Acid Horizon

Acid Horizon

Society EN ↓ 310 episodes

Emerging from affinities with post-structuralism, abolitionism, biopolitics, communism, critical metaphysics, critical mysticism, and ontological anarchy, Acid Horizon is a philosophy and theory podcast committed to thought in motion and political struggle. While these are our grounding currents, each episode opens out onto a wider constellation: ethics, politics, phenomenology, decolonial thought, queer theory, post-psychoanalysis, disability/crip theory, anarchism, Marxism, feminism, and analyses of the emergence of the new right. Comprised of a decentralized collective of friends and comrad...

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Oct 23, 2026

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Episodes

Peter Thiel Unmasked: From Lapsed Libertarian to Architect of the New Right 16.03.2025

Boycott Watkins Media: https://xenogothic.com/2025/03/17/boycott-watkins-statement/ Craig's blog: https://splitinfinities.substack.com/publish/post/158302947 Dr. Sadler's links: Substack: https://substack.com/@gregorybsadler Class on Plato's dialogues: https://reasonio.teachable.com/p/six-key-platonic-dialogues-2025 Peter Thiel began his career as a libertarian idealist, championing...

Bataille, Eroticism, and the Future of Porn with Vex Ashley (aka @vextape) 10.03.2025

Read this: https://splitinfinities.substack.com/p/crossing-the-line-the-repeater-books CW: explicit discussions of sex and pornography In this episode, we explore the intersections of eroticism, pornography, and theory with special guest Vex Ashley of Four Chambers . We discuss the influence of Georges Bataille on erotic art, the political stakes of sex work in an increasingly censorious cultural...

PATREON PREVIEW: Jung, Freud, and Deleuze, & Guattari: Rethinking Libido and Desiring-Production with Dr. Bob Langan 25.02.2025

Join our Patreon! Get the full discussion here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/jung-freud-and-122995561?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link  Bob on Jung and Spinoza on LEPHT HAND: https://www.patreon.com/posts/jung-and-spinoza-118447298?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_fan&utm_...

The Cybernetic Arcana: Hexen 2.0 & 5.0 Tarot with Suzanne Treister 22.02.2025

Buy Hexen 2.0 Tarot and the forthcoming Hexen 5.0 Tarot: https://cosmogenesis.world Preview Hexen 5.0's: new images: https://www.suzannetreister.net/HEXEN_5/HEXEN5.html Lars Bang Larson's Essay: https://www.suzannetreister.net/HEXEN2/HEXEN_2_LBLessay.html Note: if you were watching the tarot deck flip through on YouTube, you are seeing the Hexen 2.0 deck. About the new deck: HEXEN 5.0, a...

The Male Loneliness Epidemic and Hegemonic Masculinity with Chuck LeBlanc 14.02.2025

In this episode of Acid Horizon, Chuck LeBlanc, therapist and host of Couch to Couch, joins us to explore masculinity, loneliness, and mental health in an era of social alienation. We discuss the male loneliness epidemic, stoic ideals, and the harmful influence of figures like Andrew Tate and Jordan Peterson. Chuck shares insights from his therapeutic work, integrating Deleuze and Guattari, Hillma...

Disaster Nationalism: The Collapse of Liberalism and Why the Far Right is Winning with Richard Seymour 09.02.2025

Subscribe to Richard's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/richardseymourwtf Buy 'Disaster Nationalism' from Verso Books: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3147-disaster-nationalism?srsltid=AfmBOopgAeJTt7Sq9b5zlzC_iKR5wKPHiFxddWihiDPy1iepY7AisWQa The rise of the new far right has left the world grappling with a profound misunderstanding. While the spotlight often shines on the action...

Why Does Everyone Want To Be A Fascist? Guattari's Micropolitics of Desire 04.02.2025

Join our latest reading groups here: patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast "Creativity and Intoxication" with Adam C. Jones: https://thenewcentre.org/seminars/creativity-and-intoxication/ In this episode, we explore Félix Guattari’s essay "Everybody Wants to Be a Fascist", dissecting its critique of micro-fascisms in everyday life. The discussion examines how desire, power, and subjec...

A Reading of "Against Knowingness" from Adorno & Horkheimer's 'Dialectic of Enlightenment' 27.01.2025

From Adorno & Horkheimer's "The Dialectic of Enlightenment" (1947). Support the podcast! Links below. Support the show Support the podcast: AHRC Current classes at Acid Horizon Research Commons (AHRC): acidhorizonresearchcommons.com AHRC Course Archive: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-course-archives Submit your course proposal: acidhorizonresearchcommons@gmail.com More...

'Evil : A Study of Lost Techniques' with Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh 18.01.2025

Have you read 'Omnicide' yet? Join us for 'Libidinal Lunch'! "Evil is an infinitely complex set of micro-techniques somehow lost in time—that is, subtle inflections of possibility and obscure typologies of influence that once reached across every divide." Jason joins Will, Adam, and Craig for another plunge down the rabbit hole to discuss images of darkness and an inv...

Mark Fisher vs. Peter Thiel: Acid Communism Against the Coming Fascism with Jac Lewis 11.01.2025

Read Jac Lewis' paper: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jjADwnniVjKjAVymI64dEY96Z7_XgLbt/view?usp=sharing Join us for 'The Anti-Oedipus Files' and hop in 'The Schizoanaylsis Project' Discord server: https://www.patreon.com/posts/exciting-changes-117794727 In this episode, we are joined by Jac Lewis to explore his reflections on the counter-revolutionary psychedelic politic...

"What's Wrong With Extinction?" with Claire Colebrook 22.12.2024

Subscribe to LEPHT HAND: https://www.patreon.com/c/LEPHTHAND This special episode features a replay of Claire Colebrook’s presentation of her paper What’s Wrong with Extinction? , delivered at the Time, Waste, Extinction workshop held at Penn State University in September 2024. Acid Horizon was proud to collaborate with this event, bringing together leading thinkers to interrogate the cultural, et...

Who Was Fichte?: From Humble Origins to His Philosophy of Right with Gabe Gottlieb 15.12.2024

Professor Gabe Gottlieb joins Adam and Craig to discuss Fichte's arguments for the foundations of natural right while also exploring the historical context that brought to bear on his philosophy. Support the show Support the podcast: AHRC Current classes at Acid Horizon Research Commons (AHRC): acidhorizonresearchcommons.com AHRC Course Archive: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-course-...

Is Hegel Cool? Josh Wretzel's "The Coolness of the Absolute" Live at Webster's Cafe in State College, PA 10.12.2024

This episode features a live recording of The Coolness of the Absolute , an Acid Horizon event held in State College during the fall of 2024. Penn State philosophy professor Josh Wretzel reinterprets Hegel’s Jena Phenomenology as a moral psychology, exploring three varieties of moral personality and their culmination in absolute knowing. Josh connects these ideas to the cool jazz of Miles Davis, o...

The Schizoanalysis Project Invites and 'Acéphalous' Update 26.11.2024

Some crucial updates before we come to the end of the year and begin 2025. Support the show Support the podcast: AHRC Current classes at Acid Horizon Research Commons (AHRC): acidhorizonresearchcommons.com AHRC Course Archive: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-course-archives Submit your course proposal: acidhorizonresearchcommons@gmail.com More Links Website: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast....

Baudrillard Versus Trump 2.0: Domination, Hegemony, and the Death of Meaning 24.11.2024

Support the Kickstarter campaign as you listen: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/acephalous/acephalous-the-erotic-tarot-of-georges-bataille "Are We Still Able to Die?": https://camtology.substack.com/p/are-we-still-able-to-die In this episode of Acid Horizon , we are joined by philosopher and writer Cameron Carsten to discuss his recent blog post, "Are We Still Able to Die?&quot...

*NEW* 2025 Anti-Oedipus Reading Group and More! 21.11.2024

Some important announcements about the podcast and things to come in the near future. Help us complete the campaign: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/acephalous/acephalous-the-erotic-tarot-of-georges-bataille Support the show Support the podcast: AHRC Current classes at Acid Horizon Research Commons (AHRC): acidhorizonresearchcommons.com AHRC Course Archive: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/...

The Headless Politics of Georges Bataille with Stuart Kendall at the Durations Festival 18.11.2024

SUPPORT Acid Horizon's Kickstarter project, Acéphalous: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/acephalous/acephalous-the-erotic-tarot-of-georges-bataille DURATIONS FESTIVAL @ PUBLIC RECORDS (BROOKLYN, NY) 11.9.2024 Acid Horizon and Stuart Kendall unite for an in-person discussion that delves into the core concepts of Georges Bataille’s work—excess, heterology, the festival, and more. The conver...

'The War on the Social Factory' with Annie Paradise and Manolo Callahan 11.11.2024

Support the Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/acephalous/acephalous-the-erotic-tarot-of-georges-bataille But the 'War on the Social Factory': https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810146648/the-war-on-the-social-factory/ About the book:  A collective ethnography of grassroots mobilizations for community safety across the Silicon Valley   This is a narrative of struggle and...

'The Philosophy of Movement: An Introduction' with Thomas Nail 04.11.2024

Please fund the Acéphalous Kickstarter today!: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/acephalous/acephalous-the-erotic-tarot-of-georges-bataille Acid Horizon and Stuart Kendall live at the Durations Festival on November 9th, 2024: https://publicrecords.nyc/events/durations-festival-2024/ Buy Thomas' book: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517917456/the-philosophy-of-movement/ About 'The Philo...

Acéphalous Launch Livestream is Today, October 31st at 12PM EST! 31.10.2024

Yuk Hui episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/machine-and-for-114829416?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link Join us for the livestream in these places: Campaign link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/... https://www.twitch.tv/acidhorizonpodcast https://www.youtube.com/@AcidHorizon ig: @acidhorizonpod See you there! Sup...

'Machine and Sovereignty: For a Planetary Thinking' with Yuk Hui 27.10.2024

Support the Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/acephalous/acephalous-the-erotic-tarot-of-georges-bataille Buy the book from University of Minnesota Press: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517917418/machine-and-sovereignty/ What is “planetary thinking” today? Arguing that a new approach is urgently needed, Yuk Hui develops a future-oriented mode of political thought that encompasses th...

The Philosophy of Simone Weil with Kenny Novis and David Levy 17.10.2024

Support this project: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/acephalous/acephalous-the-erotic-tarot-of-georges-bataille In this episode of Acid Horizon, Will takes the lead as host, welcoming Kenny Novis and special guest David Levy. David, a philosophy professor at the University of Edinburgh and one of the translators and editors of 'Simone Weil: Basic Writings', joins the conversation....

The States of the Earth: An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization w/ Mohamed Amer Meziane 29.09.2024

🔮 Introducing 'Acéphalous: The Erotic Tarot of Georges Bataille' 🔮 - Uncover the raw, provocative fusion of Bataille's philosophy and tarot in this daring new deck. Pre-launch is live—discover more and join us in this journey:  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/acephalous/acephalous-the-erotic-tarot-of-georges-bataille?ref=discovery&term=bataille&total_hits=8&catego...

Death and Time in the Work of Gilles Deleuze with Ben Decarie 22.09.2024

If you want more videos/podcasts like these, simply subscribe to our Patreon account and support public philosophy: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast Ben Decarie is a graduate student from Penn state University who is working on a paper using Deleuze's theory of time to confront the concurrent ecological crises and the question of extinction. Craig and Ben explore Deleuze's theo...

Resisting AI with Dan McQuillan 16.09.2024

Resisting AI: https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/resisting-ai Dan's website: www.danmcquillan.org Durations Festival: https://publicrecords.nyc/events/durations-festival-2024/ Adam and Will are joined by Dan McQuillan, a lecturer in creative and social computing, to discuss his book "Resisting AI: An Anti-Fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence", an essential read to understan...

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