# Carlo Ginzburg

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275. The Cheese and the Worms

The Cheese and the Worms by Carlo Ginzburg (1976)

Slip, Trip, and Slit – Vespasian #16

It's 70 CE, the walls of Jerusalem are crumbling, and the city is eating itself alive — literally. In this episode of Life of Caesar, Cameron and Ray wade deep into Josephus's harrowing account of the final, grinding assault on the Antonia Fortress and the Temple Mount, where the siege of Jerusalem…

Slip, Trip, and Slit – Vespasian #16

It's 70 CE, the walls of Jerusalem are crumbling, and the city is eating itself alive — literally. In this episode of Life of Caesar, Cameron and Ray wade deep into Josephus's harrowing account of the final, grinding assault on the Antonia Fortress and the Temple Mount, where the siege of Jerusalem…

Does Freedom Have a Future? (with Lea Ypi & Nils Gilman)

Lea Ypi grew up through the collapse of communist Albania. Now, as liberal democracy begins to fray, she examines what freedom means.  | Subscribe to Futurology! https://linkin.bio/futurology/ Is the collapse of liberal democracy already here? Political philosopher Lea Ypi grew up in communist Alb…

The Night Battles: Benandanti, Italian Folk Magic, and the Inquisition's Greatest Confusion

This week, Michelle and Beth dig into one of the strangest, saddest, and most compelling folk traditions ever pulled from a forgotten archive box: the Benandanti of Friuli, Italy. Born into a calling, dispatched four times a year in spirit form to wage plant-based warfare in the fields, fiercely pr…

Do the Watchers Guard the Plasma Gates? | R.A. Castaldo

R.A. Castaldo discusses the Watchers, the Grigori, Italian mysticism, plasma cosmology, and the hidden spiritual architecture of the universe. Castaldo frames the Watchers not merely as fallen angels, but as higher-density beings of light connected to stars, suns, gateways, ritual circles, and the …

Natural language processing, artificial intelligence, and algorithms with Xiaochang Li

On the origins of natural language processing and how corporations like IBM leaned into predictive algorithms. References and suggested readings: Xiaochang Li. 2026. Divination Engines: Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, and the Making of Algorithmic Culture. University of Chica…

(The Witcher: 4 monsters and their origin, part 4/4)

The grand finale of our four-part series on the real myths behind the monsters of "The Witcher" takes us away from the Slavic forests – south, to Portugal, Spain and Galicia. There the bruxa waits: in the games a beautiful, deadly vampire; in real folk belief a child-killing night-witch who turns i…

Analysis: A Macat Analysis of Carlo Ginzburg's The Night Battles Audiobook by Luke Freeman

Listen to full audiobook for free : https://litupbook.com/free Title: Analysis: A Macat Analysis of Carlo Ginzburg's The Night BattlesAuthor: Luke FreemanNarrator: Macat.comPublisher: Macat International Limited.Release date: 06-06-2016Language: EnglishSummary:In his 1966 book, The Night Battles, I…