Georges Bataille’s 'On Nietzsche': War, Chance, and the Collapse of Meaning with Stuart Kendall
Acid Horizon21 Kesä 2025

Georges Bataille’s 'On Nietzsche': War, Chance, and the Collapse of Meaning with Stuart Kendall

What does it mean to write philosophy in a time of catastrophe? In this episode, we’re joined once again by Stuart Kendall to explore Georges Bataille’s On Nietzsche, a fragmented, intimate, and disorienting text written in the final years of World War II. We examine how Nietzsche becomes not just a philosophical reference but a companion for Bataille—a figure through whom Bataille grapples with sovereignty, death, and the limits of knowledge. From Sartre’s accusations of mysticism to the wil...

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Purging the Devil: Exorcism, Possession & Political Panic with Grafton Tanner

Purging the Devil: Exorcism, Possession & Political Panic with Grafton Tanner

Why does the figure of the devil keep returning in moments of political panic, social anxiety, and cultural decay? In this episode, we sit down with author Grafton Tanner about exorcism, possession, m...

30 Marras 202558min

The Revolt Eclipses Whatever the World Has to Offer: Idris Robinson on Martyrdom, Destituent Power, and Political Death

The Revolt Eclipses Whatever the World Has to Offer: Idris Robinson on Martyrdom, Destituent Power, and Political Death

Craig and Adam are joined by Idris Robinson to ask the question of destituent revolt in a murderous and counter-revolutionary world. We discussed Idris' work on the nature of martyrdom, the relation o...

23 Marras 20251h 10min

A Life in Rebellion: Up Against the Wall Motherfucker, Black Mask, and the Surrealist Struggle in 1960-70s New York

A Life in Rebellion: Up Against the Wall Motherfucker, Black Mask, and the Surrealist Struggle in 1960-70s New York

Adam is joined by comrades Abigail Susik (@abigailsusik7), Ben Morea (@ben_morea), and Breanne Fahs to discuss the synthesis of art and activism, as exemplified by Ben’s central role within such colle...

6 Marras 202558min

Philosophy and Magic: Meredith Graves on the Politics of the Occult and Thinking Magically in a Disenchanted World

Philosophy and Magic: Meredith Graves on the Politics of the Occult and Thinking Magically in a Disenchanted World

In this Halloween episode, Meredith Graves joins Acid Horizon to explore the occulted correspondences between philosophy, ritual, and the practice of magic. Together we trace the tangled histories of ...

30 Loka 20251h 4min

Mark Fisher Meets James Hillman: Melancholy, Manic Culture & the End of Capitalist Realism (with Emma Stamm)

Mark Fisher Meets James Hillman: Melancholy, Manic Culture & the End of Capitalist Realism (with Emma Stamm)

What if depression isn’t an illness to cure but a collective mood that reveals the soul of a broken world? In this episode, Mark Fisher meets James Hillman in a conversation that bridges depth psychol...

23 Loka 20251h 5min

Witness to the Hellfire of Genocide: Wasim Said’s Testament from Gaza

Witness to the Hellfire of Genocide: Wasim Said’s Testament from Gaza

In this episode, we present the work of Wasim Said, a comrade from Gaza who has documented the atrocities they and their people have experienced during the ongoing intensification of Israel's genocida...

17 Loka 202549min

Deleuze vs Hegel: Beyond Kant and Representation with Henry Somers-Hall

Deleuze vs Hegel: Beyond Kant and Representation with Henry Somers-Hall

What happens when Deleuze and Hegel are set in violent philosophical encounter over the ruins of Kantian representation? In this episode, we explore how both thinkers attempt to move beyond the catego...

11 Loka 202553min

The Politics of Ghosting: Dominic Pettman on Absence, Intimacy, and Digital Life

The Politics of Ghosting: Dominic Pettman on Absence, Intimacy, and Digital Life

What does it mean to live in a world where relationships can vanish overnight, without explanation or closure? In this episode, Acid Horizon speaks with cultural theorist Dominic Pettman about his new...

28 Syys 20251h 7min

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