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LEPHT HANDDid Aristotle Anticipate the Body Without Organs? Pneuma, Soul, and FormlessnessWhat if Aristotle had already conceived of something like a body without organs? In this special walking episode of LEPHT HAND, Craig (aka Sereptie of Acid Horizon) and returning guest Jack Bagby descend the old rail line in Lemont, Pennsylvania to excavate Aristotle’s theory of pneuma—the subtle, instrumental body that mediates between soul and flesh. Along the way, they connect Aristotle to thinkers like Deleuze, James Hillman, and Gilbert Simondon, asking whether pneuma offers a lost model of embodied thought, emergent life, and ecological intelligence. The conversation also turns toward dreams, depth psychology, and the urgent need for...2025-07-2732 min
LEPHT HANDHow to Read Philosophy Without Getting Lost: Practical Tips for Beginners and BeyondHave you ever tried to read a work of philosophy and ended up feeling more confused than enlightened? In this video, Sereptie—also known as Craig, host of Acid Horizon and LEPHT HAND—shares practical, field-tested strategies for reading difficult texts with confidence. Drawing on years of experience as both a teacher and theorist, he offers a compassionate guide for anyone who’s ever struggled with attention, comprehension, or just knowing where to start. Whether you’re picking up philosophy for the first time or looking to sharpen your approach, this video is for you.Support LEPHT HAND:2025-07-2316 min
LEPHT HANDNietzsche and Klossowski: Consciousness, Parody, and the Origins of ThoughtWhat if laughter, rage, or grief weren’t just emotional outbursts—but modes of knowing, ways in which being announces itself to us before thought arrives? In this short video, we descend into the tangled philosophies of Pierre Klossowski and Friedrich Nietzsche to ask: What if consciousness is not our origin, but our aftermath? Through Klossowski’s essay "Nietzsche, Polytheism, and Parody", we explore the idea that truth may be less a matter of reason than a residue of struggle—where knowledge emerges from conflicting impulses, not logical clarity. Affect, parody, myth, and multiplicity become vital lenses through which to glimp...2025-06-2909 min
LEPHT HANDWOULD YOU LIVE THIS LIFE AGAIN?: Nietzsche, Deleuze, and the Eternal Return(this is a narration only version of a video on the LEPHT HAND Youtube channel)What if you had to live your life exactly as it is—over and over again, forever? In this video, we dive into Nietzsche’s haunting concept of the eternal return, unpacking its psychological challenge and metaphysical implications. Along the way, we explore how thinkers like Deleuze reinvent the idea as a call to embrace transformation, risk, and becoming. Whether you're into philosophy, myth, or changing your life, this one’s for you.More on Deleuze's philosophy on Acid Horizon (as see...2025-06-1419 min
LEPHT HANDIndividuation Explained: Gilbert Simondon, Carl Jung & the Evolution of Form in Philosophy and Depth Psychology with Timothy JacksonSupport the Vintagia campaign before it is too late! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/acidhorizon/vintagia-i-ching-oracle-for-psychogeographers-and-creativesWhat if the self isn’t a fixed unity, but a process unfolding through tension, relation, and transformation? In this episode of LEPHT HAND, Sereptie speaks with evolutionary biologist and philosopher Timothy Jackson about Gilbert Simondon’s essay Form, Information, and Potential. Together, they explore the concept of individuation across biology, depth psychology, and metaphysics—linking snake venom, Jungian archetypes, and the limits of Platonic form. This is a deep dive into transduction, metastability, and the alchemical rhythms of becoming.Ti...2025-06-111h 29
LEPHT HANDPlay, Sovereignty, and the Refusal of Work: Bataille’s Challenge to Modern ThoughtSupport Vintagia: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/acidhorizon/vintagia-i-ching-oracle-for-psychogeographers-and-creatives In this monologue, we reflect on Georges Bataille’s essay “Are We Here to Play or Be Serious?”—recorded off-grid during a spring power outage! The discussion explores Bataille’s critique of work, the concept of sovereignty, and the political and metaphysical stakes of play as a form of resistance. Through readings of potlatch, sacrificial war, and riddle-solving, Sereptie examines Bataille’s call for thought to reconnect with its tragic, sovereign origins. This episode charts a path from the refusal of utility toward a ludic theory of revolution.Support...2025-05-0354 min
LEPHT HANDMysticism Without Transcendence? Laruelle’s 'Vision-in-One' with Jeremy R. SmithFollow Vintagia: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/acidhorizon/vintagia-i-ching-oracle-for-psychogeographers-and-creativesIn this special crossover episode of LEPHT HAND and Acid Horizon, we explore the radical mysticism of François Laruelle through his essay Vision-in-One or Unlearned Knowing. Laruelle proposes a mysticism stripped of transcendence and doctrine—one grounded in solitude, immanence, and the irreducibility of lived experience. Our guest, translator Jeremy R. Smith, helps unpack Laruelle’s challenge to Neoplatonism, dialectics, and the pedagogical authority of philosophy. Along the way, we consider how this "unlearned knowing" might offer tools for thinking mysticism on the left, beyond both theology and t...2025-04-201h 10
LEPHT HANDThe Image of Soul in Post-Jungian Thought: Giegerich, Deleuze, and BeyondSereptie's recent blog piece: https://splitinfinities.substack.com/p/crossing-the-line-the-repeater-booksIn this episode of LEPHT HAND, Sereptie is joined by Christian McMillan from the University of Essex to explore Wolfgang Giegerich’s provocative essay Why Jung?. Together, they investigate the image of soul as a conceptual battleground in post-Jungian thought, where Giegerich’s Hegelian reading of Jung meets Deleuze’s philosophy of individuation. Their dialogue probes whether Jung’s work ultimately resists or reinforces metaphysical closure, especially through his engagements with myth, quantum physics, and active imagination. From the tension between unity and multiplicity to the porous borders...2025-04-011h 01
LEPHT HANDSchreber’s Paranoia: Madness, Power and the Politics of Psychosis with Devin GouréIn this LEPHT HAND interview, I am joined by Devin Gouré of Moral Minority for a deep descent into the world of Daniel Paul Schreber's Memoirs of My Nervous Illness. Together, they explore Schreber’s cosmic visions, divine persecution, and the "unmanning" at the heart of his psychosis—not merely as symptoms of mental illness, but as portals into theology, gender, philosophy, and power. Alongside Freud, Lacan, and Deleuze & Guattari, the conversation unpacks the metaphysics of paranoia and the symbolic fractures of modernity. Devin also shares personal reflections on living with psychosis and the stakes of reclaiming madness in an in...2025-03-231h 10
LEPHT HANDDionysus in Exile: Nietzsche, the Dionysian, and the Modern World with Keegan KjeldsenSereptie is joined by Keegan Kjeldsen of The Nietzsche Podcast to explore the exile of Dionysus in the modern world. They discuss the Dionysian as a force of ecstasy, self-forgetting, and excess, tracing its decline from ancient Greek rituals to the rationalized, surveilled, and moralized structures of today. Touching on Nietzsche, Bataille, and Orphic traditions, they consider whether Dionysus can be reclaimed and what his return might look like. The conversation also explores surveillance culture, secrecy, and the necessity of spaces for true excess and creative expenditure.Jordan Peterson Doesn't Understand Nietzsche: https://www.youtube.com/watch...2025-03-021h 42
LEPHT HANDDionysus Decoded: Nietzsche, Deleuze & Depth Psychology Reimagine MythIn this monologue, we explore the many faces of Dionysus, from mythology to depth psychology and continental philosophy. Drawing on Dionysus in Exile, the discussion highlights his paradoxical nature—not just a god of excess but also of stillness and transformation.Nietzsche and Deleuze provide insight into Dionysian becoming, especially through Ariadne’s myth as a break from heroic struggle. The episode introduces "naxotic transformation", a shift from burdens and individuation toward affirmation, play, and creative renewal.This perspective challenges the modern obsession with struggle and mastery, offering a new way to think abou...2025-02-2556 min
LEPHT HANDLacanian Psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism: What's the Connection? with Raul MoncoyaContact Raul and discover his work here: https://www.raulmoncayophd.com/Buy the book: https://www.routledge.com/Lacan-and-Chan-Buddhist-Thought-Reflections-on-Buddhism-in-Lacans-Seminar-X-and-Beyond/Moncayo-Yu/p/book/9781032056975?srsltid=AfmBOooucogAZl7Z8szfzd1l8OhR8pTYQ0_F3vnxUL2G6Qw1TezclrYaIn this episode we explore the intersection of Lacanian psychoanalysis and Chan Buddhism with Raul Moncoya, author and Buddhist priest. Together, we discuss how concepts like Lacan’s “real” and Buddhist “emptiness” illuminate human suffering, identity, and transformation. Raul shares his journey through psychoanalysis and Zen, tracing influences from Buenos Aires to Paris and Berkeley, where he has practiced and taught for over 4...2025-01-311h 01
LEPHT HANDOn Melancholy and Mania: James Hillman and Gilles Deleuze meet NosferatuIn this installment of LEPHT HAND, we delve into the James Hillman Uniform Edition on On Melancholy and Depression, exploring his archetypal approach to melancholy as a cosmic force and its critique of modern life under capitalism. Drawing connections to Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu, we examine how longing and melancholy transcend individual experience to reveal a richer, imaginal world. Finally, we consider the tension between archetypal and Deleuzian perspectives on dreams, desire, and becoming, highlighting the transformative power of yearning.Support LEPHT HAND:Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHANDMerch and Design Sho...2025-01-2235 min
LEPHT HANDWhat is Freud's Metapsychology? with Taylor AdkinsSupport LEPHT HAND in 2025: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHANDIn this episode, Taylor joins Sereptie to discuss Freud’s Metapsychology, exploring the conceptual underpinnings of psychoanalysis. From the topographical model of the mind to the dynamics of repression, we unpack the key essays that form Freud’s theory of psychic structures and drives.Support LEPHT HAND:Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHANDMerch and Design Shop: crit-drip.comAcid Horizon Links: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizonSereptie (ambient project): https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/2024-12-291h 34
LEPHT HANDJung and Spinoza: Passage Through the Blessed Self with Dr. Robert LanganJung and Spinoza: Passage Through the Blessed Self: https://www.routledge.com/Jung-and-Spinoza-Passage-Through-The-Blessed-Self/Langan/p/book/9781032851853In this episode of LEPHT HAND, host Serpetie aka Craig is joined by Dr. Robert Langan, author of Jung and Spinoza: Passage Through the Blessed Self, to explore the intersections between Carl Jung’s monistic philosophy—where spirit, matter, and psyche form an interconnected whole—and Baruch Spinoza’s vision of a unified substance. Jung’s approach to the unconscious and symbolic life resonates with Spinoza’s metaphysics, offering profound insights into the unity of existence and the nature of transformation. The discussi...2024-12-231h 19
LEPHT HANDThe Active Imagination of Henry Corbin, Carl Jung, and James Hillman with Tom CheethamHelp fund the Kickstarter campaign now: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/acephalous/acephalous-the-erotic-tarot-of-georges-batailleTom's Substack: https://substack.com/@tomcheetham2In this episode of LEPHT HAND, we sit down with Tom Cheetham, author and expert on the intersections of imagination, spirituality, and psychology, to explore the concept of active imagination. Drawing from the works of Henry Corbin, Carl Jung, and James Hillman, the conversation illuminates how active imagination serves as a bridge between the seen and unseen worlds, enabling profound personal and collective transformation.Support LEPHT HAND:Join the Patreon...2024-11-261h 27LEPHT HANDDeleuze, Symbols, and Sorcery: Synthesizing Insights on Deleuze's HermeticismThe Kickstarter link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/acephalous/acephalous-the-erotic-tarot-of-georges-batailleIn this interview, I am joined by c_o_L_L_a_g_e, a friend and colleague from our research community at Acid Horizon. Together, we explore the intersection of Deleuze's philosophy and the role of symbols within the hermetic tradition, drawing insights from texts such as The Hermetic Deleuze by Josh Ramey and Deleuze and the Unconscious by Christian Kerslake. Our conversation begins by examining Jung’s critique of Freud’s dominance in psychoanalytic thought through his concept of the libido and culminates in a disc...2024-11-191h 20LEPHT HANDDestituent Power and the Reclamation of the Imagination with Serene RichardsSupport the Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/acephalous/acephalous-the-erotic-tarot-of-georges-batailleBiopolitics as a System of Thought: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/biopolitics-as-a-system-of-thought-9781350412095/In this LEPHT HAND interview, we explore the themes of destituent power and political imagination in Serene Richards' Biopolitics as a System of Thought, situating her ideas within the frameworks of thinkers like Jean-Luc Nancy and Pierre Legendre. Richards examines how "Smart Being" operates within a techno-capitalist logic that prioritizes survival over transformative potential, echoing Legendre's critiques of societal structures and Nancy's reflections on "the abyss" and metaphysical ungrounding.Serene on...2024-10-2247 minLEPHT HANDBataille on War and the "Acéphalous" ProjectThe Kickstarter campaign: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/acephalous/acephalous-the-erotic-tarot-of-georges-batailleIn this episode, Adam C. Jones of Acid Horizon joins a recent livestream with Sereptie to dive into Georges Bataille’s complex relationship with war, exploring his shift from insurrectionary fervor to an uneasy advocacy for peace in the nuclear age. We examine Bataille's views on sovereignty, expenditure, and the tension between violence and liberation. Plus, we discuss the upcoming Kickstarter launch for Acéphalous: The Erotic Tarot of Georges Bataille, a deck that channels Bataille’s provocative ideas through the medium of tarot, with insights from Adam...2024-10-081h 02LEPHT HANDFrom Bataille to Blanchot: The Negative Community and the Death of the OtherSupport LEPHT HAND: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHAND 🔮 Introducing 'Acéphalous: The Erotic Tarot of Georges Bataille' 🔮 - Uncover the raw, provocative fusion of Bataille's philosophy and tarot in this daring new deck. Pre-launch is live—discover more and join us in this journey: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/acephalous/acephalous-the-erotic-tarot-of-georges-bataille?ref=discovery&term=bataille&total_hits=8&category_id=273 In this monologue, we explore Maurice Blanchot's "The Unavowable Community," examining his profound exploration of what it means to exist in relation to others. We’ll discuss how Blanchot reimagines community as something defined not by shared...2024-09-2648 minLEPHT HANDThe Thought and Life of Simone Weil with Kenny NovisJoin the Patreon for early access to all new releases: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHANDIn this LEPHT HAND interview, Sereptie speaks with philosopher and researcher Kenny Novis about the complex and often contentious ideas of Simone Weil. The conversation explores the controversies surrounding Weil's life and work, while Kenny offers valuable insights into her thought, exploring her deep personal engagement with Christianity and her association with liberation movements across Europe during the interwar and WWII eras.Kenny's Links:Twitter: @saditiousA Beginner’s Guide to Simone Weil: https://saditious.wordpress.com/2022/07/26/a-beginners-guide-to-simone-weil/2024-09-101h 07LEPHT HANDThe Alchemy of Salt and Subjectivity: James Hillman and Jacques Derrida versus a Salty Jordan PetersonIn this monologue, Sereptie explores the fascinating intersections of alchemy, psychoanalysis, and poststructuralist philosophy. The discussion centers around the concept of alchemical salt, its significance in Renaissance alchemical traditions, and its appropriation in 20th-century psychological theories. This episode connects these ideas with the works of Carl Jung, James Hillman, and Jacques Derrida, offering a unique perspective on the formation and function of subjectivity and how they challenge the polemics of Jordan Peterson.Salt and the Alchemy of the Soul: https://www.springpublications.com/marlan.htmlAcid Horizon Episodes on James Hillman with Grant Maxwell:...2024-08-2650 minLEPHT HANDFascism and Sovereignty: Examining Georges Bataille's "The Psychological Structure of Fascism" (Part 2)Sub on your favorite podcast platform and listen to Part 1: https://pod.link/1758435793/episode/20f284ad4b81353d1d7db2a171e6196fIn the follow up to the very first episode of LEPHT HAND, we continue to delve into Georges Bataille's seminal essay, "The Psychological Structure of Fascism." We explore Bataille's analysis of the social and psychological dynamics underpinning fascist regimes. Key concepts discussed include: fascism, sovereignty, as well as the work of Ernst Bloch, and Alberto ToscanoSupport LEPHT HAND:Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHANDMerch...2024-08-1244 minLEPHT HANDNietzsche and Irrationalism: Can Art Justify Existence? (Georges Bataille, Georg Lukács, and James Hillman)In this first interview featured on LEPHT HAND, Sereptie dives into a thought-provoking discussion with Devin Gouré, co-host of the Moral Minority podcast and author of the Substack blog Methods of Madness. This conversation explores the intersection of Nietzsche's philosophy and Bataille's theory of fascism, focusing on the challenging question of how to justify existence in a world devoid of divine or universal mandates.Moral Minority: https://pod.link/1728182343Methods of Madness: https://devingour.substack.com/Support LEPHT HAND:Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHANDMerch and Design S...2024-08-061h 31LEPHT HANDExamining Georges Bataille's "The Psychological Structure of Fascism" (Part 1)In this inaugural episode of LEPHT HAND, we delve into Georges Bataille's seminal essay, "The Psychological Structure of Fascism." We explore Bataille's analysis of the social and psychological dynamics underpinning fascist regimes. Key concepts discussed include: Marxism, anarchism, anthropology, political economy.Support LEPHT HAND:Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHANDMerch and Design Shop: crit-drip.comAcid Horizon Links: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizonSereptie (ambient project): https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/2024-07-2056 min
Acid HorizonAre We Narcissistic Enough? 'Narcissus in Bloom' and The History of the Selfie with Matt ColquhounBuy the book: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/narcissus-in-bloom/Narcissism is the defining pathology of the twenty-first century, but what if it is not self-obsession that defines us but a need for self-transformation?Narcissus in Bloom is a short history of the self-portrait, beginning with Renaissance painters like Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt and Caravaggio, through to photographers and celebrities like Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian, Lee Friedlander and Hervé Guibert.Analysing the ways that so many artists have regarded their own image, how might the age of the selfie be considered as a time of...2023-08-291h 09Acid HorizonGilles Deleuze's 'Nietzsche & Philosophy': The PrefaceIn this series of videos, we will highlight key themes from Gilles Deleuze's 1962 text 'Nietzsche & Philosophy'. This video covers the preface addressed to the translator, Hugh Tomlinson. In this section of the text, Deleuze outlines some of the key themes which preside over his interpretation: Deleuze's novel approach to Nietzsche's "theory of forces", the will to power, and the eternal return. Also, Deleuze cites Nietzsche as a key figure in overturning the traditional or dogmatic "image of thought" of Western philosophy.From August of 2023 until the end of the year, Acid Horizon is hosting reading g...2023-08-2510 minAcid HorizonMarx and Spinoza on the Ideology of Work Under Capitalism: Jason Read's 'The Double Shift'Coming to Verso Books February 2024: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/741197/the-double-shift-by-jason-read/ABOUT THE DOUBLE SHIFT“Why do people fight for their exploitation as if it was liberation?” How Marx and Spinoza can explain our attachment to work, and what we can do about itIn a world of declining wages, working conditions, and instability, the response for many has been to work harder, increasing hours and finding various ways to hustle in a gig economy. What drives our attachment to work? To paraphrase a question from Spinoza, “Why do people fight for their exploitation as if...2023-08-231h 03Acid HorizonThe Jung/Deleuze Connection with Acid Horizon, Grant Maxwell, and FriendsPre-Order Anti-Oculus (10.10.23): https://repeaterbooks.com/product/anti-oculus-a-philosophy-of-escape/What is the connection between the work of Carl Jung and Gilles Deleuze? Looking at the work of Grant Maxwell in his book "Integration and Difference: Constructing A Mythical Dialectic' we explore the impact of Jung's work on Deleuze and how Deleuzian thought allows us to reconsider Jung. Also featured in the discussion are Sigmund Freud, James Hillman, Isabelle Stegners, Felix Guattari, and more.Quique Autrey of Psyche Podcast: quiqueautrey.comKeanu Clark: @nonmarkov_fieldSupport the podcast:Pre-Order Anti-Oculus (10.10.23): https://repeaterbooks.com...2023-08-151h 20Acid HorizonGeorges Bataille, Sustainability, and Climate Change with Stuart Kendall and Acid Horizon (Part 2)Acid Horizon Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastAnti-Oculus: https://www.amazon.com/Anti-Oculus-Acid-Horizon/dp/1915672090Zer0/Repeater Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zer0repeaterThe Acid Horizon crew are once again joined by Bataille scholar and translator Stuart Kendall to discuss his writings on General Economy, Waste, and Sustainability in the era of climate crisis. How is our ecologically destructive mode of production complimented by a capitalist mode of consumption? Is luxury antithetical to sustainable society? And how do we make more of waste in a world where the dominant tendencies of production aim at...2023-08-0947 minAcid HorizonGeorges Bataille, Sustainability, and Climate Change with Stuart Kendall and Acid Horizon (Part 1)Acid Horizon Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastAnti-Oculus: https://www.amazon.com/Anti-Oculus-Acid-Horizon/dp/1915672090Zer0/Repeater Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zer0repeaterThe Acid Horizon crew are once again joined by Bataille scholar and translator Stuart Kendall to discuss his writings on General Economy, Waste, and Sustainability in the era of climate crisis. How is our ecologically destructive mode of production complimented by a capitalist mode of consumption? Is luxury antithetical to sustainable society? And how do we make more of waste in a world where the dominant tendencies of production aim at...2023-08-0450 minAcid HorizonCautious, A Boat Adrift: Working Class Writing in the 21st Century with Tommy Sissons (Acid Horizon on Zer0/Repeater)Buy the book: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/cautious-a-boat-adrift/As a failing journalist cares for his alcoholic grandfather, remnants of the elderly man’s long-buried stories resurface and drive him to an obsessional search for truth.“The land of men is an untouched one. It is the companionship of quiet. It is so many darkened boats, heading their own way, in the night.”Leeds, 2017. Disaffected journalist Fred Whitby and his mother visit Grandad Norman following the death of his callous second wife, Brenda. Norman has relapsed into alcoholism. Brenda’s daughter and her husband have inv...2023-07-3156 minAcid HorizonAsk A Left Nietzschean: Is Nietzsche's "Amor Fati" a Reactionary or Revolutionary Concept?Support Donovan's work: https://www.donovanmiyasaki.com/Today on the show with us we have Donovan Miyasaki, Professor of Philosophy at Wright State University and author of a two-volume study, Nietzsche's Immoralism: Politics as First Philosophy and Politics After Morality: Toward a Nietzschean Left put out by Palgrave McMillan. This series argues that Nietzsche’s most important ethical and political commitments are better realized through a form of radical egalitarianism rather than through the aristocratic figure imagined by Nietzsche himself. The concepts in focus are amor fati, the pathos of distance vs. the pathos of difference, and th...2023-07-281h 16Acid HorizonLazy Politics: Lafargue, Nietzsche, and Bataille Against the GrindMilitate against the grind. Support the podcast:Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizonAcid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastZer0 Books and Repeater Media Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zer0repeaterMerch: http://www.crit-drip.comOrder 'The Philosopher's Tarot': https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-philosophers-tarot/Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/169wvvhiHappy Hour at Hippel's (Adam’s blog): https://happyhourathippels.wordpress.comRevolting Bodies (Will's Blog): https://revoltingbodies.comSplit Infinities (Craig’s Substack...2023-07-2610 minAcid HorizonNew Deleuze and Foucault Reading Groups Begin in August 2023Find the syllabi here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gPyTvMfiOJHeoag3zzjjlhkuJpjn75fh/viewWe look forward to seeing you there.Support the podcast:Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizonAcid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastZer0 Books and Repeater Media Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zer0repeaterMerch: http://www.crit-drip.comOrder 'The Philosopher's Tarot': https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-philosophers-tarot/Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/169wvvhiHappy Hour at Hippel's (Adam’s blog): ht...2023-07-2002 minAcid HorizonA Reading of Antonin Artaud's "New Revelations of Being"From ' Artaud 1937 Apocalypse':"Antonin Artaud’s journey to Ireland in 1937 marked an extraordinary—and apocalyptic—turning point in his life and career. After publishing the manifesto The New Revelations of Being about the “catastrophic immediate-future,” Artaud abruptly left Paris for Ireland, remaining there for six weeks without money. Traveling first to the isolated island of Inishmore off Ireland’s western coast, then to Galway, and finally to Dublin, Artaud was eventually arrested as an undesirable alien, beaten by the police, and summarily deported back to France. On his return, he spent nine years in asylums, remaining there throug...2023-07-1404 minAcid HorizonAlchemy, Psychoanalysis, and Philosophy: Psyche Podcast and Acid Horizon in Conversation with Stanton MarlanQuique Autrey is the host of Psyche Podcast. He cordially invited me (Craig) to co-host a collaborative interview with Jungian psychoanalyst and writer Stanton Marlan, author of 'The Black Sun: The Alachemy and Art of Darkness'. Together we discuss the connections between the alchemical tradition, psychoanalysis, and philosophy. Topics include therapy, individuation, James Hillman, Hegel, Derrida, and oppositional thinking.Find Quique here: https://www.quiqueautrey.com/podcastSupport the podcast:Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizonAcid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastZer0 Books and Repeater Media P...2023-07-011h 05Acid HorizonLo-Fi Music and Escaping Capitalism: Foucault and Marx Meet Boards of Canada and Daniel JohnstonCraig from Acid Horizon sit down with Enrico Monacelli to discuss his new book, 'The Great Psychic Outdoors: Lo-Fi Music and Escaping Capitalism'.From the book: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-great-psychic-outdoors/Homemade records, tape-hiss worship and a taste for a very peculiar kind of psychedelia have carved themselves a weird niche in the contemporary musical landscape under the name of lo-fi.This genreless genre, characterized by poor recordings and rough sounds, spanning from the most extreme heavy metal to the sweetest ear-candies pop can offer, has become a solid presence in our collective...2023-06-231h 03Acid HorizonWhat is Coöperism? with Bernard Harcourt and Acid HorizonBernard Harcourt sits down with Acid Horizon to discuss "coöperism", a theory of cooperation that encompasses various registers of social and socioeconomic interaction. From the publisher:"Liberal democracy is in crisis around the world, unable to address pressing problems such as climate change. There is, however, another path—cooperation democracy. From consumer co-ops to credit unions, worker cooperatives to insurance mutuals, nonprofits to mutual aid, countless examples prove that people working together can extend the ideals of participatory democracy and sustainability into every aspect of their lives. These forms of cooperation do not depend on e...2023-06-211h 10Acid HorizonThe Devil: Who The Hell is Satan? with Vernon W. Cisney"Discover the complex role the figure of the Devil plays in our belief systems and culture with award-winning Gettysburg College professor Vernon W. Cisney.Known by many names - Lucifer, Beelzebub, Mephistopheles, and Satan, to name but a few - the Devil is universally recognized as the embodiment of pure evil and rebellion in Christianity. Although little is said about this figure in the Bible, the Devil has, throughout history, served as an abstract canvas onto which human beings have projected their greatest fears and adversarial forces. Depictions of the Devil also come complete with the allure...2023-06-171h 17Acid HorizonCapitalism Versus the Working Class of North London: 'I Could Be So Good For You' with John MedhurstI Could Be So Good For You tackles head-on the pernicious and implicitly racist fiction that London, most especially north London, has no “real” working class in comparison to a more “authentic” working class in a place called “the North”.In doing so it offers a history and a portrait of north London’s working class from the 1950s to the 21st century, based on a wide and original range of sources including personal memoirs, autobiographies, collected oral histories and new interviews conducted by the author. The result is an important social history and a rich panorama of working-cla...2023-06-101h 09Acid HorizonAsk A Left Nietzschean feat. Devin and JustinWe are joined by Justin and Devin Gouré to answer a host of questions submitted by patrons and followers on Nietzsche's work and his politics. In the discussion we cover ressentiment, communism, anarchism, Domenico Losurdo's critique of Nietzsche, our critiques of Nietzsche, Nietzsche's breakdown, and more.Justin: @nonpedagogyDevin: @DevinGoureSupport the podcast:Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizonAcid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastZer0 Books and Repeater Media Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zer0repeaterMerch: http://www.crit-drip.comO...2023-06-031h 32Acid HorizonCybernetics and the Left: Communist Synergy or Capitalist Machines?Adam is joined by Dr James Fox to discuss the legacy of cybernetics and organizational theory, its Leftist critics, and the potential for a cybernetics of the commune, one which politicizes the dynamic systems of democracy at play in worker organizing. We discussed public attitudes to cyber-theory, the history of the field from Wiener to Bogdanov and Stafford Beer, and the use of machinic language from Deleuze to the CCRU.You can read all of the pieces from James we discussed today over at https://tektology.substack.com/Also: Catch James' talk on his work...2023-05-311h 03Acid HorizonMichel Foucault: The Utopian Body (1966)A reading of Michel Foucault's 1966 essay "The Utopian Body".Support the podcast:Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizonAcid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastZer0 Books and Repeater Media Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zer0repeaterMerch: http://www.crit-drip.comOrder 'The Philosopher's Tarot': https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-philosophers-tarot/Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/169wvvhiHappy Hour at Hippel's (Adam’s blog): https://happyhourathippels.wordpress.comRevolting Bodies (Will's Blog): https://revoltingbodies.com...2023-05-2519 minAcid HorizonSci-Fi and the Politics of the Future: An Interview with Steven Shaviro featuring Acid HorizonAdam and Will are joined by Professor Steven Shaviro to discuss his work on the philosophy of science fiction, developing on themes from recent texts such as Extreme Fabulations and 2016's Discognition out on Repeater Books. We asked Steven about the various techniques that writers such as Frank Herbert, Adrian Tchaikovsky, and China Mieville to unearth possible futures in the present; and how they extrapolate from, speculate upon, and generate fables about dominant tendencies of our political and technological situation. We also touched upon philosophies of time and narrative such as Bergson, Deleuze, Whitehead, Foucault, Marshall McLuhan, and Darko...2023-05-241h 10Acid HorizonWilliam S. Burroughs: "The Limits of Control" and Its Influence on DeleuzeLinktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizonWe explore the origins of Deleuze's concept of the Control society by taking a deep dive into the priest of the Beat Generation: William S. Burroughs. Taking cues from texts such as The Limits of Control, Nova Express, Naked Lunch, and his lectures on viral communication, we articulate the fundamental tension at the heart of control systems, how images can 'go viral' in the age of social media, and explore Burroughs' own accounts of communication and cut-up writing techniques in pursuit of an understanding of how to short-circuit these apparatuses today.2023-05-211h 02Acid HorizonData is Dead Labor: Capitalism, Ideology, and AI (no music)Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizonJust how 'artificial' is 'artificial intelligence'? How do he ruling class understand with this technology, and how do they obscure the labour relations within? Who is the proletarian of the data mines, and how do we break through the new digital ideologies of Cyber-Capital? Adam reads through an article by Kissinger, Schmidt, and Huttenlocher to reveal the mystification that separates mankind from the new data machines.Refugees help power machine learning advances at Microsoft, Facebook, and Amazon, by Phil Jones: https://restofworld.org/2021/refugees-machine-learning-big-tech/The Metamorphosis: https://www...2023-05-1813 minAcid HorizonData is Dead Labor: Capitalism, Ideology, and AILinktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizonJust how 'artificial' is 'artificial intelligence'? How do he ruling class understand with this technology, and how do they obscure the labour relations within? Who is the proletarian of the data mines, and how do we break through the new digital ideologies of Cyber-Capital? Adam reads through an article by Kissinger, Schmidt, and Huttenlocher to reveal the mystification that separates mankind from the new data machines.Refugees help power machine learning advances at Microsoft, Facebook, and Amazon, by Phil Jones: https://restofworld.org/2021/refugees-machine-learning-big-tech/The Metamorphosis: https://www...2023-05-1713 minAcid Horizon'High John the Conqueror: A Novel' and Beyond: An Interview with Tariq GoddardGrab 'High John the Conqueror: A Novel' here: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/high-john-the-conqueror-a-novel/When children start going missing in a rural town, the investigation takes twists and turns into the strange world of privilege and the realm of the occult."I always wanted to be a writer, but I became a policeman instead."WESSEX, 2016. Teenagers are vanishing off the council estates of a small provincial city. A crop of herbs that are said to posses magical powers which only grow once every fifty years are found in the woods. A supernatural creature believed...2023-05-091h 13Acid HorizonWhat Do Deleuze and Guattari Mean by 'Becoming-Animal'? (vs. Plato, Carl Jung, and James Hillman)Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizon(This video has incidental moderate visual strobe effects)This video is an introduction to Deleuze and Guattari's concept of 'becoming-animal' from A Thousand Plateaus. We also briefly cover the authors' theory of anti-representation in contracts with such figures as Plato, Carl Jung, and James Hillman.Support the podcast:Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizonAcid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastZer0 Books and Repeater Media Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zer0repeaterMerch: http://www.crit-drip.com...2023-05-0715 minAcid HorizonThe Capitalism of the Ego: James Hillman's Critique of the Ego Function in PsychoanalysisFor post-Jungian archetypal psychologist James Hillman, the concept of the ego familiar to the work of Freud, Jung, and other psychoanalytic thinkers maintains a almost tyrannical predominance in the tradition of psychoanalysis. The myth of Hercules looms large over the discipline and our lives writ large. For Hillman undue importance of the ego has precipitated a multitude of psychological, social, and political problems. The solution? A break with the ego's oppositionalism and a deep dive into the world of the imagination.Support the podcast:Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizonAcid Horizon on Patreon...2023-04-2713 minAcid HorizonThe Anarchism and Philosophy of Max Stirner with Acid HorizonHere, Will and Adam from Acid Horizon engage in a discussion on a simultaneously well known and largely overlooked enigmatic figure in the history of German philosophy, idealism and its discontents, and even insurrectionary anarchism, Max Stirner. The discussion provides both an in-depth look at Stirner’s core philosophical commitments and the intellectual milieu within which and against which he toiled. What is at stake in Stirner’s The Unique and its Property? How are we to understand Stirner’s heterodoxical approach to anarchy? And, what can Stirner provide to us as we confront those apparatuses that seem to render...2023-04-241h 11Acid HorizonBataille Contra Deleuze: Sadism and Masochism with Tiger Liu"A sadist and a masochist walk into a podcast, the masochist says 'hurt me', the sadist says 'no'" Our laughter at such a scene conveys our habitual association between violence and possession, De Sade and Sacher-Masoch, or to take them in their 20th century philosophical champions: Georges Bataille and Gilles Deleuze. How are Sadism and Masochism problems not only of psychology, but logical problems of philosophy and the limits of reason? How does the economy of each relation to one's self and the other pose not only ethical, but political and ecological problems for thought today? Adam, Craig, and...2023-04-211h 08Acid HorizonAnger in Ancient Philosophy: Seneca, Epictetus, and Stoicism with Dr. Gregory Sadler and Acid HorizonAcid Horizon and Jim sit down again with Dr. Gregory Sadler to discuss stoicism and anger management, specifically through the work of Seneca and Epictetus. Find Dr. Sadler here: https://www.youtube.com/@GregoryBSadlerSupport the podcast:Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizonAcid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastZer0 Books and Repeater Media Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zer0repeaterMerch: http://www.crit-drip.comOrder 'The Philosopher's Tarot': https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-philosophers-tarot/Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts: h...2023-04-171h 04Acid HorizonMark Fisher's 'Flatline Constructs': Reading Group Wrap Up #1 (Zer0/Repeater)We speak with James from Zer0/Repeater's current reading group, which is tackling Mark Fisher's dissertation entitled 'Flatline Constructs'. With James, Acid Horizon delves into the work's several concepts and philosophical mediators that appear in the first sections of the book. Please join us for a future reading group sessions on the Zer0/Repeater Patreon account linked below!Support Zer0 Books and Repeater Media on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zerobooksSubscribe: https://www.patreon.com/zer0repeaterFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ZeroBooks/Twitter: https://twitter.com/zer0books and https://twitter.com...2023-04-101h 05Acid HorizonWho is "Bad Badiou"? (with Andrew Culp [author of 'Dark Deleuze'] and Alexander Galloway)Alexander R. Galloway and Andrew Culp join Acid Horizon to discuss their new podcast series on Alain Badiou's 1988 work Being and Event. We discuss Badiou's mathematical ontology and its roots in Cantor's Set Theory and Cohen's theory of the Generic. We also trace the roots of his militant arithmetic in philosophers of the French Resistance such as Cavailles, and his revolutionary Marxist Anti-Statism.There will be an online launch event for their new podcast series where people can learn more here http://cultureandcommunication.org/BeingAndEvent/And you can listen to the first two episodes now...2023-04-031h 05Acid HorizonDeleuze's 'Proust and Signs' with Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour (Unlocked Patreon Content)Here is an informal discussion of 'Proust and Signs' with Taylor Adkins and Cooper Cherry of Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour we had more than two years ago! This is unlocked Patreon content from another era. Please support Acid Horizon by following any of the links below:Support the podcast:Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizonAcid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastZer0 Books and Repeater Media Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zer0repeaterMerch: http://www.crit-drip.comOrder 'The Philosopher's Tarot': https://repeaterbooks.com...2023-03-261h 18Acid HorizonThe Limit of the Useful: Bataille, War, and FascismIn the decade prior to the publication of Inner Experience (L'expérience intérieure), the twentieth-century French philosopher Georges Bataille produced a nascent masterwork containing some of his most original and extensive reflections on a range of subjects. With thoughts on ritual sacrifice and military conquest, the nature of laughter, and the mechanisms of capitalism, The Limit of the Useful, as Bataille had planned to title the work, illuminates the philosopher's later corpus, yet it remained unfinished and unpublished in his lifetime, and untranslated until now. This is the first English-language translation of what Cory Austin Knudson and...2023-03-101h 14Acid HorizonWe Are Not Software: David Bentley Hart with Acid HorizonAcid Horizon and Sean from Wyrd Signal are joined by the philosopher, theologian, and author David Bentley Hart to discuss the nature and philosophy of mind amongst today's AI-anxious conceptual landscape. We discussed his critiques of David Chalmers and Daniel Dennett in terms of his rejection of a computational model of the mental in light if the intentionality and synthetic unity of consciousness; and the political stakes of a reduction of the conscious to the machinic in times of encroaching reaction and Empire.Some writing by David:Reality Minus: https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/reality-minus2023-03-051h 48Acid HorizonDeleuze and Guattari: "The Postulates of Linguistics" from 'A Thousand Plateaus'Today on Acid Horizon we wrap up our last reading group on Deleuze and Guattari's "the postulates of linguistics" from 'A Thousand Plateaus', illustrating their critique of Chomsky whilst at the same time integrating linguistics into a wider cybernetic ontology of functions and flows. We aim to provide an introduction to Deleuzoguattarian pragmatics, and its political efficacy in understanding the reactionary media ecology of today and how to fight it amongst emerging fascisms.Support the podcast:Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizonAcid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastZer0...2023-02-2653 minAcid HorizonRepeater Books Presents 'Tonight It's A World We Bury' with Bill Peel and Dawn Ray'dTonight It’s a World We Bury explores a range of tendencies central to black metal and uncovers their potential as critiques of capitalism.Tonight It’s a World We Bury is a radical re-writing of the history and politics of black metal music.Challenging the commonly-held perception that black metal is a genre of the right — full of wannabe Vikings, Nazis, skinheads and other unsavoury characters — Tonight It’s a World We Bury looks at an array of black metal artists to re-affirm the genre as radically anticapitalist, revolutionary and left-wing.Utilizing an eclecti...2023-02-211h 12Acid HorizonElements of Control: An Introduction to Cybernetics with NickWelcome back to the Lost Cyberhighway, where friend of the show Nick Travaglini joins us to discuss the history of the Cybernetics movement, its core concepts, and its cultural and technical impact today. We'll be discussing some of the key thinkers of the field such as Shannon, Wiener, and von Neumann in their historical context of the burgeoning cold war. Additionally we'll also cover feedback loops, systems theory, constructivism, and the legacy of the image of a cybernetic future in the popular as well as communist imagination."Cybernetics and Second-Order Cybernetics": chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/http://pespmc1.vub.ac...2023-02-111h 07Acid HorizonA Reading of "Sacrifices" by Georges BatailleA reading of "Sacrifices" by Georges Bataille from 'Visions of Excess'.Support the podcast:Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizonAcid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastZer0 Books and Repeater Media Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zer0repeaterMerch: http://www.crit-drip.comOrder 'The Philosopher's Tarot': https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-philosophers-tarot/Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/169wvvhiHappy Hour at Hippel's (Adam’s blog): https://happyhourathippels.wordpress.comRevolting Bodies (Will's Blog): https://revoltingbodies.com2023-01-3121 minAcid HorizonCatherine Malabou: The Dawning Anarchy vs. CyberanarchyCatherine Malabou returns to the podcast on the eve of her most recent work being translated into English, a book entitled "Stop Thief! Anarchism and Philosophy". We revisit the arguments for ontological anarchism and attempt to elucidate a bridge between anarchy in philosophy and politics. Catherine also shares her views on cryptocurrency, AI, and other technological trends as they relate to the prospect of a "dawning anarchy". Moreover, we explore the distinction between liberatory and libertarian anarchisms as they both emerge on the cybernetic plane of the control society.Support the podcast:Linktree: https://linktr.e...2023-01-2754 minAcid HorizonThe Marxism of Utopia: An Introduction to Ernst Bloch with The LitCritGuyIn the search for new weapons, history itself becomes an arsenal of struggles. In the material processes of world history, one finds the principle of hope. These ideas are central to the work of the German Marxist Ernst Bloch, and on this episode Jon AKA TheLitCritGuy from Horror Vanguard and Profane Illuminations and B from Zer0 Books join Will and Adam in exploring and introducing his vast corpus. We discussed Bloch's theory of Utopian Hope, his relationship to Hegelian Marxism and Lukacs, and the theology of revolution.We based our talk on Jon's essay "A Primer...2023-01-221h 04Acid HorizonSomnia: Tarot and Sleep Paralysis (Inner Experience)On today's episode of Inner Experience, we are joined by Nicholas Bruno, creator of The Somnia Tarot, a tarot deck inspired by Nicolas' unnerving history of sleep paralysis. Craig, also a creator of a tarot deck, The Philosopher's Tarot, has experienced similar episodes in his childhood. Together, we explore tarot's aesthetic and mystical dimensions in conjunction with strange and terrifying liminality experienced in sleep paralysis.Learn more about Nicolas' projects here: https://www.nicolasbrunophotography.com/follow on IG: https://www.instagram.com/nicolasbruno/The Philosopher's Tarot by Sereptie: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-philosophers-tarot/2023-01-1457 minAcid HorizonCosmic Utopia: Fedorov's "The Common Task" (introducing 'The Lost Cyberhighway')We start our series, “The Lost Cyberhighway” with an exploration of an early proto-cybernetic text by Nikolai Federov, “The Common Task”. This work of cosmic politics articulates a humanity that is united in a production-driven expansionary project to transform “the solar system” into “a controlled economic entity.” We examine this speculative text’s relationship to the legacy of physiocratic economics, Darwinism, the government of population, colonialism, and its strange projections of neoliberalism. So join us as we begin a year long endeavor through this cybernetic expanse!Support the podcast:Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizonAcid Horizon o...2023-01-091h 02Acid HorizonTiqqun's "The Great Game of Civil War" read by WillFormed anonymously in the late 1990s, Tiqqun's two journals still remain fundamental to the insurrectionary counter-tradition. Today, we give you a small reading of one of their more enigmatic pieces from TIQQUN #1, "The Great Game of Civil War". Following in Foucauldian footsteps, Tiqqun provides an account of the political and the juridical mediated through the lens of a dispersed civil war across the social field. This brief provocation strikes at the core of all that biopolitical modernity attempts to render either mundane or merely historically necessary. Live Communism, Spread Anarchy.Love,Acid Horizon2023-01-0303 minAcid HorizonDissemblage: an Interview with Gerald RaunigFollowing Dividuum (2015), Gerald Raunig presents the second volume of “Machinic Capitalism and Molecular Revolution.” Dissemblage unfolds a wild abundance of material of unruliness, from the multilingual translation machines of Al-Andalus to the queer mysticism of the High Middle Ages, from the small voices of the falsetto in 20th century jazz and soul to today’s disjointures and subjunctures against the smooth city in machinic capitalism.In this volume Gerald Raunig not only develops a conceptual ecology of concepts of joining and jointing, but also undertakes an experiment in theoretical form. Semi-fictional interweaves with meticulously researched historical sources, mystic...2022-12-211h 34Acid HorizonBaroque Sunbursts: God, Geist, and Transcendental Black Metal feat. Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix of LITVRGYWelcome to Baroque Sunbursts, a new series from Zer0/Repeater on Music, Culture, and Philosophy. For our inaugural episode Adam and Kyle are joined by Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix; Artist, philosopher, theologian, and musician most known for her seminal work with LITVRGY. Ravenna joins us to look back upon the opening salvo of her musical philosophy: 2009’s Transcendental Black Metal: A Vision of Apocalyptic Humanism. We’re going to be talking about the teeth-grinding, fist clenching experience of musical intensity, the Blast Beat and its Discontents, and how ideas spanning from Christology to Nietzsche and German Idealism have inspired her work up u...2022-12-121h 07Acid Horizon"Tarot & Acid Communism" Live at Tenderbooks in London (11/23/2022)The launch party for 'The Philosopher's Tarot' at Tenderbooks in London on November 23, 2022. Acid Horizon's first live event extends Mark Fisher's concept of 'acid communism' through prominent figures featured in the work of the podcast. Support the podcast:Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizonAcid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastMerch: http://www.crit-drip.comPreorder 'The Philosopher's Tarot': https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-philosophers-tarot/Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/169wvvhiHappy Hour at Hippel's (Adam’s blog): https...2022-12-0948 minAcid HorizonAcid Archives - Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures of Mark Fisher (Full Episode)Author, blogger, and photographer Matt Colquhoun joins us (as promised) for a first look at a compilation of last lectures given by Mark Fisher at Goldsmiths in 2016. The lecture series on postcapitalist desire intends to explore the seemingly unsurpassable milieu of global capitalism and its pervasive affectivity. Through figures like Marcus, Lukacs, Lyotard, Marx, and Deleuze and Guattari, Fisher explores possibilities for our collective extrication from capital. In the interview, we reflect on Fisher's acumen as a teacher and mentor as we take on elements of the project he left behind.Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures: https://re...2022-12-021h 38Acid HorizonOmnicide 2: A Philosophy of Doom with Jason Bahbak MohagheghJason Bahbek Mohaghegh joins us to discuss Omnicide 2, out soon from Urbanomic.From Urbanomic/MIT Press: An infernal catalogue of manic visionaries, inspired by the poetry of the Middle East.In a new work in which conceptual elaboration, storytelling, and poetics are fused in the infernal heat of the desert, the cycle of Omnicide draws to a close with a philosophy of doom, deception, and the game, plunging headlong into the inevitable, the fatal, and the infinite.A series of controlled combustions fuelled by fragments drawn from the poetry and literature of the...2022-11-181h 20Acid HorizonBaudrillard: The Hyperreality [or the Ecstasy] of Posting on Twitter (radio edit)"Is everything today just posting?" Subscribe to Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcPVN1v6tkHW-43IbqagHbQ*EVENTS*November 23, 2022 Watkins Books (London): "The Philosopher's Tarot" tarot readings with Acid HorizonNovember 23, 2022 TenderBOOKS (London): "Tarot & Acid Communism" with Acid HorizonSupport the podcast:Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizonAcid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastMerch: http://www.crit-drip.comPreorder 'The Philosopher's Tarot': https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-philosophers-tarot/Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts: https://ti...2022-11-1649 minAcid HorizonHarlan Ellison's "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream" with JimThe Acid Horizon crew are joined by friend of the show and history podcaster Jim to discuss the philosophical horrors at the heart of Harlan Ellison's "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream", a tale about planetary war, cybernetic takeover, and the cruelty that fills the void where creativity is absent. We begin with an overview of Ellison's life and work, before reading I Have No Mouth through the works of figures such as Foucault, Hegel, Nietzsche, Tiqqun, Aquinas, Deleuze, and many more!The Story: https://wjccschools.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/01/I-Have-No-Mouth-But-I-Must-Scream-by-Harlan-Ellison.pdf*EVENTS*2022-11-111h 04Acid HorizonDialectics of the Gods: Deleuze, Hillman, Jung, Schelling, and HegelGrant Maxwell is the author of Integration and Difference: Constructing a Mythical Dialectic, A book which confronts the perennial problem of opposition in philosophy with respect to the notions of integration and difference. This is a robust work which covers many figures in Philosophy from Hegel to William James to Isabel Stegners. In this discussion we delve into the sections of the book that specifically concern the relationship between Deleuze and American archetypal psychologist James Hillman and the work of F.W.J. Schelling.Integration and Difference: Constructing a Mythical Dialectic: https://www.routledge.com/Integration-and-Difference-Constructing-a-Mythical-Dialectic/Maxwell...2022-10-251h 29Acid HorizonDeleuze and Guattari: One or Several Wolves Go To TherapyCraig and Adam speak with Chuck LeBlanc, host of the podcast Couch to Couch to discuss themes and concepts from Deleuze and Guattari's "One or Several Wolves?" from 'A Thousand Plateaus'. This conversation pinpoints concepts useful to rethinking psychology and interrogating the role of therapist. Moreover it asks the question, "In what ways can thinking in terms of 'multiplicity' inspire better thearpeutic practices and personal relationships?"Couch to Couch: https://anchor.fm/chuck-leblanc1Support the podcast:Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizonAcid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast2022-10-1752 minAcid HorizonAn Introduction to Foucault and His ConceptsIn this episode of Concepts in Focus, Will lays out a handful of key concepts in the popular works of Michel Foucault. What does Foucault’s genealogy of sovereignty’s passage to discipline tell us about the politics of the body? What is Foucault’s understanding of the function of history? What does it mean when we say power has a hold on life? This episode is a general overview but has commentary that will be of interest to those invested in our turtleneck’d anti-carceral friend.Support the podcast:Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizon2022-10-1530 minAcid HorizonAre Prisons Computers? with Ian Alan PaulThe Acid Horizon crew are joined by artist and theorist Ian Alan Paul to discuss his essay “Are Prisons Computers?” in which he argues for a cybernetic and digital understanding of prisons and policing. Part of this digital framework also calls for a re-evaluation of the distinction between discipline and control in Deleuze and Foucault at the same time as it calls for a return to the work of the Prison Information Group, taking prisoner revolts as models for new insurrectionary techniques and new weapons for destituent escape.Support the podcast:Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acid...2022-10-021h 14Acid HorizonDeleuze: The Grandeur of Marx with Nick ThoburnWas Gilles Deleuze a Marxist? Before his death in 1995, Deleuze had intended to write a book entitled The Grandeur of Marx, a work which would have consummated the role of Marx as long time mediator within Deleuze's political writings. In the discussion, we unpack political concepts within Deleuze's corpus, such as "minor politics", "a people to come", and "a new earth" and explore their resonances with Marx's work. Moreover, we follow Thoburn in advancing the perhaps controversial idea that Deleuze proffered a new form of communism.Anti-Book: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/anti-book...2022-09-261h 12Acid Horizon"Cybernetic Culture" by CCRU : A ReadingAdam performs a reading of the essay "Cybernetic Culture" by CCRU, which can be found in the essay compilation #ACCELERATE published by Urbanomic.Support the podcast:Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizonAcid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastMerch: http://www.crit-drip.comPreorder 'The Philosopher's Tarot': https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-philosophers-tarot/Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/169wvvhiHappy Hour at Hippel's (Adam’s blog): https://happyhourathippels.wordpress.comDestratified (Matt’s Blog): https://destratified.com/...2022-09-2108 minAcid HorizonLyotard or Marx? The Evil Legacy of 'Libidinal Economy'Acid Horizon hosts Cooper and Taylor of Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour to discuss Jean-François Lyotard's Libidinal Economy, the infamous forceful poetic intervention which lambasted the French communism of the 1970s and the legacy of Marxism itself. This deep dive emerges out of Zer0's postcapitalist desire reading group which covers the incomplete final lecture series of Mark Fisher. Lyotard was an important mediator in Fisher's work and a pivotal figure in the accelerationist politics more broadly.Support Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour: patreon.com/muhhThe Wicked Lyotard series on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/w...2022-09-191h 27Acid HorizonDeleuze and Guattari: "Of the Refrain" from A Thousand PlateausIn this episode, Craig, Adam, Will, and Noah tackle the concepts in "Of The Refrain" from Deleuze and Guattari's 'A Thousand Plateaus' through a series of quesions: How do refrains (jn the form of ditties, melodies, loops, and other forms of sonic redundancies) serve to stabilize our plenum of social relations? How do they propel us towards action? How can refrains be either revolutionary or reactionary? Moreover, what does a theory of the refrain have to say about how milieus and territories are formed?Support the podcast:Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizonAcid...2022-09-1655 minAcid HorizonRay Brassier on Herbert Marcuse's '5 Lectures' with Acid HorizonThe Acid Horizon crew are joined by Ray Brassier to discuss the new edition of Marcuse's 5 Lectures, out on Repeater Books as 'Psychoanalysis, Politics, and Utopia', which he wrote the introduction for. We discuss Marcuse's influence on accelerationism, his historical materialist take on Freudian psychoanalysis, and the function of repression and enjoyment in a capitalist landscape where scarcity appears increasingly artificial in light of technological and cybernetic advances in production.Purchase '5 Lectures: Psychoanalysis, Politics, and Utopia' on Repeater Books: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/psychoanalysis-politics-and-utopia-five-lectures/Support the podcast:Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizon2022-09-111h 14Acid HorizonA Reading of Gilles Deleuze's "Letter to a Harsh Critic"A reading of Gilles Deleuze's famous essay "Letter to a Harsh Critic".Support the podcast:Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizonAcid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastMerch: http://www.crit-drip.comPreorder 'The Philosopher's Tarot': https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-philosophers-tarot/Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/169wvvhiHappy Hour at Hippel's (Adam’s blog): https://happyhourathippels.wordpress.comDestratified (Matt’s Blog): https://destratified.com/Revolting Bodies (Will's Blog): https://revoltingbodies.comSplit Infiniti...2022-09-0628 minAcid HorizonNietzsche: Education or Anti-Education? with JustinJustin, an avid Nietzsche reader and friend of the podcast, joins us to discuss the relationship between the philosophy of Nietzsche and his work as an early childhood educator. We discuss arguments presented in "New Directions in the Philosophy of Education: Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Education" pertaining to Nietzsche's concept of the order of rank and his concept of ressentiment. We also take brief inventory of Nietzsche's explicit writings on anti-education and his concept of reading as an ethical practice.Justin is @nonpedagogySupport the podcast:Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizonAc...2022-08-1858 minAcid HorizonWho Was Lucretius? with Thomas NailThomas Nail joins the cast to give us an overview of the work of the ancient philosopher Lucretius, who is known for his generally atheistic ontology and his theory of the clinamen or "the swerve". The discussion covers the interest of 20th century philosophers in Lucretius theories, as well as the related political implications which issued forth. Thomas is the author of many books that may be of interest to Acid Horizon listeners:Lucretius I-III - https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-lucretius-i.htmlTheory of the Object - https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-theory-of-the-object.htmlMarx in M...2022-08-061h 12Acid HorizonThe Commodity Screams: Adorno, Moten, and MarxToday we’re joined by returning champion Will to discuss the links between the work of Theodor Adorno and Fred Moten on questions of value theory, negative dialectics, and domination. In particular, we’re going to be focusing on the violent domination at the heart of the commodity, a violence exemplified in confronting and re-historicizing Marx’s notion of the commodity that speaks—a commodity which in the introductory essay to his book In the Break, Moten explores through the enslaved person. Moten not only draws upon a negative dialectic of value and non-value but also from Saussure, Glissant, Hartman...2022-07-2252 minAcid HorizonGeorges Bataille and Lev Shestov: Lost in the LabyrinthThis is breakdown of Bataille's notion of the labyrinth from his 1936 essay "The Labyrinth" found in the Visions of Excess collection. Also, I highlight the connection between Shestov's musings on the labyrinth and those of Bataille.Acid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastMerch: http://www.crit-drip.comPreorder The Philosopher's Tarot: https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-philosophers-tarot/36283483/item/52275949/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwz96WBhC8ARIsAATR251K1B7NNw5wav_SPymOgcycxeQ6hOONbfp9_o0FEfhBtwBCQC0vAHgaAg7AEALw_wcB#edition=64288388Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/169wvvhiHappy...2022-07-2012 minAcid HorizonFrom Capitalist Realism to Acid Communism: A Brief History of Mark Fisher's ConceptsIn this episode, Adam takes us through Mark Fisher's concept of Capitalist Realism, and how the concept developed across Fisher's theoretical writings. Adam focuses on how the notion is deployed in his 2009 book Capitalist Realism, and how it is reformulated in his Introduction to the unfinished Acid Communism text. Adam takes us through the aspects of melancholia and depressive psychology in Capitalist Realism, its psychological and social mechanisms, and how the question of the geopolitics of Capitalist Realism and neoliberalism shifted in Fisher's analysis from a Cold War East-West focus to one that centres the imperialist destruction of communism...2022-07-1718 minAcid HorizonGeorges Bataille: SovereigntyThis video offers an overview of Georges Bataille's concept of sovereignty as he lays it out in The Accursed Share, Volume III. This was released as a video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/SlgmI5I-v2AAcid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastMerch: http://www.crit-drip.comSubscribe to us on Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/169wvvhiHappy Hour at Hippel's (Adam’s blog): https://happyhourathippels.wordpress.comDestratified (Matt’s Blog): https://destratified.com/Revolting Bodies (Will's Blog): https://revoltingbodies.com2022-07-1211 minAcid HorizonDemos, Kratos, Autos, Nomos: A Fragmentary ExpenditureIn this short episode, Adam reads his text "Demos, Kratos, Autos, Nomos: A Fragmentary Expenditure" in which he ruminates on the etymological origins of democracy, law, and of the power of people, distinct from its reification as 'The People', which grounds the notion of representative political institutions. Adam invites us to consider the distinction between the power of people vs a People's Law, in light of notions of identity, ecstasy, discipline, and transgression.Contribute to Acid Horizon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastSubscribe to us on Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/169wvvhi Happy H...2021-11-2909 minAcid HorizonWhat is Gothic Marxism? A Conversation with The LitCrit GuyOn this special Halloween episode of Acid Horizon, we're joined by Dr Jonathan Greenaway, whom you may know as the Youtube Video Essayist The Lit Crit Guy. Jon is also the cohost of the Horror Vanguard Podcast, and recent author of the text Theology, Horror and Fiction out on Bloomsbury press. Today, Jon joins us to discuss the prospects for a 'Gothic' Marxism, one that recognizes the monstrous in capital and the people whom capital monsters in its drive for infinite accumulation. We discuss the figure of the monster, the return of the repressed trauma of capital in the s...2021-10-211h 04Acid HorizonA Reading of Georges Bataille's "The Solar Anus"Contribute to Acid Horizon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastMerch: http://www.crit-drip.comA Reading of Georges Bataille's "The Solar Anus". Patrons enjoy readings such as these from time to time in addition to our regular contact. Please subscribe!Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/169wvvhi Happy Hour at Hippel's (Adam’s blog): https://happyhourathippels.wordpress.comNew Revolts (Matt’s Blog): https://newrevolts.com/Revolting Bodies (Will's Blog): https://revoltingbodies.comSplit Infinities (Craig’s Substack): https://splitinfinities.substack.com/Music: ht...2021-06-0312 minAcid HorizonA Reading of Nietzsche's "The Wanderer and His Shadow"Acid Horizon presents a reading of Friedrich Nietzsche's "The Wanderer and His Shadow".Contribute to Acid Horizon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastSubscribe to us on Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/169wvvhi Happy Hour at Hippel's (Adam’s blog): https://happyhourathippels.wordpress.comNew Revolts (Matt’s Blog): https://newrevolts.com/Revolting Bodies (Will's Blog): https://revoltingbodies.comSplit Infinities (Craig’s Substack): https://splitinfinities.substack.com/Music: https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/Merch Store: http://www.crit-drip.comSupport the showSupport th...2021-05-1714 minAcid HorizonJudgment or Cruelty: Deleuze with Artaud, Kafka, and NietzscheIn this episode, Craig, Matt, Will, and Adam close out the year by taking a look at Deleuze’s “To Have Done with Judgment”. In this work, Deleuze’s crosses paths with Artaud, but Nietzsche, Lawrence, and Kafka are also at his disposal. Those familiar with Deleuze's work will be familiar with some of the machines operating here. How does judgement function? How exactly are we to escape conceptualizing through strict categorization? How does Deleuze’s conception of “combat” inform how he describes the Nietzschean notion of forces? And most importantly, what are some of the alternative epistemological frameworks? Contr...2021-01-011h 05Acid HorizonWhat is 'Blacceleration'? A Conversation With Aria DeanIn this episode, Craig, Matt, Will, and Adam are joined by critic, artist, cultural theorist, and assistant curator at Rhizome Aria Dean to discuss her 2017 essay "Notes on Blacceleration." In this episode, the Acid Horizon crew discusses with Aria the paradox of the ontological constitution of the black subject that sits at the very beginning of capitalism. “The black” or “the figure of blackness” acts as the orignary reserve of energy that enables the process of exchange that theorists of accelerationism rely on for their analyses. What is articulated in blaccelerationism is the recognition of a fundamental absence in the firs...2020-12-191h 10Acid HorizonGilles Deleuze's "Postscript on Societies of Control"In this episode, Craig, Matt, Will, and Adam return to Deleuze’s essay on the society of control. There are some crucial questions to ask: What is the nature of control? How does the control society differ from the society of discipline that Foucault identified in his work prior? Are we living in a control society, or some kind of hybrid? This work is short, but dense. The gang reflects on just how prescient some of Deleuze’s descriptions of these new technologies are. It is all to try to get to one simple, but essential question: What tools of r...2020-12-131h 10Acid HorizonSimondon's Concept of IndividuationTaylor Adkins joins us for another episode to introduce his recent translation of Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information Vol. I & II . We carefully comb through introduction, unpacking Simondon's concept of individuation. Also, we discuss Simondon's work in view of Ancient thinkers and the subsequent work of Deleuze and Guattari. Some thinkers in the discussion also include Democritus, Plato, and Hegel. Relevant linksBuy the text: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/individuation-in-light-of-notions-of-form-andAlternative translation: http://www.parrhesiajournal.org/parrhesia07/parrhesia07_simondon1.pdfSubscribe to us on A...2020-11-301h 08Acid HorizonIs Metal Radical? A Conversation with Metal Philosopher David BurkeIs metal (heavy, black, death, etc.) radical? is there something about metal that sets it apart from other genres as being potentially revolutionary? More broadly, can there exist an aesthetics capable of instigating a struggle against capital which resists recuperation? David Burke is a PhD candidate and music writer who has contributed to The Quietus and Astral Noize. We also discuss existentialism, revolution, death, Deleuze and Guattari, Hegel, Camus, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Zizek, and more.Relevant links“Metal is Radical”: https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:32413/[Quarantine Papers] Lines of Flight from Hyperborea: A Co...2020-11-171h 06