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Edward J. Matthews teaches philosophy, writing, and communications in the School for Language and Liberal Studies at Fanshawe College in London, Ontario, Canada. He is also a part-time lecturer and instructor at the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism at Western University. His most recent publications include Arts & Politics of the Situationist International 1957-1972: Situating the...

Review of Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - ⁠⁠⁠⁠ twitter.com/hermitixpodcast⁠⁠⁠ ⁠ Support Hermitix: Patreon - ⁠⁠⁠ ⁠www.patreon.com/hermitix⁠⁠ Donations: - ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod⁠⁠⁠⁠ Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLK Ethereum Donation Address: 0x31e2a4a31B8563B8d238eC086daE9...

This episode I'm joined once again by writer and occultist John Michael Greer, to discuss the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Greer's website: https://www.ecosophia.net/ Greer's astrology patreon: https://www.patreon.com/johnmichaelgreer Greer's books: https://bookshop.org/contributors/john-michael-greer-dcc85fd9-cfd4-4940-b35a-a6252d57e3cc --- Become part of the Hermitix commun...

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Renée Bergland is professor of literature and creative writing at Simmons University. She is the author of Maria Mitchell and the Sexing of Science: An Astronomer among the American Romantics and The National Uncanny: Indian Ghosts and American Subjects. In this episode we discuss her book Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science. Book link: https://press.prin...

Jakob Lusensky is a Jungian analyst working in Berlin. Jakob's site: https://www.psychoanalystinberlin.com/ Jakob's podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast... Podcast listeners can pre-order a copy of the book 'C.G Jung: Face to Face with Christianity' for a special 20% discount with the coupon code facetoface2024! on the publisher ⁠Chiron Publications’s website⁠. It will be...

Steven E. Knepper is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Rhetoric, and Humanistic Studies at the Virginia Military Institute. Rob Wyllie is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Ashland University. In this episode we discuss their recently co-authored (with Ethan Stoneman) book Byung-Chul Han - A Critical Introduction. Book link: https://www.wiley.com/en-ae/Byung-Chul+Han%3A+A+...

Bruce Fink is a practicing Lacanian psychoanalyst and analytic supervisor. He trained as a psychoanalyst in France for seven years with and is now a member of the psychoanalytic institute Jacques Lacan created shortly before his death, the École de la Cause freudienne in Paris, and obtained his Ph. D. from the Department of Psychoanalysis at the University of Paris VIII (Saint-Denis). He served as...

​Erik Butler translates literature and scholarship from French, German, and other European languages. He also writes on cultural history. In this episode we discuss his book The Devil and His Advocates Butler's site: https://erikbutler.weebly.com/about.html Book link: https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/the-devil-and-his-advocates --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - http...

Peter D. Harrison FAHA (born 1955) is Professor Emeritus of History and Philosophy at the University of Queensland and a Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Notre Dame, Australia. In this episode we discuss his book Some New World: Myths of Supernatural Belief in a Secular Age . Book link: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/some-new-world/300E90A9C1F983C06D4859F2BD365474 --- --- Be...

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. In this episode we discuss Bishop's ' Jung and the Epic of Transformation Volume 1, Wolfram von Eschenbach’s “Parzival” and the Grail as Transformation '. Book link: https://chironpublications.com/shop/jung-and-the-epic-...

Review of Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - ⁠⁠⁠⁠ twitter.com/hermitixpodcast⁠⁠⁠ ⁠ Support Hermitix: Patreon - ⁠⁠⁠ ⁠www.patreon.com/hermitix⁠⁠ Donations: - ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod⁠⁠⁠⁠ Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLK Ethereum Donation Address: 0x31e2a4a31B8563B8d238eC086daE9B75a00D9E74

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 the work of William Golding. --- Become part of the Hermiti...

Review of The Golden Ass by Apuleius Goodreads review mentioned (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/80080.The_Golden_Ass#CommunityReviews (top review, Bill Kerwin) --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - ⁠⁠⁠⁠ twitter.com/hermitixpodcast⁠⁠⁠ ⁠ Support Hermitix: Patreon - ⁠⁠⁠ ⁠www.patreon.com/hermitix⁠⁠ Donations: - ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod⁠⁠⁠⁠ Bitcoin Donation Add...

Alice Gibson has a PhD in ‘Philosophical Fables as Ecological Tools for Resisting Environmental Catastrophe within The Anthropocene,’ with a focus on Giacomo Leopardi, at Kingston University. Previously, she worked on the Special Collections team at The National Archives. In this episode, we discuss her book The Ethics of Giacomo Leopardi: A Philosophy for the Environmental Crisis. Book link: http...

Review of Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy Book link: https://www.andotherstories.org/sweet-days-discipline/ (Thumbnail photographer site: https://parallel-aesthetics.com/category/gallery/) --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - ⁠⁠⁠   / hermitixpodcast⁠⁠⁠   Support Hermitix: Patreon - ⁠⁠⁠   www.patreon.com/hermitix⁠ Donations: - ⁠⁠⁠ https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod⁠...

Joshua Buhs is scholar of the overlap of politics, biology, and ecology in twentieth-century America, Joshua Blu Buhs has written articles that have appeared in Isis, Environmental History, The World of Genetics, and Journal of the History of Biology, In this episode we discuss Charles Fort and the Forteans. Book link: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo214839745.html Buh's...

Jakob Lusensky is a Jungian analyst working in Berlin. Jakob's site: https://www.psychoanalystinberlin.com/ Jakob's podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/psychology-the-cross/id1555012364?l=en Podcast listeners can pre-order a copy of the book 'C.G Jung: Face to Face with Christianity' for a special 20% discount with the coupon code facetoface2024! on the publisher Chiron...

Review of Spells by Michel de Ghelderode Book link: https://wakefieldpress.com/products/spells --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - / hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Patreon - / hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod Hermitix Merchandise - http://teespring.com/stores/hermitix-2 Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLK Ethereum Donatio...

Brad Baumgartner is a theorist and writer. He is the author of several works, including Dead Man's Switch: Glissades (Orbis Tertius Press, 2022), The –Tempered Mid·riff: A Play in Four Acts (Schism-Neuronics, 2020), Celeste: Our Lady of Flowering Marvel (Spuyten Duyvil, 2020), which was a semi-finalist for the 2017 Tarpaulin Sky Book Award, and Quantum Mechantics: Memoirs of a Quark (The Opera...

​Erik Butler translates literature and scholarship from French, German, and other European languages. He also writes on cultural history. In this episode we discuss the work of Léon Bloy. Butler's site: https://erikbutler.weebly.com/about.html Wakefield Bloy 1: https://wakefieldpress.com/products/sweating-blood Wakefield Bloy 2: https://wakefieldpress.com/products/disagreeable-tales?_pos=2&amp...

Wayne Bradshaw is a research associate at James Cook University, Australia, where he completed a PhD in literary studies. He is the founder of James Cook University’s postgraduate cultural magazine, Sudo Journal, and has also published a chapter on the importance of philosophical egoism to the terrorist persona in Metaphysical Sociology: On the Work of John Carroll (2018). In this episode we discu...

Ashley Woodward is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Dundee and is a founding member of the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy. In this episode we discuss Raymond Ruyer's text Cybernetics and the Origin of Information. Book link: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781786614995/Cybernetics-and-the-Origin-of-Information --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - https:...

A guide to Max Stirner's text 'The Unique and Its Property' (or 'The Ego and Its Own). --- 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: 3LA...

A guide to Max Stirner's text 'The Unique and Its Property' (or 'The Ego and Its Own). --- 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: 3LA...