Omnicide 2: A Philosophy of Doom with Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh
Jason Bahbek Mohaghegh joins us to discuss Omnicide 2, out soon from Urbanomic. From Urbanomic/MIT Press: An infernal catalogue of manic visionaries, inspired by the poetry of the Middle East. In a new work in which conceptual elaboration, storytelling, and poetics are fused in the infernal heat of the desert, the cycle of Omnicide draws to a close with a philosophy of doom, deception, and the game, plunging headlong into the inevitable, the fatal, and the infinite. A series of controlled ...
18 Nov 20221h 20min
Baudrillard: The Hyperreality [or the Ecstasy] of Posting on Twitter (radio edit)
"Is everything today just posting?" Subscribe to Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcPVN1v6tkHW-43IbqagHbQ *EVENTS* November 23, 2022 Watkins Books (London): "The Philosopher's Tarot" tarot readings with Acid Horizon November 23, 2022 TenderBOOKS (London): "Tarot & Acid Communism" with Acid Horizon Support the podcast: Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizon Acid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast Merch: http:/...
16 Nov 202249min
Harlan Ellison's "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream" with Jim
The Acid Horizon crew are joined by friend of the show and history podcaster Jim to discuss the philosophical horrors at the heart of Harlan Ellison's "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream", a tale about planetary war, cybernetic takeover, and the cruelty that fills the void where creativity is absent. We begin with an overview of Ellison's life and work, before reading I Have No Mouth through the works of figures such as Foucault, Hegel, Nietzsche, Tiqqun, Aquinas, Deleuze, and many more! The...
11 Nov 20221h 4min
Dialectics of the Gods: Deleuze, Hillman, Jung, Schelling, and Hegel
Grant Maxwell is the author of Integration and Difference: Constructing a Mythical Dialectic, A book which confronts the perennial problem of opposition in philosophy with respect to the notions of integration and difference. This is a robust work which covers many figures in Philosophy from Hegel to William James to Isabel Stegners. In this discussion we delve into the sections of the book that specifically concern the relationship between Deleuze and American archetypal psychologist James H...
25 Okt 20221h 29min
Deleuze and Guattari: One or Several Wolves Go To Therapy
Craig and Adam speak with Chuck LeBlanc, host of the podcast Couch to Couch to discuss themes and concepts from Deleuze and Guattari's "One or Several Wolves?" from 'A Thousand Plateaus'. This conversation pinpoints concepts useful to rethinking psychology and interrogating the role of therapist. Moreover it asks the question, "In what ways can thinking in terms of 'multiplicity' inspire better thearpeutic practices and personal relationships?" Couch to Couch: https://anchor.fm/chuck-l...
17 Okt 202252min
An Introduction to Foucault and His Concepts
In this episode of Concepts in Focus, Will lays out a handful of key concepts in the popular works of Michel Foucault. What does Foucault’s genealogy of sovereignty’s passage to discipline tell us about the politics of the body? What is Foucault’s understanding of the function of history? What does it mean when we say power has a hold on life? This episode is a general overview but has commentary that will be of interest to those invested in our turtleneck’d anti-carceral friend. Support the...
15 Okt 202230min
Are Prisons Computers? with Ian Alan Paul
The Acid Horizon crew are joined by artist and theorist Ian Alan Paul to discuss his essay “Are Prisons Computers?” in which he argues for a cybernetic and digital understanding of prisons and policing. Part of this digital framework also calls for a re-evaluation of the distinction between discipline and control in Deleuze and Foucault at the same time as it calls for a return to the work of the Prison Information Group, taking prisoner revolts as models for new insurrectionary techniques an...
2 Okt 20221h 14min
Deleuze: The Grandeur of Marx with Nick Thoburn
Was Gilles Deleuze a Marxist? Before his death in 1995, Deleuze had intended to write a book entitled The Grandeur of Marx, a work which would have consummated the role of Marx as long time mediator within Deleuze's political writings. In the discussion, we unpack political concepts within Deleuze's corpus, such as "minor politics", "a people to come", and "a new earth" and explore their resonances with Marx's work. Moreover, we follow Thoburn in advancing the perhaps controversial idea that ...
26 Sep 20221h 12min
