Against Everyone with Conner Habib is a podcast of deep but accessible and fun explorations of art, spirituality, philosophy, activism, and culture. This is big talk in a friendly tone with some of. the most compelling people of our time.
I talk with intellectual historian, A.J.A. WOODS , author of the excellent and very readable The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy: Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West on to the show to discuss all this. In their book, A.J.A. traces the great movement of blaming everything good and bad - from trans liberation to sexual abuse, from religious plurality to totalizing…
Friends, “The hour is late. It is time for unwanted guests to leave.” That's a line from this episode's guest, MITCH HOROWITZ , in his latest book, Esoterika: Formulas Against the False Self . The book as I see it, is a book of ethics. And its central question is: how do you navigate who you are and what your ethics are when you touch the continuously transformative fires of spiritual pursuits? In…
On this episode of Against Everyone with Conner Habib, I talk with esoteric author and scholar MARK BOOTH (AKA Jonathan Black), whose excellent new book, THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE: HOW ANCIENT WISDOM MADE THE WORLD , traces the occult influences found in modern science, especially the science of physics. Mark’s book is not just an outline of confluences. In other words, it’s not one of…
Using AEWCH 317-320 as a starting point, I talk with JOSHUA RIVERS , poet and host of the excellent BUSY BEING BLACK podcast + frequent AEWCH guest, SHULI BRANSON (host of the podcast THE BREAKUP THEORY podcast , and translator of Guy Hocquenghem's Gay Liberation After May '68 .) about the small task of remaking the world. At the center of the episode is a thought that's something like: We have to…
Like many people, I often feel that I don’t understand economics, but, like everyone, I have my own role to play in the economy. So do you. So does everyone. We are all in economy, so we all have something to offer in understanding it. AEWCH 24 guest Erin Ryan once joked that “Economics is astrology for dudes” Economics feels intentionally mystified, filled with untruths and abstractions, and…
Friends, we might not feel up to the task, of changing the world, but not only are we up to the task, but we are all engaged with it already . Shaping the world is part of being alive and we all contribute, whether we know it or not. This episode is part of my series on the social art of renewing, rethinking, and revitalizing the social organism: A NEW SPIRITUAL SOCIETY This time, I talk about…
Friends, we might not feel up to the task, of changing the world, but not only are we up to the task, but we are all engaged with it already . Shaping the world is part of being alive and we all contribute, whether we know it or not. Welcome to my new series of episodes on the social art of renewing, rethinking, and revitalizing the social organism: A NEW SPIRITUAL SOCIETY This time, I talk about…
Friends, We might not feel up to the task, of changing the world, but not only are we up to the task, but we are all engaged with it already . No one who has ever lived, even briefly, has not altered the earth by contributing their own destiny to it, and the way in which that destiny radiated out to affect everyone. Shaping the world is part of being alive. We all contribute. This is often broken…
In an episode that is at once political, spiritual, and intensely personal, I talk about why we need to see the Epstein files in the right light to understand what's at stake: for survivors, for abusers, and for the world at large. Support the show: patreon.com/connerhabib
I talk with author, teacher, and cohost of Weird Studies, J.F. Martel about how art is the only way out of our predicament. Support the show: patreon.com/connerhabib Buy J.F.'s book . Listen to Weird Studies .
