War Machine

Mar 08 2025 99 ep. 57 mins 40
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Podcast by Matt Baker

  Religion & Spirituality
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Elliot Wolfson /// Heidegger and Kabbalah

Mar 08 2025 65 mins  
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, phenomenolo

Richard Tarnas /// Cosmos and Psyche

Jan 22 2025 63 mins  
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 p

Sheri Kling /// Process Spirituality

Dec 24 2024 77 mins  
In this episode, Jake and Matt speak with Sheri Kling who is an author, speaker, singer, and spiritual mentor offering courses, keynote concerts, retreats, and one-on-one soul work for wholeness, purpose, passion, and joy. Dr. Sheri has spent a lifetime focusing on transformation and human flourishing. Her specialty is harnessing proven wisdom from a range of sources to address the

Andrew Culp /// Guerrilla Guide to Refusal

Dec 05 2024 85 mins  
In this episode, Justin and Matt speak with Andrew Culp. Andrew Culp (MA 2009, Ph.D. 2013) is a Professor of Media History and Theory and Program Director of the MA Aesthetics and Politics program (starting Spring 2023) in the School of Critical Studies and in the MA Aesthetics and Politics Program, California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). In his first book, Dark Deleuze (Univer

Three of Swords /// Moore, Hansen, Wilson

Nov 14 2024 83 mins  
In this episode, Matt, Justin, and Jake discuss audio clips from Alan Moore, George P. Hansen, and Robert Anton Wilson. Sympathies emerge. Art as Sorcery: https://www.entheosdesigns.net/items/art-as-sorcery-%2F%2F%2F Alan Moore on Magic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1qACd0wHd0 George P. Hansen on The Trickster and the Paranormal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x5iRq3v9mQ R

Matt Valler /// Taking The Measure

Nov 10 2024 97 mins  
In this episode, Justin and Matt speak with Matt Valler who recently completed a PhD in Translation Studies at Queen’s University Belfast. We spoke with him about his dissertation which is titled “Taking the Measure of High Cross: Translating the Many Worlds of Truro at the Time of the Anthropocene”. Matt's work concerns the philosophy of translation, particularly in relation

Justin Leavitt Pearl /// An Intro to Michel Henry

Oct 12 2024 20 mins  
In this episode, Justin provides an introduction to the work of Michel Henry, a French philosopher who was a major figure in 20th-century phenomenology. The introduction was delivered as part of the Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center's series "Phenomenology is for Beginners". Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center: https://dsc.duq.edu/phenomenology-center/ warmachinepodcast.com

Adam Louis-Klein + Justin Shaffner /// Sky-Earth System

Sep 28 2024 66 mins  
In this episode, Justin and Matt speak with anthropologists Adam Louis-Klein and Justin Shaffner about their collaborative project, “The Sky-Earth System: A Manifesto for Learning to See and Think as a Generic Ancient”. Adam Louis-Klein is a musician, philosopher and anthropologist from Seattle and New York. He studied Philosophy at Yale College (B.A) and at the New School fo

Robert Saler /// Death to the World

Sep 04 2024 74 mins  
In this episode, Justin and Matt speak with Robert Saler about his book Death to the World, and Apocalyptic Theological Aesthetics which explores the Death to the World movement. Get the book: https://a.co/d/1MPLoOe Robert is Associate Dean and theology professor at Christian Theological Seminary, where he directs the Lilly Endowment Clergy Renewal Programs. He is known for his

Taylor Thomas /// The Existential Tillich

Jul 02 2024 72 mins  
In this episode, Justin and Matt speak with Taylor Thomas who recently completed a PhD in theology, ethics, and philosophy at Boston University School of Theology. Taylor is also Lindamood Fellow at the Center for Mind and Culture and hosts the Tillich Today Podcast, dedicated to exploring the profound and often revolutionary ideas of Paul Tillich, a towering figure in the world of