Best Utopian Horizons Podcasts (2024)

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The Searchers: Five Rebels, Their Dream of a Different Britain, and Their Many Enemies 59:35

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Buy the book: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/313576/the-searchers-by-beckett-andy/9780241394229 From the acclaimed author of Promised You a Miracle and When the Lights Went Out, the untold story of British politics in modern times, through the triumphs and disasters of its five most radical figures 'A breath of fresh air: a vivid eye for detail me…

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Sex With Deleuze: A Poststructuralist Approach to Sexuality and Sex Education with Justin Hancock 53:47

38m ago53:47

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How do we decentre conceptual hierarchies in our emotional and sexual lives? How can we practice new forms of relationships and modes of connection? Could we relate to our body as a sexual becoming before it is a sexual object? We're joined by RSE educator and host of the Culture Sex Relationships podcast Justin Hancock to discuss the ways in which…

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A Thousand Little Machines: Berardi and A/traverso with Kenny Novis, Jamila Squire and Seth Wheeler 1:03:31

10d ago1:03:31

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The book: https://agitpress.net/books/p/a-thousand-little-machines Digitised copies of A/traverso: https://archive.leftove.rs/documents/grid/title/A/traverso In 1977 youth revolts spectacular in their intensity, creativity and violence would send shockwaves throughout Italian society. These rebellions, belonging to the autonomia movement, were char…

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No One is Ready For Love feat. The Stranger 1:24:31

12d ago1:24:31

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Attend our Brooklyn event: https://www.eventbrite.com/o/acid-horizon-84363810583 CW: passing mentions of sui, self-harm Are you ready for love? Is anyone?? In this informal conversation with The Stranger, we discuss the ethics of readiness, readiness as a social construct, and how the reification of life stages impacts the politics of romance. Supp…

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Deleuze Versus Agamben on Creativity and Resistance 1:08:50

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What is a creative act? In other words, what is the nature of the forces which bring 'the new' into the world? Also, what is the role of resistance and the potential not to act against notions of creativity? In this episode, Craig, Will, and Adam perform a close reading of Gilles Deleuze's "What is a Creative Act?" and Giorgio Agamben's response, "…

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Technic and Magic: Politics, Neoplatonism, and the Limits of Language with Federico Campagna 1:00:42

26d ago1:00:42

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Federico's 'The Last Night' on Zer0 Books: https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/last-night Technic and Magic: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/technic-and-magic-9781350044036/ We take for granted that only certain kind of things exist – electrons but not angels, passports but not nymphs. This is what we understand as 'reality'. But …

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Technic and Magic: Politics, Neoplatonism, and the Limits of Language with Federico Campagna 1:00:42

1M ago1:00:42

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Federico's 'The Last Night' on Zer0 Books: https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/last-night Technic and Magic: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/technic-and-magic-9781350044036/ We take for granted that only certain kind of things exist – electrons but not angels, passports but not nymphs. This is what we understand as 'reality'. But …

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QUIT EVERYTHING with Franco "Bifo" Berardi, Acid Horizon, and Kenny Novis 44:26

1M ago44:26

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Pre-Order Here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/761928/quit-everything-by-franco-berardi/ In Quit Everything, Franco Berardi argues that this "depression" is actually conscious or unconscious withdrawal of psychological energy and a dis-investment of desire that he defines instead as "desertion". A desertion from political participation, f…

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QUIT EVERYTHING with Franco "Bifo" Berardi, Acid Horizon, and Kenny Novis 44:26

1M ago44:26

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Pre-Order Here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/761928/quit-everything-by-franco-berardi/ In Quit Everything, Franco Berardi argues that this "depression" is actually conscious or unconscious withdrawal of psychological energy and a dis-investment of desire that he defines instead as "desertion". A desertion from political participation, f…

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Ernst Bloch's Utopian Marxism: A New Hope with Jon Greenaway 1:07:30

1M ago1:07:30

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Buy the Book: https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/primer-utopian-philosophy-ernst-bloch The utopian project lies in ruins, but perhaps in our present moment, there are elements from the history of thought that can provide fresh resources for utopianism. In this groundbreaking introduction, Jon Greenaway explores the work of Germ…

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Ernst Bloch's Utopian Marxism: A New Hope with Jon Greenaway 1:07:30

1M ago1:07:30

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Buy the Book: https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/primer-utopian-philosophy-ernst-bloch The utopian project lies in ruins, but perhaps in our present moment, there are elements from the history of thought that can provide fresh resources for utopianism. In this groundbreaking introduction, Jon Greenaway explores the work of Germ…

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Welcome to the Collapse: Evan Calder Williams 'Combined and Uneven Apocalypse' (Zer0 Books Archive) 4:59

2M ago4:59

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Grab the Book: https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/combined-and-uneven-apocalypse From the repurposed rubble of salvagepunk to undead hordes banging on shopping mall doors, from empty waste zones to teeming plagued cities, Combined and Uneven Apocalypse grapples with the apocalyptic fantasies of our collapsing era. Moving throug…

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Matter and Memory: An Intro to Henri Bergson with Jack Bagby 23:57

2M ago23:57

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I met Jack at local bar, and he promised to join me one day to do an explainer on Bergson's 'Matter and Memory'. A few beers later (over several months), here we are! Apologies for the rough interviewer audio; fortunately you can hear Jack loud and clear! Jack's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@UCLTX61i5PIsw2IsVsIOfl2g More by Jack on 'Mat…

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Danged Noumena: Kant Versus Husserl on "The Thing-In-Itself" with Matt Bower 1:05:11

2M ago1:05:11

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Is there a reality beyond appearance which we cannot access? Matt Bower joins us to discuss Kant’s “the thing-in-itself” and Husserl’s response to Kantian ideas about the nature of perception. A link to Matt’s paper: https://philarchive.org/rec/BOWALA-2 Become a patron today! Click here: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast Support the Show. …

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WORK WILL NOT SAVE YOU: Federico Campagna's 'The Last Night: Anti-Work, Atheism, Adventure' 5:00

2M ago5:00

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Buy the book: https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/last-night Our secular society seems to have finally found its new God: Work. As technological progress makes human labour superfluous, and over-production destroys both the economy and the planet, Work remains stronger than ever as a mantra of universal submission. This book dev…

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DELEUZE AND REVENGE: On Nietzsche, Amor Fati, and the Stoicism of Becoming Worthy of the Event 5:00

2M ago5:00

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What did 20th Century French philosopher Gilles Deleuze mean by "to become worthy of the event"? (A short video from YouTube) Support the Show. Support the podcast: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizon Acid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast Zer0 Books and Repeater Media Patreon: ht…

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Gilles Deleuze and Saidiya Hartman: Race, Masochism, and Contract Theory with Taija Mars McDougall 1:07:32

2M ago1:07:32

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Buy 'Anti-Oculus: A Philosophy of Escape': https://repeaterbooks.com/product/anti-oculus-a-philosophy-of-escape/ Buy 'The Philosopher's Tarot': https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-philosophers-tarot/ Head to CRIT DRIP: https://www.etsy.com/shop/critdrip Taija: @amalgam_screams Taija Mars McDougall joins Acid Horizon to discuss her research on the…

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The Anti-Capitalism of the Underworld: James Hillman, Mark Fisher, and Fulcanelli with Andy Sharp 54:55

3M ago54:55

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Buy the books mentioned in the discussion: The English Heretic Collection: Ritual Histories, Magickal Geography: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-english-heretic-collection-ritual-histories-magickal-geography/ The Astral Geographic: The Watkins Guide to the Occult World: https://watkinspublishing.com/books/the-astral-geographic-the-watkins-gui…

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The Anti-Capitalism of the Underworld: James Hillman, Mark Fisher, and Fulcanelli with Andy Sharp 54:55

3M ago54:55

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Buy the books mentioned in the discussion: The English Heretic Collection: Ritual Histories, Magickal Geography: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-english-heretic-collection-ritual-histories-magickal-geography/ The Astral Geographic: The Watkins Guide to the Occult World: https://watkinspublishing.com/books/the-astral-geographic-the-watkins-gui…

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Lacan, Genre, and the Enjoyment of Music with David Burke and Acid Horizon 1:10:29

3M ago1:10:29

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Absent Signifier (David's free metal band): https://www.instagram.com/absentsignifierband?igsh=ZzhvbWpvczg5aWkw Can Lacanian theory explain our enjoyment of musical genres? Adam and Craig of Acid Horizon sit down with musicologist David Burke to discuss what makes metal phallic, why dance music is akin to the Other's jouissance, and more. Support Z…

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Lacan, Genre, and the Enjoyment of Music with David Burke and Acid Horizon 1:10:29

3M ago1:10:29

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Absent Signifier (David's free metal band): https://www.instagram.com/absentsignifierband?igsh=ZzhvbWpvczg5aWkw Can Lacanian theory explain our enjoyment of musical genres? Adam and Craig of Acid Horizon sit down with musicologist David Burke to discuss what makes metal phallic, why dance music is akin to the Other's jouissance, and more. Support t…

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Against the Vortex: Zardoz and Degrowth Utopias in the Seventies and Today with Anthony Galluzzo 1:05:10

3M ago1:05:10

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Buy the book: https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/against-vortex-zardoz-degrowth-utopias Alongside scientific knowledge and collective effort, building a degrowth ecological society will require a different set of stories and myths than the big and fast Promethean fables we’re accustomed to. Using Boorman’s Zardoz as a tool, Aga…

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Ask A Left Nietzschean: "Who is an Übermensch?" with Devin and Charles from Moral Minority 1:15:27

3M ago1:15:27

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Listen to Moral Minority here: https://pod.link/1728182343 Charles and Devin from Moral Minority join us to discuss Nietzsche's concept of "the übermensch": what it is, what is in't and the deeper implications behind the figure of "the overman". Support the Show. Support the podcast: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ Linktree: https://linktr.ee/a…

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Is Romantic Anti-Capitalism Proletarian? 'The Poetry of Class' with Patrick Eiden-Offe & Jacob Blumenfeld 1:02:18

4M ago1:02:18

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Workers of the world unite, we have nothing to lose but our chains! But just who is this ‘we’? How do we identify the proletariat, the revolutionary subject, and how does the proletariat identify itself in the midst of an intensifying threat of economic precarity and capitalist immiseration. This ‘we’, to quote Wilhelm Weitling, is a tricky questio…

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We're All Running from The Terminator: The Radical Left Versus Capitalism 9:33

4M ago9:33

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Adam of Acid Horizon dives into the work of Carl Neville to explore the Terminator series as a parable of radicalization, how struggles in the present show the future of our current predicament, and how to fight back. Books by Carl Neville: Eminent Domain (Repeater): https://repeaterbooks.com/product/eminent-domain/ Classless: Recent Essays on Brit…

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We're All Running from The Terminator: The Radical Left Versus Capitalism 9:33

4M ago9:33

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Adam of Acid Horizon dives into the work of Carl Neville to explore the Terminator series as a parable of radicalization, how struggles in the present show the future of our current predicament, and how to fight back. Books by Carl Neville: Eminent Domain (Repeater): https://repeaterbooks.com/product/eminent-domain/ Classless: Recent Essays on Brit…

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The Economy of Damnation: St. Anselm, Nietzsche, Deleuze, and Saidiya Hartman with Sean Capener 1:08:14

4M ago1:08:14

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Acid Horizon continue their conversation with the folks over at Mimbres School by sitting down with Sean Capener, who'll be teaching their "History of Damnation" course. We read Sean's "On the Fall of the Angels: Economic Theology After the Middle Passage". In this paper, Sean shows how St Anselm's Christian theories about the economy of salvation …

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Karl Marx's "Theses on Feuerbach": The Deep Dive From The Young Hegelians to Deleuze (Part 2) 1:02:28

4M ago1:02:28

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The Acid Horizon crew venture a deep dive into Karl Marx's "Theses on Feuerbach", both celebrating and challenging aspects of his classic meditation. We unpack some of the language of the text while making connections to other philosophers. Moreover, we discuss Feuerbach's critique of the image of thought and his work's influence on Deleuze as it p…

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Karl Marx's "Theses on Feuerbach": The Deep Dive From The Young Hegelians to Deleuze (Part 1) 43:59

4M ago43:59

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The Acid Horizon crew venture a deep dive into Karl Marx's "Theses on Feuerbach", both celebrating and challenging aspects of his classic meditation. We unpack some of the language of the text while making connections to other philosophers. Moreover, we discuss Feuerbach's critique of the image of thought and his work's influence on Deleuze as it p…

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Who Was Errico Malatesta? with Davide Turcato 54:30

4M ago54:30

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Many leftists today know the name of the Italian anarchist Errico Malatesta, but few know much about him. In this conversation, one of the foremost scholars on his life and ideas, Davide Turcato, discusses Malatesta’s activities during his long London exile from 1900-1913, his revolutionary theory of the armed strike, and his complicated relation t…

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The Rise of Anti-Capitalist Neurodiversity: Robert Chapman's 'Empire of Normality' 56:14

4M ago56:14

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Buy the book: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745348667/empire-of-normality/ Neurodiversity is on the rise. Awareness and diagnoses have exploded in recent years, but we are still missing a wider understanding of how we got here and why. Beyond simplistic narratives of normativity and difference, this groundbreaking book exposes the very myth of the…

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Wales, Colonialism, and the Landscape of History: "Of Talons and Teeth" w/Niall Griffiths 51:26

5M ago51:26

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Buy the book: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/of-talons-and-teeth-a-novel/ February 2024 event with Niall: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/niall-griffiths-of-talons-and-teeth-tickets-804928511847?aff=ebdsoporgprofile An historical novel set Wales before the Industrial Revolution, as human love tries to flower amidst squalor and serfdom. Wales, a m…

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'Plastic Ghosts and Trash Immortals: Our Afterlife as Waste' with Nicolas de Warren 48:30

5M ago48:30

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Nicolas de Warren joins Acid Horizon for a live event at Webster's Bookstore and Cafe in State College, PA. Our quest for immortality is complete: we will live forever through our trash. Our penchant for plastic disposables in particular presents us with a future in which forms of life will remain haunted by human waste. What does the legacy of 'ho…

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Laruelle's Nietzsche and Nietzsche's 'Political Materialism' (Deleuze, Foucault, Nietzsche, Marx) 1:21:00

5M ago1:21:00

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Join the reading groups: https://www.patreon.com/posts/reading-groups-96060845?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link Jeremy R. Smith returns alongside Jacob Vangeest to discuss Laruelle's view on Nietzsche and Nietzsche's influence upon the milieu of 20th century French thought, which inc…

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'How to Read Like a Parasite: Why the Left Got High on Nietzsche' with Daniel Tutt 1:05:31

5M ago1:05:31

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Buy the book: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/how-to-read-like-a-parasite-why-the-left-got-high-on-nietzsche/ ''Exemplary… Tutt’s evaluation of the consequences of Nietzschean politics is more lucid than Left Nietzscheans might wish.'' — Ray Brassier, author of Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction How to Read Like a Parasite overturns the …

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Who Was Wilhelm Reich? The Theory and Practice of Reichian Therapy with Dan Lowe and Acid Horizon 1:02:36

5M ago1:02:36

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Acid Horizon is joined by Dan Lowe, a London-based therapist and counselor trained in Reichian therapy to discuss the work of Wilhelm Reich. In focus is Reich's concept of emotional armoring, the scientific basis of Reich's work, and legacy of 'functional orgonomics'. Various references in the episode are linked below: Dan's info: https://www.couns…

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Who Was Wilhelm Reich? The Theory and Practice of Reichian Therapy with Dan Lowe 1:02:36

5M ago1:02:36

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We are joined by Dan Lowe, a London-based therapist and counselor trained in Reichian therapy to discuss the work of Wilhelm Reich. In focus is Reich's concept of emotional armoring, the scientific basis of Reich's work, and legacy of 'functional orgonomics'. Various references in the episode are linked below: Dan's info: https://www.counselling-di…

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Reading Groups for 2024 on the Acid Horizon Patreon 2:19

5M ago2:19

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Click here to join: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast syllabi: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1puF1RQF-tMKJNpvEgizpNc4yd7jKr7ZB/view?usp=sharing New Deleuze, Deleuze and Guattari, Bataille/Klossowski, and Foucault Reading Groups are starting soon! Support the Show. Support the podcast: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ Linktree: https:/…

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The Stranger Returns: The Politics of Mental Health and Nietzsche on Forgiving and Forgetting 1:19:44

6M ago1:19:44

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CW: self-harm, suicide, clinical challenges to gender transitioning The final episode of Acid Horizon for 2023 is an informal conversation between Craig and The Stranger (twitter: @4Q248). Together we discuss the politics of mental health, Nietzsche versus Psychoanalysis--and we indulge a little bit of playful dreamwork at the end. Thank you for su…

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Bachelard: A Philosophy of Imagination and 'The Poetics of Space' with Katherine Everitt 1:11:08

6M ago1:11:08

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Katherine Everitt joins Adam and Craig to celebrate the brilliance, creativity, and uniqueness of Bachelard's phenomenology of the imagination. We explore the nuances of Bachelard's meditations on the image and the imagination with references to Kant, Hegel, Jung, Deleuze, and James Hillman. Support the Show. Support the podcast: https://www.acidho…

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Interventions - "Identity Politics: The Uses and Abuses of a Term" 19:34

6M ago19:34

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'Interventions' is a new series on Zer0 Books and Repeater Media which explores important philosophical concepts and political terms in short form. Bill Cashmore kicks off the series with a discussion of identity, identity politics, and the history surrounding relevant debates. Support Zer0 Books and Repeater Media on Patreon: https://www.patreon.c…

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Effective Accelerationism: Nick Land for Tech Bros 1:22:19

6M ago1:22:19

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Adam and Craig are joined by Mattie Colquhoun (@xenogothic) to discuss the nature of accelerationism and its latest attempt at a fashionable revival: so called "effective accelerationism" or e/acc. For this we read the "Techno-optimist Manifesto" Marc Andreessen's argument for the total unleashing of technology and capital to maximize wealth creati…

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Deleuze on Palestine: "The Grandeur of Yasser Arafat" and "Stones" 16:26

6M ago16:26

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"The Grandeur of Yasser Arafat": https://deleuze.cla.purdue.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/the-grandeur-of-yasser-arafat.pdf "Stones" can be found in the compilation of essays entitled 'Two Regimes of Madness': https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781584350620/two-regimes-of-madness/ Support the Show. Support the podcast: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ L…

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Anti-Oculus x We Hear Only Ourselves Live at Tenderbooks in London, UK 11.21.23 1:04:08

6M ago1:04:08

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Join our reading groups: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast We Hear Only Ourselves: https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/we-hear-only-ourselves-utopia-narrative-resistance Anti-Oculus: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/anti-oculus-a-philosophy-of-escape/ We celebrate the launch of We Hear Only Ourselves. Utopia, Memory, a…

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Is Social Media Capitalism's Postmodern Pleasure Trap? 'Filling the Void' w/ Marcus Gilroy-Ware 1:01:15

6M ago1:01:15

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Buy the book: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/filling-the-void-emotion-capitalism-and-social-media/ It argues that social media use is often a psychological response to the need for pleasure and comfort that results from the stresses of life under postmodern capitalism, rather than being a driver of new behaviours as newer technologies are often …

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Anti-Oculus x We Hear Only Ourselves Live at Tenderbooks in London, UK 11.21.23 1:04:08

6M ago1:04:08

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Join our reading groups: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast We Hear Only Ourselves: https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/we-hear-only-ourselves-utopia-narrative-resistance Anti-Oculus: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/anti-oculus-a-philosophy-of-escape/ We celebrate the launch of We Hear Only Ourselves. Utopia, Memory, a…

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Is Social Media Capitalism's Postmodern Pleasure Trap? 'Filling the Void' w/ Marcus Gilroy-Ware 1:01:15

6M ago1:01:15

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Buy the book: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/filling-the-void-emotion-capitalism-and-social-media/ It argues that social media use is often a psychological response to the need for pleasure and comfort that results from the stresses of life under postmodern capitalism, rather than being a driver of new behaviours as newer technologies are often …

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Beyond the Politics of the Rural and Urban Divide: Vron Ware's 'Return of a Native' 59:50

7M ago59:50

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Buy ' Return of a Native': https://repeaterbooks.com/product/return-of-a-native-learning-from-the-land/ The English countryside is often seen as timeless, remote and shielded from the harshest problems of modern life. Yet, as Return of a Native reveals, it is to rural England that we must look for the roots of our current crises. Beginning and endi…

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Acid Horizon's 'Anti-Oculus: A Philosophy of Escape' Book Launch Event at Housmans Bookshop 11.18.23 1:14:27

7M ago1:14:27

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Buy the book: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/anti-oculus-a-philosophy-of-escape/ Anti-Oculus is a work of conceptual espionage: an assemblage of polemical tracts complete with a gallery of graphic illustrations inspired by postmodern and pulp classics from Anti-Oedipus to Ways of Seeing. Through the concept of “Ocularity”, the Acid Horizon crew …

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Do We Need A "Revolution from Below"?: Anton Pannekoek and Council Communism 9:39

7M ago9:39

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(music free version here: https://youtu.be/OqNbsO4xdxc) Is "revolution from below" an antidote to the missteps of real-existing socialisms from the past? Can council communism help us orchestrate an escape from capitalism? Do the workers need leaders or intellectuals to foster class consciousness? This video provides a thumbnail sketch of the work …

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