Anchoret

Ryder Henderson

Anchoret is a podcast about the esotericism of everyday life. anchoret.substack.com

  1. 07/07/2025

    May The Cycle Remain Uncompleted

    In our first episode in a year, we return to discuss the notion of “completion.” Why “the cycle has been completed” is a specter, the un-finality of death, the afterlives and postscripts of friendships and creative works, “getting it popping,” messianic time, ascendance to Unc-hood, and more. We also ponder Nick’s recent visit to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin III in Spring Green, Wisconsin, discussing the need for a recommitment to the creation of new forms as we enter a possible ice age for language. Thank you for listening! Music: fakemink - Music and Me (Prod. Ok) Florida Water - mactime!!! Truly Blessed - Watching U Get full access to Anchoret at anchoret.substack.com/subscribe

    1hr 23min

  2. 18/06/2024

    Blued Up

    On this episode, Ryder and Hank discuss German romantic philosophers getting it popping in Jena, Paul Schrader’s film about Mishima, Mad Max world, the difficulty of revealing one’s desires, and more. We also plug the new Anchoret-adjacent Operaismo Research Group forming in Minneapolis, a strategic search for Freedom. Music: 1528DD - Chief Keef - In Luv Wth The Gwop (OrchestralFlip) Sequentia - Hildegard von Bingen - Ave Maria, O Auctrix Vite Get full access to Anchoret at anchoret.substack.com/subscribe

    1hr 24min
  3. Love and the Cosmos

    16/02/2024

    Love and the Cosmos

    On this follow up to last year’s blighted Valentine’s Day episode, Hank and Ryder chart a new course into the cosmic meaning of love, via Russian cosmism and the Christological philosophy of Vladimir Solovyov. We also discuss the significance of craft, the vibes nowadays, and more. Music: Gil Scott-Heron - Song for Bobby Smith Луна - Free Love Get full access to Anchoret at anchoret.substack.com/subscribe

    1hr 48min
  4. Eternal Present feat. Sam

    23/01/2024

    Eternal Present feat. Sam

    On this episode we’re joined by our young friend Sam (S. Posner). We discuss intergenerational dialogues, Massachusetts regional nomenclatures, the foreclosure of futurity and the miraculous eternal present of Chicago’s Bop music, the twilight of adolescence, the ungovernable nature of online personae, ecstasy, Marxism’s afterlives, Antonio Negri (RIP) and the possibility of separation from capital’s false totality, and much more. Music: Sicko Mobb - Zoom Zoom Moi Moi Detente - Never Citgo edit Sicko Mobb - Remember Me Get full access to Anchoret at anchoret.substack.com/subscribe

    2 hr

  5. 29/11/2023

    The Plea feat. Eamon

    On this episode we’re joined by our friend Eamon, who tells us about his exile in language as Irish-American absconded to Colombia. We talk small-town Irish mythology and small-town Minnesotan mythology: drinking naggins, smoking spice, avoiding faery forts, Irish Travelers, being a dodgy teenager, and much more. Finally we get into a rather serious discussion about the insufficiencies of language and the miracle of communication. When language fails, what happens next? Music: Ewan MacColl - Dirty Old Town Sello - Dublin Ojala Nightcore edit Get full access to Anchoret at anchoret.substack.com/subscribe

    1hr 44min

  6. 24/10/2023

    Against Evil

    On this prelude to Anchoret Season 2, Hank and Ryder return from their unexplained hiatus with something of an explanation, which gives way to convos on the nature of Evil and fighting the Great Deceiver, loving America, the call for a Midwestern Hermeticism, a rural Wisconsin Bauhaus, the joys of frolf, autofictional depletion, Philip K. Dick’s VALIS, and more. We chart our path forward for Season 2, which will include long-form research projects into vital images of the Past and Future that capture our utopian imaginary, abundant interviews with friends and acquaintances, as well as classic Anchoret dialogues and digressions. As always, we thank you for your continued listenership and support. Much love, -Anchoret Music: Fust - “Where The Good Ones Go” MC Postura e MC MR Bim ($DJ Gedai) - AGRESSIVO AMERICANO - “VAI FUGUETA ELA” 03 Greedo - “Bacc Like I Never Left” Get full access to Anchoret at anchoret.substack.com/subscribe

    1hr 12min

  7. 23/06/2023

    River Rats

    In this episode we talk about our relationship to the Mississippi River and the back yard of our house. We celebrate Mr. Buddy, our beloved backyard groundhog, and the dust-flopping bunnies of twilight. We talk about the mystery of terroir and its role in fulfilling the unfinished promise of youth, and pay tribute to the process of wading upstream towards no particular place. Music: Salem - Starfall Paul Robeson - “Old Man River” from Live At Carnegie Hall, 1958 outro music by Florida Water Get full access to Anchoret at anchoret.substack.com/subscribe

    1hr 15min
  8. Destabilization Period

    25/05/2023

    Destabilization Period

    In this 1-year reflection episode, we aren’t feeling very reflective. We talk about how it started versus how it’s going, in a new period of destabilization and germination. We trade in books for unfiltered experience. Hank recounts Gershom Scholem’s memoir of his friendship with Walter Benjamin; Ryder reads a bit from The Gay Science. To finish out we talk about the value of being Engaged in A Project, and faced with an atmosphere of dumbness we decide that More Will Be Revealed. Sorry 4 The Weight. Music: Chino Pacas x Fuerza Regida - Dijeron Que No La Iba Lograr THC - Unsaid Warning Closing song by Nick Get full access to Anchoret at anchoret.substack.com/subscribe

    50 min
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Anchoret is a podcast about the esotericism of everyday life. anchoret.substack.com

Information

  • Creator
    Ryder Henderson
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2025
  • Episodes
    22
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Ryder Henderson
  • Show Website
    Anchoret