Subversive Studies Subversive Studies Podcast

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 goals of social, political, or psychological liberation, contemporary interpretations of Babalon that question binary and biologistic conceptions of gender, and many of the historical figures that have been influential in bringing forth this Babalon discourse into our contemporary world, such as Aleister Crowley, Jack Parsons, and Kenneth Grant.

Dr. Manon Hedenborg White is a postdoctoral research fellow at Södertörn University and Guest researcher at the Center for History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents (HHP), University of Amsterdam. Her areas of interest include contemporary Occultism, Western Esotericism, gender and sexuality. Dr. Hedenborg White’s forthcoming book: "The Eloquent Blood: The Goddess Babalon and the Construction of Femininities in Western Esotericism" is due later this year from Oxford University Press (link to pre-order below!). She is the author of a chapter entitled "The Other Woman: Babalon and the Scarlet Woman in Kenneth Grant’s Typhonian Trilogies" in the recently published "Servants of the Star & the Snake: Essays in Honour of Kenneth & Steffi Grant" (edited by Henrik Bogdan and published by Starfire).

Links:

Pre-order "The Eloquent Blood" https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-eloquent-blood/manon-hedenborg-white//9780190065027

Thelemic Women's HIstory Project Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/thelemicwomenshistory/

Thelemic Women's HIstory Instagram: @thelemicwomenshistory

Dr. Hedenborg White's Academia page: http://sh.academia.edu/ManonHedenborgWhite

Miscellaneous Babalon resources:
The Red Goddess by Peter Grey - https://scarletimprint.com/publications/the-red-goddess

Babalon, an album by Knifesex - https://knifesex.bandcamp.com/album/babalon

Rune Soup, "Talking Babalon" with Alkistis Dimech and Peter Grey - https://runesoup.com/2016/06/talking-babalon-with-scarlet-imprint-episode-26/

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, animism, ontology, Deleuze and Guattari, and much more.

He has worked as a staff editor for Reality Sandwich magazine, and contributed to publications such as OMNI, Disinfo, Evolve and Ascend, Conscious Lifestyle Magazine, and Evolve Magazine. Jeremy is the founder of Nura Learning, a conscious media learning platform, and editor—Curator of Philosophies—at Revelore Press.

Fascinated by the intersections of new media, integral philosophy, depth psychology, and cultural studies, he received his MA from Goddard College in Consciousness Studies. Jeremy is the current president of the International Jean Gebser Society, an academic society that hosts annual conferences and aims to further integral pedagogy. Jeremy is also editor for the forthcoming Revelore Press anthology, Mutations: Art, Consciousness, and the Anthropocene from Revelore Press. In late 2018, Jeremy launched the MUTATIONS podcast, a show inspired by the forthcoming Revelore anthology, featuring conversations that explore consciousness, culture, and architecting a better, planetary future.

LINKS to Jeremy's work:
http://www.jeremydanieljohnson.com/

https://anchor.fm/mutations

https://www.nuralearning.com/

https://revelore.press