Jason Josephson Storm on the Myth of Disenchantment
Jason Josephson Storm on the Myth of Disenchantment
We discuss the widespread idea of the ‘disenchantment’ of the modern world – the idea that ‘we don't believe in magic an... Read more
15 Feb 2023
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43mins
Magic, Technology, Art, and Enlightenment: Gillian McIver on Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourgh
Magic, Technology, Art, and Enlightenment: Gillian McIver on Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourgh
We discuss Philippe-Jacques (or ‘Philip James’) de Loutherbourgh, accomplished eighteenth-century painter, polyglot soci... Read more
8 Feb 2023
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36mins
Ferdinando Buscema on Magic, Illusion, and the Question of a Reality
Ferdinando Buscema on Magic, Illusion, and the Question of a Reality
We speak about illusion, magic, and reality with magical experience designer Ferdinando Buscema. He can make stuff disap... Read more
4 Jan 2023
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56mins
Jeremy Swist on Julian, Part II: The Emperor’s Religio-Philosophic Project
Jeremy Swist on Julian, Part II: The Emperor’s Religio-Philosophic Project
Our discussion with Jeremy Swist on The Emperor turns metaphysical, theurgic, and religious, as we discuss Julian's incr... Read more
14 Dec 2022
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34mins
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Jeremy Swist on Julian, Part I: the Political Background and Political Project of the Emperor
Jeremy Swist on Julian, Part I: the Political Background and Political Project of the Emperor
Jeremy Swist, specialist on Late Platonism, late antiquity, and the great Julian the Faithful, lays out the political ba... Read more
14 Dec 2022
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39mins
Tzvi Langermann on the Sefer Yetsira: Cosmology, Science, and Kabbala
Tzvi Langermann on the Sefer Yetsira: Cosmology, Science, and Kabbala
We discuss the extraordinary reception-history of the extraordinary text known as Sefer Yetsirah, the ‘Book of Formation... Read more
16 Nov 2022
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42mins
Bojana Radovanović on the Bogomils
Bojana Radovanović on the Bogomils
We speak with Dr Bojana Radovanović on the Bogomils, a widespread Christian ‘heresy’ – dualist, demiurgic, docetist, asc... Read more
27 Jul 2022
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45mins
Juan Acevedo on Alphanumeric Cosmology
Juan Acevedo on Alphanumeric Cosmology
One of the most fundamental and intriguing questions in the philosophy of language is that of the relation between signs... Read more
25 May 2022
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1hr 3mins
Dylan Burns on the Birth of Free Will in Late Antiquity
Dylan Burns on the Birth of Free Will in Late Antiquity
Is ‘free will’ a given, a constant of the human condition? It might seem that way, but as Dylan Burns argues in this int... Read more
10 Nov 2021
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1hr 6mins
Dylan Burns on Providence, Fate, and Dualism in Antiquity
Dylan Burns on Providence, Fate, and Dualism in Antiquity
In Part I of a two-part series, we interview Dr Dylan Burns of the Universiteit van Amsterdam on the subjects of provide... Read more
3 Nov 2021
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52mins
