Against Everyone with Conner Habib
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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.
Episodes
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AEWCH 330: HORROR UPON HORROR PT 4 - KEITH ROSSON on PUNK ROCK HORROR & GREEN ROOM
Friends, The aesthetics of horror, at least in the US, have traditionally overlapped with heavy metal and death metal music. You know what I mean here: dark-clad figures and crazed clowns, bats, black clouds, and thorn-branched fonts. Sometimes they even share imagery, like the band Obituary’s...
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AEWCH 329: HORROR UPON HORROR PT 3 - SARA GRAN & PAUL TREMBLAY on URBAN LEGENDS & THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT
Six authors. Four horror movies. Four episodes of Against Everyone with Conner Habib This is Horror upon Horror. Friends, I’m sure you know the THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (1999) by now but if not, here’s the plot: three students go out into the woods to make a documentary about local legend of a...
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AEWCH 328: HORROR UPON HORROR PT 2 - DAN CHAON on HIDDEN LIVES and 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE
AGAINST EVERYONE WITH CONNER HABIB 328: HORROR UPON HORROR PT 2 - DAN CHAON on HIDDEN LIVES and 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE Six authors. Four horror movies. Four episodes of Against Everyone with Conner Habib. This is Horror upon Horror. Friends, we all have hidden lives. From the lives of…
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AEWCH 327: HORORR UPON HORROR PT. 1 - NATHAN BALLINGRUD + SARAH MARIA GRIFFIN on NOSTALGIA & THE BLOB (1988)
Six authors. Four horror movies. Four episodes of Against Everyone with Conner Habib This is HORROR UPON HORROR On these episodes, we'll be thinking through the creation, reading, and viewing of the most vital and visceral art: Horror, and I'll be doing it with the frightening luminaries of the...
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AEWCH 326: FELIX JOHN TAYLOR on THE LIGHT OF THE HERMETIC ORDER OF THE GOLDEN DAWN
AGAINST EVERYONE WITH CONNER HABIB 326: FELIX JOHN TAYLOR on THE LIGHT OF THE HERMETIC ORDER OF THE GOLDEN DAWN The first time I heard about the Golden Dawn, I was in high school. I was gay, Syrian, reading all the time, shunning sports. My town was filled with neo-Nzis and fundamentalists,...
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AEWCH 325: THOMAS WATERS / WELCOME TO THE NEW MAGICKAL WORLD
Friends, I've been doing this podcast for over eight years and one thing I've noticed since the beginning: guests always want to talk about spirituality. I know, I know, it's self-selecting. I'M the one who wants to talk about it. Sure, that's true. But also, everyone is EXCITED to discuss it…
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AEWCH 324: A.J.A. WOODS on THE VALUE OF MARXIST THEORY & THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL (and why it scares people)
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...
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AEWCH 323: MITCH HOROWITZ on YOUR TRUE ESOTERIC SELF
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…
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AEWCH 322: MARK BOOTH (AKA JONATHAN BLACK) on OCCULT INFLUENCES IN MODERN SCIENCE
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...
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AEWCH 321: JOSHUA RIVERS & SHULI BRANSON on WHAT WE MUST LOSE TO GAIN THE WORLD
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…
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AEWCH 320: A NEW SPIRITUAL SOCIETY, PT 4 - The spiritual heart of ECONOMY
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...
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AEWCH 319: A NEW SPIRITUAL SOCIETY, PT 3 - The spiritual heart of POLITICS
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,...
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AEWCH 318: A NEW SPIRITUAL SOCIETY, PT 2 - The spiritual heart of CULTURE
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...
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AEWCH 317: A NEW SPIRITUAL SOCIETY, PT 1 - An Introduction To Social Threefolding For Our Time & Renewing Culture, Politics, and Economy
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…
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AEWCH 316: On Child Abuse & Political Conspiracy
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
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AEWCH 315: J.F. Martel / Only Art Can Save Us Now
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.
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AEWCH 314: ASAD HAIDER on IDENTITY, DESIRE, AND MAGIC
Asad Haider, the political theorist and philosopher, whose book critiquing identity politics from a (non-class-reductive) leftist perspective, Mistaken Identity: Mass Movements and Racial Ideology remains a powerful contribution and who was on AEWCH 26, died suddenly in December of last year.…
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AEWCH 313: PILAR LESKO on HOW TO DEAL WITH BIG CHANGES
In conversation with Pilar Lesko about change, Christianity, the dead, and more. Happy New Year! support the show: patreon.com/connerhabib
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AEWCH 312: 312: MITCH HOROWITZ + TONS OF SPECIAL GUESTS on NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS!
Friends, Happy New Year! And welcome to the New Year’s Resolution episode of Against Everyone with Conner Habib, featuring my conversation with esoteric scholar and writer, MITCH HOROWITZ. But this show is filled with special guests, including: Philosopher and writer FEDERICO CAMPAGNA Esoteric...
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AEWCH 311: RUDOLF STEINER'S RADICAL SOCIAL-POLITICAL PROJECT with AARON FRENCH & HENRY HOLLAND
In this double-length and in-depth episode, I look at the social-political project of the late 19th early 20th century occultist, philosopher, and social reformer Rudolf Steiner with scholars and academics Aaron French and Henry Holland, who are writing Steiner's biography for SUNY Press, and…
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AEWCH 310: THE PARANORMAL IS NORMAL with BEN MACHELL / THE SPIRIT-ERA & ITS AFTERMATHS, PT 4
Friends, This is the fourth episode* in a series called The Spirit-Era and Its Aftermaths in which I look at the way spiritual, technological, and occult flourishings at the turn of the 19th into 20th century are still with us today, and in fact, being echoed by our own time. This time, we’re...
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AEWCH 309: FAKIRS AND FAKERS with RAPHAEL CORMACK / THE SPIRIT-ERA & ITS AFTERMATHS, PT 3
This is the third episode in a series called The Spirit-Era & Its Aftermaths in which I look at the way spiritual, technological, and occult flourishings at the turn of the 19th into 20th century are still with us today, and in fact, being echoed by our own time. The Spirit-Era is marked by...
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AEWCH 308: LITERATURE AS OCCULTISM with ALLAN JOHNSON / THE SPIRIT-ERA & ITS AFTERMATHS, PT 2
This is the second episode in a series called THE SPIRIT-ERA & ITS AFTERMATHS in which I look at the way spiritual, technological, and occult flourishings at the turn of the 19th into 20th century are still with us today. In the second installment in the series, I talk with ALLAN JOHNSON…
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AGAINST EVERYONE WITH CONNER HABIB 307: ON THE IMPORTANCE OF GHOST HUNTING with ALICE VERNON / THE SPIRIT-ERA & ITS AFTERMATHS, PART 1
This is first episode in a series called The Spirit-Era and Its Aftermaths. Across the next few installments of AEWCH, I’ll be investigating the way the spiritual, technological, and occult flourishing at the turn of the 19th/20th century is affecting our lives to this day. The Spirit-Era was a...
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AEWCH 306: WHAT IS HORROR? with PHIL FORD & J.F. MARTEL of WEIRD STUDIES
Friends, When I was on my book tour for Hawk Mountain, I did an event with Andrea Lawlor where we spoke, at length, about horror. In the Q&A, someone raised a hand and asked: WHAT IS HORROR? Andrea and I both laughed. We found ourselves at a loss. Horror : Once you consider it, it’s not clear....
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AEWCH 305: JUSTIN DECLOUX & WILL SLOAN (IMPORTANT CINEMA CLUB) on GHOSTS IN MOVIES
Friends, Is there any ghost lore in your town or where you grew up? Have you ever seen a ghost? What are ghosts, anyway? Three questions, three different ways to approach (or be approached by ghosts). Ghosts are at the heart of our folktales, our fears, and our fiction. And belief in them is…
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AEWCH 304: WHY AM I A CHRISTIAN? with LAURA SCAPPATICCI
On the second of two back to back episodes on christianity in the world today, I talk with my sister, LAURA SCAPPATICCI, host of the podcast THAT GOOD MAY BECOME. We ask each other three questions about how christianity came into our lives, even though we were raised with no religion... and how...
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AEWCH 303: LAMORNA ASH on REVIVING CHRISTIANITY IN A TIME OF BROKEN REVIVAL
On the first of two back to back episodes on christianity in the world today, I talk with writer LAMORNA ASH whose latest book, Don't Forget We're Here Forever: A New Generation's Search for Religion chronicles her conversations with christian converts and the newly faithful in the still-secular...
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AEWCH 302: FEDERICO CAMPAGNA on THE MAGICAL STRENGTH HIDDEN IN DEFEAT
I'm so excited to welcome philosopher and author Federico Campagna back to the show! Together, we find the magic in defeat and the strength that it offers, using his new book, Otherworlds: Mediterranean Lessons on Escaping History as a springboard for our wide-ranging and empowering discussion....
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AEWCH 301: UNA MULLALLY on HOW TO SAVE YOUR CITY
Friends: We need ideas which are not just radical or "revolutionary." We need ideas, feelings, and actions that work on many levels; that are systemic; that have multiple potentials for realization, and have enough points of articulation that they can touch on their own fabric and maneuver to...
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AEWCH 300: GRANT MORRISON or WHO ARE YOU IN THE MAGICAL APOCALYPSE?!
Friends, When I started Against Everyone With Conner Habib, there were a few guests I wanted to have on more than just about anyone. Happy to say, now, on episode 300, one of those central figures to my imagination has arrived for the conversation. GRANT MORRISON doesn't need much introduction....
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AEWCH 299: ADAM BECKER on THE STUPIDITY OF TECH & A.I.
Friends, After writing my previous episode, AEWCH 298, where I laid out my thoughts on how to reflect on A.I. to get to beyond the basic, boring conversation, I read ADAM BECKER's excellent book, More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the…
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AEWCH 298: A.I. ERROR_ / 11 CONSIDERATIONS ON HOW TO PROCESS A.I.
Friends, One reason I started this show eight years ago was to have big talk instead of small talk, to get us past surface conversations and into thinking more deeply. I hate small talk is because it’s so algorithmic or pre-programmed. It's limited by its connection to the past and expectations.…
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AEWCH 297: DIANA YOUNG-PEAK on WHAT IS THE ROLE OF RELIGION NOW?
Friends, Welcome to this massive double-length episode on religion in our time with Diana Young-Peak. You may not know Diana, or if you do, it may be from exactly 200 (!) episodes ago on AEWCH 97: DIANA YOUNG-PEAK or THE GREATEST STRIPPER OCCULT PRIESTESS YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF. That episode was...
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AEWCH 296: LORY WIDMER HESS on TRUE SPIRITUAL HEALING
Lory Widmer Hess is the author of When Fragments Make a Whole, as well as a caregiver and spiritual direction facilitator in Switzerland. Her book chronicles her healing journey with the gospels - through various illness, medical procedures, and emotional and soul challenges - from an esoteric...
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AEWCH 295: ON CONVERSATION and EIGHT YEARS OF AGAINST EVERYONE WITH CONNER HABIB!
Friends, Against Everyone with Conner Habib is eight years old today! Not many media projects last for eight years or make it up to nearly 300 episodes at this point. To celebrate, I talk here about conversation; what it means to all of us. After all, if I asked you if conversation had changed…
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AEWCH 294: DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF (1/2 of a two part episode with TEAM HUMAN!)
Episode Description I'm joined by author, teacher, and theorist, Douglas Rushkoff. He’s one of the most important intellectuals of our time, some people call him a futurist, but he's always a step ahead of the future. The is the part 2 of the conversation we had on Doug’s podcast, TEAM HUMAN…
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AEWCH 293: JONAH EVANS & PATRICK KENNEDY on OVERCOMING THE WORLD
I talk with co-hosts of the Light in Every Thing podcast, Rev. Jonah Evans & Rev. Patrick Kennedy about meeting the world not as a "problem" to be solved, but as a realm already overcome by spiritual love.
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AEWCH 292: FEDERICO CAMPAGNA / HOW TO REMAKE THE WORLD WITH METAPHYSICS & MAGIC (repost of AEWCH 198)
From the archives - I talk with Italian philosopher and author FEDERICO CAMPAGNA about the urgent task of our time... which is nothing less than the recreation of reality itself!
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AEWCH 291: ARE THORESEN / WE MUST WALK INTO THE SPIRITUAL REALM
I talk with writer, author, and esoteric health practitioner ARE THORESEN. The language of inevitability is upon us, and it is a cruel language, one that allows no discussion of freedom or our ability to direct things. The future - a terrible future - is filled with AI, the effects of climate...
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AEWCH 290: RONNIE PONTIAC on A SPIRITUAL PATH IN DESTRUCTIVE TIMES
My guest this episode is writer, scholar, teacher, and astrologer, RONNIE PONTIAC. I've been impressed and informed by Ronnie's esoteric work for awhile now, and finally, we got to have our first conversation. And it's a profound one... We talk about the need for a spiritual path in our moment…
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AEWCH 289: LISA ROMERO on THE IRISH ESOTERIC MYSTERIES & THE FATE OF THE WORLD
I talk with spiritual teacher and author Lisa Romero about the challenges that are facing us today and an unlikely key to progressing through them: the esoteric mysteries of Ireland.
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AEWCH 288: HOW TO LIVE IN 2025: READ with ALEXANDER CHEE
This is the is the sixth and final episode in a series of episodes on How To Live in 2025, focusing on the thoughts, feelings, and actions we need to thrive, develop, create, and resist. In other words, tools that don’t merely deaden us in the frantic pursuit of survival, but that assist us in...
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AEWCH 287: HOW TO LIVE IN 2025 : PEACEKEEP with CHEYNEY RYAN
This is the fifith in a series of episodes on How To Live in 2025, focusing on the thoughts, feelings, and actions we need to thrive, develop, create, and resist.In other words, tools that don’t merely deaden us in the frantic pursuit of survival, but that assist us in nourishing ourselves, each...
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AEWCH 286: HOW TO LIVE IN 2025: DIE with CAITLIN DOUGHTY
This is the third in a series of episodes on HOW TO LIVE IN 2025, focusing on the thoughts, feelings, and actions we need to thrive, develop, create, and resist. At the end of each of these episodes, I’ll offer an exercise - a thought exercise, spiritual exercise, or practical exercise - that...
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AEWCH 285: HOW TO LIVE IN 2025: CONNECT with DEAN SPADE
This is the third in a series of episodes on HOW TO LIVE IN 2025, focusing on the thoughts, feelings, and actions we need to thrive, develop, create, and resist. At the end of each of these episodes, I’ll offer an exercise - a thought exercise, spiritual exercise, or practical exercise - that...
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AEWCH 284: HOW TO LIVE IN 2025: PRAY with BASTIAAN BAAN
This is the second in a series of episodes on HOW TO LIVE IN 2025, focusing on the thoughts, feelings, and actions we need to thrive, develop, create, and resist. At the end of each of these episodes, I’ll offer an exercise - a thought exercise, spiritual exercise, or practical exercise - that...
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AEWCH 283: How To Live in 2025: ENVISION with ROB HOPKINS
This is the first in a series of episodes on How To Live in 2025, focusing on the thoughts, feelings, and actions we need to thrive, develop, create, and resist. At the end of each of these episodes, I’ll offer an exercise - a thought exercise, spiritual exercise, or practical exercise - that...
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AEWCH 282: THE ESOTERIC LESSON OF THE THREE GIFTS OF THE MAGI & THE CHALLENGES OF OUR TIME
The task ahead is daunting: We must totally recreate economy, politics, and culture. How can we move forward with help from the three gifts of the magi: gold, frankincense, and myrrh?
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AEWCH 281: PILAR LESKO on MAKING MONEY IN A TURBULENT TIME
I talk with money teacher and listener favorite PILAR LESKO about the spiritual realities of making, spending, and gifting money in challenging times.
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