AGAINST EVERYONE WITH CONNER HABIB 191: HOW TO CREATE YOUR OWN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF IDEAS (repost of AEWCH 100) (Patreon)

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Friends,

As I gear up to head out on my US book tour (and then Ireland and UK tour!) for Hawk Mountain, I find myself reviewing my life and the movement of desire and my thinking. And I'm also gearing up for a change in my patreon (finally!) and what I offer. With that in mind, as we approach episode 200 (!!!) I've decided to re-present AEWCH 100 from 2020, which details how to create an autobiography of ideas, as well as detailing my own. Listen to the episode, then do your own autobiography of ideas using the instructions on the ep+the simple instructions below.

As my patreon changes, there will be more of these sorts of exercises posted for you each month!

Also, I've included below a list of (almost) everyone/thing mentioned on the show!

If you do the exercise, please do share how it felt and a few points in the comments, friends!

Best, CH

SHOW NOTES

The process is pretty simple:

1. Start listing out ideas that have moved you, and their creators. One of the best ways of doing this is by thinkers or books or bands or movies. These can have had an emotional impact on you, or changed the way you thought about the world, or deepened your commitment to a cause. Whatever you want - just focus on the ideas and who brought them to you. Since a huge part of my life has been spent with my nose in a book, most what you’ll hear about today are people who have written books, but I didn’t by any means restrict myself, as you’ll see.

2. Then, start putting those in the age ranges you encountered them in. I think 7 year chunks are good (ie 0-7, 8-14, 15-21, 22-28, etc.).

3. Look at the patterns you can find. Try to articulate what they are, and then look across your entire life. When it’s all grouped together, think about what was happening in that time period, and you can start to see the arrival of themes.

4. Name the chunks of time, if you want. They're chapters in your Autobiography Of Ideas.

NOTE: The important thing is to lean towards the ideas here, not the events, the events will show up, and if you want, you can think of a different way to layer them in.

Now, here's the list of everything on the show

0-7: Name All The Animals National Geographic Book Of Mammals • Safari Cards •

8-14: The Discovery Of Magic Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manuals • Curses, Hexes, and Spells by Daniel Cohen Who's Who in the DC Universe • The Official Handbook Of The Marvel Universe • Chris Claremont • Piers Anthony •

15- 21: Awakening Into The Philosophy Of The Body Ireland • Clive Barker • Deathbird Stories by Harlan Ellison • HP Lovecraft • Monsters by Vincent Price • Being gay • Live • Pearljam • Mary's Danish • Can't seem to find any info on the Lehigh Valley band Swirl, unfortunately! • The Breeders • Chisel • Dismemberment Plan •  Geoff Farina • Brainiac • Tim Kinsella • Lungfish • Guy Debord • Raymond Williams • Donald Barthelme • Pavement • John Zorn • Joan Didion •

22-28 - Through the Siege Perilous I. 22-24 - Amplification Chi Chi Larue • Joe Gage • Jon Vincent • Paul Carrigan • Blake Harper • Blake Nolan • Susan Sontag • James Joyce • Amherst Books • Autopornography by Scott O'Hara • Amber Hollibaugh •

II. 24-28 - Radicalization Vine Deloria Jr. • Russell Means • Ward Churchill • Bob Black • Emma Goldman • Robert Anton Wilson • Peter Carroll • Disinformation • Breaking Open The Head by Daniel Pinchbeck •

29 - 35 - The Greatest Period I. 28/29 - 30 Lynn Margulis • Craig Holdrege at the Nature Institute • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe •  Rudolf Steiner • Thom Herman & Byron Katie (Correction from the episode: Byron Katie's questions are - Is it true? Can you absolutely know that it's true? How do you feel when you think that thought? Who would you be without that thought?) • Malidoma Some • Fritjof Capra • Graham Hancock • My ex-boyfriend

II. 30 - 35 Rudolf Steiner • Patricia Highsmith • Joy Williams • Valentin Tomberg • Ernst-Michael Kranich • Wolfgang Schad • The Duncan Trussell Family Hour • Alex Tsakiris and Skeptiko •  Jacques Lacan

35 - 42: Relationship and Emergence Daskalos via Daniel Joseph • Alejandro Jodorowsky • Heather Berg • Michael Taussig • Michel Serres • Franco Bifo Berardi • Ludwig Wittgenstein • Kate Bush •

And now... John O'Donohue • John Moriarty