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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. May 21

    HTA 17.5; Nancy; "Of Divine Places" [1986]

    Abstract This episode is part five of five of the lecture series [HTA 17] on Jean-Luc Nancy’s “Of Divine Places” [1986], in The Inoperative Community [1991]. Primary Source Nancy, Jean-Luc. “Of Divine Places.” In The Inoperative Community, translated by Michael Holland, [2026] Second V., 110–50. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1991 [1986]. HillJ_ Teacher Exemplar Annotations. Guiding Questions What is the significance of the wink? How does the wink replace the instant surface of art with the face of the gods? How does the smile of the gods occur? Where are the gods? Where is God? What does the death of God mean for Nancy? How are coming and departing related for divine places and for the gods? How does the god appear and disappear? Offer and withdraw? What are bare places? Why are the temples deserted? Why is God’s nature essentially lacking as a no god rather than as a lack? How have God, the gods, and my God all abandoned us? What are the importances of exposure and destitution in Nancy’s argument? How does no presence — of nothing as void — allow for a god’s return? Who is my God? [A singular address from a singular subject.] How does our shared destitution, exposure, and abandonment before the face of our wandering god — gods who have long abandoned us or will nevertheless soon leave anyway — connect us? How does this mirror our connection through being’s originary co-spacing and co-origination via mitsein in other Nancy texts? How does the God differ from a god?

    51 min

  2. May 17

    HTA 17.4; Nancy; "Of Divine Places" [1986]

    Abstract This episode is part four of five of the lecture series [HTA 17] on Jean-Luc Nancy’s “Of Divine Places” [1986], in The Inoperative Community [1991]. Primary Source Nancy, Jean-Luc. “Of Divine Places.” In The Inoperative Community, translated by Michael Holland, [2026] Second V., 110–50. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1991 [1986]. HillJ_ Teacher Exemplar Annotations. Guiding Questions What is the significance of the wink? How does the wink replace the instant surface of art with the face of the gods? How does the smile of the gods occur? Where are the gods? Where is God? What does the death of God mean for Nancy? How are coming and departing related for divine places and for the gods? How does the god appear and disappear? Offer and withdraw? What are bare places? Why are the temples deserted? Why is God’s nature essentially lacking as a no god rather than as a lack? How have God, the gods, and my God all abandoned us? What are the importances of exposure and destitution in Nancy’s argument? How does no presence — of nothing as void — allow for a god’s return? Who is my God? [A singular address from a singular subject.] How does our shared destitution, exposure, and abandonment before the face of our wandering god — gods who have long abandoned us or will nevertheless soon leave anyway — connect us? How does this mirror our connection through being’s originary co-spacing and co-origination via mitsein in other Nancy texts? How does the God differ from a god?

    59 min

  3. May 15

    HTA 17.3; Nancy; "Of Divine Places" [1986]

    Abstract This episode is part three of five of the lecture series [HTA 17] on Jean-Luc Nancy’s “Of Divine Places” [1986], in The Inoperative Community [1991]. Primary Source Nancy, Jean-Luc. “Of Divine Places.” In The Inoperative Community, translated by Michael Holland, [2026] Second V., 110–50. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1991 [1986]. HillJ_ Teacher Exemplar Annotations. Guiding Questions What is the significance of the wink? How does the wink replace the instant surface of art with the face of the gods? How does the smile of the gods occur? Where are the gods? Where is God? What does the death of God mean for Nancy? How are coming and departing related for divine places and for the gods? How does the god appear and disappear? Offer and withdraw? What are bare places? Why are the temples deserted? Why is God’s nature essentially lacking as a no god rather than as a lack? How have God, the gods, and my God all abandoned us? What are the importances of exposure and destitution in Nancy’s argument? How does no presence — of nothing as void — allow for a god’s return? Who is my God? [A singular address from a singular subject.] How does our shared destitution, exposure, and abandonment before the face of our wandering god — gods who have long abandoned us or will nevertheless soon leave anyway — connect us? How does this mirror our connection through being’s originary co-spacing and co-origination via mitsein in other Nancy texts? How does the God differ from a god?

    55 min

  4. May 14

    HTA 17.1; Nancy; "Of Divine Places" [1986]

    Abstract This episode is part one of four of the lecture series [HTA 17] on Jean-Luc Nancy’s “Of Divine Places” [1986], in The Inoperative Community [1991]. Primary Source Nancy, Jean-Luc. “Of Divine Places.” In The Inoperative Community, translated by Michael Holland, [2026] Second V., 110–50. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1991 [1986]. HillJ_ Teacher Exemplar Annotations. Guiding Questions What is the significance of the wink? How does the wink replace the instant surface of art with the face of the gods? How does the smile of the gods occur? Where are the gods? Where is God? What does the death of God mean for Nancy? How are coming and departing related for divine places and for the gods? How does the god appear and disappear? Offer and withdraw? What are bare places? Why are the temples deserted? Why is God’s nature essentially lacking as a no god rather than as a lack? How have God, the gods, and my God all abandoned us? What are the importances of exposure and destitution in Nancy’s argument? How does no presence — of nothing as void — allow for a god’s return? Who is my God? [A singular address from a singular subject.] How does our shared destitution, exposure, and abandonment before the face of our wandering god — gods who have long abandoned us or will nevertheless soon leave anyway — connect us? How does this mirror our connection through being’s originary co-spacing and co-origination via mitsein in other Nancy texts? How does the God differ from a god?

    54 min

  5. May 8

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

    Abstract This episode is part two of two of the lecture series [HTA 16] on Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Divinity School Address, i.e., Acquaint Thyself First Hand with Deity,” delivered to the Harvard Divinity School in the summer of 1838. Primary Source Emerson, Ralph Waldo. “Divinity School Address, I.e., Acquaint Thyself First Hand with Deity,” 2019 [1838]. https://emersoncentral.com/ebook/Divinity-School-Address.pdf. HillJ_ Teacher Exemplar Annotations. Guiding Questions What is the relationship between deity, spirit, truth, and direct experience? How does Emerson argue that we have misunderstood Christianity? “And now, my brothers, you will ask, What in these desponding days can be done by us?” Which two benefits does Emerson argue Christianity offers to us as a starting point? How does Christian/religious anarchism relate to the notions of individualism, personal access to God, self-reliance, and transcendentalism?

    37 min

  6. May 7

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

    Abstract This episode is part one of two of the lecture series [HTA 16] on Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Divinity School Address, i.e., Acquaint Thyself First Hand with Deity,” delivered to the Harvard Divinity School in the summer of 1838. Primary Source Emerson, Ralph Waldo. “Divinity School Address, I.e., Acquaint Thyself First Hand with Deity,” 2019 [1838]. https://emersoncentral.com/ebook/Divinity-School-Address.pdf. HillJ_ Teacher Exemplar Annotations. Guiding Questions What is the relationship between deity, spirit, truth, and direct experience? How does Emerson argue that we have misunderstood Christianity? “And now, my brothers, you will ask, What in these desponding days can be done by us?” Which two benefits does Emerson argue Christianity offers to us as a starting point? How does Christian/religious anarchism relate to the notions of individualism, personal access to God, self-reliance, and transcendentalism?

    1h 36m

  7. Jan 20

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

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    1h 36m

  8. Jan 20

    HTA 0.4; PHIL Assessments, Study Habits, and Workflows

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    1h 36m
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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
  • Episodes
    64
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