Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

This week we're joined by Gil Morejon, co host of the What’s Left of Philosophy podcast, translator of french philosophy, and recently translated Spinoza's Paradoxical Conservatism by Francois Zourabichvili and is also author of The Unconscious of Thought in Leibniz, Spinoza and Hume from Edinburgh press. The topic for this week's discussion is Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Gil's L...

Dan Smith joined Coop and Taylor to discuss Deleuze's The Fold: Leibniz and The Baroque. We discussed differential calculus, the body without organs, time, the unconscious and much more in this discussion. Daniel W. Smith is an American philosopher, academic, researcher, and translator. Smith is known for his interpretation of the work of the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze and is the author of...

This week friend of the show, Vernon Cisney, joined us to discuss his approach to teaching Deleuze and Guattari against the backdrop of part 1 of their book, What is Philosophy? Vernon is associate professor of interdisciplinary studies and Jewish studies at Gettysburg College. He teaches at the intersections of philosophy, religion, literature, cinema, the sciences, and political philosophy, in a...

This week Coop and Taylor tackle Gilles Deleuze's Spinoza: Practical Philosophy. Thoughts on ethics, morality, the untapped potential of the body and more. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

Dr. Leon S. Brenner is a philosopher and psychoanalytic theorist from Berlin. His work focuses on the integration of philosophical and linguistic frameworks in psychoanalytic theory of subjectivity and the understanding of the relationship between culture and psychopathology. He is a training analyst, studying member of the APPI and a founder of Lacanian Affinities Berlin (laLAB) and Unconscious B...

This week Taylor and I looked at the introductions to Francois Laruelle's Non-Standard Philosophy. We made an attempt to try and unpack some of the basic terminology and formulations of Laruelle's project. Taylor is currently in the process of completing this translation, so stay tuned for future announcements on it's release. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscio...

Our guest this week, Chantelle Gray, a Professor in the School of Philosophy at North-West University and co-editor of Deleuze and Anarchism and the author of Anarchism after Deleuze and Guattari: Fabulating Futures. We discuss dogmatic images of thought, derivative logic, statist realism and fabulating futures. https://agsmorester.academia.edu/ChantelleGrayvanHeerden https://www.bloomsbury.com/us...

This we were joined by Gabriel Tupinambá. Gabriel is a practicing psychoanalyst and the co-author of Hegel, Lacan, Žižek and most recently the author of The Desire of Psychoanalysis: Exercises in Lacanian Thinking. Gabriel's Links: https://www.gabrieltupinamba.com/english https://www.academia.edu/45486769/The_Desire_of_Psychoanalysis Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @un...

Stephen Houlgate,professor of philosophy at the University of Warwick and the president of the Hegel Society of Great Britain. His books include Hegel, Nietzsche and the Criticism of Metaphysics; An Introduction to Hegel: Freedom, Truth and History; The Opening of Hegel’s Logic: From Being to Infinity; Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit: A Reader’s Guide; and most recently, Hegel on Being in 2 volume...

This week we're joined by Brent Adkins. Brent is a professor in the department of Philosophy and Religion at Roanoke College. His works include Death and Desire in Heidegger, Hegel and Deleuze; True Freedom: Spinoza’s Practical Philosophy; Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus: A Critical Introduction and Guide; and A Guide to Ethics and Moral Philosophy. For this discussion, we focused on De...

Lindsay Lerman, scholar and author, joined us to discuss her most recent novel, What Are You?, as well as her other work, which includes the translation of Francois Laruelle's first book. Lindsay's Links: https://neutralspaces.co/lindsaylerman/ https://www.clashbooks.com/new-products-2/lindsay-lerman-what-are-you-preorder Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

Eugene Holland, joined us to discuss his work on Deleuze and Guattari notion of axiomatics. We discuss the potential for a new axiomatic, and analyze how capitalist axiomatics operate. Eugene is professor Emeritus of the Department of Comparative Studies at The Ohio State University, and whose books include Baudelaire and Schizoanalysis: The Sociopoetics of Modernism; Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-O...

Stephen Zepke joined Coop and Taylor for a discussion focusing on the differing approaches to aesthetics within the work of Felix Guattari and Francois Laruelle. Stephen's links: https://independent.academia.edu/stephenzepke Stephen's First Appearance on MUHH: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/stephen-zepke-i-heart-uiq?si=a8d46413d9f6427484374930db8d4fca&utm_source=clipboard&utm_mediu...

Today Taylor and I are proud to bring you this week’s guest, Renata Salecl. She is a senior researcher at the Institute of Criminology in the Faculty of Law at the University of Ljubljana and holds a professorship at Birckbeck College, University of London. Her books include The Spoils of Freedom: Psychoanalysis and Feminism after the Fall of Socialism; On Anxiety; Choice; and her latest book A Pa...

This week Coop and Taylor interrogated Jean Laplanche's Life & Death in psychoanalysis. Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Laplanche https://books.google.com/books/about/Life_and_Death_in_Psychoanalysis.html?id=d_GcAAAAMAAJ Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

Coop and Taylor investigate Plato's Symposium, with an eye towards drawing out it's psychoanalytic content. Topics of discussion include seduction, feminine jouissance, and more. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

James Wakefield joined Coop and Taylor to discuss his chapter in the recently released Dune and Philosophy: Minds, Monads, and Muad'Dib, titled The God Emperor and the Tyrant The Political Theology of Frank Herbert’s Dune Saga. https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/457489-wakefield-james https://cardiff.academia.edu/JamesWakefield https://www.amazon.com/Dune-Philosophy-MuadDib-Blackwell-Culture/dp...

Jared Miller-Price joined Coop and Taylor for an in-depth look at Jacques Lacan's Seminar 20. Jared completed a thesis on Jacques Lacan and Julian of Norwich. Topics include feminine jouissance, the phallic function, the non-relation, Lacan's sexuation diagram, the five discourses and much more. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

Samo holds a PhD in Philosophy and is currently an interim professor of philosophy at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg, as well as researcher at the Interdisciplinary Laboratory Matters of Activity at the Humboldt University Berlin. His research areas comprise contemporary European philosophy, structuralism and poststructuralism, psychoanalysis (Freud and Lacan), epistemology, and political phi...

This week Coop and Taylor discuss Freud's Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905). Sublimation, polymorphous perversity, the Bwo and more make their way into this one. https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Freud_SE_Three_Essays_complete.pdf Our Freud Playlist with over 20 hours of content: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/freud?si=e0410cd7f90943ada176bb034ccbc0dc...

Coop and Taylor reach the exciting conclusion to our series on Anti-Oedipus. This episode will cover Chapter 4, The First Positive Task of Schizoanalysis and The Second Positive Task of Schizoanalysis. Non-human sexes, pre-capitalist political economy, class struggle, and much more are a focus. Anti Oedipus Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/anti-oedipus?si=5205bc8ed5f34...

Michael Hardt joined Coop and Taylor for a look at his work with a focus on an article from he and Toni Negri titled, Empire, 20 Years On. We look back at some of the arguments made in the text and discuss a bit about Michael's experience collaborating with Negri. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

This week our guests are Eric Schmid and Rocco Gangle. We’ll be discussing Eric’s new book, Prolegomenon to a Treatise: On Mathematical Structuralism, Constructive Computationalism, De-ontologized Metaphysics of Hermeneutics, and The Synthetic a Priori. Eric's Links: http://ericschmid.com/ Rocco's Links: https://www.endicott.edu/academics/schools/social-sciences-communication-humanities/faculty/j/...

A discussion on Jean Baudrillard's The Ecstasy of Communication with Adam and Craig from Acid Horizon. The discussion was originally offered to Patrons of the Zero Books YouTube Channel. Video Link: https://youtu.be/AK7WoO5Ky6I https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/acid-horizon/id1512615438 https://twitter.com/acidhorizonpod?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor https://www.patreo...

Gail Newman and Mari Ruti joined Coop and Taylor to discuss their upcoming co-authored text, Against Neoliberal Self-Optimization: Marion Milner and D.W. Winnicott. Gail is the Chair for the Center of Global Languages, Literatures, and Cultures and is the Harold J. Henry Professor of German at Williams College; her research interests include psychoanalytic theory, German literature and culture and...