How Did Analytic Philosophy Become the Ruling Class of Thought? Christoph Schuringa Explains
Acid Horizon28 Heinä 2025

How Did Analytic Philosophy Become the Ruling Class of Thought? Christoph Schuringa Explains

What if analytic philosophy isn't as politically neutral as it claims to be? In this episode, we explore the hidden ideological scaffolding of analytic philosophy—its deference to science, retreat to common sense, and therapeutic impulse. Christoph Schuringa, author of A Social History of Analytic Philosophy (Verso), reveals how analytic thought emerged from institutional, class-based, and geopolitical forces. We also discuss its uneasy relation to continental philosophy, AI ethics, and the e...

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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...

6 Syys 202228min

Nietzsche: Education or Anti-Education? with Justin

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...

18 Elo 202258min

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

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

Acid Horizon hosts Bernard Harcourt, a distinguished critical theorist, legal advocate, and prolific writer and editor. Bernard joins the cast to discuss the legacy of Foucault's work, its emergence w...

13 Elo 202246min

Who Was Lucretius? with Thomas Nail

Who Was Lucretius? with Thomas Nail

Thomas Nail joins the cast to give us an overview of the work of the ancient philosopher Lucretius, who is known for his generally atheistic ontology and his theory of the clinamen or "the swerve". Th...

6 Elo 20221h 12min

Georges Bataille and Lev Shestov: Lost in the Labyrinth

Georges Bataille and Lev Shestov: Lost in the Labyrinth

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...

20 Heinä 202212min

From Capitalist Realism to Acid Communism: A Brief History of Mark Fisher's Concepts

From Capitalist Realism to Acid Communism: A Brief History of Mark Fisher's Concepts

In this episode, Adam takes us through Mark Fisher's concept of Capitalist Realism, and how the concept developed across Fisher's theoretical writings. Adam focuses on how the notion is deployed in hi...

17 Heinä 202218min

Georges Bataille: Sovereignty

Georges Bataille: Sovereignty

This video offers an overview of Georges Bataille's concept of sovereignty as he lays it out in The Accursed Share, Volume III. This was released as a video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/SlgmI5I-v2A ...

12 Heinä 202211min

Deleuzoguattarian Autopsy and the Body Without Organs

Deleuzoguattarian Autopsy and the Body Without Organs

Austin is a member of our A Thousand Plateaus reading group and a friend of the podcast. He is also a doctor who performs hospital autopsies and cancer diagnoses. Together, we revisit our recent readi...

4 Heinä 20221h 31min

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