Inner Experience: Psychoanalysis, Schizoanalysis, and Dreams

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 Dec 202248min

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...

2 Dec 20221h 38min

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

"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

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

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

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

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