An Introduction to Foucault and His Concepts
Acid Horizon15 Okt 2022

An Introduction to Foucault and His Concepts

In this episode of Concepts in Focus, Will lays out a handful of key concepts in the popular works of Michel Foucault. What does Foucault’s genealogy of sovereignty’s passage to discipline tell us about the politics of the body? What is Foucault’s understanding of the function of history? What does it mean when we say power has a hold on life? This episode is a general overview but has commentary that will be of interest to those invested in our turtleneck’d anti-carceral friend. Support the...

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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 Okt 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...

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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...

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Western Marxism vs. Stalinism: Domenico Losurdo’s Controversial Legacy with Ross Wolfe

Western Marxism vs. Stalinism: Domenico Losurdo’s Controversial Legacy with Ross Wolfe

What if the very idea of Western Marxism has less to do with geography than with defeat? In this episode of Acid Horizon, we dive into Domenico Losurdo’s controversial use of the term and ask what’s a...

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Wilhelm Reich, Fascism & Work Democracy: Philip Bennett & David Silver at Orgonon

Wilhelm Reich, Fascism & Work Democracy: Philip Bennett & David Silver at Orgonon

Video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/sbwVioWlhS0 What happens when we revisit Wilhelm Reich’s journey from Freud’s student to radical theorist of desire, politics, and repression? In this episode, we s...

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From Blake to Bataille: Romanticism, Communism, and the Commons with Joseph Albernaz

From Blake to Bataille: Romanticism, Communism, and the Commons with Joseph Albernaz

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LEPHT HAND - Myth, Nostalgia, and Liberation: Federico Campagna’s 'Otherworlds: Mediterranean Lessons On Escaping History'

Can myth itself serve as a material force in struggles for liberation? Federico Campagna joins me to discuss how myth—too often dismissed as escapism or co-opted by reaction—can instead become a pract...

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Identity on Credit: Ajax, Achilles, and the Modern Self with Fredrik Westerlund

Identity on Credit: Ajax, Achilles, and the Modern Self with Fredrik Westerlund

What happens when the self we imagine drifts further from the one we actually live? In this episode, philosopher Fredrik Westerlund joins Craig and Nicholas de Warren to explore his concept of “identi...

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