- Become part of the Hermitix community: [Hermitix Twitter](https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast) [Hermitix D...

Nicola Perullo is a professor of Aesthetics at the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Italy. In this episode we discuss his book Taste as Experience: The Philosophy and Aesthetics of Food, alongside discussions on John Dewey, the hierarchy of the senses, why the aesthetic of food and taste is overlooked in philosophy, and more... Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter Hermitix...

Jeffrey S. Kupperman is a Neoplatonist, independent researcher and author of Living Theurgy: A Course in Iamblichus' Philosophy, Theology and Theurgy. In this episode we discuss Neoplatonism, the work of Iamblichus, the practical side of philosophy and more... Kupperman's book can be purchased direct from Avalonia Publishing here: https://www.avaloniabooks.com/product-page/living-theurgy-by-jeffre...

Abdal Hakim Murad/Timothy Winter is an English academic, theologian and Islamic scholar who is a leading proponent of neo-traditionalism. He is the Founder and Dean of the Cambridge Muslim College. In this episode we discuss his latest book Travelling Home: Essays on Islam in Europe, alongside discussions on Rene Guenon, tradition, belief in the modern world, the work of Michel Houellebecq and mor...

The third live lecture discussing Nick Land's philosophy of Bitcoin. Topics covered: Bitcoin in relation to Austrian Economics Bitcoin and Cooperation More Bitcoin and Kant (Originally a live lecture, quickly formatted for podcast listeners) Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast Hermitix Discord - https://discord.gg/63yWMrG Support Hermitix:...

Bob Dobbs was Marshall McLuhan's archivist, and is a renegade McLuhan scholar. In this first part on the work of McLuhan we discuss his Menippean satire, what is meant by 'the medium is the message', the electric age and more... Cameron McEwen & Bob Dobbs Discuss Bob’s New Book: https://ionandbob.blogspot.com/2020/10/cameron-mcewen-bob-dobbs-on-mcluhans.html Become part of the Hermitix community:...

Nolen Gertz is Assistant Professor of Applied Philosophy at the University of Twente, in this episode we discuss his book Nihilism, alongside topics such as meaning, pessimism, active and passive nihilism, as well as the films Office Space and Falling Down. Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter Hermitix Discord Support Hermitix: Subscribe Hermitix Patreon Hermitix Merchandise One...

The second live lecture discussing Nick Land's philosophy of Bitcoin. Topics covered: Bitcoin as Philosophical Revolution Ontic bitcoin and Ontological Bitcoin Bitcoin, machines and code. (Deleuze) (Originally a live lecture, quickly formatted for podcast listeners) Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast Hermitix Discord - https://discord.gg/6...

Jason Josephson-Storm received his M.T.S. from Harvard University and his Ph. D. in Religious Studies from Stanford University. He has held visiting positions at Princeton University, École Française d’Extrême-Orient in France and Ruhr-Universität and Universität Leipzig in Germany. He has three primary research foci: Japanese Religions, European Intellectual History, and Theory more broadly. Stor...

The first live lecture discussing Nick Land's philosophy of Bitcoin. Topics covered: Basics of Kantian Critique Basics of Bitcoin Technology Bitcoin/Critique Overlap (Originally a live lecture, quickly formatted for podcast listeners) Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast Hermitix Discord - https://discord.gg/63yWMrG Support Hermitix: Hermiti...

Jacob Rollison is a Jacques Ellul scholar and the author of A New Reading of Jacques Ellul: Presence and Communication in the Postmodern World and editor of Jacques Ellul: A Companion to His Major Works along with Jacob E. Van Vleet. In this second part we discuss Ellul's Christian and theological work, alongside discussions on Christian Anarchism, organized religion and more. Become part of the H...