Sci-Fi and the Politics of the Future: An Interview with Steven Shaviro featuring Acid Horizon
Acid Horizon24 Mai 2023

Sci-Fi and the Politics of the Future: An Interview with Steven Shaviro featuring Acid Horizon

Adam and Will are joined by Professor Steven Shaviro to discuss his work on the philosophy of science fiction, developing on themes from recent texts such as Extreme Fabulations and 2016's Discognition out on Repeater Books. We asked Steven about the various techniques that writers such as Frank Herbert, Adrian Tchaikovsky, and China Mieville to unearth possible futures in the present; and how they extrapolate from, speculate upon, and generate fables about dominant tendencies of our politica...

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Concepts in Focus: Tensors, Black Holes, and the Unconscious in Deleuze and Guattari (pre-episode content)

Concepts in Focus: Tensors, Black Holes, and the Unconscious in Deleuze and Guattari (pre-episode content)

Ahead of our interview with Taylor Adkins on his translation of Guattari's seminar entitled “Les Quatres Inconscients 13/01/1981”, we outline some of the concepts featured in the text: the unconscious...

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Mark Fisher and Poscapitalist Desire: Reading "Egress: On Mourning, Melancholy, and Mark Fisher" with Matt Colquhoun (Part 1)

Mark Fisher and Poscapitalist Desire: Reading "Egress: On Mourning, Melancholy, and Mark Fisher" with Matt Colquhoun (Part 1)

Author and photographer Matt Colquhoun joins the podcast to discuss the elegiac biography and personal memoir Egress: On Mourning, Melancholy, and Mark Fisher (Repeater Books). As we discuss the book,...

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Foucault's "Politics of Health" and "What Is Enlightenment?"

Foucault's "Politics of Health" and "What Is Enlightenment?"

We delve into Foucault's work on medicalization in the 18th century while also discussing his relation to Enlightenment thought. We furthermore take a few jabs at Jordan Peterson and Stephen Hicks in ...

21 Jun 20201h 15min

Concepts in Focus: Foucault and Docile Bodies

Concepts in Focus: Foucault and Docile Bodies

In this bonus episode, Will offers a detailed reading of Foucault's concept of docile bodies from Discipline and Punish. Support the show Support the podcast: AHRC Current classes at Acid Horizon R...

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Postmodernization in Hardt & Negri's Empire

Postmodernization in Hardt & Negri's Empire

More than twenty years from its initial publication, we examine Hardt & Negri's Empire. In this episode we attempt to unpack the authors' notion of 'postmodernization' or 'informatization'. We also s...

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Concepts in Focus: Bataille's Metaphilosophy

Concepts in Focus: Bataille's Metaphilosophy

In this special episode, Craig discussed the introduction to Georges Bataille's Theory of Religion, which presents a picture of Bataille's metaphilosophy. Support the show Support the podcast: AHRC ...

23 Mai 202010min

Deleuze, Foucault, and Prisons: Revisiting "Intellectuals and Power"

Deleuze, Foucault, and Prisons: Revisiting "Intellectuals and Power"

In this episode, we revisit the famous talk between Deleuze and Foucault entitled "Intellectuals and Power". Our discussion of interview involves breaking down Deleuze's theory of theory and praxis a...

13 Mai 20201h 5min

Welcome Episode: The Syllabus May 2020

Welcome Episode: The Syllabus May 2020

This is the first live episode of Acid Horizon. Craig, Will, Afreen, and Matt gather to discuss a series of four readings in political philosophy. This upcoming series will be the first 'block' of ou...

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