Cosmic Utopia: Fedorov's "The Common Task" (introducing 'The Lost Cyberhighway')
Acid Horizon9 Jan 2023

Cosmic Utopia: Fedorov's "The Common Task" (introducing 'The Lost Cyberhighway')

We start our series, “The Lost Cyberhighway” with an exploration of an early proto-cybernetic text by Nikolai Federov, “The Common Task”. This work of cosmic politics articulates a humanity that is united in a production-driven expansionary project to transform “the solar system” into “a controlled economic entity.” We examine this speculative text’s relationship to the legacy of physiocratic economics, Darwinism, the government of population, colonialism, and its strange projections of neoli...

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The Obsolescence of the Human: AI, Nuclear Weapons, and the Philosophy of Günther Anders

The Obsolescence of the Human: AI, Nuclear Weapons, and the Philosophy of Günther Anders

What does it mean to feel outclassed by your own creations? In this episode, host Craig is joined by Christopher John Müller, translator and co-editor of the new University of Minnesota Press edition ...

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Patreon Preview: Bataille’s 'Guilty' Explained: Stuart Kendall on War, Time, and Instability

Patreon Preview: Bataille’s 'Guilty' Explained: Stuart Kendall on War, Time, and Instability

*Patreon Preview* To access the rest of this discussion, becoming paid subscriber on our Patreon page, or enroll in 'Formless', which begins March 11th. Links are below. What does Georges Bataille’s G...

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Communize the Eschaton: Thomas Müntzer and the German Peasants' War

Communize the Eschaton: Thomas Müntzer and the German Peasants' War

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'Digital Theory' Panel Discussion: Is Theory Itself Digital? (Fazi, Galloway, Weatherby, Handleman)

In this free public panel hosted by the Acid Horizon Research Commons, we discuss Digital Theory (University of Minnesota Press) with contributors Alexander R. Galloway, M. Beatrice Fazi, Matthew Hand...

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Communist Ontologies: Communism as a Form of Life with Bruno Gulli and Richard Gilman-Opalsky

Communist Ontologies: Communism as a Form of Life with Bruno Gulli and Richard Gilman-Opalsky

What does it mean to think communism philosophically, and how can a political rupture be understood as an ontological transformation of the conditions of everyday life? Adam is joined by Bruno Gulli a...

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Hyperreality Is Dead: Baudrillard, the Age of Trump, and 'The Gulf War Did Not Take Place' Revisited

Hyperreality Is Dead: Baudrillard, the Age of Trump, and 'The Gulf War Did Not Take Place' Revisited

Adam's intensive Kant course now enrolling: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/2026-classes In this episode, we revisit Jean Baudrillard’s The Gulf War Did Not Take Place, a text that diagnosed the em...

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The Spectral Woman with Ciara Cremin

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Comrade Delta: Organisation, Theory, and the Failure of Britain's Biggest Revolutionary Party

Amidst the unceasing murderous march of capitalist imperialism and its transformation into new fascisms, the mantra of the revolutionary is to become organised, either by founding or joining a revolut...

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