Danged Noumena: Kant Versus Husserl on "The Thing-In-Itself" with Matt Bower
Is there a reality beyond appearance which we cannot access? Matt Bower joins us to discuss Kant’s “the thing-in-itself” and Husserl’s response to Kantian ideas about the nature of perception. A link to Matt’s paper: https://philarchive.org/rec/BOWALA-2 Become a patron today! Click here: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast Support the show Support the podcast: Current classes at Acid Horizon Research Commons (AHRC): https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-main Website: https://www.a...
15 Apr 20241h 5min
DELEUZE AND REVENGE: On Nietzsche, Amor Fati, and the Stoicism of Becoming Worthy of the Event
What did 20th Century French philosopher Gilles Deleuze mean by "to become worthy of the event"? (A short video from YouTube) Support the show Support the podcast: Current classes at Acid Horizon Research Commons (AHRC): https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-main Website: 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-...
8 Apr 20245min
Gilles Deleuze and Saidiya Hartman: Race, Masochism, and Contract Theory with Taija Mars McDougall
Buy 'Anti-Oculus: A Philosophy of Escape': https://repeaterbooks.com/product/anti-oculus-a-philosophy-of-escape/ Buy 'The Philosopher's Tarot': https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-philosophers-tarot/ Head to CRIT DRIP: https://www.etsy.com/shop/critdrip Taija: @amalgam_screams Taija Mars McDougall joins Acid Horizon to discuss her research on the applications of theories of masochism and the social contract as they relate to the obfuscation or misapprehension of forces at work under rac...
2 Apr 20241h 7min
The Anti-Capitalism of the Underworld: James Hillman, Mark Fisher, and Fulcanelli with Andy Sharp
Buy the books mentioned in the discussion: The English Heretic Collection: Ritual Histories, Magickal Geography: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-english-heretic-collection-ritual-histories-magickal-geography/ The Astral Geographic: The Watkins Guide to the Occult World: https://watkinspublishing.com/books/the-astral-geographic-the-watkins-guide-to-the-occult-world/: Anti-Oculus: A Philosophy of Escape: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/anti-oculus-a-philosophy-of-escape/ ...
19 Mars 202454min
Lacan, Genre, and the Enjoyment of Music with David Burke and Acid Horizon
Absent Signifier (David's free metal band): https://www.instagram.com/absentsignifierband?igsh=ZzhvbWpvczg5aWkw Can Lacanian theory explain our enjoyment of musical genres? Adam and Craig of Acid Horizon sit down with musicologist David Burke to discuss what makes metal phallic, why dance music is akin to the Other's jouissance, and more. Support the show Support the podcast: Current classes at Acid Horizon Research Commons (AHRC): https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-main Website: http...
11 Mars 20241h 10min
Ask A Left Nietzschean: "Who is an Übermensch?" with Devin and Charles from Moral Minority
Listen to Moral Minority here: https://pod.link/1728182343 Charles and Devin from Moral Minority join us to discuss Nietzsche's concept of "the übermensch": what it is, what is in't and the deeper implications behind the figure of "the overman". Support the show Support the podcast: Current classes at Acid Horizon Research Commons (AHRC): https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-main Website: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizon Acid Horizon on Pat...
1 Mars 20241h 15min
Is Romantic Anti-Capitalism Proletarian? 'The Poetry of Class' with Patrick Eiden-Offe & Jacob Blumenfeld
Workers of the world unite, we have nothing to lose but our chains! But just who is this ‘we’? How do we identify the proletariat, the revolutionary subject, and how does the proletariat identify itself in the midst of an intensifying threat of economic precarity and capitalist immiseration. This ‘we’, to quote Wilhelm Weitling, is a tricky question. Today we’re taking a dive into Historical Materialism with the latest book in the series “The Poetry of Class: Romantic Anti-Capitalism and the ...
23 Feb 20241h 2min
We're All Running from The Terminator: The Radical Left Versus Capitalism
Adam of Acid Horizon dives into the work of Carl Neville to explore the Terminator series as a parable of radicalization, how struggles in the present show the future of our current predicament, and how to fight back. Books by Carl Neville: Eminent Domain (Repeater): https://repeaterbooks.com/product/eminent-domain/ Classless: Recent Essays on British Film (Zer0): https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/classless Support the show Support the podcast: Current classes at A...
14 Feb 20249min
