Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures of Mark Fisher
Author, blogger, and photographer Matt Colquhoun joins us (as promised) for a first look at a compilation of last lectures given by Mark Fisher at Goldsmiths in 2016. The lecture series on postcapitalist desire intends to explore the seemingly unsurpassable milieu of global capitalism and its pervasive affectivity. Through figures like Marcus, Lukacs, Lyotard, Marx, and Deleuze and Guattari, Fisher explores possibilities for our collective extrication from capital. In the intervie...
20 Sep 202040min
Answers Without Organs: Acid Horizon's First Q&A Session
“Answers Without Organs” is the name of Acid Horizon’s special Q&A episode series. In this episode, we field various questions from our listeners on a variety of topics. This episode features discussions regarding advice to prospective graduate students as well as our takes on various theory-related issues. Thinkers featured in the discussion are Deleuze and Guattari, Marx, Baudrillard, Hegel, Foucault, Schmitt, Mouffe, and others. We also discuss the inimitable Taylor Adkins. Suppo...
12 Sep 20201h 24min
A Reading of Gilles Deleuze's "Instincts and Institutions"
A reading of Deleuze's notable essay on the difference between instincts, institutions, and laws. 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 podcast: https://pod.link/15126...
10 Sep 202010min
Uses of Nietzsche in Political Philosophy and Deleuze's Recasting of the Concept of Ressentiment
Deleuze's Nietzsche & Philosophy is an exciting and controversial interpretation of Nietzsche which stands at the forefront of 20th Century Nietzsche scholarship. In this episode, we visit the text and the concept of ressentiment and the theory of forces, both of which Deleuze famously elaborates. Together we investigate possible uses of Nietzsche as a political mediator. Figures include Kant, Hegel, Marx, Foucault, and Brassier. Also, we disabuse listeners of characterization...
5 Sep 202051min
Concepts in Focus: The Hegelian Dialectic
Adam breaks down the often misconstrued, misused, and misrepresented Hegelian dialectic. He also brings into the discussion conspiracy theories, Fallout: New Vegas, David Chalmers, and, well, a magnet to illustrate his summary. Other figures mentioned include Marx and Fichte. 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:...
30 Aug 202015min
Who is 'Dark Deleuze'?: A Discussion with Andrew Culp
Andrew Culp is the author of Dark Deleuze, the controversial piece of Deleuze scholarship which challenges appropriations of Deleuze by academics and professionals uncommitted to a program of radical politics. Craig, Will, Matt, and Adam together interrogate Andrew on the finer points of the book. Also, we discuss the similar dilution of Foucault's legacy. Some concepts on the table are negativity/positivity, ressentiment, the outside, imperceptibility, asymmetry, fugitivity, and destro...
23 Aug 202053min
Understanding Foucault and the Feminist Philosophy of Disability with Shelley Tremain
How do we centered disabled voices in academia and at large? How is the the notion of impairment socially constructed? Shelley Tremain joins Craig, WIll, and Adam to discuss her essay "This Is What a Historicist and Relativist Feminist Philosophy of Disability Looks Like". We use the essay to unpack Shelley's feminist philosophy of disability. Moreover, we delve into the work of Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, Tobin Siebers, and Ian Hacking. Check Shelley's website: biopoliticalphilosop...
16 Aug 20201h 4min
Althusser's Concept of Ideology: A Discussion with Anthony Gavin
Anthony Gavin of the podcast Out of Left Field helps us explicate a few chapters from Louis Althusser's On the Reproduction of Capitalism: Ideology And Ideological State Apparatuses. Figures featured in the discussion: Deleuze and Guattari, Foucault, Hegel, Stirner, Malabou, Derrida, and a few others. 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 ...
8 Aug 20201h 6min
