Bachelard: A Philosophy of Imagination and 'The Poetics of Space' with Katherine Everitt
Katherine Everitt joins Adam and Craig to celebrate the brilliance, creativity, and uniqueness of Bachelard's phenomenology of the imagination. We explore the nuances of Bachelard's meditations on the image and the imagination with references to Kant, Hegel, Jung, Deleuze, and James Hillman. Support the show Support the podcast: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizon Acid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast Boycott Watkins Me...
24 Joulu 20231h 11min
Effective Accelerationism: Nick Land for Tech Bros
Adam and Craig are joined by Mattie Colquhoun (@xenogothic) to discuss the nature of accelerationism and its latest attempt at a fashionable revival: so called "effective accelerationism" or e/acc. For this we read the "Techno-optimist Manifesto" Marc Andreessen's argument for the total unleashing of technology and capital to maximize wealth creation for the species. We trace the influences of the text from Land to Nietzsche and illustrate how the text fails to understand its own influe...
20 Joulu 20231h 22min
Deleuze on Palestine: "The Grandeur of Yasser Arafat" and "Stones"
"The Grandeur of Yasser Arafat": https://deleuze.cla.purdue.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/the-grandeur-of-yasser-arafat.pdf "Stones" can be found in the compilation of essays entitled 'Two Regimes of Madness': https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781584350620/two-regimes-of-madness/ Support the show Support the podcast: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizon Acid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast Boycott Watkins Media: https://xen...
10 Joulu 202316min
Anti-Oculus x We Hear Only Ourselves Live at Tenderbooks in London, UK 11.21.23
Join our reading groups: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast We Hear Only Ourselves: https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/we-hear-only-ourselves-utopia-narrative-resistance Anti-Oculus: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/anti-oculus-a-philosophy-of-escape/ We celebrate the launch of We Hear Only Ourselves. Utopia, Memory, and Resistance by Bill Cashmore and Anti-Oculus: A Philosophy of Escape by Acid Horizon. We Hear Only Ourselves is a study of utopia and its con...
3 Joulu 20231h 4min
Is Social Media Capitalism's Postmodern Pleasure Trap? 'Filling the Void' w/ Marcus Gilroy-Ware
Buy the book: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/filling-the-void-emotion-capitalism-and-social-media/ It argues that social media use is often a psychological response to the need for pleasure and comfort that results from the stresses of life under postmodern capitalism, rather than being a driver of new behaviours as newer technologies are often said to be. Both the explosive growth of social media and the corresponding reconfiguration of the web from an information-based platform into an ...
3 Joulu 20231h 1min
Acid Horizon's 'Anti-Oculus: A Philosophy of Escape' Book Launch Event at Housmans Bookshop 11.18.23
Buy the book: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/anti-oculus-a-philosophy-of-escape/ Anti-Oculus is a work of conceptual espionage: an assemblage of polemical tracts complete with a gallery of graphic illustrations inspired by postmodern and pulp classics from Anti-Oedipus to Ways of Seeing. Through the concept of “Ocularity”, the Acid Horizon crew trace the political, medical, and historical ways power sees us through its categories of control and counter-insurgency. From the thermodynamic...
22 Marras 20231h 14min
What is 'Collapse Feminism"? with Alice Cappelle
Buy the book: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/collapse-feminism/ Alice's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AliceCappelle We’re doomed. We hear this phrase more and more frequently. Collapse has become the framework through which we write, debate, theorise, and therefore make society. In such times of crisis, women are more likely to see their rights attacked, their sexuality scrutinised. On social media, it is claimed that women are responsible for the downfall of Western society. To mak...
12 Marras 202356min
The Cybernetics of Occupation: "Between the Sea and the Security Fence" with Ian Alan Paul
Ian Alan Paul joins us to to discuss his recent essay published in Ill Will: https://illwill.com/the-sea-and-the-security-fence Support the show Support the podcast: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizon Acid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast Boycott Watkins Media: https://xenogothic.com/2025/03/17/boycott-watkins-statement/ Join The Schizoanalysis Project: https://discord.gg/4WtaXG3Qxn Subscribe to us on your favorite p...
7 Marras 20231h 9min
