The Cybernetics of Occupation: "Between the Sea and the Security Fence" with Ian Alan Paul
Ian Alan Paul joins us to to discuss his recent essay published in Ill Will: https://illwill.com/the-sea-and-the-security-fence 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-watkin...
7 Nov 20231h 9min
The Politics of 'Hikikomori': Social Withdrawal in Japan and Beyond featuring Nicolas Tajan
Buy Nicolas' Book: https://www.routledge.com/Mental-Health-and-Social-Withdrawal-in-Contemporary-Japan-Beyond-the-Hikikomori/Tajan/p/book/9780367645724 Discover Nicolas' Book via open access: http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351260800 This book examines the phenomenon of social withdrawal in Japan, which ranges from school non-attendance to extreme forms of isolation and confinement, known as hikikomori. Based on extensive original research including interview research with a range ...
3 Nov 202343min
Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It with Joshua Dávila
Buy the book: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/blockchain-radicals-how-capitalism-ruined-crypto-and-how-to-fix-it/ Over the last decade, blockchains and crypto have opened up a new terrain for political action. It is not surprising, however, that the crypto space has also become overrun by unscrupulous marketing, theft and scams. The problem is real, but it isn’t a new one. Capitalism has ruined crypto, but that shouldn’t be the end of it. Blockchain Radicals shows us how this has happened...
31 Okt 20231h 4min
A How To Guide to Cosmopolitan Socialism with Matt McManus
Buy the book: https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/how-to-guide-cosmopolitan-socialism Socialism has always had internationalist ambitions, but what those ambitions should be and how to rethink them in the 21st century remain open questions. Before his tragic passing in 2020, Michael Brooks talked about a new kind of cosmopolitan socialism that would be appropriate for our time. A How To Guide To Cosmopolitan Socialism builds upon Brooks' vision to argue that we need a lef...
23 Okt 20231h 3min
No Platform for Fascists: Tactics and History of British Antifascism w/ Evan Smith
Buy Evan's book: https://www.routledge.com/No-Platform-A-History-of-Anti-Fascism-Universities-and-the-Limits-of-Free/Smith/p/book/9781138591684 To commemorate the 87th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street, we are joined by historian Evan Smith to discuss his history of No Platform, a tactic central to the history of British antifascism, the history of the Marxist Left in the UK, and the ongoing debates round media and the limits of free speech today. We discuss the origins of No Platfor...
15 Okt 202355min
"If you can't love yourself..." RuPaul and Hegel's Self-Consciousness in the Phenomenology of Spirit
Drawing on a parallel between a phrase RuPaul's and Hegel's dialectic of self-consciousness, Adam gets at the nature of the experience of subjectivity and the frustrations of self-knowledge. 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 'Anti-Oculus: A Philosophy of Escape': https://repeaterbo...
11 Okt 202312min
(music free) A Philosophy of Silence: Charles E. Scott's 'Telling Silence' (Nietzsche, Foucault, and Poeisis)
*Aiming to let silence disclose itself by cultivating attunements with silences’ happening* In Telling Silence, Charles E. Scott speaks of silence, often indirectly, in such ways as to create occasions in which people might become more aware of silence in their experiences of themselves and the world around them. The core question of the book is: how can people be aware of silence without turning it into a thing and losing it? Lack of awareness of silence is lack of awareness of a major dime...
8 Okt 202331min
A Philosophy of Silence: Charles E. Scott's 'Telling Silence' (Nietzsche, Foucault, and Poeisis)
*Aiming to let silence disclose itself by cultivating attunements with silences’ happening* In Telling Silence, Charles E. Scott speaks of silence, often indirectly, in such ways as to create occasions in which people might become more aware of silence in their experiences of themselves and the world around them. The core question of the book is: how can people be aware of silence without turning it into a thing and losing it? Lack of awareness of silence is lack of awareness of a major dime...
8 Okt 202332min
