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At Acid Horizon and Zer0 Books, we're inaugurating the spooky season with a slasher special courtesy of screenwriter and curator Maria Lewis and her latest novel 'The Graveyard Shift'. We get into the history of the slasher genre, deconstructing the horror of the knife-wielding killer from Jack the Ripper to Jason Voorhees. We interrogate the central trope of the 'final girl&ap...

In this series of videos, we will highlight key themes from Gilles Deleuze's 1962 text 'Nietzsche & Philosophy'.  As mentioned in the discussion: Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich, "Theory of Natural Philosophy", https://archive.org/details/theoryofnaturalp00boscrich This interview with Devin Goure (@LeftNietzschean) covers concepts in chapter 2 of 'Nietzsche & Philo...

Buy the book: https://www.amazon.com/We-Hear-Only-Ourselves-Resistance-ebook/dp/B0CFGB916M We Hear Only Ourselves is a study of utopia and its contradictions. If a future beyond capitalism cannot be imagined, what is the place of utopia today? The answer, Cashmore argues, lies beyond either idle speculation or merely hopeful optimism. We Hear Only Ourselves seeks a concept of utopia which is stren...

What is an individual? This video covers Pierre Klossowski's concepts of the impulse and the phantasm as it relates to the notion of individuality. Also covered is Nietzsche's theory of forces or drives. 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.patreo...

Vernon W. Cisney returns to the show to begin our foray into the work of Pierre Klossowski's "Living Currency". We discuss the importance of Nietzsche's theory of drives as a precursor to Klossowski's thought and the challenge of French Communism and post-structuralism to the figure of bourgeois individuality.  We also discuss the influence of Klossowski's work on oth...

Eden from Death Sentence (@DeathSentencePC on Twitter) returns to discuss the politics of solarpunk and the importation of politics into science fiction in general. How do science fiction tales recapitaulate reactionary beliefs? How can a work of science escape the tropes that further ingrain such values? When does science fiction become revolutionary?  Support the podcast: Linktree: https://linkt...

Buy the book: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/narcissus-in-bloom/ Narcissism is the defining pathology of the twenty-first century, but what if it is not self-obsession that defines us but a need for self-transformation? Narcissus in Bloom is a short history of the self-portrait, beginning with Renaissance painters like Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt and Caravaggio, through to photographers and celeb...

In this series of videos, we will highlight key themes from Gilles Deleuze's 1962 text 'Nietzsche & Philosophy'.  This video covers the preface addressed to the translator, Hugh Tomlinson. In this section of the text, Deleuze outlines some of the key themes which preside over his interpretation: Deleuze's novel approach to Nietzsche's "theory of forces", the...

Coming to Verso Books February 2024: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/741197/the-double-shift-by-jason-read/ ABOUT THE DOUBLE SHIFT “Why do people fight for their exploitation as if it was liberation?” How Marx and Spinoza can explain our attachment to work, and what we can do about it In a world of declining wages, working conditions, and instability, the response for many has been to wor...

Pre-Order Anti-Oculus (10.10.23): https://repeaterbooks.com/product/anti-oculus-a-philosophy-of-escape/ What is the connection between the work of Carl Jung and Gilles Deleuze? Looking at the work of Grant Maxwell in his book "Integration and Difference: Constructing A Mythical Dialectic' we explore the impact of Jung's work on Deleuze and how Deleuzian thought allows us to reconsid...

Acid Horizon Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast Anti-Oculus: https://www.amazon.com/Anti-Oculus-Acid-Horizon/dp/1915672090 Zer0/Repeater Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zer0repeater The Acid Horizon crew are once again joined by Bataille scholar and translator Stuart Kendall to discuss his writings on General Economy, Waste, and Sustainability in the era of climate crisis. How is...

Acid Horizon Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast Anti-Oculus: https://www.amazon.com/Anti-Oculus-Acid-Horizon/dp/1915672090 Zer0/Repeater Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zer0repeater The Acid Horizon crew are once again joined by Bataille scholar and translator Stuart Kendall to discuss his writings on General Economy, Waste, and Sustainability in the era of climate crisis. How is...

Buy the book: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/cautious-a-boat-adrift/ As a failing journalist cares for his alcoholic grandfather, remnants of the elderly man’s long-buried stories resurface and drive him to an obsessional search for truth. “The land of men is an untouched one. It is the companionship of quiet. It is so many darkened boats, heading their own way, in the night.” Leeds, 2017. Disa...

Support Donovan's work: https://www.donovanmiyasaki.com/ Today on the show with us we have Donovan Miyasaki, Professor of Philosophy at Wright State University and author of a two-volume study, Nietzsche's Immoralism: Politics as First Philosophy and Politics After Morality: Toward a Nietzschean Left put out by Palgrave McMillan. This series argues that Nietzsche’s most important ethical...

Militate against the grind.  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 Pod...

Find the syllabi here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gPyTvMfiOJHeoag3zzjjlhkuJpjn75fh/view We look forward to seeing you there. 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&apos...

From ' Artaud 1937 Apocalypse': "Antonin Artaud’s journey to Ireland in 1937 marked an extraordinary—and apocalyptic—turning point in his life and career. After publishing the manifesto The New Revelations of Being about the “catastrophic immediate-future,” Artaud abruptly left Paris for Ireland, remaining there for six weeks without money. Traveling first to the isolated island of...

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, Hege...

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 und...

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...

"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 Bi...

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...

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...

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...

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-...