Laruelle's Nietzsche and Nietzsche's 'Political Materialism' (Deleuze, Foucault, Nietzsche, Marx)
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 includes thinkers such as Bataille, Deleuze & Guattari, Foucault, and others. Our brush with Laruelle's 'Nietzsche Contra Heidegger' ...
16 Tammi 20241h 21min
Who Was Wilhelm Reich? The Theory and Practice of Reichian Therapy with Dan Lowe
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-directory.org.uk/counsellors/dan-lowe?_gl=1*1os1of4*_up*MQ..*_ga*NTkwMzI1NTAyLjE3MDQ2OTY3ODI.*_ga_BMWGCG64PD*MTcwNDY5Njc3OS4xLjAuMTcwNDY5Njc3OS4wLjA...
8 Tammi 20241h 2min
Reading Groups for 2024 on the Acid Horizon Patreon
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: Current classes at Acid Horizon Research Commons (AHRC): https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-main Website: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizon Acid Hor...
2 Tammi 20242min
The Stranger Returns: The Politics of Mental Health and Nietzsche on Forgiving and Forgetting
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 supporting us this year! Links to research referenced in the episode: Why Depression Rates Are Higher Among Liberals: https://magazine.colum...
27 Joulu 20231h 19min
Bachelard: A Philosophy of Imagination and 'The Poetics of Space' with Katherine Everitt
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: Current classes at Acid Horizon Research Commons (AHRC): https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-main Website: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ Linktree: https:...
24 Joulu 20231h 11min
Effective Accelerationism: Nick Land for Tech Bros
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 creation for the species. We trace the influences of the text from Land to Nietzsche and illustrate how the text fails to understand its own influe...
20 Joulu 20231h 22min
Deleuze on Palestine: "The Grandeur of Yasser Arafat" and "Stones"
"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: Current classes at Acid Horizon Research Commons (AHRC): https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-main Website: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acid...
10 Joulu 202316min
Anti-Oculus x We Hear Only Ourselves Live at Tenderbooks in London, UK 11.21.23
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, and Resistance by Bill Cashmore and Anti-Oculus: A Philosophy of Escape by Acid Horizon. We Hear Only Ourselves is a study of utopia and its con...
3 Joulu 20231h 4min
