Sci-Fi and the Politics of the Future: An Interview with Steven Shaviro featuring Acid Horizon
Adam 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 politica...
24 Touko 20231h 10min
William S. Burroughs: "The Limits of Control" and Its Influence on Deleuze
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizon We 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 c...
21 Touko 20231h 2min
Data is Dead Labor: Capitalism, Ideology, and AI (no music)
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizon Just 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 le...
18 Touko 202313min
Data is Dead Labor: Capitalism, Ideology, and AI
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizon Just 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 le...
17 Touko 202313min
'High John the Conqueror: A Novel' and Beyond: An Interview with Tariq Goddard
Grab '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 ...
9 Touko 20231h 13min
What 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/acidhorizon Acid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast Zer0 Books and Re...
7 Touko 202315min
Do Communists Understand Money? Marxism and the Economics of Value w/ Colin Drumm and Acid Horizon
Colin Drumm is an educator and organizer at the Mimbres School, which on their Discord server is described as "dedicated to the pursuit of an intellectual life beyond the decaying ruins of the university system." He joins Acid Horizon to discuss his views on higher ed, monetary theory, value theory, and Marxism. Find Colin on Twitter: @drumm_colin To support the Mimbres School, subscribe ($7/mo) at https://www.patreon.com/MimbresSchool. Support Zer0 Books and Repeater Media on ...
4 Touko 20231h 2min
The Capitalism of the Ego: James Hillman's Critique of the Ego Function in Psychoanalysis
For 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 i...
27 Huhti 202313min
