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This kicks off a series of conversations centering on Philosopher of Religion Clayton Crockett’s recent monogram, Energy and Change: A New Materialist Cosmotheology. In this episode, Matt Valler and Matt Baker discuss the book's introduction. Buy the book: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/energy-and-change/9780231206112 Music for this episode: Smoke Notturno, Hello Meteor Love Always, Nu Alkemi Nomad's Theme, Matt Baker

This episode features a talk given by Andy Hutcheson who is a researcher at the University of East Anglia, and an archaeologist specializing in the role of institutions in developing complexity in cultural heritage. The talk was recently presented at the 43rd Conference of the theoretical Archaeological Group in Edinburgh. The title of the paper is, The Long Roots of the Climate Crisis: An Archaeological Perspective on the Causes of Climate Change. Music for this episode: Adonis, Birds ov Paradise

In this episode Justin Pearl and Matt Baker speak again to Randy Dible about George Spencer Brown's hugely influential but not widely-known mathematical grimoire Laws of Form, originally published in 1969. Randy is a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at St. Joseph's University in New York, and a doctoral student in the Department of Philosophy, at The New School for Social Research. His work is in ontological phenomenology, history of philosophical ideas, and Ancient Greek philosophy. https://nssr.academia.edu/RandolphDible

In this episode, Ezra Klein shares his recent article "This Changes Everything" which reflects on the impact artificial intelligence is likely to have on human affairs. Just kidding; the voice you hear is an AI generated clone. Read the original article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/12/opinion/chatbots-artificial-intelligence-future-weirdness.html The Ezra Klein show: https://www.nytimes.com/column/ezra-klein-podcast Music for this episode: Love Always, Nu Alkemi 2022 Compilation, Cryo Chamber

In this episode, Matt Baker speaks with educator, philosopher, and poet Asha Gowan about art and trauma, poetry and the self. Check out her website here: https://acgowan16.wordpress.com/ The Pit of Fame There’s a pit of fame that rivals the peaks in my lands, one I admit I dug and put there. It’s not a brief dip, not a dimple but a departure where the soul leaves its things. Careful where I step, I try to escape the pull in a flood of sacred words and tether to principles higher than my sight. But the wind, it unhinges there in its own spirals and howls as the vacuum draws the cycles in like, all the miles down, every wolf in every cave of my history mourns their piece to a cratered false idol. And it must gnaw my smile crooked because why do I look this tired? The pit blends in with the topography and there are few who travel that far to understand. It, open-mouthed, creates new gravity and shifts and hovers like a scent caught ending. I would fear the nadir had it not lifted me so gently mended, had I not called to God and watched the dark turn so vastly bending. And where was faith, where was more? On the other side of an abyss where evil is the aberration and where silence has been teeming warm with doors and doors and doors. - Asha Gowen Beethoven's Ninth Symphony Understood at Last as a Sexual Message A man in terror of impotence or infertility, not knowing the difference a man trying to tell something howling from the climacteric music of the entirely isolated soul yelling at Joy from the tunnel of the ego music without the ghost of another person in it, music trying to tell something the man does not want out, would keep if he could gagged and bound and flogged with chords of Joy where everything is silence and the beating of a bloody fist upon a splintered table - Adrienne Rich 1972, Diving into the Wreck, Poems 1971-1972 Music contributors for this episode: Knots, Hania Rani Prey, Niky Nine Eden, Hania Rani Cimmerian Walkers, Skrika Philanthrope, Sleepy Fish Support the artists! https://bandcamp.com/

In this episode, Justin Pearl and Matt Baker speak with author and educator Steven Shaviro about his recent book The Rhythm Image, A.I., the philosophical purchase of science fiction, digital media, and more. Shaviro teaches at Wayne University and is a philosopher and cultural critic whose areas of interest include film theory, time, science fiction, panpsychism, capitalism, affect theory, and subjectivity. http://shaviro.com/ The Rhythm Image Chapter 1 https://www.dropbox.com/s/purvm85s8fvtpj8/The%20Rhythm%20Image%20Chapter%201.pdf?dl=0 Music for this episode: Prey, Niky Nine Love Always, Nu Alkemi Scream, Spiritual Voices and Aikana Nomad's Theme, Matt Baker

The Whisperer in the Dark is a novella written by H.P. Lovecraft. Written February–September 1930, it was first published in Weird Tales, August 1931. Similar to The Color Out of Space (1927), it is a blend of horror and science fiction. Although it makes numerous references to the Cthulhu Mythos, the story is not a central part of the mythos, but reflects a shift in Lovecraft's writing at this time towards science fiction. Episode produced by War Machine. Music provided by Cryo-Chamber Music. Complete works of H.P. Lovecraft: chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://arkhamarchivist.com/ebook/The%20Complete%20Works%20of%20H.P.%20Lovecraft.pdf Let me know if the link doesn't work and I'll get you a copy.

"The Silver Key" is a fantasy short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written in 1926, it is considered part of his Dreamlands series. It was first published in the January 1929 issue of Weird Tales. Episode produced by Matt Baker and War Machine Music by Gdanian from the album "Induction" published by Cryo-Chamber 2022.

In this episode Matt Baker speaks with German-American Theologian Joerg Rieger about his new book "Theology in the Capitalocene: Ecology, Identity, Class, and Solidarity". Joerg is a professor of Christian theology whose work emphasizes economic justice and political movements. Rieger is also an ordained minister of the United Methodist Church. Rieger is Cal Turner Chancellor's Chair in Wesleyan Studies and Distinguished Professor of Theology at the Divinity School and the Graduate Program of Religion at Vanderbilt University. Previously he was the Wendland-Cook Endowed Professor of Constructive Theology at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University. Rieger is the author and editor of more than 20 books and over 135 academic articles, which have been translated into Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, German, Korean, and Chinese. Wendland-Cook Religion and Justice Program: https://religionandjustice.squarespace.com/discover Joerg Rieger: https://www.joergrieger.com/

In this episode Matt Baker and Matt Valler discuss chapters 1-4 of Vicky Kirby's "Quantum Anthropologies: Life at Large." Quantum Anthropologies: https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Anthropologies-Life-at-Large/dp/0822350734/ref=sr_1_1?crid=PVP0UJD5OYDE&keywords=quantum+anthropologies&qid=1669433810&sprefix=quantum+anthropologies%2Caps%2C93&sr=8-1&ufe=app_do%3Aamzn1.fos.08f69ac3-fd3d-4b88-bca2-8997e41410bb Music for this episode: Birds ov Paradise, Adonis Hello Meteor, The Turn After a Storm Hello Meteor, Lesser Oddities Matt Baker, Nomad's Theme