Gives blessing and permission to our own creative imagination. Thank you!

In his book on Hume, Deleuze distinguishes imagination from fantasy, where fantasy is, to paraphrase, a larger precipitation of natural principles... so maybe Mr Cheetam should start with Empiricism and Subjectivity?

Maybe you could be interested in my works. It began with a meta-horror novel in which the protagonist faces the demon of money in the factory where he works. Then I realised that with this symbol, I could navigate my subconscious, thus the collective subconscious so to say. So I jumped from horror to philosophy and schizo analysis and I bounce back and forth between what I call my «grimoires» and my cathedral: the Kyurensi Kodex. The K with two bars is a symbol to hate, to loathe the subconscious ruler of our world, to spit on the invisible hand of the market that pretends to feed, the unknown god of our primordial religion, a religion that even atheists believe in. And with my hate of what ruins what we love about the world, I imagined a potential line of flight out of money itself. That's the territory I colonize.

Great listen ...😁

James Hillman changed my life. One of very few modern thinkers who actually had something new and interesting to say.

This was quite interesting. Thank you ❤

Brilliant video (actually haven't listened to it in all yet but I am just commenting for The Algorithm™️ )

"Hitler repeatedly stressed that one could not get at the masses with arguments, proofs, and knowledge, but only with feelings and beliefs." Wilhelm Reich "The fundamental problem of political philosophy is still precisely the one that Spinoza saw so clearly (and that Wilhelm Reich rediscovered): Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?" Gilles Deleuze "A society whose principles are acquisition, profit, and property produces a social character oriented around having, and once the dominant pattern is established, nobody wants to be an outsider, or indeed an outcast; in order to avoid this risk everybody adapts to the majority, who have in common only their mutual antagonism." Erich Fromm “A sense of a wider meaning to one’s existence is what raises a man beyond mere getting and spending. If he lacks this sense, he is lost and miserable.” C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols "The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness. People have so manipulated the concept of freedom that it finally boils down to the right of the stronger and richer to take from the weaker and poorer whatever they still have. As naturally as the ruled always took the morality imposed upon them more seriously than did the rulers themselves, the deceived masses are today captivated by the myth of success even more than the successful are. Immovably, they insist on the very ideology which enslaves them. The misplaced love of the common people for the wrong which is done to them is a greater force than the cunning of the authorities. It is one of the basic tenets of fascist leadership to keep primary libidinal energy on an unconscious level so as to divert its manifestations in a way suitable to political ends." Theodor Adorno

47:00 I think the Ancient Greeks must have been trying to make allowances for this with gods like Dionysus. To participate in his rites, you basically had to abandon sense and rationality and just submit to the "insanity" of excess (like the maenads). Under the auspices of Dionysus, the profane can become sacred, at least in a limited space and time. There is precious little patience for the Dionysian in contemporary "Liberal Democracy", at least as far as I can see.

45:20 great examples of this are left from the world of pre-modern architecture as well. All those wonderful, absurdly detailed Dravidian temples in southern India, for example. Or any wonderful cathedral in Europe that took generations to build. How about Angkor Wat? Or Lalibela in Ethiopia? Sure, there were reasons these wonders were built, but they're not strictly rational in their purpose, not strictly utilitarian. Thats something that is hard to find on a macro level nowadays.

When I hear that synth from Epoch Philosophy I automatically pay attention. It has a John Carpenter vibe and those are movies I grew up with, like theater it gets my undivided attention.

Great conversation. I personally feel that what you're looking for is simply a rebirth of the ancient role of what we call an artist nowadays. Creating compelling symbols that cracks reality's supposed solid bases is the very practice of an artist when that role is not limited by capital. The point is,whatever the artist does or intends, the moment the work is shown, will it find anyone who's not capitalistically subjectivized?

Esotericism is not and has never been political.

Just found this channel, good stuff man🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

Yes

craig , r u moving away from acid horizon?

Alternate Tunings.

Did Simone Weil have obsessive hatred for all Jews, or just some Jews? obsessive hatred for all philosophers, or just Jewish philosophers? obsessive hatred for all capitalists, or just Jewish capitalists? obsessive hatred for anyone -- or any group -- and if so, what was the cause of her obsessive hatred?

Great videos. But there is many mistakes in the subtitles.

This is interesting b/c the US pretends to be diverse heterogenous, but politically acts monoethnically mono maniacally exploiting divisions in OTHER heterogenous global south societies as if they themselves (the US) were alien or immune to similar concepts.

Homogeneity....the IN group? Heterogeneity...the OUT group?

While this discussion on imagination as a political tool under technocratic capitalism is fascinating, it risks idealizing the role of imagination without sufficiently addressing practical applications. Philosophers like Pierre Léon and Jean-Luc Nancy offer rich theoretical insights, but the concept of 'destituent communism' could benefit from a clearer framework for implementation. Additionally, the critique of globalization, though valid, lacks nuance in exploring how technology might empower rather than solely constrain collective imagination. Overall, a thought-provoking but somewhat abstract take on modern political philosophy.

Seems to be parallels with poetic imagination, to bust open the possibilities. There are plenty of wild books around the topic, poetry, sorcery, language, ecstatic thinking, colliding. These experiences then have to be somehow ordered by 'reason' into verse. Intriguing that Dante is mentioned, he is certainly within this wild tradition. The Romantic poets rigourously debated the intricacies of the imagination. The young Coleridge, Shelley, Blake etc...

31:33 Can you recommend such art of this post-Jungian tradition?

please do a convo with Ammon Hillman!

Could you tell me if the content of Letter To A Priest can be found in Waiting For God?

Not a bad primer, I must say.

Great video, also maybe a bit of Levinas and his notion of the absolute separateness of the Other would help

Great video. Subscribed

The fact that the ideology is still very real unlike other ideologies such as absolute monarchy and communism tells me its actually next the stage of development after liberal capitalism. It just got suppressed for a time. (Much like the liberal revolution in Germany in 1848)

Good stuff! Cool name!

The sick commenting on the healthy?

hey; it's a comment; of uncertainty; this makes a lot of balancing needs sense; not just in the professed and believed "needs"; of "extroverted" expression; but the existential infinidimensional needs; unseen; of negativity inherent force(s); anti-sense senses; as all of humanity and species sovereignty collide; in a chaotic scale invariance; of infinitii;

Just discovered you; enjoying every word ❤

I wonder if a connection can be made between the concepts of Blanchot's desoeuvrement and Simondon's disindividuation that occurs amid transindividual processes of phycic and collective individuation.

very cool, Craig. I wish I had more input on this beyond "I need to read Blanchot", lol. have a lovely rest of your week :D

phuck yeah

Second ^_^

I'm so here for this

A hug from Brazil. Love your work

Saints of the Impossible is a wild book everyone interested in Bataille or Weil should read, I recall it flips Weil's rationality and championing of life on its head, read through Bataille/Blue of Noon. I read she may have gotten the concept of Tzimtzum in a roundabout way through Schelling, wish I could find the source again. Kenosis is also a related term, I guess. Wish she had more time to reckon with her shortcomings 😔 I was shocked when I learned Novis was Kenny's actual name haha

Let's GOOOOO!

Yesss!!!! Funny coincidence, Simone Weil used to go by the pen name Emile Novis.

I'm happy to see more people exploring the work of James Hillman! Check my channel for more deep dives on Hillman, Jung, Alchemy and Philosophy etc. youtube.com/@howlinthewilderness

Oh this was sooo good! I have a curious relationship with Peterson ! He is literally about 2 months older then me. We were both born in 1962. Hes a cancer I am ,Im a Leo and just that's a simplistic take but just the start of our differences. So there are commonalities and differences. I've been into Jung since I was 18 ,I was deeply into Christianity from 18-28..but I lost my faith or it dissolved and I got heavily into Hillman became a therapist but not a scientific phycologist. From Hillman i got into Ric Tarnas and archetypal astrology/cosmology. I don't feel threatened by queerness although I'm a straight man( no ambiguity...I just love women) and I love and respect difference. Peterson alienates me with his self-righteous anger.... The world is so much more complex than our theories. Keep up the work...I'm writing slowly about all the stuff you talk about from my perspective not the truth just another perspective. I would love to hear your take on Ric Tarnas and Archetypal Cosmology . For me its the missing key, the revolution we have to have, the bridge to indigenous cultures.... thoughts welcome.

Was the BwO a concept in Anti-Oedipus? I thought A Thousand Plateaus.

It gets its power from the Lost Arc of The Covenant

A superb couple of lectures and erudite analysis. There is much to think about.

this is one of the most well spoken and clearly explained video essays i’ve ever listened to, major props.

It's never been personal, it's just business. God bless.