The Panarchist Politics of Amipotence [Audio Essay]
This episode features an audio essay from Matt Baker titled “The Panarchist Politics of Amipotence”. The essay appears in a recently published volume centering on Tom Oord’s concept of amipotence. The volumes also feature entries from Josh Patterson, Catherine Keller, Ilia Delio, et al and is available here: https://www.amazon.com/Amipotence-Support-Criticism-Brandon-Brown/dp/1958670774
Music for this episode provided by CryoChamber: https://www.cryochamberlabel.com/
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Thomas Nail /// The Philosophy of Movement
In this episode, Matt speaks with Thomas Nail about his book "The Philosophy of Movement: An Introduction". Nail is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Denver and the author of numerous books including The Figure of the Migrant, Theory of the Border, Marx in Motion, Theory of the Image, Theory of the Object, Theory of the Earth, Lucretius I, II, III, Returning to Revolution, and Being and Motion, The Philosophy of Movement.
Read more about the Philosophy of Movement: https://philosophy-of-movement.com/
Read the Introduction: https://udenver.academia.edu/ThomasNail
Get the book: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517917456/the-philosophy-of-movement/
Music for this episode:
Adonis, Birds ov Paradise
Enchanted Lands, The Guild of Ambience
Cleocathral, Farkas
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Catherine Keller /// OrtLine25 Response
This episode features a special session from a recent conference hosted by the Center for Open and Relational Theology. The conversation centers on Catherine Keller’s latest book, No Matter What: Crisis and the Spirit of Planetary Possibility. The episode includes Keller’s opening remarks, a response from matt, and Keller’s reply. Other panelists have been omitted for length and focus, but a link to the full panel discussion is available for free at this link: https://c4ort.com/ortline25-audio-downloads/
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Elliot Wolfson /// Heidegger and Kabbalah
In this episode, Matt and Justin Speak with Professor Elliot Wolfson about his book Heidegger and Kabbalah: Hidden Gnosis and the Path of Poiesis. Wolfson is a renowned scholar of Jewish mysticism, philosophy of religion, and comparative mysticism. His work blends rigorous textual scholarship with insights from literary theory, feminist thought, postmodern hermeneutics, phenomenology, and Eastern mystical traditions. Widely regarded as the leading scholarly interpreter of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Wolfson has significantly reshaped contemporary understandings of Jewish esotericism.
In addition to his academic writing, Wolfson is also a poet and visual artist, with several published volumes of poetry and a gallery exhibition. He served as founding editor of the Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy and remains an influential voice in the study of religion and mysticism.
Heidegger and Kabbalah: https://iupress.org/9780253042576/heidegger-and-kabbalah/
Music for this episode:
Prey, Niky Nine
Dunes, Jonathan Fitoussi
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Richard Tarnas /// Cosmos and Psyche
In this episode, Matt speaks with Richard Tarnas about his book Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New Worldview.
Richard Theodore Tarnas is a cultural historian and astrologer known for his books The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas That Have Shaped Our World View and Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View. Tarnas is professor of philosophy and psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies, and is the founding director of its graduate program in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness. In 1968 Tarnas entered Harvard, graduating with an A.B. cum laude in 1972. He received his Ph.D. from Saybrook Institute in 1976 with a thesis on psychedelic therapy. In 1974 Tarnas went to Esalen in California to study psychotherapy with Stanislav Grof. From 1974 to 1984 he lived and worked at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, teaching and studying with Grof, Joseph Campbell, Gregory Bateson, Huston Smith, Elizabeth Kübler-Ross, and James Hillman. He also served as Esalen's director of programs and education.
Get the book: https://a.co/d/4gJFNxS
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Music for this episode:
Lamentium, Monasterium Imperi
Nomad's Theme, Matt Baker