Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

Friend of the show, Isabel Millar, joined Coop and Taylor to discuss her article, Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Bombshell. We discuss Deleuze and Guattari's semiotic theory of the face, faciality as evoked by the 2022 film Blonde from Andrew Dominik. The discussion draws heavily from Year Zero: Faciality from A Thousand Plateaus and Tiqqun's Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Yo...

This week, Matthew Flisfeder joins Coop and Taylor to discuss his latest book, Algorithmic Desire:Toward a New Structuralist Theory of Social Media. Matthew is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Communications at The University of Winnipeg, where he teaches courses on Communication Theory, Popular Culture, Critical Theories of Discourse and Ideology, and Critical Studies of Social Media. Matthew'...

Coop and Taylor return to cover Anti Oedipus Chapter 4, Introduction to Schizoanalysis. This episode will cover sections 1. The Social Field, 2. The Molecular Unconscious, and 3. Psychoanalysis and Capitalism. Anti Oedipus Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/anti-oedipus?si=5205bc8ed5f34f5e87aa11428428f368&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing S...

Christopher Satoor joined Coop and Taylor for a discussion of FWJ Schelling's The Ages of the World. Christopher's Links: https://yorku.academia.edu/ChristopherSatoor https://twitter.com/aufgehendeRest https://www.youtube.com/christophersatoor

This week Dorothea Olkowski joined Coop and Taylor to discuss her work on Deleuze, Bergson, and Phenomenology among other topics. We focused on her latest book, Deleuze, Bergson, Merleau-Ponty: The Logic and Pragmatics of Creation, Affective Life, and Perception as well as The Universal (In the Realm of the Sensible): Beyond Continental Philosophy. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mu...

Melody, creator of the A World to Win YouTube channel joined Coop and Taylor for a discussion centering on Friedrich Engels' Anti-Duhring. Labor theory of value, labor power, dialectics, dialectics of nature, surplus value and more round out the conversation. Melody's Links: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAqnMGJduurVhGI7S3uSA8w https://t.co/7RF9VsOEhl https://www.patreon.com/aworldtowin Support...

This week Taylor and Coop discuss Freud's Mourning and Melancholia. The discussion includes threads on libidinal economy, depression, narcissism and more. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

Sean Bowden, author of The Priority of Events: Deleuze's Logic of Sense, joined Coop and Taylor for a look at metaphysics, ontology, events, and sense. https://www.amazon.com/Priority-Events-Deleuzes-Plateaus-Directions/dp/0748643648 https://www.deakin.edu.au/about-deakin/people/sean-bowden Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

Coop and Taylor participated in a livestream for the Zer0 Books YouTube channel, alongside Adam & Craig from Acid Horizon. We looked at chapter 3 of Jean Francois Lyotard's Libidinal Economy, titled The Desire Named Marx. Video Link: https://youtu.be/4Opu6yggeYA https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/acid-horizon/id1512615438 https://twitter.com/acidhorizonpod?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp...

Cooper and Taylor chat with Simon Duffy about the history of mathematics and the history of philosophy converging in the investigation and determination of problems and Ideas. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=IGVRZUMAAAAJ&hl=en Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

Alenka Zupancic joined Coop and Taylor to discuss the ontological and epistemological implications of the problematic associated with the signification of the sexual. Alenka is a member of the Ljubljana school along with Slavoj Zizek and others and has written on jokes, Kant, Nietzsche and more. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

Author, hip-hop artist, and holder of a PhD from Warwick University, Nicholas Blincoe joins Coop and Taylor for a look at Nick Land's Making it With Death: Remarks on Thanatos and Desiring-Production. Land was Nicholas's phd advisor at Warwick, and Nicholas was friends with Iian Hamilton Grant, so he shares a little about his experiences from this period. Nicholas's Links: https://en.wikipedia.org...

Henry Somers-Hall joined Coop and Tay for a rousing discussion focusing primarily on Henry's Deleuze's Difference and Repetition: Deleuze's Difference and Repetition: An Edinburgh Philosophical Guide. 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...

Eric Santner joined Coop and Tay for a really lovely discussion on a life in theory. We weave in Eric's latest book, Untying Things Together: Philosophy, Literature, and a Life in Theory and My Own Private Germany: Daniel Paul Schreber's Secret History of Modernity. Schreber is the backdrop for this look at what a body and what theory can do. Eric L. Santner is an American scholar. He is Philip an...

Friend of the show, Grant Maxwell joined Coop and Tay for a discussion on his new book, Integration and Difference: Constructing a Mythical Dialectic. We examine the approaches to difference pursued by both Derrida and Deleuze, how Deleuze innovates on Hegel and opens up a future space, and much more. Grant's Links: https://www.routledge.com/Integration-and-Difference-Constructing-a-Mythical-Diale...

Cooper and Taylor take a foray into the work of Quentin Meillassoux, one of the four horseman of Speculative Realism or Speculative Materialism as Meillassoux identifies as his project. We looked at Metaphysics, Speculation, Correlation translated by mr Taylor Adkins. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentin_Meillassoux Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

Jon Roffe joined Cooper and Taylor to discuss Deleuze and a Post-Kantian examination of markets and pricing. Time, inscription, all prices being derivative, and much more. Jon Roffe teaches philosophy at the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy. He is the author of Gilles Deleuze’s Empiricism and Subjectivity (Edinburgh University Press, 2017), Abstract Market Theory (Palgrave, 2015) and Bad...

Friend of the show Greg Sadler joined us for a look at Frank Herbert's Dune series. We discuss nomadology, war machines, imperceptibility, eternal recurrence, materialism, and much more. Dr. Sadler is currently an adjunct professor at Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Editor of Stoicism Today, the producer of the Half Hour Hegel series, and the president of our local SOPHIA (Society of Philos...

Elmo Feiten joined Cooper and Taylor to discuss his essay Ethics of the Care for the Brain Neuroplasticity with Stirner, Malabou and Foucault. We discuss mischaracterizations of Stirner, the life sciences, the umwelt, Jakob Johann von Uexküll, resonances with Deleuze/Guattari, and much more! Elmo's Links https://twitter.com/tim_elmo https://uc.academia.edu/TimElmoFeiten https://www.academia.edu/63...

This week, Coop and Tay focus on Marx's Fragment on Machines from The Grundrisse and Guattari's Machine and Structure. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

Friend of the show, Saul Newman, returns to discuss his most recent work on Political Theology. The discussion focuses on Political Theology: A Critical Introduction and a forthcoming work titled Order, Crisis, and Redemption: Political Theology after Schmitt. We take a look at Schmitt's concepts of the sovereignty, the sovereign acception, Schmitt's relation to anarchism and Stirner, and much mor...

In this episode, Cooper and Taylor sit down with Lacanian philosopher Lorenzo Chiesa to discuss his work The Not-Two: God and Logic in Lacan and his forthcoming work God Is Undead to discuss the legacy and practice of psychoanalysis, its interrelations with Marxism, the logic and illogic of the sexual relation, the status of God in strong agnosticism and atheism, the ontological implications of in...

Thomas Nail joined Coop and Taylor for a discussion primarily focusing on his book Marx in Motion. We discuss the swerve of the atom, primitive accumulation, kinetic communism, and much more in this week's installment of MUHH. Thomas's Links: https://philosophyofmovementblog.com/author/matterinmotionblog/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Nail https://liberalarts.du.edu/about/people/thomas-andr...

Friend of the show, Jeremy Smith, joins us to discuss Laruelle, translations, non-humanism, and more on this week's edition of MUHH. We looked at Laruelle's Homo Ex Machina. Jeremy's Links: Blog: https://endemictheory.wordpress.com/ London Critical Conference http://londoncritical.org/ Unlearning Nihilism http://unlearningnihilism.org/ Oraxiom: Journal of Non-Philosophy http://oraxiom.org/ Support...

Andrew Culp returns to MUHH to discuss his new book, A Guerrilla Guide to Refusal and much much more. Andrew's Links: http://www.andrewculp.org/ https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/a-guerrilla-guide-to-refusal Andrew's First Appearance discussing Dark Deleuze: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/dr-andrew-culp-dark-deleuze?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=soc...