Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

The week Cooper and Taylor discuss chapter 1 of Jeanne Lorraine Schroeder's The Triumph of Venus The Erotics of the Market, Pandora’s Amphora: The Eroticism of Contract and Gift. Marcel Mauss's The Gift Episode: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/the-gift?si=75d82545bf564e358f5a22f2b59390c3&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Support us on Patreon: https://...

This week Cooper and Taylor discuss the first 4 chapters of Rene Girard’s Violence and the Sacred: Sacrifice, The Sacrificial Crisis, Oedipus and the Surrogate Victim, and The Origins of Myth and Ritual. Marcel Mauss's The Gift Episode: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/the-gift?si=75d82545bf564e358f5a22f2b59390c3&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Suppor...

This week Cooper and Taylor discuss Freud's Moses and Monotheism. This builds on what Freud laid out in Totem and Taboo as well our as discussion on that text. Working through different modes of the Oedipus complex as put forth in the concept of the primal father. This relationship between law, economy and the social bond is the focus. Our episodes on Freud's Totem and Taboo: https://soundcloud.co...

This week Cooper and Taylor spoke with Dr. Kara Kennedy about her book, Frank Herbert's Dune: A Critical Companion. Dr. Kennedy's publications include the books Adaptations of Dune: Frank Herbert’s Story on Screen, Frank Herbert’s Dune: A Critical Companion and Women’s Agency in the Dune Universe: Tracing Women’s Liberation through Science Fiction and various articles on Dune topics. Dr. Kennedy a...

This week Cooper and Taylor tackle the introduction and chapter 1 of Gilbert Simondon’s On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects. Chapter 1 Genesis of the technical object: the process of concretization. PDF: https://monoskop.org/images/2/20/Simondon_Gilbert_On_the_Mode_of_Existence_of_Technical_Objects_Part_I_alt.pdf Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

This week Amy Ireland and Maya B. Kronic joined Cooper and Taylor to discuss their collaborative project, Cute Accelerationism. Amy Ireland is a theorist and experimental writer based in Melbourne, Australia. Her research focuses on questions of agency and technology in modernity, and she is a member of the techno-materialist trans-feminist collective, Laboria Cuboniks. Maya B. Kronic (they/them)...

This week Coop and Taylor had the pleasure of hosting Adrian Johnston. Adrian is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque. He is the author of many books, including Time Driven: Metapsychology and the Splitting of the Drive; Irrepressible Truth: On Lacan’s “The Freudian Thing”; and A New German Idealism: Hegel, Žižek, and Dialectical Ma...

This week Cooper and Taylor spoke to Bradley McClean about his book, Deleuze, Guattari and the Machine in Early Christianity Schizoanalysis, Affect and Multiplicity. Dr. Bradley H. McLean is the Professor of New Testament Language and Literature at Knox College. He is the author of seven books including Biblical Interpretation and Philosophical Hermeneutics (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and D...

This week Coop and Taylor speak with Jason Read on his recent book, The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work. Jason is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine and whose works include The Micropolitics of Capital: Marx and the Prehistory of the Present; The Politics of Transindividuality; The Production of Subjectivity: Marx and Philosophy; and today’s focus,...

Cooper and Taylor speak with Ian Buchanan, who is a Professor of Critical Theory and Cultural Studies at the University of Wollongong Australia. Ian is the author and editor of many books, some of which include Deleuzism: A Metacommentary; Fredric Jameson: Live Theory; and, most recently, The Incomplete project of Schizoanalysis: Collected Essays on Deleuze and Guattari and the topic for today’s d...

Cooper and Taylor discuss the Introduction and first chapter of Gilbert Simondon's Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information, Form and Matter. This volume was translated by our very own Taylor Adkins. https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/individuation-in-light-of-notions-of-form-and Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

In this week's episode Cooper and Taylor speak with Elizabeth Grosz, who has published and edited over a dozen books and whose most recent work, The Incorporeal: Ontology, Ethics, and the Limits of Materialism, will be the topic of today’s discussion. Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Grosz https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-incorporeal/9780231181631 Support us on Patreon: https://www....

This week, Jon Repetti joined Coop and Taylor for a discussion on Lacan's Seminar 11. Jon is finishing a phd in American literature at Princeton, focusing on naturalism, radical empiricism, and psychoanalysis. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

Coop and Taylor speak with Jon Greenaway, aka The LitCritGuy. Writer, podcaster, and content creator from the North of England. Host of the Horror Vanguard Podcast. He writes about horror, contemporary capitalism, and cultural theory. Today we’ll be discussing his book, A Primer on Utopian Philosophy; An Introduction to the Work of Ernst Bloch. Jon's Links: https://soundcloud.com/user-317910500 ht...

Rocco Gangle joined Coop and Taylor to discuss a piece titled Autopoiesis and Eigenform by Louis H. Kauffman. Article Link: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-3197/11/12/247 Rocco's first appearance: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/eric-schmid-rocco-gangle-on-mathematical-structuralism?si=26acc817ecf44e9d8f20a3b4c8330d06&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Jonath...

This week Coop and Taylor discuss Freud's Totem and Taboo. Ambivalence, Anti-Oedipus, repetition, sacrifice, cannibalism and more. Freud Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/freud?si=7394d554bb4f4915ac9d731243e347f4&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

This week, Charles Stivale and Dan Smith returned to the podcast to discuss a series of lectures Deleuze delivered titled "Painting and the Question of Concepts". They also shared a bit about their experience with the Deleuze Seminars project hosted by Purdue University. Quick recap The team discussed the introduction of a new feature on Zoom that can summarize discussions. They also discussed the...

Brian Massumi joined Cooper and Taylor for a discussion on his forthcoming book: The Personality of Power: A Theory of Fascism for Anti-Fascist Life. Massumi was instrumental in introducing the work of French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari to the English-speaking world through his translation of their key collaborative work A Thousand Plateaus (1987) and his book A User's Guide to...

Jeffrey Bell joined us to speak about his recently published book, An Inquiry into Analytic-Continental Metaphysics. Jeffrey A. Bell is Professor of Philosophy at Southeastern Louisiana University. He has recently been a Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor in Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London, during which time much of this book was written. He is the author of numerous books and...

Cristóbal Escobar joined Coop and Taylor to discuss his new book, The Intensive-Image in Deleuze’s Film-Philosophy. Cristóbal is a Lecturer in Screen Studies at the University of Melbourne and Film Programmer at the Santiago International Documentary Film Festival (FIDOCS). His publications include The Intensive-Image in Deleuze’s Film-Philosophy (2023), an edited collection on Cine Cartográfico (...

Michael Hardt returned to discuss his most recent book, The Subversive Seventies. Hardt argues that the 1970s offers an inspiring and useful guide for contemporary radical political thought and action. Although we can still learn much from the movements of the sixties, that decade's struggles for peace, justice, and freedom fundamentally marked the end of an era. The movements of the seventies, in...

Henry Somers-Hall joined us to discuss a chapter from a book he's currently writing on A Thousand Plateaus. This discussion focuses on a chapter from the book, Treatise on Nomadology: The War Machine. Henry's Links: https://henrysomershall.net/about/ https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/henry-somershall(9b215915-fcd6-4567-8463-c0c39f5aed70).html https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations...

Thomas Nail returned to discuss his new book, Matter and Motion A Brief History of Kinetic Materialism. From the Minoans to Virginia Woolf and a hint of chaos. Thomas's Links: The book we discuss: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-matter-and-motion.html Thomas's previous appearance: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/thomas-nail-marx-and-motion?si=c15df144007741479d701b7ba15899...

This week Graham Harman returned to discuss his first book, Tool Being, and share some great stories from his career. Graham's first appearance: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/graham-harman-object-oriented-ontology?si=d162f30106dc42088c8379e1df7ce67b&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Harman https://www.sciarc.edu/p...

This week we read and discuss two pieces: Freud’s Mystic Writing Pad and Derrida’s Freud and the Scene of Writing. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh