Alchemy, Psychoanalysis, and Philosophy: Psyche Podcast and Acid Horizon in Conversation with Stanton Marlan
Quique Autrey is the host of Psyche Podcast. He cordially invited me (Craig) to co-host a collaborative interview with Jungian psychoanalyst and writer Stanton Marlan, author of 'The Black Sun: The Alachemy and Art of Darkness'. Together we discuss the connections between the alchemical tradition, psychoanalysis, and philosophy. Topics include therapy, individuation, James Hillman, Hegel, Derrida, and oppositional thinking. Find Quique here: https://www.quiqueautrey.com/podcast Suppor...
1 Juli 20231h 5min
Lo-Fi Music and Escaping Capitalism: Foucault and Marx Meet Boards of Canada and Daniel Johnston
Craig from Acid Horizon sit down with Enrico Monacelli to discuss his new book, 'The Great Psychic Outdoors: Lo-Fi Music and Escaping Capitalism'. From the book: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-great-psychic-outdoors/ Homemade records, tape-hiss worship and a taste for a very peculiar kind of psychedelia have carved themselves a weird niche in the contemporary musical landscape under the name of lo-fi. This genreless genre, characterized by poor recordings and rough sounds, spanning ...
23 Juni 20231h 3min
What is Coöperism? with Bernard Harcourt and Acid Horizon
Bernard Harcourt sits down with Acid Horizon to discuss "coöperism", a theory of cooperation that encompasses various registers of social and socioeconomic interaction. From the publisher: "Liberal democracy is in crisis around the world, unable to address pressing problems such as climate change. There is, however, another path—cooperation democracy. From consumer co-ops to credit unions, worker cooperatives to insurance mutuals, nonprofits to mutual aid, countless examples prove tha...
21 Juni 20231h 10min
The Devil: Who The Hell is Satan? with Vernon W. Cisney
"Discover the complex role the figure of the Devil plays in our belief systems and culture with award-winning Gettysburg College professor Vernon W. Cisney. Known by many names - Lucifer, Beelzebub, Mephistopheles, and Satan, to name but a few - the Devil is universally recognized as the embodiment of pure evil and rebellion in Christianity. Although little is said about this figure in the Bible, the Devil has, throughout history, served as an abstract canvas onto which human beings have proj...
17 Juni 20231h 17min
Capitalism Versus the Working Class of North London: 'I Could Be So Good For You' with John Medhurst
I Could Be So Good For You tackles head-on the pernicious and implicitly racist fiction that London, most especially north London, has no “real” working class in comparison to a more “authentic” working class in a place called “the North”. In doing so it offers a history and a portrait of north London’s working class from the 1950s to the 21st century, based on a wide and original range of sources including personal memoirs, autobiographies, collected oral histories and new interviews conduc...
10 Juni 20231h 9min
Ask A Left Nietzschean feat. Devin and Justin
We are joined by Justin and Devin Gouré to answer a host of questions submitted by patrons and followers on Nietzsche's work and his politics. In the discussion we cover ressentiment, communism, anarchism, Domenico Losurdo's critique of Nietzsche, our critiques of Nietzsche, Nietzsche's breakdown, and more. Justin: @nonpedagogy Devin: @DevinGoure Support the podcast: Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizon Acid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast Zer0 Books and...
3 Juni 20231h 32min
Cybernetics and the Left: Communist Synergy or Capitalist Machines?
Adam is joined by Dr James Fox to discuss the legacy of cybernetics and organizational theory, its Leftist critics, and the potential for a cybernetics of the commune, one which politicizes the dynamic systems of democracy at play in worker organizing. We discussed public attitudes to cyber-theory, the history of the field from Wiener to Bogdanov and Stafford Beer, and the use of machinic language from Deleuze to the CCRU. You can read all of the pieces from James we discussed today over at ...
31 Maj 20231h 3min
Michel Foucault: The Utopian Body (1966)
A reading of Michel Foucault's 1966 essay "The Utopian Body". Support the podcast: Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizon Acid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast Zer0 Books and Repeater Media Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zer0repeater Merch: http://www.crit-drip.com Order 'The Philosopher's Tarot': https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-philosophers-tarot/ Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/169wvvhi Happy Hour at Hippel's (Adam’s blog...
25 Maj 202319min
