The Stranger Returns: The Politics of Mental Health and Nietzsche on Forgiving and Forgetting
CW: self-harm, suicide, clinical challenges to gender transitioning The final episode of Acid Horizon for 2023 is an informal conversation between Craig and The Stranger (twitter: @4Q248). Together we discuss the politics of mental health, Nietzsche versus Psychoanalysis--and we indulge a little bit of playful dreamwork at the end. Thank you for supporting us this year! Links to research referenced in the episode: Why Depression Rates Are Higher Among Liberals: https://magazine.colum...
27 Dec 20231h 19min
Bachelard: A Philosophy of Imagination and 'The Poetics of Space' with Katherine Everitt
Katherine Everitt joins Adam and Craig to celebrate the brilliance, creativity, and uniqueness of Bachelard's phenomenology of the imagination. We explore the nuances of Bachelard's meditations on the image and the imagination with references to Kant, Hegel, Jung, Deleuze, and James Hillman. 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 Me...
24 Dec 20231h 11min
Effective Accelerationism: Nick Land for Tech Bros
Adam and Craig are joined by Mattie Colquhoun (@xenogothic) to discuss the nature of accelerationism and its latest attempt at a fashionable revival: so called "effective accelerationism" or e/acc. For this we read the "Techno-optimist Manifesto" Marc Andreessen's argument for the total unleashing of technology and capital to maximize wealth creation for the species. We trace the influences of the text from Land to Nietzsche and illustrate how the text fails to understand its own influe...
20 Dec 20231h 22min
Deleuze on Palestine: "The Grandeur of Yasser Arafat" and "Stones"
"The Grandeur of Yasser Arafat": https://deleuze.cla.purdue.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/the-grandeur-of-yasser-arafat.pdf "Stones" can be found in the compilation of essays entitled 'Two Regimes of Madness': https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781584350620/two-regimes-of-madness/ 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://xen...
10 Dec 202316min
Anti-Oculus x We Hear Only Ourselves Live at Tenderbooks in London, UK 11.21.23
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...
3 Dec 20231h 4min
Is Social Media Capitalism's Postmodern Pleasure Trap? 'Filling the Void' w/ Marcus Gilroy-Ware
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 ...
3 Dec 20231h 1min
Acid Horizon's 'Anti-Oculus: A Philosophy of Escape' Book Launch Event at Housmans Bookshop 11.18.23
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...
22 Nov 20231h 14min
What is 'Collapse Feminism"? with Alice Cappelle
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...
12 Nov 202356min
