Some crucial updates before we come to the end of the year and begin 2025. Support the show 🔮 Introducing 'Acéphalous: The Erotic Tarot of Georges Bataille' 🔮 - Uncover the raw, provocative fusion of Bataille's philosophy and tarot in this daring new deck. Pre-launch is live—discover more and join us in this journey: https://www.kickstarter.com/pro…

Support the Kickstarter campaign as you listen: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/acephalous/acephalous-the-erotic-tarot-of-georges-bataille "Are We Still Able to Die?": https://camtology.substack.com/p/are-we-still-able-to-die In this episode of Acid Horizon, we are joined by philosopher and writer Cameron Carsten to discuss his recent blog pos…

Some important announcements about the podcast and things to come in the near future. Help us complete the campaign: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/acephalous/acephalous-the-erotic-tarot-of-georges-bataille Support the show 🔮 Introducing 'Acéphalous: The Erotic Tarot of Georges Bataille' 🔮 - Uncover the raw, provocative fusion of Bataille's p…

SUPPORT Acid Horizon's Kickstarter project, Acéphalous: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/acephalous/acephalous-the-erotic-tarot-of-georges-bataille DURATIONS FESTIVAL @ PUBLIC RECORDS (BROOKLYN, NY) 11.9.2024 Acid Horizon and Stuart Kendall unite for an in-person discussion that delves into the core concepts of Georges Bataille’s work—excess, h…

Support the Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/acephalous/acephalous-the-erotic-tarot-of-georges-bataille But the 'War on the Social Factory': https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810146648/the-war-on-the-social-factory/ About the book: A collective ethnography of grassroots mobilizations for community safety across the Silicon Valle…

Please fund the Acéphalous Kickstarter today!: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/acephalous/acephalous-the-erotic-tarot-of-georges-bataille Acid Horizon and Stuart Kendall live at the Durations Festival on November 9th, 2024: https://publicrecords.nyc/events/durations-festival-2024/ Buy Thomas' book: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517917456/the-…

Yuk Hui episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/machine-and-for-114829416?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link Join us for the livestream in these places: Campaign link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/... https://www.twitch.tv/acidhorizonpodcast https://www.youtube.com/@AcidHorizon …

Support the Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/acephalous/acephalous-the-erotic-tarot-of-georges-bataille Buy the book from University of Minnesota Press: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517917418/machine-and-sovereignty/ What is “planetary thinking” today? Arguing that a new approach is urgently needed, Yuk Hui develops a future-orie…

Support this project: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/acephalous/acephalous-the-erotic-tarot-of-georges-bataille In this episode of Acid Horizon, Will takes the lead as host, welcoming Kenny Novis and special guest David Levy. David, a philosophy professor at the University of Edinburgh and one of the translators and editors of 'Simone Weil: B…

🔮 Introducing 'Acéphalous: The Erotic Tarot of Georges Bataille' 🔮 - Uncover the raw, provocative fusion of Bataille's philosophy and tarot in this daring new deck. Pre-launch is live—discover more and join us in this journey: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/acephalous/acephalous-the-erotic-tarot-of-georges-bataille?ref=discovery&term=bataille…

If you want more videos/podcasts like these, simply subscribe to our Patreon account and support public philosophy: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast Ben Decarie is a graduate student from Penn state University who is working on a paper using Deleuze's theory of time to confront the concurrent ecological crises and the question of extincti…

Resisting AI: https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/resisting-ai Dan's website: www.danmcquillan.org Durations Festival: https://publicrecords.nyc/events/durations-festival-2024/ Adam and Will are joined by Dan McQuillan, a lecturer in creative and social computing, to discuss his book "Resisting AI: An Anti-Fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligen…

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Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHAND In this monologue, Sereptie explores the fascinating intersections of alchemy, psychoanalysis, and poststructuralist philosophy. The discussion centers around the concept of alchemical salt, its significance in Renaissance alchemical traditions, and its appropriation in 20th-century psychological …

Subscribe to Acid Horizon today: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast Get the book: https://www.politybooks.com/blog-detail/an-introduction-to-byung-chul-han Byung-Chul Han is one of the most important living philosophers, renowned for his critiques of the digital age. In response to the idea that new technological devices expand our freedom,…

Purchase 'Biopolitics as a System of Thought' from Bloomsbury: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/biopolitics-as-a-system-of-thought-9781350412095/ Our contemporary mode of life is characterised by what Serene Richards in Biopolitics as a System of Thought calls: Smart Being. Smart Being believes in the solutions of techno-capital where living is always…

Buy 'Journey to Mexico: Revolutionary Messages & the Tarahumara' (Contra Mundum Press) with introduction by Stuart Kendall: https://www.contramundumpress.com/journey-to-mexico 'Dionysus Speed' (Contra Mundum Press): https://www.contramundumpress.com/product-page/dionysos-speed About 'Journey to Mexico: Revolutionary Messages & the Tarahumara': On 1…

In this inaugural episode of LEPHT HAND, we delve into Georges Bataille's seminal essay, "The Psychological Structure of Fascism." We explore Bataille's analysis of the social and psychological dynamics underpinning fascist regimes. Key concepts discussed include: Marxism, anarchism, anthropology, political economy. Join the Patreon (free or paid m…

Buy Jon Greenaway's book: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/capitalism-a-horror-story-gothic-marxism-and-the-dark-side-of-the-radical-imagination/ Jon's podcast: https://pod.link/1445594437 What does it mean to see horror in capitalism? What can horror tell us about the state and nature of capitalism? Blending film criticism, cultural theory, and p…

Buy the book from Polity: https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=sad-planets--9781509562350 Sad PlanetsDominic Pettman, Eugene Thacker“Everything is sad,” wrote the Ancient poets. But is this sadness merely a human experience, projected onto the world, or is there a gloom attributable to the world itself? Could the universe be forever wee…

Acid Horizon and friends are joined by Keegan Kjeldsen (aka essentialsalts) of The Nietzsche Podcast to discuss the philosophy of Heraclitus and its influence on Nietzsche and his successors. Listen along and join us for light Q&A. The Nietzsche Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@untimelyreflections Keegan's book: https://www.blackrosewriting.com/bi…

Merch: crit-drip.com Dr. Sadler's Substack: https://gregorybsadler.substack.com/ ReasonIO: https://reasonio.wordpress.com/ Acid Horizon welcomes back Dr. Greg Sadler for a discussion of philosophies of grief and grieving with focus are the ideas of Cicero, Epictetus, Seneca, and others. Support the show 🔮 Introducing 'Acéphalous: The Erotic Tarot o…

Support us on Patreon and join one of our reading groups: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast Live at Pete's Candy Store in Brooklyn, NY. 05.30.24. We also discuss Palestine, ocularity, academia, the pandemic, silence, mysticism. Support the show 🔮 Introducing 'Acéphalous: The Erotic Tarot of Georges Bataille' 🔮 - Uncover the raw, provocativ…

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…

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…

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, "…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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 🔮…

What did 20th Century French philosopher Gilles Deleuze mean by "to become worthy of the event"? (A short video from YouTube) Support the show 🔮 Introducing 'Acéphalous: The Erotic Tarot of Georges Bataille' 🔮 - Uncover the raw, provocative fusion of Bataille's philosophy and tarot in this daring new deck. Pre-launch is live—discover more and join …

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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…

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…

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 🔮 Introducing 'Acéphalous: The Erotic Tarot of Georges Bataille' 🔮 - Uncover the raw, p…

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…

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…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 🔮 Introducing 'Acéphalous: The Erotic Tarot of Georges Bataille' 🔮 - Uncove…

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…

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 🔮 Introducing 'Acéphalous: The Erotic Ta…

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…

"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 🔮 Introducing 'Acéphalous: The Erotic Tarot of Georges Bata…