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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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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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…

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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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…

'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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(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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At Zer0 Books, we're inaugurating the spooky season with a slasher special courtesy of screenwriter and curator Maria Lewis and her latest novel 'The Graveyard Shift'. We get into the history of the slasher genre, deconstructing the horror of the knife-wielding killer from Jack the Ripper to Jason Voorhees. We interrogate the central trope of the '…

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Buy the book: https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/disconsolate-dreamers-pessimism-utopia Our world is increasingly sceptical of happy endings. Notions of resistance or alternatives - of hope - seem evermore ill-fated as we resign to a slow and painful descent further into capitalism. However, from a critical position, one that d…

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Bernard Harcourt sits down with Acid Horizon to discuss "coöperism", a theory of cooperation that encompasses various registers of social and socioeconomic interaction. From the publisher: "Liberal democracy is in crisis around the world, unable to address pressing problems such as climate change. There is, however, another path—cooperation democra…

Craig from Acid Horizon sit down with Enrico Monacelli to discuss his new book, 'The Great Psychic Outdoors: Lo-Fi Music and Escaping Capitalism'. From the book: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-great-psychic-outdoors/ Homemade records, tape-hiss worship and a taste for a very peculiar kind of psychedelia have carved themselves a weird niche i…

Why we need a materialist spirituality for the secular left, and how to build one. The left commonly rejects religion and spirituality as counter-revolutionary forces, citing Marx’s famous dictum that “religion is the opium of the people.” Yet forms of spirituality have motivated struggles throughout history, ranging from medieval peasant uprisings…

I Could Be So Good For You tackles head-on the pernicious and implicitly racist fiction that London, most especially north London, has no “real” working class in comparison to a more “authentic” working class in a place called “the North”. In doing so it offers a history and a portrait of north London’s working class from the 1950s to the 21st cent…

Adam is joined by Dr James Fox to discuss the legacy of cybernetics and organizational theory, its Leftist critics, and the potential for a cybernetics of the commune, one which politicizes the dynamic systems of democracy at play in worker organizing. We discussed public attitudes to cyber-theory, the history of the field from Wiener to Bogdanov a…

Adam and Will are joined by Professor Steven Shaviro to discuss his work on the philosophy of science fiction, developing on themes from recent texts such as Extreme Fabulations and 2016's Discognition out on Repeater Books. We asked Steven about the various techniques that writers such as Frank Herbert, Adrian Tchaikovsky, and China Mieville to un…

Richard Gilman-Opalsky is a professor of politics at the University of Illinois Springfield. In this episode, he joins Kenny and Kyle to discuss his 2016 book ‘Specters of Revolt: On the Intellect of Insurrection and Philosophy from Below’, as well as his more recent project. Richard’s approach is guided by French theorists associated with the Situ…

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Colin Drumm is an educator and organizer at the Mimbres School, which on their Discord server is described as "dedicated to the pursuit of an intellectual life beyond the decaying ruins of the university system." He joins Acid Horizon to discuss his views on higher ed, monetary theory, value theory, and Marxism. Find Colin on Twitter: @drumm_colin …

Gigi Roggero’s latest book Italian Operaismo: History, Genealogy, Method promises to be the strongest introduction to its difficult subject matter available in the English language. Operaismo as a moment in the history of anticapitalist struggle is a source of great hope and enthusiasm among today’s militants, not only because of the academic succe…

For post-Jungian archetypal psychologist James Hillman, the concept of the ego familiar to the work of Freud, Jung, and other psychoanalytic thinkers maintains a almost tyrannical predominance in the tradition of psychoanalysis. The myth of Hercules looms large over the discipline and our lives writ large. For Hillman undue importance of the ego ha…

Here, Will and Adam from Acid Horizon engage in a discussion on a simultaneously well known and largely overlooked enigmatic figure in the history of German philosophy, idealism and its discontents, and even insurrectionary anarchism, Max Stirner. The discussion provides both an in-depth look at Stirner’s core philosophical commitments and the inte…

We speak with James from Zer0/Repeater's current reading group, which is tackling Mark Fisher's dissertation entitled 'Flatline Constructs'. With James, Acid Horizon delves into the work's several concepts and philosophical mediators that appear in the first sections of the book. Please join us for a future reading group sessions on the Zer0/Repeat…