Ep. 36: Cluttered Pasts and Unruly Heritage with Stein Fastadvoll

The present is inevitably haunted by the past. A cluttered past. Order and chaos spill over and onto each other. The past onto the present, and the present onto the past. Academically, this causes many potential problems: Will data saturation force us to reinvent the way we deal with the past? Will the fragility of modern tech create gaps in the knowledge our descendants will have about us? Is linear time a sham? How will we cope with pastness in the inevitable clutter of the Anthropocene? We're just rolling with the punches! But first of all, let us shed some of the historicist paradigms we've grown all too accustomed to. In this episode of high Scandifuturism, archaeologist Stein Farstadvoll (@wasteunearthed)comes on to question the one-track-mind of linearity and explore barbarian ontologies.

unrulyheritage.com/
Stein Farstadvoll on ResearchGate: www.researchgate.net/profile/Stein-Farstadvoll

Some referenced works:
- Benjamin, Walter (1940). Theses on the Philosophy of History.

- Eliade, Mirchea (1949). The Myth of the Eternal Return.

- Lund, Thure Erik (2000). Om naturen.

- Lund, Thure Erik (2006). Om de nye norske byene.

- Mayhem (1994). De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich (1896). Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

- Storesund, Eirik (2017). The Trollish Theory of Art.

- Tusmørke: tusm-rke.bandcamp.com.

Ep. 30: Did Norse Religion Exist? Authenticity & Religious Adjacency with Adrian Johansen Rinde

What is religion? Originally, Viking Era Scandinavians had no concept of "religion" as we understand it, and yet it is their supposed religiosity that most profoundly shapes our understanding of who they were. What do we actually mean when we say this word, and which preconceptions are we imposing on the ancient mind by using it? Are there religious aspects to our own culture that we don't even acknowledge as such? In this episode I am joined by scholar of Religious Didactics at the University of Stavanger, Norway, and one half of the Black Metal two-piece Dødsengel, Adrian Johansen Rinde for a discussion on religion, authenticity, and tradition (both upper and lower case).