Subversive Studies
An Education podcast
Subversive Studies
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Episodes of Subversive Studies
Mark All
Heeding the call of the personal daimon. An announcement regarding a transition with the podcast! This is a short solo episode.
A discussion with Dr. Manon Hedenborg White about the goddess Babalon, key women figures in the occult tradition of Thelema, challenging hegemonic notions of femininity, feminine sexuality, the link between sexual liberation and the larger goal
Jeremy D Johnson, MA is an author, editor, integral scholar, teacher and lecturer. We discuss his new book, Seeing Through the World: Jean Gebser and Integral Consciousness, from Revelore Press, exploring Gebser's theories of consciousness, ani
I'm joined by Dr. Jason Josephson-Storm, chair of the Department of Religion at Williams College, to discuss his book, The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences. In it, he writes, "The most familiar story
Eric G. Wilson and I explore themes of melancholy and madness, the value of artistic ambiguity, finding your voice as a writer and person, William Blake and David Lynch, longing, dark nights of the soul, Gnosticism, letting go of trying to find
Have you ever thought about the fact that you put a series of symbols on a piece of paper or a screen, share it with others, and directly transmit messages and ideas that can change their consciousness? It's called writing and I say it's actual
Dr. Angela Voss and I discuss “A Methodology of the Imagination,” transformative learning, magical and divinatory ways of knowing, balancing the rational and the intuitive, scholarship as initiation, the personal daimon and the daimonic, and Ma
Dr. Vanessa Sinclair and I explore psychoanalysis, society, the unconscious, sexuality and its subversive power, identity, the cut-up method, creativity, art, magic, and more.Dr. Vanessa Sinclair is a psychoanalyst in independent practice who
We discuss ancestor work and its particular significance for queer, trans, and "gender blessed" folks, sexual liberation, sexual trauma, the intersection of sex, magick, and science, and more.Pavini Moray (pronoun: Pe) is a somatic sex therap
Ted Hand and I explore the worlds of the science fiction writer Philip K. Dick and the relationship of his work to Gnosticism, alchemy, Renaissance magic, late capitalism, and power structures. We discuss questions of reality, madness, and a ne
This conversation with Nick Walker is focused around the notion of neuroqueering and neuroqueer fiction as an approach to subversion and transformation. We talk about cultural norms around gender, sexuality, and cognition; cognitive liberty; we
Author, screenwriter, and filmmaker JF Martel and I discuss weirdness, the surreal quality of experience, art arising from the primordial or from the imaginal realm, why society attempts to bury the weird or chaotic beneath normality and conven
This is a short solo episode announcing a new direction for the podcast! Includes an homage to my favorite and most influential podcasts and an exploration of the term "subversive" as a living, breathing force or entity.Notes:Chambers, S. A.
In this episode I'm joined by Vincent Brown, whose doctoral research research centers around The Work that Reconnects, a theoretical framework and workshop methodology for personal and social change developed by Joanna Macy, a scholar of Buddh
Eric Peterson joins us for a wide-ranging conversation based in his work as an outdoor adventure leader and scholar of all things ecological. We explore topics such as ecological consciousness; the interconnectedness of the socio-political, eco
Dan and Dr. Adrian Mack have a wide-ranging discussion that includes film studies, media studies, cultural studies, fiction writing, the Black Arts Movement, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr., disrupting "business as usual," the co-opting o
In this episode with Dr. May Elawar, we discuss postcolonial feminism, epistemic vigilance, how can knowledge liberate rather than oppress, knowledge at the borderlands, going a step beyond identity politics, spiritual activism, being and becom
Creative Inquiry 11: Social Change, Polarities, Dissertation as Creative Process- Gabrielle Donnelly
Gabrielle Donnelly, Ph.D. is a scholar and practitioner of creativity, social change, and innovation. In this episode, we discuss the dynamic between the scholar and practitioner sides of oneself; working with perceived polarities in groups, in
If you're intrigued by a professor who teaches courses called "Divine Madness: Dreams, Visions, Hallucinations," "Religion, Medicine, and Healing," and "Good Deaths: From the Tibetan Book of the Dead to the ICU," then this episode is for you. S
A powerful conversation about neurodiversity, neurodivergent scholarship, disability justice, immanent critique, the experiential and political aspects of disability and neurodiversity, and of course, magic. Sara Maria Acevedo is a neurodiver
A conversation with Julian Michels on mythology, blending the rational and intuitive, education, creativity emerging out of difference, deep democracy & process work, alchemy, animism and taking spirits seriously, and considering how the "dead-
In this solo episode, I share the story of my dissertation proposal process and how it leads me forward, not the other way around. I discuss the inseparability of personal explorations and scholarly inquiry, the internalized taskmaster, and how
Dan & Shah discuss creative inquiry as magic, creativity as self-making and world-making, anthropology and activism, decolonizing anthropology, queer black feminism, free-writing, autoethnography, and how creative or magical approaches to knowl
Daniel Deslauriers and Dan discuss dreams, arts-based inquiry, contact improvisation, alternative epistemologies, living knowledge, inquiry and personal transformation.Daniel Deslauriers, PhD, received his doctorate (1989) in Psychology from
Constance Jones, PhD, is a sociologist of religion who researches new religious movements, Hinduism and Buddhism in the West, Sociology of Religion, Sociology of Knowledge, Transdisciplinarity, Heuristic Methods, J. Krishnamurti, the teachings
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