Disintegrator 40. Liturgy (w/ Haela Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix)
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Dec 9, 2025 
Haela Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix, a composer and theorist of Liturgy, explores the interplay between music and philosophy. She delves into Byzantine accelerationism, questioning how ancient traditions can inform our modern existential crises. Haela distinguishes between the 'transcendental' and 'transcendent' and argues for the necessity of integrating varied cultural narratives. She also critiques contemporary secularism's relationship with image-worship while discussing her innovative practice framework, tetraperichoresis, merging art, philosophy, and spirituality.
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Iconoclasm Breeds New Idols
- Haela traces Western nihilism to an 8th-century Byzantine iconoclastic trauma that replaced images with new idols.
- She proposes an icon-venerating Orthodox stance to avoid perpetual idol-replacement.
Reclaiming The Divine Feminine
- Haela reinterprets Nick Land's absolute exteriority as misogynistic by objectifying Hale (the divine feminine).
- She instead presents Hale as relationally constitutive of God, reclaiming the feminine as part of divine body-mind relation.
Transcendental Versus Transcendent
- Haela distinguishes the transcendental (conditions of possibility) from the transcendent (a higher ontic order actually present here).
- She argues critical thought's rejection of the transcendent is historically motivated, not purely rational.
