I talk with religion and UFO scholar Diana Walsh Pasulka about aliens, academia, AI, and how to stay in spiritual integrity.

AEWCH 144: DIANA WALSH PASULKA or ALIENS, ALIENATION, AND SPIRITUAL TECH

I talk with creator of The Midnight Gospel and Duncan Trussell Family Hour, Duncan Trussell, about love and heartache.

AEWCH 159: DUNCAN TRUSSELL

I talk with the hosts of the wildly popular Weird Studies podcast about the philosophy of the weird.

AEWCH 166: PHIL FORD & JF MARTEL/WEIRD STUDIES or THE WEIRDING OF EVERYTHING

How does music become meaningful? How does it become meaning? And what can we learn about reality from music without reducing music to its function?
Rudolf Steiner said “The music of the spheres is a reality. As soon as we come into the spiritual world which lies beyond the soul-world, we are in a world which lives altogether in sound and song, in melody and harmony, and harmonies of spoken sound. Out of these inner relationships of sound the human ear is formed. “
I invited guitarist and songwriter ⁠BEN CHASNY ⁠ AKA ⁠SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE⁠ on the show to discuss all of this. Ben last appeared on the show way back on ⁠AEWCH 45⁠ when we talked about Rudolf Steiner and the spiritual aspects of intervals. Well... sort of. Ben's actually been on every episode for quite some time because we recreated the AEWCH theme song (originally co-composed with AEWCH guest, Jeb Havens) together. On this episode, he plays the song live and we discuss writing it together. We talk about the essential aspects of music, if there are any. And we look at the spiritual influencer culture of podcasting that has eroded its credibility over the years.
At the end, Ben plays "The Mission" (from the recent Six Organs of Admittance album Time Is Glass), which is, as it turns out, about me and my boyfriend.

AEWCH 270: BEN CHASNY (SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE) / HOW DOES MUSIC BECOME MEANING?

I talk with crime writer Liz Nugent about death and comfort, murder and dysmorphia.

AEWCH 104: LIZ NUGENT or THE KIND OF DEATH WE WANT TO READ ABOUT

I talk with legendary and real musician Stephen Malkmus about Deleuze & Guattari, the clashes between philosophy and art,  and a whole lot more. What a dream come true, friends.

AEWCH 109: STEPHEN MALKMUS or PHILOSOPHY, PAVEMENT, AND DELEUZE

I talk with author of Abolish Silicon Valley &amp; former software engineer/startup founder, Wendy Liu, about the many and horrible problems of tech.

AEWCH 114: WENDY LIU or AGAINST TECHNOCRACY

I talk with musician, occult scholar, and author, Phil Legard about evoking landscapes with magical music + the trouble with summoning demons.

AEWCH 118: PHIL LEGARD or LANDSCAPES OF MAGICK AND SOUND

The incomparable Mona Eltahawy - author, feminist, muslim, anarchist - returns to talk masks/veiling, public/private bodies and of course we talk how to destroy patriarchy! Plus: we read June Jordan and Cavafy poems!

AEWCH 121: MONA ELTAHAWY or QUEER ARAB ANARCHIST POETRY SEX REVOLUTION!

I talk with political theorist, Marxist, feminist, and philosopher Kathi Weeks about destroying work with utopianism.

AEWCH 123: KATHI WEEKS or AGAINST WORK, FOR UTOPIA

I talk with religious scholar and author Jason Storm about the need for new theorizing, occultism on the left, and the wrongheadedness of "re-enchanting" the world.

AEWCH 141: JASON ĀNANDA JOSEPHSON STORM or AN OCCULTIST LEFT AND THE EDGE OF METAMODERNITY

Against Everyone With Conner Habib features Conner's conversations with countercultural figures; and presents complex philosophical, spiritual, and political ideas in an engaging and accessible way.

AEWCH 270: BEN CHASNY (SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE) / HOW DOES MUSIC BECOME MEANING?

Against Everyone With Conner Habib

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