40. Liturgy (w/ Haela Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix)

About this episode

The episode features Hunter Hunt-Hendrix discussing her work in transcendental black metal and its philosophical implications.

We're joined by Hunter Hunt-Hendrix, composer, philosopher, and force behind Liturgy, whose concept of transcendental black metal has redrawn the boundaries between underground music and systematic thought. Her work operates in parallel registers: an experimental music practice that stands on its own terms, and a body of theory moving through theology, psychoanalysis, and philosophy. This episode goes deep into Hunter's provocation that the Byzantine tradition of Christianity (the Eastern lineage that lasted another thousand years after the Latin West began its trajectory toward secularism, science, and industry) might hold resources for navigating the current moment of structural collapse. We discuss the difference between the transcendental (conditions of possibility, historicized horizons, Hegelian self-relating negativity) and the transcendent (a higher realm of intelligibility that is actually, ontically, here ), and why critical theory's allergy to the latter might be more ideological than rational. We also get into Hunter's framework for practice: tetraperichoresis , a fourfold structure involving integration (merging ancient and contemporary materials), coalescence…

People in this episode

Hosts: Roberto Alonso Trillo, Marek Poliks, Helena McFadzean

Guest: Hunter Hunt-Hendrix

Topics covered

• transcendental black metal
• Byzantine Christianity
• critical theory
• theology
• psychoanalysis
• philosophy
• experimental music

Keywords

• transcendental black metal
• Byzantine Christianity
• critical theory
• tetraperichoresis
• experimental music
• theology
• philosophy

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Liturgy, Byzantine Accelerationism

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