Who is 'Dark Deleuze'?: A Discussion with Andrew Culp

Here, 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 Stirn...

24 Huhti 20231h 11min

"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 a...

21 Huhti 20231h 8min

Acid 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/@GregoryBSadler 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 Tar...

17 Huhti 20231h 4min

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/zerobooks Subscribe: https://www.patreo...

10 Huhti 20231h 5min

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 m...

3 Huhti 20231h 5min

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/acidhorizon Acid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast Zer0 Books and Repeater Media Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zer0repeater Merch: http://w...

26 Maalis 20231h 18min

In 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 re...

10 Maalis 20231h 14min

Acid 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 encroach...

5 Maalis 20231h 48min