Judgment or Cruelty: Deleuze with Artaud, Kafka, and Nietzsche
In this episode, Craig, Matt, Will, and Adam close out the year by taking a look at Deleuze’s “To Have Done with Judgment”. In this work, Deleuze’s crosses paths with Artaud, but Nietzsche, Lawrence, ...
1 Jan 20211h 5min
What is 'Blacceleration'? A Conversation With Aria Dean
In this episode, Craig, Matt, Will, and Adam are joined by critic, artist, cultural theorist, and assistant curator at Rhizome Aria Dean to discuss her 2017 essay "Notes on Blacceleration." In this ep...
19 Dec 20201h 10min
Gilles Deleuze's "Postscript on Societies of Control"
In this episode, Craig, Matt, Will, and Adam return to Deleuze’s essay on the society of control. There are some crucial questions to ask: What is the nature of control? How does the control society d...
13 Dec 20201h 10min
Deleuze's "Proust and Signs"
In this episode, Taylor, Cooper, Will, and Craig break into Deleuze's famous text "Proust and Signs". For most of us, this was the first time we encounter the text. Together we strive to unpack the m...
10 Dec 20201h 18min
Simondon's Concept of Individuation
Taylor Adkins joins us for another episode to introduce his recent translation of Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information Vol. I & II . We carefully comb through introduction, unpack...
30 Nov 20201h 8min
Will 'Existential Monday' Ever Come? A Reading of Fondane's Existentialism
We engage with the existentialism of Benjamin Fondane, an existentialist philosopher who is not widely celebrated in the English speaking world but whose name enjoys renown among Francophones. Craig, ...
22 Nov 20201h 8min
Is Metal Radical? A Conversation with Metal Philosopher David Burke
Is metal (heavy, black, death, etc.) radical? is there something about metal that sets it apart from other genres as being potentially revolutionary? More broadly, can there exist an aesthetics capabl...
17 Nov 20201h 6min
A Reading of "The Oldest Systematic Program of German Idealism"
“The Oldest Systematic Program of German Idealism” is an esoteric text at the heart of 19th century German philosophy and of no certain authorship. The primary contention is that it was most likely wr...
11 Nov 20207min
