Episodes

Matt Valler /// Taking The Measure
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”.

Justin Leavitt Pearl /// An Intro to Michel Henry
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".

Kester Brewin /// God-like: Machines, Myths, Monsters
In this episode, Matt speaks with Kester Brewin who is an author, educator, and head of communications at the Institute for the Future of Work, about his recently published book called “Godlike a 500 year history of artificial intelligence in myths, machines, monsters”.

Steven Shaviro /// Process After Hours w/ Kazi Adi Shakti
In this episode Justin and Matt are joined by Kazi AdI Shakti for a discussion with Steven Shaviro on issues relating to the Difference in Repetition that's in process. The discussion raises a number of questions about Deleuze, particularly his theory of time, as well as his relationship to the thought of A.N. Whitehead.

Larry Jordan /// The Way
In this episode, Matt speaks with author Larry Jordan about his recently published book called The Way, Meaningful Spirituality for a Modern World. The book integrates religion and science and reconciles Eastern and Western worldviews, confirming with the mystics and the scientists that everyone is related, and everything is connected.

James Madden /// A Grand Theory of the Weird
In this episode, Matt and Justin speak with author, educator, athlete, James Madden about his recent book “Unidentified Flying Hyperobject: UFOs, Philosophy, and the End of the World” which is an application of the tools of academic philosophy to the UFO phenomenon.

Thomas Oord /// The Death of Omnipotence
In this episode, Justin and Matt speak with Thomas Jay Oord about his most recent book, "The Death of Omnipotence, and Birth of Amipotence" wherein Tom outlines many of the reasons why omnipotence is no longer credible or salvageable and wherein he offers an alternative view of divine power.

Gary Herstein /// Quantum of Explanation w/ Matt Segall
In this episode, Matt Baker and Matt Segall speak with Whitehead scholar Gary Herstein about his reading of WH as well as what Process Theology can sometimes miss through inattentiveness to certain aspects of WH. Gary is coauthor of The Quantum of Explanation: Whitehead's Radical Empiricism.

Clayton Crockett /// Energy and Change Conclusion
In this episode, we conclude our exploration of Clayton Crockett's book 'Energy and Change: A New Materialist Cosmotheology'. Specifically, Matt Baker and Matt Valler speak with Clayton Crockett himself to clarify and extend several ideas in this important book.

Petra Carlsson /// Energy and Change Pt 5
In this episode, we continue our exploration of Clayton Crockett's book Energy and Change: A New Materialist Cosmotheology. Specifically, Matt Baker and Matt Valler are joined by Petra Carlsson to discuss chapter 4, Of Spirit in Amerindian, Vodou, and Chinese Traditions.

Jeffrey Robbins /// Energy And Change Pt 4
This episode continues our exploration of Clayton Crockett's 2022 publication Energy and Change: A New Materialist Cosmotheology. Specifically, Matt Baker and Matt Valler are joined by Jeffrey Robbins for a discussion of chapter 3: Political Economy and Political Ecology: Energy, Political Economy, and Exchange.

Marika Rose /// Theology for the End of the World
In this episode, Justin Pearl and Matt Baker speak with Marika Rose about her recent publication "Theology for the End of the World". Dr. Marika Rose is Senior Lecturer in Philosophical Theology and works at the intersection of systematic theology and continental philosophy of religion.

Andy Hutcheson /// The Metallurgical Roots of Climate Change
This episode features a talk given by Andy Hutcheson 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.

Ben Burgis /// On Christopher Hitchens
In this episode Justin Pearl and Matt Baker speak with Ben Burgis who is a columnist for /Jacobin/ Magazine, an adjunct philosophy professor at Rutgers University, an online instructor at the School for Social and Cultural Change, and the host of the podcast and YouTube show Give Them An Argument.

Andrew McLuhan /// Techno-Maelstrom
Wherein Justin Pearl, Matt Valler, and Matt Baker speak with Andrew McLuhan, grandson of Marshall McLuhan, son of Eric McLuhan, and the founder of the McLuhan institute. We touch on media ecology, what ‘the medium is the message’ is all about, understanding media as activism, and more.

Mary Jane Rubenstein /// Astrotopia Pre-Launch [Excerpt]
In this Interrupted podcast excerpt, Jordan Miller and Matt Baker speak with Mary Jane Rubenstein, Professor of Religion and Science in Society at Wesleyan University. We discuss goats, Elon Musk, technology, theological method, telescopes, Ukraine, and more.

Terence McKenna /// Elven Eschatology Part 1 w/ Justin Pearl
In this episode of War Machine, Petra Carlsson and Matt Baker speak with Justin Pearl about turn-of-the-millenia psychonaut, philosopher, and mathematician Terence MCKenna. The conversation centers on McKenna's final interview given in 1999.

Tim Ingold /// Animating Anthropology
In this episode of War Machine, Matt Valler and Matt Baker speak with British Anthropologist Tim Ingold about education during covid, writing, 'interfacing' vs 'facing-between', the downside of agency, animism, the imagination, the task of anthropology, and so on.

Erik Davis /// Surf(ac)ing Interstices
In this episode of War Machine, Preston Price and Matt Baker Speak with Erik Davis about critical thought and scholarship in the midst of a collapsing academia, podcasting, systems theory and radical ecology, otters, conspiracy theory, the challenges of pluralism, etc.

Ashes ///
In this episode, Justin Pearl and Matt Baker discuss several short texts centering on the theme of Ash Wednesday: Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra (prologue); Emily Dickinson, Ashes Denote the Fire that Was; Jeffrey Robbins, Radical Theology: A Vision for Change (excerpt); and T.S. Eliot, Ash Wednesday.

Joshua Ramey /// Divination of Politics Part 2
In this episode of War Machine, Matt Baker and Preston Price conclude their conversation with author, teacher, activist, neo-shamanic practitioner, psychonaut, and academic rogue Joshua Ramey about finance power, sovereignty, economy, and the divination of politics.