Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

This week Gil Morejon joined us to discuss his book, The Unconscious of Thought in Leibniz, Spinoza, and Hume. Book Links: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/gil-morejon Kant's Prolegomena Episode: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/gil-morejon-kants-prolegomena-to-any-future-metaphysics?si=6e79819c620342dfb23546a21c45bbb6&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_shar...

This week Grant Maxwell returned to discuss the mythic dialectic in the work of Spinoza, Nietzsche, and Deleuze. The discussion focuses on these 3 central figures in Grant's book, Integration and Difference: Constructing a Mythical Dialectic. Previously, we spoke with Grant on the whole book and so it was nice to narrow the focus a bit and center the discussion on the mythic dialectic. Grant's Lin...

This week Coop and Taylor investigate Martin Heidegger's The Question Concerning Technology. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

This week, Jon Repetti joined Coop and Taylor for a discussion on Deleuze's monograph, Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation. 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

This week Cooper and Taylor focused on 3 essays on Transference-Love: Freud’s The Dynamics of Transference, Observations on Transference Love, and Intervention on Transference by Lacan. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

This week Cooper and Taylor read and discussed Alain Badiou's ethics. Fidelity to the event, the genesis of evil, and much more. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

This week Coop and Taylor discussed Jean Francois Lyotard's famous book, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. We discuss meta-narratives, language games, science and more. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

This week Cooper and Taylor discuss Raymond Ruyer's Neofinalism. Neofinalism offers a systematic and lucidly argued treatise that deploys the innovative concepts of self-survey, form, and absolute surface to shape a theory of the virtual and the transspatial. It also makes a compelling plea for a renewed appreciation of the creative activity that organizes spatiotemporal structures and makes possi...

This week Cooper and Taylor discussed Michel Serres' The Birth of Physics. A discussion centering on flows, vortices, the clinamen and optimal pathways. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

The Acid Horizon crew joined us to discuss their new book, Anti-Oculus: A Philosophy of Escape. Adam, Craig, and Will describe the writing process, some of the key concepts, and we wrap up on the relationship between cinema and ocularity. Acid Horizon Links: Book Link: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/anti-oculus-a-philosophy-of-escape/ Podcast links: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqzFQr1LCC8x...

This week Josh spoke with Cooper about his new book, Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It. We spend some time chatting about markets, tokens, smart contracts, daos, coordination, voting, Hayek and more. Josh's Links: Site: https://theblockchainsocialist.com/ What is a DAO: https://theblockchainsocialist.com/crypto-leftist-heuristics-what-is-a-dao/ Blockchain 101 Reso...

This week Coop and Taylor spoke with film journalist, Max Evry about his new book, A Masterpiece in Disarray: David Lynch’s Dune. An Oral History. We discuss the soundtrack, the performances, the missed opportunities and the triumphs of this flawed masterpiece. The Transcendental Ending: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcAQJsFK4yM&pp=ygUkZGF2aWQgbHluY2gncyBkdW5lIGFsdGVybmF0ZSBlbmRpbmcg https://www...

This week Taylor and Coop investigate Julia Kristeva's Revolution in Poetic Language. Topics include semiotics/semiosis, the mother as phallus and much more. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

This week, Griffin joined Cooper and Taylor for a look at Alan Turing's Computing Machinery and Intelligence. We dig into what it means to think, and what a machine and a human might share or how they differ when it comes to thinking. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

This week Cooper and Taylor read two of Deleuze’s essays on Nietzsche, Nomad Thought and Nietzsche and St. Paul, Lawrence and John of Patmos. We largely focused on nomad thought and spent time discussing decoded flows and more. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

Part 2 of a two part series on Deleuze’s monograph on Nietzsche, Nietzsche and Philosophy. This episode will cover chapter 4 through the end of the book. Part One: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/deleuze-nietzsche-and-philosophy-pt-1?si=9cfb13b906bd45d6bab147d5689a2869&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muh...

We begin part 1 of a two part series on Deleuze’s monograph on Nietzsche, Nietzsche and Philosophy. This episode will cover the first 3 chapters, and then next week we’ll finish the second half of the book. Part Two: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/deleuze-nietzsche-and-philosophy-pt-2?si=5860243366fd4eeb9dc81b9db8af7e10&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_shari...

This week Claire Colebrook joined Taylor and Coop for a discussion of her new book, Who Would You Kill to Save the World. Claire is the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English, Philosophy, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Penn State University. Claire is the author of over a dozen books spanning a broad range of disciplines and topics. We speak about micropolitics, cinematic ontology,...

This week Taylor and Cooper have a look at Paul Virilio's War and Cinema: The Logistics of Perception. We spend some time discussing the pseudo-concept of cinematic ontology, the co-development of both film and war machinery, and much more. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

This week we're joined by Katherine Everitt, a PhD candidate at the European Graduate School. She is completing her dissertation on Hegel and the dialectics of space and is joining us for a look at The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude by Etienne de la Boétie and Montaigne’s essay “On Friendship”. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

This week Ben Woodard joined us for a discussion on Henri Bergson's Creative Evolution. Topics include, vitalism, evolution, science fiction and more. Ben Woodard is currently a research fellow at the ICI in Berlin, Germany. From 2017–20 he was a postdoctoral researcher at the IPK (Institute of Philosophy and Sciences of Art) at Leuphana University where he completed a habilitation on the analytic...

This week Coop and Taylor tackled Gilles Deleuze's monograph on the French philosopher, Henri Bergson. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

This week Coop and Taylor are joined by Espen Hammer, His main interests are in Kant and German Idealism, social and political philosophy, modern European philosophy, phenomenology, Critical Theory, and aesthetics. Some of his works include Adorno's Modernism: Art, Experience, and Catastrophe, Adorno and the Political (Thinking the Political), and of course the topic of today’s discussion: Philoso...

This week Coop and Taylor take a crack at Deleuze's Kant's Critical Philosophy. We cover the famous phrase, "time is out of joint", the categorical imperative, the law, and much more. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

The week, Taylor and I tackled Empiricism & Subjectivity: An Essay on Hume's Theory of Human Nature. A fun look at empiricism, justice, and more. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh