The Refusal of Work in Guattari and Negri's 'Communists Like Us'
Acid Horizon20 Jan 2022

The Refusal of Work in Guattari and Negri's 'Communists Like Us'

On this episode, the gang takes a look at Antonio Negri’s and Felix Guattari’s 1985 cowritten essay, “Communists Like US”. Guattari and Negri take a look at the state of socialist governmentality and examine the causes of the failure of the worker movement in Italy in the late seventies. The outlook seems bleak, but in these developments Negri and Guattari identify various communist potentialities in various opposition movements. Through a new pluralist approach, one that affirms singularitie...

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Mark Fisher's 'The Weird and the Eerie' Revisited with Matt Colquhoun

Mark Fisher's 'The Weird and the Eerie' Revisited with Matt Colquhoun

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Concepts in Focus: Deleuze's 'Image of Thought'

Concepts in Focus: Deleuze's 'Image of Thought'

In this Concepts in Focus episode, Craig breaks down the concept of the 'image of thought' in Deleuze's work. This discussion draws mostly upon the early works of Deleuze, particularly Difference and ...

25 Okt 202018min

"The Last Question" by Issac Asimov - Fictitious Science and Science Fiction

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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 Okt 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...

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Georges Bataille's "Notion of Expenditure"

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