Deleuze 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 p...
26 Helmi 202353min
Repeater Books Presents 'Tonight It's A World We Bury' with Bill Peel and Dawn Ray'd
Tonight 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 ...
20 Helmi 20231h 12min
Elements of Control: An Introduction to Cybernetics with Nick
Welcome 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 p...
11 Helmi 20231h 7min
A Reading of "Sacrifices" by Georges Bataille
A reading of "Sacrifices" by Georges Bataille from 'Visions of Excess'. Support the podcast: Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizon Acid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast Zer0 Books and Repeater Media Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zer0repeater Merch: http://www.crit-drip.com Order 'The Philosopher's Tarot': https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-philosophers-tarot/ Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/169wvvhi Happy Hour at Hippel's (A...
30 Tammi 202321min
Catherine Malabou: The Dawning Anarchy vs. Cyberanarchy
Catherine 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 an...
27 Tammi 202354min
Somnia: 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.nicol...
14 Tammi 202357min
Cosmic 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 neoli...
9 Tammi 20231h 2min
Tiqqun's "The Great Game of Civil War" read by Will
Formed 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 modernit...
3 Tammi 20233min
