Ketamine King: Tech Bros, AI Delusions, and the Politics of Dissociation
Acid Horizon30 Maalis 2025

Ketamine King: Tech Bros, AI Delusions, and the Politics of Dissociation

CW: Includes references to drug use and racialized violence discourse. King Ketamine: https://www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/king-ketamine Acid Horizon welcomes back Taija Mars McDougall to discuss her latest essay “King Ketamine,” published in Parapraxis Magazine. Together, we examine how ketamine—favored by Silicon Valley elites like Elon Musk—has become the drug of the techno-fascist sacrament, fueling disassociation and delusions of divine-like Promethean capitalism. Drawing ...

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Lyotard or Marx? The Evil Legacy of 'Libidinal Economy'

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Deleuze and Guattari: "Of the Refrain" from A Thousand Plateaus

Deleuze and Guattari: "Of the Refrain" from A Thousand Plateaus

In this episode, Craig, Adam, Will, and Noah tackle the concepts in "Of The Refrain" from Deleuze and Guattari's 'A Thousand Plateaus' through a series of quesions: How do refrains (jn the form of dit...

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Ray Brassier on Herbert Marcuse's '5 Lectures' with Acid Horizon

Ray Brassier on Herbert Marcuse's '5 Lectures' with Acid Horizon

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A Reading of Gilles Deleuze's "Letter to a Harsh Critic"

A Reading of Gilles Deleuze's "Letter to a Harsh Critic"

A reading of Gilles Deleuze's famous essay "Letter to a Harsh Critic". Support the podcast: Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizon Acid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodca...

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Nietzsche: Education or Anti-Education? with Justin

Justin, an avid Nietzsche reader and friend of the podcast, joins us to discuss the relationship between the philosophy of Nietzsche and his work as an early childhood educator. We discuss arguments p...

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Foucault and Praxis: On Genealogical Method and Abolition with Bernard Harcourt

Foucault and Praxis: On Genealogical Method and Abolition with Bernard Harcourt

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Who Was Lucretius? with Thomas Nail

Who Was Lucretius? with Thomas Nail

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Georges Bataille and Lev Shestov: Lost in the Labyrinth

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This is breakdown of Bataille's notion of the labyrinth from his 1936 essay "The Labyrinth" found in the Visions of Excess collection. Also, I highlight the connection between Shestov's musings on the...

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