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Members and friends of Acid Horizon meet with Stuart Kendall to discuss the work of 20th century writer Georges Bataille. Bataille is a unique figure in French thought whose work spans various milieus from literature to politics. As an opponent of fascism, liberalism, and the real-existing communism of his day, he and his associates endeavored to found a new politics which drew together disparate...

What was the Lacanian left and what is its future? A long-distance conversation held over Whatsapp audio messages while driving, out walking or cooking dinner over the course of several months between Daniel Tutt and Gabriel Tupinambá. Tupinambá is the author of The Desire of Psychoanalysis: Exercises in Lacanian Theory and Tutt is the author of Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Family. Stay...

Beyond reflexive impotence and mental anguish, how do we find each other as comrades and begin the process of collective healing that rekindles the revolutionary spirit? This is the question Gareth Watkins invites us to consider, as Adam, Will, and Corey discuss his article "What Happened to the Communal Revolutionary Spirit?", focusing on the politics of friendship, misery, and collecti...

On this episode, Will and Adam from Acid Horizon speak with Thomas Nail about his book “Marx in Motion: A New Materialist Marxism”. They discuss the origins of Marx’s theory of matter based on his doctoral dissertation on Epicurean philosophy, his critique of rigid atomism, and his dynamic theory of matter in motion that reveals its innate capacity for transformation. Thomas explains the centralit...

Daniel Tutt sits down with the prolific writer and thinker Richard Seymour, Co-Founder of Salvage Magazine and author of The Meaning of David Cameron (2010), Unhitched (2013), Against Austerity (2014) and Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics (2016).  Since 2016, Seymour has turned to Lacanian theory in his writing and analysis of contemporary politics. We discuss what he finds valuable...

In this episode of Zer0 Books Archives, Craig of Acid Horizon is joined by Adam Kotsko to discuss his oeuvre on uncomfortable feelings both as they are felt and operationalized under neoliberal hegemony. Adam's most recent work on the subject can be found in his book 'Creepiness' (Zer0 books, 2015), but the discussion traverses both a broad and nuanced phenomenology elaborated throu...

On this episode, the buddies revisit Fisher's blogpost "Terminator Versus Avatar" and explore its extended implications for the contemporary. Support Zer0 Books on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zerobooks Subscribe: http://bit.ly/SubZeroBooks Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ZeroBooks/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/zer0books ----- Other links: Check out the projects of some of th...

Landon Frim and Harrison Fluss are joined by interviewer Daniel Tutt to discuss how philosophers are thinking the ecological crisis. Fluss and Frim argue the two dominant strains of thinking ecology today, Accelerationism and Gaian philosophies are ultimately inadequate frameworks because they reject the human frame as grounding politics; each seeks to subordinate the human in favor of a wholly al...

On this episode of Convergences Adam from Acid Horizon is joined by Palestine Action activist and researcher Kieron Turner to discuss the work of Cedric Robinson and his landmark 1983 work Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition. We’re going to be covering Robinson’s life and work, his dialectical analysis of the historical and ideological phenomenon of Racial Capitalism, his crit...

The buddies step away from the CCRU this episode (though maybe not too far) and turn their attention to Mark Fisher's take on Stanley K.'s last film, Eyes Wide Shut. We'll be discussing ritual, eroticism, conspiracism, and the dreary spectacle of Power blog post: https://egressac.wordpress.com/2004/0... Support Zer0 Books on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zerobooks Subscribe: http...

The Buddies convene for a discussion with Amy Ireland. Support Zer0 Books on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zerobooks Subscribe: http://bit.ly/SubZeroBooks Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ZeroBooks/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/zer0books ----- Other links: Check out the projects of some of the new contributors to Zer0 Books: Acid Horizon Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast You...

Profane Illuminations is: @profaneshow  @laborkyle @thelitcritguy  SUGGESTED READING Genesis 2:8 - 3:24 Thomas More, Utopia  CLR James, The Black Jacobins  Kristin Ross, Communal Luxury Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project  Fredriech Engels, Socialism, Utopian and Scientific   William Morris, News from Nowhere  Gerald Winstanley, A Declaration From the Poor Oppressed People of England  Ernst Bloch...

Interviewer Daniel Tutt speaks with author Doug Greene about his upcoming book. Should socialists cooperate with the Democratic Party? What does the ideas and vision of the founder of the largest socialist organization in America, the DSA, inform the "common sense" of America's contemporary left? Support Zer0 Books on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zerobooks Subscribe: http://bit....

This week, we continue our exploration of the work of Mark Fisher with an extensive interview with his friend and collaborator Robin Mackay. Last week, we dipped our collective toe into the blogosphere of the mid-2000s, discussing hyperstition, 70s pulp sci-fi and some of Fisher's most enduring weird and eerie interests. Lurking in the background was Fisher's role as a member of the Ccru...

A retrospective of the life and work of Sylvère Lotringer. Owen Hatherley on Zero: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/ze... Owen's other recent work: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3789... https://repeaterbooks.com/product/red... Support Zer0 Books on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zerobooks Subscribe: http://bit.ly/SubZeroBooks Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ZeroBooks/ Twitter: https...

On this episode of the Zer0 Books Archive, Will interviews Grafton Tanner about his 2016 book Babbling Corpse: Vaporwave and the Commodification of Ghosts. Grafton works at the University of Georgia, in the Department of Communication Studies, and has written two more recent books, apt for our contemporary moment: The Circle of the Snake: Nostalgia and Utopia in the Age of Big Tech, published with...

Last year, Buddies Without Organs explored the works of Gilles Deleuze. Now, in association with Zer0 Books, we are turning towards the lesser-known works of Mark Fisher. Fisher is a writer we all already love, and we felt he'd be great to read together. We're starting as we intend to go on with a oft-neglected post from the Hyperstition blog about the 1970s children's serial, Child...

On this episode of Zer0 Books Archives, Will and Craig of Acid Horizon are joined by Stephen Shapiro and Philip Barnard to discuss their translation of Guery’s and Deluele’s The Productive Body. The Productive Body was a remarkably influential text that was foundational to Foucault’s treatment of the body in works such as Discipline and Punish. Yet, it remained relatively unknown in the anglophone...

Today, Adam from Acid Horizon welcomes Jacob Blumenfeld into the Zer0 Books Archives to discuss his 2018 Zer0 Books text All Things Are Nothing To Me: The Unique Philosophy of Max Stirner. Adam and Jacob discuss the context and legacy of this often-forgotten thinker of the left and a key influence on Marx and Engels in their development of dialectical materialism. They discuss Stirner’s critique o...