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Adam and Will are joined by Professor Steven Shaviro to discuss his work on the philosophy of science fiction, developing on themes from recent texts such as Extreme Fabulations and 2016's Discognition out on Repeater Books. We asked Steven about the various techniques that writers such as Frank Herbert, Adrian Tchaikovsky, and China Mieville to unearth possible futures in the present; and ho...

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizon We explore the origins of Deleuze's concept of the Control society by taking a deep dive into the priest of the Beat Generation: William S. Burroughs. Taking cues from texts such as The Limits of Control, Nova Express, Naked Lunch, and his lectures on viral communication, we articulate the fundamental tension at the heart of control systems, how images...

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizon Just how 'artificial' is 'artificial intelligence'? How do he ruling class understand with this technology, and how do they obscure the labour relations within? Who is the proletarian of the data mines, and how do we break through the new digital ideologies of Cyber-Capital? Adam reads through an article by Kissinger, Schmidt, and Huttenl...

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizon Just how 'artificial' is 'artificial intelligence'? How do he ruling class understand with this technology, and how do they obscure the labour relations within? Who is the proletarian of the data mines, and how do we break through the new digital ideologies of Cyber-Capital? Adam reads through an article by Kissinger, Schmidt, and Huttenl...

Grab 'High John the Conqueror: A Novel' here: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/high-john-the-conqueror-a-novel/ When children start going missing in a rural town, the investigation takes twists and turns into the strange world of privilege and the realm of the occult. "I always wanted to be a writer, but I became a policeman instead." WESSEX, 2016. Teenagers are vanishing off...

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizon (This video has incidental moderate visual strobe effects) This video is an introduction to Deleuze and Guattari's concept of 'becoming-animal' from A Thousand Plateaus. We also briefly cover the authors' theory of anti-representation in contracts with such figures as Plato, Carl Jung, and James Hillman. Support the podcast: Linktree: htt...

Colin Drumm is an educator and organizer at the Mimbres School, which on their Discord server is described as "dedicated to the pursuit of an intellectual life beyond the decaying ruins of the university system."  He joins Acid Horizon to discuss his views on higher ed, monetary theory, value theory, and Marxism. Find Colin on Twitter: @drumm_colin To support the Mimbres School, subscrib...

For post-Jungian archetypal psychologist James Hillman, the concept of the ego familiar to the work of Freud, Jung, and other psychoanalytic thinkers maintains a almost tyrannical predominance in the tradition of psychoanalysis. The myth of Hercules looms large over the discipline and our lives writ large. For Hillman undue importance of the ego has precipitated a multitude of psychological, socia...

Here, Will and Adam from Acid Horizon engage in a discussion on a simultaneously well known and largely overlooked enigmatic figure in the history of German philosophy, idealism and its discontents, and even insurrectionary anarchism, Max Stirner. The discussion provides both an in-depth look at Stirner’s core philosophical commitments and the intellectual milieu within which and against which he...

"A sadist and a masochist walk into a podcast, the masochist says 'hurt me', the sadist says 'no'" Our laughter at such a scene conveys our habitual association between violence and possession, De Sade and Sacher-Masoch, or to take them in their 20th century philosophical champions: Georges Bataille and Gilles Deleuze. How are Sadism and Masochism problems not only of...

Acid Horizon and Jim sit down again with Dr. Gregory Sadler to discuss stoicism and anger management, specifically through the work of Seneca and Epictetus.  Find Dr. Sadler here: https://www.youtube.com/@GregoryBSadler 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....

We speak with James from Zer0/Repeater's current reading group, which is tackling Mark Fisher's dissertation entitled 'Flatline Constructs'. With James, Acid Horizon delves into the work's several concepts and philosophical mediators that appear in the first sections of the book. Please join us for a future reading group sessions on the Zer0/Repeater Patreon account linked...

Alexander R. Galloway and Andrew Culp join Acid Horizon to discuss their new podcast series on Alain Badiou's 1988 work Being and Event. We discuss Badiou's mathematical ontology and its roots in Cantor's Set Theory and Cohen's theory of the Generic. We also trace the roots of his militant arithmetic in philosophers of the French Resistance such as Cavailles, and his revolution...

Here is an informal discussion of 'Proust and Signs' with Taylor Adkins and Cooper Cherry of Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour we had more than two years ago! This is unlocked Patreon content from another era. Please support Acid Horizon by following any of the links below: Support the podcast: Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizon Acid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhor...

In the decade prior to the publication of Inner Experience (L'expérience intérieure), the twentieth-century French philosopher Georges Bataille produced a nascent masterwork containing some of his most original and extensive reflections on a range of subjects. With thoughts on ritual sacrifice and military conquest, the nature of laughter, and the mechanisms of capitalism, The Limit of the Us...

Acid Horizon and Sean from Wyrd Signal are joined by the philosopher, theologian, and author David Bentley Hart to discuss the nature and philosophy of mind amongst today's AI-anxious conceptual landscape. We discussed his critiques of David Chalmers and Daniel Dennett in terms of his rejection of a computational model of the mental in light if the intentionality and synthetic unity of consci...

Today on Acid Horizon we wrap up our last reading group on Deleuze and Guattari's "the postulates of linguistics" from 'A Thousand Plateaus', illustrating their critique of Chomsky whilst at the same time integrating linguistics into a wider cybernetic ontology of functions and flows. We aim to provide an introduction to Deleuzoguattarian pragmatics, and its political effi...

Tonight It’s a World We Bury explores a range of tendencies central to black metal and uncovers their potential as critiques of capitalism. Tonight It’s a World We Bury is a radical re-writing of the history and politics of black metal music. Challenging the commonly-held perception that black metal is a genre of the right — full of wannabe Vikings, Nazis, skinheads and other unsavoury characters...

Welcome back to the Lost Cyberhighway, where friend of the show Nick Travaglini joins us to discuss the history of the Cybernetics movement, its core concepts, and its cultural and technical impact today. We'll be discussing some of the key thinkers of the field such as Shannon, Wiener, and von Neumann in their historical context of the burgeoning cold war. Additionally we'll also cover...

A reading of "Sacrifices" by Georges Bataille from 'Visions of Excess'. 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.c...

Catherine Malabou returns to the podcast on the eve of her most recent work being translated into English, a book entitled "Stop Thief! Anarchism and Philosophy". We revisit the arguments for ontological anarchism and attempt to elucidate a bridge between anarchy in philosophy and politics. Catherine also shares her views on cryptocurrency, AI, and other technological trends as they rela...

On today's episode of Inner Experience, we are joined by Nicholas Bruno, creator of The Somnia Tarot, a tarot deck inspired by Nicolas' unnerving history of sleep paralysis. Craig, also a creator of a tarot deck, The Philosopher's Tarot, has experienced similar episodes in his childhood. Together, we explore tarot's aesthetic and mystical dimensions in conjunction with strange...

We start our series, “The Lost Cyberhighway” with an exploration of an early proto-cybernetic text by Nikolai Federov, “The Common Task”. This work of cosmic politics articulates a humanity that is united in a production-driven expansionary project to transform “the solar system” into “a controlled economic entity.” We examine this speculative text’s relationship to the legacy of physiocratic econ...

Formed anonymously in the late 1990s, Tiqqun's two journals still remain fundamental to the insurrectionary counter-tradition. Today, we give you a small reading of one of their more enigmatic pieces from TIQQUN #1, "The Great Game of Civil War". Following in Foucauldian footsteps, Tiqqun provides an account of the political and the juridical mediated through the lens of a dispersed...

Following Dividuum (2015), Gerald Raunig presents the second volume of “Machinic Capitalism and Molecular Revolution.” Dissemblage unfolds a wild abundance of material of unruliness, from the multilingual translation machines of Al-Andalus to the queer mysticism of the High Middle Ages, from the small voices of the falsetto in 20th century jazz and soul to today’s disjointures and subjunctures aga...