Cultivating Darkness (1)

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• 00:00:00

  Well, thanks very much for joining us, both those who have come out into the bleak cold of Plymouth and those joining us on the live stream. Yeah, I wish all of you could be here sharing the mulled wine with us. My name's Robin and I'm the founder of the publishing house Urbanomic, which was founded in 2007. And…

• 00:08:30

  And as Amy discusses in her afterword, to return to the magical tradition, therefore, in Italy, in this context, is an extremely risky and powerful gesture. But these writings are also, in fact, a very important example of the…

• 00:21:08

  As in physics, there is no hermetic theory of everything. Each esoteric doctrine leaves a loose thread, an open circle, each one forgets something, more or less consciously. More precisely, as is the case with the sciences, no model should claim to be exact. Rather, each one satisfies a specific human need…

• 00:27:39

  The first is that the world of tradition as a whole seems to have been designed to repress. In stark contrast to this, the Gripper de Nun aimed to present us with a cosmology, a pantheon, a magical practice, and even perhaps an ethics based on not just an acceptance of, but a deeply ecstatic love for disequilibrium…

• 00:36:16

  traffic with the outside. In the wake of this work, strange new occultisms based on alternative models of desire are given space to flourish, queer, alien, inorganic, bound by love that knows nothing of subjects or objects. Only in entropy, a hunger so tremendous that it will not be sated until it has devoured time…

• 00:44:04

  And in that sense, in the contemporary scene, what Groupo de Non are doing is also to be related to the kind of online pseudo-magic of self-improvement, the pick-up artist, Jordan Peterson, all these people are producing a type of magical thinking, as much as it might be based in a kind of rhetoric of science. They're…

• 00:51:43

  Yeah. I think I... To give the kind of answer that I want to be able to give to that question, I think I need to sit down and think about it like how I would phrase it. There's definitely... They talk a little bit in the beginning about the feminization of culture and see this... Like, in terms of the way that forces…

• 00:59:07

  That was a really good question. I've got to think about that for another year. And hi to everyone else in the chat. Hi to Luis Escalante, who's an old PlaguePod regular. Should we talk to CK and maybe... Well, I've been trying to contact the... I've been trying to contact the group Ode and we're not having much…