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 Jan 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 Jan 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 Jan 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 Jan 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 Jan 20233min
Dissemblage: an Interview with Gerald Raunig
Following Dividuum (2015), Gerald Raunig presents the second volume of “Machinic Capitalism and Molecular Revolution.” Dissemblage unfolds a wild abundance of material of unruliness, from the multilingual translation machines of Al-Andalus to the queer mysticism of the High Middle Ages, from the small voices of the falsetto in 20th century jazz and soul to today’s disjointures and subjunctures against the smooth city in machinic capitalism. In this volume Gerald Raunig not only develops a co...
21 Des 20221h 34min
Baroque Sunbursts: God, Geist, and Transcendental Black Metal feat. Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix of LITVRGY
Welcome to Baroque Sunbursts, a new series from Zer0/Repeater on Music, Culture, and Philosophy. For our inaugural episode Adam and Kyle are joined by Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix; Artist, philosopher, theologian, and musician most known for her seminal work with LITVRGY. Ravenna joins us to look back upon the opening salvo of her musical philosophy: 2009’s Transcendental Black Metal: A Vision of Apocalyptic Humanism. We’re going to be talking about the teeth-grinding, fist clenching experience of mu...
12 Des 20221h 7min
"Tarot & Acid Communism" Live at Tenderbooks in London (11/23/2022)
The launch party for 'The Philosopher's Tarot' at Tenderbooks in London on November 23, 2022. Acid Horizon's first live event extends Mark Fisher's concept of 'acid communism' through prominent figures featured in the work of the podcast. Support the podcast: Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizon Acid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast Merch: http://www.crit-drip.com Preorder 'The Philosopher's Tarot': https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the...
9 Des 202248min
