Georges Bataille’s 'On Nietzsche': War, Chance, and the Collapse of Meaning with Stuart Kendall

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...

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Buy Nicolas' Book: https://www.routledge.com/Mental-Health-and-Social-Withdrawal-in-Contemporary-Japan-Beyond-the-Hikikomori/Tajan/p/book/9780367645724 Discover Nicolas' Book via open access: http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351260800 This 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 ...

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Buy the book: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/blockchain-radicals-how-capitalism-ruined-crypto-and-how-to-fix-it/ Over the last decade, blockchains and crypto have opened up a new terrain for political action. It is not surprising, however, that the crypto space has also become overrun by unscrupulous marketing, theft and scams. The problem is real, but it isn’t a new one. Capitalism has ruined crypto, but that shouldn’t be the end of it. Blockchain Radicals shows us how this has happened...

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Buy the book: https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/how-to-guide-cosmopolitan-socialism Socialism has always had internationalist ambitions, but what those ambitions should be and how to rethink them in the 21st century remain open questions. Before his tragic passing in 2020, Michael Brooks talked about a new kind of cosmopolitan socialism that would be appropriate for our time. A How To Guide To Cosmopolitan Socialism builds upon Brooks' vision to argue that we need a lef...

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