Cybernetics and the Left: Communist Synergy or Capitalist Machines?
Acid Horizon31 Touko 2023

Cybernetics and the Left: Communist Synergy or Capitalist Machines?

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 and Stafford Beer, and the use of machinic language from Deleuze to the CCRU. You can read all of the pieces from James we discussed today over at ...

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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

Answers Without Organs: Acid Horizon's First Q&A Session

Answers Without Organs: Acid Horizon's First Q&A Session

“Answers Without Organs” is the name of Acid Horizon’s special Q&A episode series. In this episode, we field various questions from our listeners on a variety of topics. This episode features discussi...

12 Syys 20201h 24min

A Reading of Gilles Deleuze's "Instincts and Institutions"

A Reading of Gilles Deleuze's "Instincts and Institutions"

A reading of Deleuze's notable essay on the difference between instincts, institutions, and laws. Support the show Support the podcast: Current classes at Acid Horizon Research Commons (AHRC): https:...

10 Syys 202010min

Uses of Nietzsche in Political Philosophy and Deleuze's Recasting of the Concept of Ressentiment

Uses of Nietzsche in Political Philosophy and Deleuze's Recasting of the Concept of Ressentiment

Deleuze's Nietzsche & Philosophy is an exciting and controversial interpretation of Nietzsche which stands at the forefront of 20th Century Nietzsche scholarship. In this episode, we visit the text a...

5 Syys 202051min

Concepts in Focus: The Hegelian Dialectic

Concepts in Focus: The Hegelian Dialectic

Adam breaks down the often misconstrued, misused, and misrepresented Hegelian dialectic. He also brings into the discussion conspiracy theories, Fallout: New Vegas, David Chalmers, and, well, a magnet...

30 Elo 202015min

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