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Reflections on William Blake, Surrealism, ecology, radical theology and politics.

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Georges Bataille and the Surrealist Blake

Nov 01, 2025 1h 28m

We have long argued that Blake was a proto-Surrealist, but critics are confused about how Blake fits into the story of Surrealism and how they received him. The ‘dissenting Surrealist’, critic,…

Blake, Castoriadis and the Radical Imagination

Aug 23, 2025 1h 8m

[Imagination is] that in virtue of which an image occurs in us.Aristotle, De AnimaHistory is essentially poiesis, not imitative poetry, but creation and ontological genesis in and through individuals…

Timothy Morton: Black Opals of Gurgling Negation

Aug 15, 2025 1h 43m

Timothy Morton is Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University. They have collaborated with Björk, Laurie Anderson, Jennifer Walshe, Hrafnhildur Arnadottir, Sabrina Scott, Adam McKay, Jeff…

Awake! Mark Vernon's Imaginary in the Balance

Jul 28, 2025 1h 14m

Mark Vernon, (2025), Awake! William Blake and the Power of the Imagination, London: C Hurst & Co., 368pp.The stolen and perverted writings of Homer and Ovid, of Plato and Cicero, which all men…

A Short History of The Traveller in the Evening

Apr 27, 2025 49m

Andy and Conor discussed how the focus of their attention has shifted in recent years from environmental crisis to the rise of fascism and illiberalism, particularly in the context of the Trump…

Whatever Happened to the Revolutionary Left #3: From Workerism to Broke, 1945-1985 (Part Three: Collapse of the SWP and Decline of the Far Left)

Apr 13, 2025 1h 20m

The Bloom Had Gone #1Our generation’s illusions are lived ones.John GameHow the right appropriated what were once left wing causes – ‘no forever wars’ for ‘anti war’, ‘anti-globalism’ for opposition…

Whatever Happened to the Revolutionary Left #2: From Workerism to Broke, 1945-1985 (Part Two: Ouverism and the Rise of the New Left)

Mar 30, 2025 1h 2m

Revolutionary Left's Rise 1945-1985 OverviewJohn and Andy discuss the rise of the revolutionary left from 1945 to 1985. They start by examining the situation at the end of World War II, including the…

Whatever Happened to the Revolutionary Left #1: From Workerism to Broke, 1945-1985 (Part One: General Introduction)

Mar 19, 2025 1h 20m

Trotsky once spoke of a raincoat that had holes in it. It was a perfect raincoat, he said - as long as it doesn’t rain. With the far left’s confused non-response to Trump’s fascism (when they aren’t…

Phil Smith's Eco-Eerie & Occupy's Haunted Generation

Dec 21, 2024 1h 4m

A new book from Phil Smith offers a chance to consider Mark Fisher's hauntological legacy and the politics of life lived without a future, among the remains of the past.Phil Smith, Albion’s…

I Hear You’re a Hindu Now, Father: On Blake’s Religion

Oct 10, 2024 1h 22m

It is acceptable these days to describe Blake as a Taoist, a Pagan, a Buddhist or an atheist... anything but a Christian. The Traveller and his guest, Mark Vernon argue that this is a big mistake:…

Spectral Promises: Electronic Music 1970-1990

Sep 30, 2024 57m

Planned as a long Q&A session between Andy and long-time Traveller podcast co-host, Conor Kostick, that discussion raised so many questions and went on for so long that it seemed best to postpone…

Blake, Castoriadis and the Social Imaginary

Aug 25, 2024 50m

Blake saw imagination as the ‘body of Christ’, as divine: imagination is what will build Golgonooza, his New Jerusalem. Some readers of Blake interpret this imagination as merely the power that…

Timothy Morton's Hell Throwing a Wrench of 'What the F**k' into the Machinery

May 23, 2024 1h 9m

The Traveller in the Evening talks to Timothy Morton about Tim's new book Hell, their personal journeys towards Christianity; the role of aesthetics in theory; the war against The Holy Spirit and…

William Blake: England's Radical Prophet and Visionary

May 18, 2024 52m

Watch now | An introduction to Blake given by Andy Wilson at St Luke’s Community Centre, Islington, London, on 24th Nov 2021, for the residents around Bunhill Fields, where Blake is buried. Get full…

Timothy Morton: The Marriage of Religion and the Biosphere

Apr 20, 2024 1h 35m

The fourth wall between the human subject and everything else evaporates. How to see global warming as part of the human drama, not as the end of it? How to rebuild the play when there is a fourth…

Panpsychism - and why you should care

Apr 11, 2024 43m

These are the Sons of Los, & these the Labourers of the VintageThou seest the gorgeous clothed Flies that dance & sport in summerUpon the sunny brooks & meadows: every one the danceKnows…

A Brief History of the Moorish Orthodox Church

Apr 02, 2024 46m

In 1786 the United States signed the Treaty of Marrakesh with Morocco, creating trade and diplomatic agreements but, crucially, also guaranteeing that no Moroccan would ever be taken as a slave in…

Is Eco-Socialism a Fraud?

Feb 24, 2024 40m

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Chaos and Order Among the Gods of Ancient Canaan and Egypt

Dec 17, 2023 48m

The recent discussion of Blake’s Illustrations of the Book of Job led me to think about the role of chaos, first in the Book of Job itself, then in the Bible generally, and then across the Near and…

Blake's Job: Jason Wright's Adventures in Becoming

Nov 26, 2023 55m

An interview with Jason Wright, author of a new book, Blake's Job: Adventures in Becoming – taking in Blake's Leviathan, gender, Jung, addiction, the singer Jackie Leven, and more on the way. Get…

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