Overmorrow’s Library
35 episodes
Ep 35S2E17 – Arturo Campagna on history for children
Image: The Rock Nobody Could Lft, etching by Rain Wu (2018)
Ep 34S2E16 – Nicolas Jaar on sound and silence
Image credit: Ceramic figurine from the Moche culture of the north coast of Peru depicting a flute player.
Ep 33S2E15 – ‘The Alexander Romance’
Image credit: The prophets Elias and Khadir at the fountain of life, late 15th century. Folio from a khamsa (quintet) by Nizami (d. 1209); Timurid period. Opaque watercolor and silver on paper. Herat, Afghanistan.
Ep 32S2E14 – Manlio Poltronieri on the Buddhist Dharma and the West
Image credit: Womb Realm (garbhakosa-dhatu or taizōkai) mandala. Shingon tantric buddhist school, Heian period (794-1185), Tō-ji, Kyōto, Japan.
Ep 31S2E13 – Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, ‘The Christian and Oriental Philosophy of Art’
Image credit: 10th century Chola dynasty bronze sculpture of Shiva, the Lord of the Dance.
Ep 30S2E12 – Prof. Saul Newman on political theology
Image credit: Detail from the frontispiece of Hobbes’ ‘Leviathan’ by Abraham Bosse,1651
Ep 29S2E11 – Max Stirner, ‘The Ego and Its Own’, Étienne de La Boétie, ‘Discourse on Voluntary Servitude’
Image credit: Max Stirner in a cartoon by Friedrich Engels (1820-1895)
Ep 28S2E10 – Dr. Francesco Strocchi on life in the late Roman republic
Image credit: Roman coin celebrating the assassination of Julius Caesar, issued in 42 BC
Ep 27S2E9 – Rutilius Namatiuanus, ‘On His Return’, and Paulinus of Pella, ‘Thanksgiving’
Image credit: Porphyry column decorated with group of two embracing older Tetrarchs. Rome. 293-305.
Ep 26S2E8 – Lucia Pietroiusti on analogical thinking
Image credits: Geometric nest of a pufferfish.
Ep 25S2E7 – Ernst Jünger, ‘Approaches’
Image credit: Ernst Jünger and Albert Hoffman.
Ep 24S2E6 – Prof. Giulio Busi on Jewish mysticism
Image credit: Cosmic Rose Engraving from Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae by Heinrich Khunrath (1595).
Ep 23S2E5 – Giulio Busi, ‘Heavenly Palaces in Judaism’, and Abraham Joshua Heschel, ‘The Sabbath’
Image credit: Throne Angels
Ep 22S2E4 – Huw Lemmey and Isabel Valley on psychiatry and unknown languages
Image credit: Antidotum tarantulae, a curative musical score from Athanasius Kircher (c. 1660).
Ep 21S2E3 – Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, ‘Shipwrecks’
Image credit: Francesco Guardi, Marina in Tempesta, circa 1765/70.
Ep 20S2E2 – Dr. Beatrice Bottomley on Ibn Arabi
Image credit: Muhammad Ibn 'Ali Ibn Muhammad Ibn 'Arabi (D. 1240 Ad): Fusus Al-Hikam. Mamluk Egypt, dated 19 Dhu'l Hijja Ah 797/4 October 1395 AD.
Ep 19S2E1 – Pico della Mirandola, ‘Heptaplus’
Image credit: Portrait of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, by Tobias Stimmer, 1589
Ep 18S1E18 – Francesco Fusaro on musical cosmologies
Musicologist and producer Francesco Fusaro discusses world-building music across the centuries.Credit: Francesco Fusaro, Tafelmusik Var. I, 2021. Collage, 65x92. Courtesy of the artist.
Ep 17S1E17 – Arturo Campagna on children's literature
6-years old Arturo Campagna discusses children’s literature and dispenses advice to writers for children.Image credits: Rain Wu, Arion, 2019. Stoneware clay and glazes, 9x11cm. Courtesy of the artist.
Ep 16S1E16 – Elemire Zolla, "Children's Awe" and Cristina Campo, "The Flute and the Rug"
Federico Campagna presents the philosophical take on children’s world-view and culture in Elemire Zolla’s 1994 “Children’s Awe” and Cristina Campo’s 1971 “The Flute and the Rug”.Image credits: Ivan Bilibin, Stage-set design for Scene Two, Act Four of the opera the "Tale of the Lost City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevronia" by Rimsky-Korsakov, 1929.
Ep 15S1E15 – Fr. Paul Butler on radical theology
Liberation theologian Father Paul Butler discusses the radical interpretations of the Christian message.Image credits: The oldest surviving depiction of Saint Francis, Benedictine abbey of Subiaco, painted between March 1228 and March 1229.
Ep 14S1E14 – Pavel Florenksy, "Reversed Perspective"
Federico Campagna presents Russian theologian (and mathematician, engineer and philosopher) Pavel Florensky’s 1920 essay “Reversed Perspective” and his interpretation of the language of sacred forms. Image credits: Andrey Rublev, The Trinity or The Hospitality of Abraham, 1411-1427.
Ep 13S1E13 – Sarah Shin and Ben Vickers on otherworldly imagination
Ignota publishers Sarah Shin and Ben Vickers discuss their ongoing cultural work on the “techniques of awakening”.Image credits: Hildegard von Bingen, God, Cosmos, and Humanity, 1165.
Ep 12S1E12 – Russel Hoban, "Riddley Walker"
Federico Campagna presents Russel Hoban’s 1980 science-fiction masterpiece “Riddley Walker” and the problem of post-future life and culture. Image credits: Punch with the Judge and the Hangman, 1870. Litograph.
Ep 11S1E11 – Tom Cheetham on Henry Corbin and James Hillman
American philosopher Tom Cheetham discusses the parallels between Henry Corbin and Jungian psychoanalyst James Hillman, looking in particular at the practice of “Creative Imagination”.Image credits: Elijah and Khidr praying together, XI century. Illuminated manuscript version of Stories of the Prophets.
Ep 10S1E10 – Henry Corbin, "History of Islamic Philosophy"
Federico Campagna presents Henry Corbin’s 1964 “History of Islamic Philosophy” and his esoteric interpretation of philosophy and of religion. Image credits: Sultan Mohammed, The Miraj of the Prophet, 1539-1543. Opaque watercolor and ink on paper.
Ep 9S1E9 – Bill Sherman on Frances Yates and Aby Warburg
Bill Sherman, director of the Warburg Institute, discusses the work of Frances Yates and Aby Warburg’s library.Image credits: Aby Warburg, Der Bilderatlas Mnemosyne, 2020. Exhibition view. Courtesy of Silke Briel / HKW
Ep 8S1E8 – Frances Yates, "The Art of Memory"
Federico Campagna looks at Frances Yates’ work on the philosophy of mnemotechnics in her 1966 book “The Art of Memory”.Image Credits: Giulio Camillo, Memory Theatre, 1510.
Ep 7S1E7 – Stefano Gualeni on how to philosophize with a digital hammer
Stefano Gualeni presents his philosophical take on digital worlds and virtual subjectivity.Image Credits: ‘Here’, video game by Stefano Gualeni. 2018.
Ep 6S1E6 – Stefano Gualeni, "Virtual Worlds as Philosophical Tools"
Federico Campagna looks at Stefano Gualeni’s books “Virtual Worlds as Philosophical Tools” (2015) and “Virtual Existentialism” (2020) and at the cosmogonic function of play.Image credits: The Royal Game of Ur, 2600BC-2400BC. Wood game-board. © The Trustees of the British Museum
Ep 5S1E5 – Julia Gale on Simone Weil’s life and mysticism
Playwright Julia Gale discusses her personal and theatrical interpretation of Simone Weil’s life and thought.Photo: Simone Weil
Ep 4S1E4 – Simone Weil, "The Iliad or the Poem of Force
Federico Campagna presents Simone Weil’s 1939 essay "The Iliad or the Poem of Force" in the context of her mystical existentialist philosophy. Image credits: Virgilius Solis, The Suicide of Ajax , 1563.
Ep 3S1E3 – Franco Berardi Bifo on the contemporary psychosphere
Franco Berardi Bifo discusses his book “The Third Unconscious” and the state of the contemporary psychosphere. Image credits: Franco Berardi ‘Bifo’, L’apocalisse (quadro primo), 2020. Courtesy of the artist.
Ep 2S1E2 – Franco Berardi Bifo, "The Third Unconscious"
Federico Campagna presents Bifo’s 2021 book “The Third Unconscious” in the context of the decades-long work of the Italian Autonomist philosopher. Image credit: Jean Frédéric Schnyder, Dritchi IV, 1985. Courtesy de Kunstmuseum Bern, Toni Gerber Collection.
Ep 1S1E1 – Overmorrow’s Library
Federico Campagna introduces the “Library for the Day After Tomorrow”. A podcast series on worlding, worlds, apocalypses, apocatastases and post-future culture. Image credits: The Gilgamesh Tablet (Library of Ashurbanipal), 7th c. BCE. The British Museum, London. © The Trustees of the British Museum.