Why We Choose Gods and Masters: Reich on Ideology
Acid Horizon6 Huhti 2021

Why We Choose Gods and Masters: Reich on Ideology

Why is it that the masses desired and worked toward their own servitude in the 1930s? In this episode, Craig, Will, and Adam take a look at an essay in Wilhelm Reich’s Mass Psychology of Fascism, “Ideology as a Material Force.” Here, Reich pushes back against some of his Marxist contemporaries. To Reich, the purely economic explanation of the rise of fascism is insufficient. What are the limitations of the purely economic explanation of the success of reactionary politics? How is it that the ...

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Mark Fisher's 'The Weird and the Eerie' Revisited with Matt Colquhoun

Mark Fisher's 'The Weird and the Eerie' Revisited with Matt Colquhoun

Step through the oddly placed door and enter the world of the weird and the eerie. In this episode, we dive into Mark Fisher’s The Weird and the Eerie with author and photographer Matt Colquhoun (xeno...

31 Loka 202058min

Teaser - A Discussion of 'Proust and Signs'

Teaser - A Discussion of 'Proust and Signs'

In this episode, we discuss Deleuze's early work Proust and Signs. Joining us is Taylor Adkins and Cooper of the Machine at Unconscious Happy Hour. Follow us on Patreon to get the complete episode tod...

30 Loka 202011min

Concepts in Focus: Deleuze's 'Image of Thought'

Concepts in Focus: Deleuze's 'Image of Thought'

In this Concepts in Focus episode, Craig breaks down the concept of the 'image of thought' in Deleuze's work. This discussion draws mostly upon the early works of Deleuze, particularly Difference and ...

25 Loka 202018min

"The Last Question" by Issac Asimov - Fictitious Science and Science Fiction

"The Last Question" by Issac Asimov - Fictitious Science and Science Fiction

We talk with our buddy Gouff, whom we met at the beginning of the pandemic. Gouff writes for an online journal called Fǎn (反) on Medium. In this episode, we talk about the concept of fictitious scienc...

19 Loka 20201h 9min

Interrogating The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844: Karl Marx on Alienation and Estranged Labor

Interrogating The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844: Karl Marx on Alienation and Estranged Labor

The early Marx provides us with an account of deprivations experienced by workers under capitalism, namely in the form of what Marx calls 'estranged labor' and 'alienation'. Craig, Adam, Will, and Mat...

10 Loka 202053min

Phaedrus Phun: Reading Plato Through Nietzsche, Foucault, Deleuze, and Derrida (with Taylor Adkins)

Phaedrus Phun: Reading Plato Through Nietzsche, Foucault, Deleuze, and Derrida (with Taylor Adkins)

Theory maven and translator Taylor Adkins joins Will and Craig to recall interesting interpretations of Plato's 'Phaedrus' as we venture our own insights. Important figures encountered in the discussi...

4 Loka 202059min

Georges Bataille's "Notion of Expenditure"

Georges Bataille's "Notion of Expenditure"

Anti-utilitarianism. An account of the sacred. Expenditure and destruction under capitalism. In this episode, Will, Adam, and Craig discuss the 1933 text "The Notion of Expenditure" by Georges Bataill...

28 Syys 20201h 4min

Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures of Mark Fisher

Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures of Mark Fisher

Author, blogger, and photographer Matt Colquhoun joins us (as promised) for a first look at a compilation of last lectures given by Mark Fisher at Goldsmiths in 2016. The lecture series on postcapita...

20 Syys 202040min

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