The Case for Becoming-Plant: Karen Houle on Plant Ontology and the Image of Thought
How does one 'become-plant'? Karen Houle joins us and guides us through her work on critical vegetal studies. We address how the notion of becoming-plant (a term originally coined by Deleuze and Guatt...
1 Aug 202042min
Techno, Black Metal, Nostalgia, and Communization: A Discussion with Benjamin Noys
We tap Benjamin Noys to engage in a broad discussion of aesthetics and politics related to his writings on techno, black metal, and communization. Some figures who appear within the discussion: Nietz...
25 Juli 20201h 25min
Guattari Tapes: A Discussion with Taylor Adkins about Guattari's Four Unconsciouses
Taylor Adkins of Theory Talk joins the show to explicate a seminar by Felix Guattari entitled “The Four Unconsciouses”. Taylor recently translated this seminar into English, which is available on his ...
21 Juli 20201h 1min
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...
18 Juli 202015min
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,...
3 Juli 20201h 7min
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 Juni 20201h 15min
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...
28 Maj 202011min
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...
25 Maj 20201h
