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Exploring the ideas of Robert Anton Wilson and the influences that shaped his reality.
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Sunday Apr 23, 2023
Sunday Apr 23, 2023
Hilaritas host Mike Gathers (@mgathers23) chats with musician and Chaos magickian Zach West, @ZachWest23, about Probability Engineering and his Eight Circuits of Music in Episode 20 of the Hilaritas Podcast.
#RobertAntonWilson #ChaosMagick
Friday Mar 31, 2023
Friday Mar 31, 2023
In this bonus episode, Mike Gathers chats with Gregory Arnott about The Hilaritas Press release of Robert Anton Wilson’s screenplay, "The Walls Came Tumbling Down." This new edition features a new foreword by Gregory Arnott, a new afterword by Bobby Camblell and Alan Moore’s Eulogy for Robert Anton Wilson.
The Walls Came Tumbling Down at Hilaritas Press:
http://www.hilaritaspress.com/portfolio-item/the-walls-came-tumbling-down/
Jechidah: at the expense of the particular
https://dovestamemoria.blogspot.com
Thursday Mar 23, 2023
Thursday Mar 23, 2023
In this episode, Mike Gathers chats with Eric Wagner about poet and critic Ezra Pound.
- https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/06/09/the-pound-error
- https://rawilsonfans.org/the-ideogrammatic-method-weekly-assignments/
- https://rawilsonfans.org/commentary-on-the-cantos-of-ezra-pound/
Hilaritas Press Podcast: http://www.hilaritaspress.com/podcasts/
Host/Producer Mike Gathers: https://linktr.ee/mgathers23
Engineer/Producer Ryan Reeves: https://ryan4reeves.wixsite.com/ryanreeves
Thursday Feb 23, 2023
Thursday Feb 23, 2023
In this episode, Mike Gathers chats with Sascha Engel about the themes of his book, Breaking the Alphabet and the tyranny of the written word.
- Breaking the Alphabet
- Keep an eye out for a forthcoming release from Little Black Cart
- Sascha’s website
- To contact Sascha directly: uncivletters@gmail.com
- Sign up for Sascha’s newsletter
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Saturday Feb 11, 2023
Saturday Feb 11, 2023
In this bonus episode, host Mike Gathers chats with RAW-o-phile Bobby Cambell on TSOG, The Thing That Ate the Constitution and RAW Politics.
- Hilaritas release of TSOG: https://www.hilaritaspress.com/portfolio-item/tsog-the-thing-that-ate-the-constitution-and-other-everyday-monsters/
- The TSOG Interviews with Lance Baushcer: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5D4C1005DFFCE7DA
- A discussion on the title TSOG and links to “the Twitter thread”: http://www.rawillumination.net/2021/05/is-tsog-bad-title.html?m=1
- “Left and Right: A Non-Euclidean Perspective” https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/robert-anton-wilson-left-and-right-a-non-euclidean-perspective
Hilaritas Press Podcast: http://www.hilaritaspress.com/podcasts/
Host/Producer Mike Gathers: https://linktr.ee/mgathers23
Engineer/Producer for this episode: Richard Rasa
Monday Jan 23, 2023
Monday Jan 23, 2023
In this episode, we chat with prolific anarchist writer Wayne Price on Peter Kropotkin.
- Kropotkin’s “Anarchist” essay from Britannica: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-anarchism-from-the-encyclopaedia-britannica
- Wayne Price at the Anarchist Library: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/category/author/wayne-price
- Wayne at Anarkismo: https://www.anarkismo.net/newswire?author_name=Wayne%20Price
- “Kropotkin and War - Today”: https://www.anarkismo.net/article/32683
- “Illuminating Discord: An interview with Robert Anton Wilson” http://clevelandokie.blogspot.com/2011/04/editors-note-this-interview-with-robert.html
Hilaritas Press Podcast: http://www.hilaritaspress.com/podcasts/
Host/Producer Mike Gathers: https://linktr.ee/mgathers23
Engineer/Producer Ryan Reeves: https://ryan4reeves.wixsite.com/ryanreeves
Friday Dec 23, 2022
Friday Dec 23, 2022
In this episode, host Mike Gathers chat's with underground sound engineer Oz Fritz on the deeper influences of Aleister Crowley and James Joyce on Robert Anton Wilson’s fictional prose.
- RAWIllumination.net’s Tom Jackson interviews Oz and includes a detailed bio of Oz’s sound career.
- Oz’s blog and his essay Robert Anton Wilson: Transmission of Baraka -
- Oz’s album of recordings from around the world. Liner notes.
- Oz’s plays himself in a brief cameo in Les Claypool’s Jam Band mockumentary Electric Apricot. (movie trailer)
Wednesday Nov 23, 2022
Wednesday Nov 23, 2022
In this episode, I chat with biographers Rob Goodman and Jimmy Soni about Claude Shannon.
Sunday Oct 23, 2022
Sunday Oct 23, 2022
In this episode, I chat with Andrew McLuhan, director of the McLuhan Institute, about his grandfather, Marshall McLuhan.
- Andrew at Gray Area
- The McLuhan Institute Youtube Channel
- The Playboy Interview with Marshall McLuhan, 1969
- “Notes on Burroughs” by Marshall McLuhan
Friday Sep 23, 2022
Friday Sep 23, 2022
In this episode, we chat with magician, author, and youtuber Lionell Snell, aka Ramsey Dukes, about magical thinking.
- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-NwOu0WV5Qd_U4zOP33sw
- https://www.amazon.com/Ramsey-Dukes/e/B001JP7UKI
- http://ramseydukes.co.uk/
Hilaritas Press Podcast: http://www.hilaritaspress.com/podcasts/
Host/Producer Mike Gathers: https://linktr.ee/mgathers23
Engineer/Producer Ryan Reeves: https://ryan4reeves.wixsite.com/ryanreeves