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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 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
Acid HorizonLEPHT HAND - The Alchemy of Salt and Subjectivity: James Hillman and Jacques Derrida VS a Salty Jordan PetersonJoin the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHANDIn 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.Support the showSupport the podcast:https://www.acidhorizonpodcast...2024-09-0151 minAcid HorizonThe Rise of Anti-Capitalist Neurodiversity: Robert Chapman's 'Empire of Normality'Buy the book: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745348667/empire-of-normality/Neurodiversity is on the rise. Awareness and diagnoses have exploded in recent years, but we are still missing a wider understanding of how we got here and why. Beyond simplistic narratives of normativity and difference, this groundbreaking book exposes the very myth of the 'normal' brain as a product of intensified capitalism.Exploring the rich histories of the neurodiversity and disability movements, Robert Chapman shows how the rise of capitalism created an 'empire of normality' that transformed our understanding of the body into that of a productivity...2024-01-2856 minAcid HorizonThe Politics of 'Hikikomori': Social Withdrawal in Japan and Beyond featuring Nicolas TajanBuy Nicolas' Book: https://www.routledge.com/Mental-Health-and-Social-Withdrawal-in-Contemporary-Japan-Beyond-the-Hikikomori/Tajan/p/book/9780367645724Discover Nicolas' Book via open access: http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351260800This book examines the phenomenon of social withdrawal in Japan, which ranges from school non-attendance to extreme forms of isolation and confinement, known as hikikomori. Based on extensive original research including interview research with a range of practitioners involved in dealing with the phenomenon, the book outlines how hikikomori expresses itself, how it is treated and dealt with and how it has been perceived and regarded in Japan over time. The author...2023-11-0343 minAcid Horizon"If you can't love yourself..." RuPaul and Hegel's Self-Consciousness in the Phenomenology of SpiritDrawing on a parallel between a phrase RuPaul's and Hegel's dialectic of self-consciousness, Adam gets at the nature of the experience of subjectivity and the frustrations of self-knowledge.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 'Anti-Oculus: A Philosophy of Escape': https://repeaterbooks.com/product/anti-oculus-a-philosophy-of-escape/Order 'The Philosopher's Tarot': https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-philosophers-tarot/Subscribe...2023-10-1112 minAcid HorizonA Philosophy of Silence: Charles E. Scott's 'Telling Silence' (Nietzsche, Foucault, and Poeisis)*Aiming to let silence disclose itself by cultivating attunements with silences’ happening*In Telling Silence, Charles E. Scott speaks of silence, often indirectly, in such ways as to create occasions in which people might become more aware of silence in their experiences of themselves and the world around them. The core question of the book is: how can people be aware of silence without turning it into a thing and losing it? Lack of awareness of silence is lack of awareness of a major dimension of lives, both human and nonhuman. Attunements with silence enable attunements with be...2023-10-0832 minAcid Horizon(music free) A Philosophy of Silence: Charles E. Scott's 'Telling Silence' (Nietzsche, Foucault, and Poeisis)*Aiming to let silence disclose itself by cultivating attunements with silences’ happening*In Telling Silence, Charles E. Scott speaks of silence, often indirectly, in such ways as to create occasions in which people might become more aware of silence in their experiences of themselves and the world around them. The core question of the book is: how can people be aware of silence without turning it into a thing and losing it? Lack of awareness of silence is lack of awareness of a major dimension of lives, both human and nonhuman. Attunements with silence enable attunements with be...2023-10-0831 minAcid HorizonSlashers, Serial Killers, and Deconstructing the 'Final Girl': The Graveyard Shift with Maria LewisAt Acid Horizon and Zer0 Books, we're inaugurating the spooky season with a slasher special courtesy of screenwriter and curator Maria Lewis and her latest novel 'The Graveyard Shift'. We get into the history of the slasher genre, deconstructing the horror of the knife-wielding killer from Jack the Ripper to Jason Voorhees. We interrogate the central trope of the 'final girl' and how to subvert it in a new, richer experience of the art form of fear.Maria Lewis is @moviemazzz on Twitter'The Graveyard Shift': https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/734139/the-graveyard-shift-by-maria-lewis/Support...2023-10-0556 minAcid HorizonGilles Deleuze's 'Nietzsche & Philosophy': Chapter 2, "Active and Reactive" and HierarchyIn this series of videos, we will highlight key themes from Gilles Deleuze's 1962 text 'Nietzsche & Philosophy'. As mentioned in the discussion:Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich, "Theory of Natural Philosophy", https://archive.org/details/theoryofnaturalp00boscrichThis interview with Devin Goure (@LeftNietzschean) covers concepts in chapter 2 of 'Nietzsche & Philosophy', particularly reseentiment, bad conscience, active and reactive force, and hierarchy.From August of 2023 until the end of the year, Acid Horizon is hosting reading group on 'Nietzsche & Philosophy'. Navigate to our Patreon page to find out more.Support the podcast:L...2023-09-3051 minAcid HorizonUtopia, Resistance, and the Black Panthers: We Hear Only Ourselves w/ Bill CashmoreBuy the book: https://www.amazon.com/We-Hear-Only-Ourselves-Resistance-ebook/dp/B0CFGB916MWe Hear Only Ourselves is a study of utopia and its contradictions. If a future beyond capitalism cannot be imagined, what is the place of utopia today? The answer, Cashmore argues, lies beyond either idle speculation or merely hopeful optimism. We Hear Only Ourselves seeks a concept of utopia which is strengthened, not undermined, by its contradictions. From the dialectics of the Frankfurt School to the energetics of resistance in the writings of the Black Panthers, this book draws on a wide range of thought...2023-09-261h 04Acid HorizonImpulses, Phantasms, and Individuality: The Impulsional Theories of Klossowski and NietzscheWhat is an individual? This video covers Pierre Klossowski's concepts of the impulse and the phantasm as it relates to the notion of individuality. Also covered is Nietzsche's theory of forces or drives.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: 'Anti-Oculus: A Philosophy of Escape': https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-philosophers-tarot/Order 'The Philosopher's Tarot': https://repeaterbooks.com...2023-09-1810 minAcid HorizonKlossowski and Nietzsche: Impulsional Theory in "Living Currency" with Vernon W. CisneyVernon W. Cisney returns to the show to begin our foray into the work of Pierre Klossowski's "Living Currency". We discuss the importance of Nietzsche's theory of drives as a precursor to Klossowski's thought and the challenge of French Communism and post-structuralism to the figure of bourgeois individuality. We also discuss the influence of Klossowski's work on other French thinkers including Deleuze & Guattari and Foucault.Support the podcast:Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizonAcid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastZer0 Books and Repeater Media Patreon: https://www.patreon.c...2023-09-1257 minAcid HorizonSolarpunk and Its Discontents: The Politics of Science Fiction and the Solarpunk GenreEden from Death Sentence (@DeathSentencePC on Twitter) returns to discuss the politics of solarpunk and the importation of politics into science fiction in general. How do science fiction tales recapitaulate reactionary beliefs? How can a work of science escape the tropes that further ingrain such values? When does science fiction become revolutionary? 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...2023-09-011h 05Acid 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 07
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Happy Hour at Hippel's (Adam’s...2022-12-1052 minAcid 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 04
Acid HorizonInner Experience: Psychoanalysis, Schizoanalysis, and Dreams"The Stranger", as they are known, visits Craig, Adam, and Will on this episode of Inner Experience. A psycho/schizoanalyst that some may know by the name DC Barker (tic) shares his approach and tools he implements in his practice. The discussion ranges from self-help gurus to accelerationism, from Freud to Tony Robbins. Craig shares an eerie dream of a monstrous figure of awe that he has carried for years. The stranger gives his reading and provokes others to give their reaction. Other figures discussed include Carl Jung, Melanie Klein, Deleuze and Guattari, and Nietzsche.The Stranger...2021-06-061h 18Acid 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 HorizonWhat is an Apparatus? Agamben's Conceptual Analysis of 'Dispositif'What is a dispositif? Translated into English as “apparatus”, this term plays a crucial role in Foucault’s thought. In this episode, we explore Agamben’s genealogical treatment of this Foucauldian notion. His treatment takes him across Christian theology, Hegel, and more. Joining Craig, Adam, and Will is Yung Agamben from the D E C O D E podcast. Our goal is to understand how Agamben’s description of how apparatuses operate within Foucault’s work, and how they function strategically to direct the formation of particular subjectivities. How can one bring the “Ungovernable” to light?D E C O D E: https...2021-06-0158 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 HorizonThere Is No Unhappy Revolution - Tarì and Destituent Power (Part 1)This week we discuss the first few chapters of Marcello Tari's new book There Is No Unhappy Revolution. With figures such as Marx, Deleuze, and Negri hovering in the background, Craig, Adam, Matt, and Will discuss the questions and ideas posed in these early sections. We discuss how an insurrection can be turned into a revolution, and whether democracy has anything to add to the idea of Communism. This is part of a slightly larger project, as we will be returning to discuss later chapters in a number of further episodes in the future. Other figures mentioned include Ranciere, N...2021-04-201h 03Acid HorizonWhy We Choose Gods and Masters: Reich on IdeologyWhy is it that the masses desired and worked toward their own servitude in the 1930s? In this episode, Craig, Will, and Adam take a look at an essay in Wilhelm Reich’s Mass Psychology of Fascism, “Ideology as a Material Force.” Here, Reich pushes back against some of his Marxist contemporaries. To Reich, the purely economic explanation of the rise of fascism is insufficient. What are the limitations of the purely economic explanation of the success of reactionary politics? How is it that the fascist political project is able to alter mass psychological structure of the working populace? What c...2021-04-0654 minAcid HorizonThe Early Engels: Capitalism, Morality, and the Case Against MalthusIn this episode, Craig, Adam, Matt, and Will examine an early writing of Friedrich Engels entitled "Outlines of a Critique of Political Economy". How can we interpret the evidently moralistic language in Engels' work in light of the anti-moralism which characterizes his later writings with Marx, namely within "The German Ideology". In "Outlines", Engels offers a succinct but brilliant rendering of how the division of capital and labor precipitate other kinds of contradictions under the capitalist system. Also, the cast identifies potentially problematic formulations within the text seem to fall outside Engels' intended methodology. Other figures mentioned include Spinoza, He...2021-03-221h 00Acid HorizonAnswers Without Organs: Acid Horizon's Second Q&A SessionIn this episode, Craig, Adam, Will, and Matt answer listeners’ questions ranging from Deleuze and Derrida to MacIntyre and Adorno. What are some ways to read philosophy effectively? Where does theory intersect with the novel and how does this encounter affect philosophy? Craig flexes his pedagogical muscles, Adam muses on the double bind of Twitter, Will discusses Dostoyevsky, and Matt shows us his Thomistic side. We’re full of surprises and, hopefully, answers!Contribute to Acid Horizon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastSubscribe to us on Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/169wvvhi Happy Hour...2021-03-021h 12Acid HorizonAnswers Without Organs: Acid Horizon's Second Q&A SessionIn this episode, Craig, Adam, Will, and Matt answer listeners’ questions ranging from Deleuze and Derrida to MacIntyre and Adorno. What are some ways to read philosophy effectively? Where does theory intersect with the novel and how does this encounter affect philosophy? Craig flexes his pedagogical muscles, Adam muses on the double bind of Twitter, Will discusses Dostoyevsky, and Matt shows us his Thomistic side. We’re full of surprises and, hopefully, answers!Contribute to Acid Horizon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastSubscribe to us on Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/169wvvhi Happ...2021-03-021h 12Acid HorizonImposter Syndrome and Philosophy: Thinking with Gilles Deleuze and Mark FisherCONTENT WARNING: MENTAL HEALTH DISCUSSION In this episode, Craig, Will, Matt, and Adam invite friend of the show Rose( @8leggedloser) to discuss the notion of 'impostor syndrome'. Using texts such as Mark Fisher's "Good for Nothing" and Deleuze's "Plato and the Simulacrum" from his Logic of Sense, we consider what it means to feel a failure of identification in relation to how one is recognised in the order of things, what it means to internalise social forces that attempt to confine you within identity categories, and what forces and mechanisms there are that constantly call the self into question...2021-01-191h 04Acid 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 06Acid HorizonWelcome Episode: The Syllabus May 2020This is the first live episode of Acid Horizon. Craig, Will, Afreen, and Matt gather to discuss a series of four readings in political philosophy. This upcoming series will be the first 'block' of our podcast. The proposed readings are as follows:Craig - "Intellectuals and power: A conversation between Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze" (available at: https://libcom.org/library/intellectuals-power-a-conversation-between-michel-foucault-and-gilles-deleuze)Will - “The Politics of Health in the 18th Century” from Power/Knowledge : Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977 by Michel FoucaultAfreen - "Animality" and "Humanity and the Development of the Pr...2020-05-0934 min