Holy Terrain Art

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Holy Terrain Art is a philosophy podcast, sometimes taken for university-level course credit and always available for free at HillJ.net/hta/. Teacher exemplary annotations of the relevant primary sources are available at HillJ.net/annotations/, which are also linked in the episode descriptions; you can follow along with these annotated readings during the lectures as I break them down via the guiding questions, also restated in the episode description. In addition, visual art and lecture notes are available at Instagram.com/HolyTerrainArt/. Episodes are numbered via canons of base-ten for each lecture series; in practice, this numbering system means that, when the podcast starts reading a new primary source, the episode numbers reset at the next base-ten, e.g., 11, 21, 31, 41, etc., each base-ten of which corresponds with the series numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, etc., respectively; base-ten episode numbering allows sub-series to be organized like decimals even though some platforms require episodes be numbered using only integers; sometimes this numbering system results in not all episode numbers being utilized in a base-ten set before starting a new series and before jumping ahead to the next base-ten; e.g., HTA Series 1, on Henri Bergson's 'Introduction to Metaphysics,' is seven episodes, so 18-20 are skipped, holding space to add more later.

  1. JAN 22

    HTA 16.2; Emerson; "Acquaint Thyself First Hand with Deity" [i.e., The Divinity School Address; 1838]

    Abstract This episode is part two of three of the lecture series [HTA 16] on Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Acquaint Thyself First Hand with Deity” [i.e., The Divinity School Address], delivered to the Harvard Divinity School in the summer of 1838. Primary Source (missing reference) Guiding Questions

  2. JAN 22

    HTA 16.1; Emerson; "Acquaint Thyself First Hand with Deity" [i.e., The Divinity School Address; 1838]

    Abstract This episode is part one of three of the lecture series [HTA 16] on Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Acquaint Thyself First Hand with Deity” [i.e., The Divinity School Address], delivered to the Harvard Divinity School in the summer of 1838. Primary Source (missing reference) Guiding Questions

  3. JAN 20

    HTA 0.5; PHIL 1301_ Introduction to Philosophy; Content Overview

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    1h 36m

  4. JAN 20

    HTA 0.4; PHIL Assessments, Study Habits, and Workflows

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    1h 36m

  5. JAN 20

    HTA 0.1; PHIL Design Overview and Concise Launch

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    15 min

  6. 11/24/2025

    HTA 15.1; Deleuze; "Zones of Immanence" [ca. 1975-95]; and "Immanence_ A Life" [1995]

    Abstract This episode is part one of one of the lecture series [HTA 15] on Gilles Deleuze’s “Zones of Immanence,” from Two Regimes of Madness_ Texts and Interviews 1975-1995 and on Deleuze’s “Immanence_ A Life” [1995], in Pure Immanence_ Essays on A Life. Primary Source Deleuze, Gilles. “Immanence: A Life.” In Pure Immanence: Essays on A Life, translated by Anne Boyman, 25–33. New York: Zone Books, 2005 [1995]. HillJ_ Teacher Exemplar Annotations. Deleuze, Gilles. “Zones of Immanence.” In Two Regimes of Madness: Texts and Interviews 1975-1995, translated by Ames Hodges and Mike Taormina, 266–69. Cambridge, MA / London, UK: Semiotext(e), distributed by The MIT Press, 2007 [1995]. HillJ_ Teacher Exemplar Annotations. Guiding Questions “Zones of Immanence” [ca. 1975-95] in Two Regimes of Madness: Texts and Interviews 1975-1995 Which historical tradition contrasts with immanence? In other words, what foil does Deleuze start the essay with to help compare against and define immanence? What are the two movements of immanence? How do they relate to the classic problem of the One and the Many? How might the One and the Many relate to the simultaneity we saw in Sartre between first-person freedom/magic and third-person determinism/mechanism? How might this simultaneity result in identity and difference? Do they determine their meanings in relation to one another? How do horizontality and verticality relate to immanence and transcendence? What two ideas form the basis of an expressionist philosophy, according to Deleuze? How does translation demonstrate the simultaneity between the One and the Many, between God and the multiplicity of the World? How does Deleuze’s re-conception of translation (through Gandillac) offer a notion of the world as linguistic, forming the basis of hermeneutical materialism (that sense communicates to us through originary, shared material communion)? “Immanence: A Life” [1995], in Pure Immanence: Essays on A Life What is A Life? What is the significance of the example from Charles Dickens? Why does everyone lose their sense of self to save the degenerate rogue’s life? Whose perspective is A Life? If we are entangled in strange ways, how does this interact with solipsism? If solipsism is still possible, how would it be multiple? How does Deleuze’s view contrast with the “experience-in-the-brain” model? What active verbs describe how the concepts/notions articulate and express behavior patterns out in the world? Avoid linking verbs when writing on ontology. What is the difference between “a” life and “the” life? This determination into suchness, particularness, thatness, mineness, and as-it-is-ness is called haecceity. Still, how does Deleuze transform the medieval haecceity (with its assumption of transcendence) into the dimension of immanence and actualization? How does this relate to singularities, indices, and abschattungen, i.e., adumbration, in phenomenology? How does “a” life connect from the first instance the unity of beings due to giving primacy to the indefinite article “a”? This indefiniteness is an index rather than a transcendental form “out there,” separate and away from the world. How do immanence and transcendence relate to monism and dualism? How do these relate to the nature of consciousness? How do they describe the production of conscious experience and its necessary preconditions? How might A Life and its accompanying model of consciousness relate to “an answer to the meaning of life” and why we exist in the first place? Does Deleuze replace transcendence with immanence or show how they interrelate? Is one of these two fundamental metaphysical structures subordinate or superior to the other structure? Are they inseparable?

    1h 36m

  7. 11/22/2025

    HTA 14.6; Sartre; Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions [1939]

    Abstract This episode is part six of six of the lecture series [HTA 14] on Jean-Paul Sartre’s Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions [1939]. Primary Source Sartre, Jean-Paul. Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions. Translated by Philip Mairet with foreword by Sebastian Gardner. New York: Routledge Great Minds, 2014. HillJ_ Teacher Exemplar Annotations. Guiding Questions Introduction Why is phenomenology better suited than psychology to offer a complete account of human-reality, the world as synthetic totality, and self-conscious subjectivity (i.e., consciousness)? I. The Classical Theories What is the finality of emotion? Why are James’s peripheric theory and Janet’s intellectualist theory of emotion similarly inadequate solutions to the mind-body problem, for the same reason? What is Sartre’s alternative, which is an adaptation of Janet’s theory? II. The Psychoanalytic Theory Why is the psychoanalytic theory of emotion as an unconscious resolution of drives, urges, impulses, or tensions still inadequate? III. Outline of a Phenomenological Theory; Conclusion How does emotion as a transformation of the world imply and provide evidence for the reality of the magical world, i.e., for the world as fundamentally magical?

    1h 24m

  8. 11/22/2025

    HTA 14.5; Sartre; Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions [1939]

    Abstract This episode is part five of six of the lecture series [HTA 14] on Jean-Paul Sartre’s Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions [1939]. Primary Source Sartre, Jean-Paul. Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions. Translated by Philip Mairet with foreword by Sebastian Gardner. New York: Routledge Great Minds, 2014. HillJ_ Teacher Exemplar Annotations. Guiding Questions Introduction Why is phenomenology better suited than psychology to offer a complete account of human-reality, the world as synthetic totality, and self-conscious subjectivity (i.e., consciousness)? I. The Classical Theories What is the finality of emotion? Why are James’s peripheric theory and Janet’s intellectualist theory of emotion similarly inadequate solutions to the mind-body problem, for the same reason? What is Sartre’s alternative, which is an adaptation of Janet’s theory? II. The Psychoanalytic Theory Why is the psychoanalytic theory of emotion as an unconscious resolution of drives, urges, impulses, or tensions still inadequate? III. Outline of a Phenomenological Theory; Conclusion How does emotion as a transformation of the world imply and provide evidence for the reality of the magical world, i.e., for the world as fundamentally magical?

    1h 53m
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Holy Terrain Art is a philosophy podcast, sometimes taken for university-level course credit and always available for free at HillJ.net/hta/. Teacher exemplary annotations of the relevant primary sources are available at HillJ.net/annotations/, which are also linked in the episode descriptions; you can follow along with these annotated readings during the lectures as I break them down via the guiding questions, also restated in the episode description. In addition, visual art and lecture notes are available at Instagram.com/HolyTerrainArt/. Episodes are numbered via canons of base-ten for each lecture series; in practice, this numbering system means that, when the podcast starts reading a new primary source, the episode numbers reset at the next base-ten, e.g., 11, 21, 31, 41, etc., each base-ten of which corresponds with the series numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, etc., respectively; base-ten episode numbering allows sub-series to be organized like decimals even though some platforms require episodes be numbered using only integers; sometimes this numbering system results in not all episode numbers being utilized in a base-ten set before starting a new series and before jumping ahead to the next base-ten; e.g., HTA Series 1, on Henri Bergson's 'Introduction to Metaphysics,' is seven episodes, so 18-20 are skipped, holding space to add more later.

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    Holy Terrain Art
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
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    60
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