Cybernetics and the Left: Communist Synergy or Capitalist Machines?
Adam is joined by Dr James Fox to discuss the legacy of cybernetics and organizational theory, its Leftist critics, and the potential for a cybernetics of the commune, one which politicizes the dynamic systems of democracy at play in worker organizing. We discussed public attitudes to cyber-theory, the history of the field from Wiener to Bogdanov and Stafford Beer, and the use of machinic language from Deleuze to the CCRU. You can read all of the pieces from James we discussed today over at ...
31 Maj 20231h 3min
Michel Foucault: The Utopian Body (1966)
A reading of Michel Foucault's 1966 essay "The Utopian Body". Support the podcast: Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizon Acid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast Zer0 Books and Repeater Media Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zer0repeater Merch: http://www.crit-drip.com Order 'The Philosopher's Tarot': https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-philosophers-tarot/ Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/169wvvhi Happy Hour at Hippel's (Adam’s blog...
25 Maj 202319min
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...
24 Maj 20231h 10min
William S. Burroughs: "The Limits of Control" and Its Influence on Deleuze
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizon We explore the origins of Deleuze's concept of the Control society by taking a deep dive into the priest of the Beat Generation: William S. Burroughs. Taking cues from texts such as The Limits of Control, Nova Express, Naked Lunch, and his lectures on viral communication, we articulate the fundamental tension at the heart of control systems, how images can 'go viral' in the age of social media, and explore Burroughs' own accounts of communication and c...
21 Maj 20231h 2min
Data is Dead Labor: Capitalism, Ideology, and AI (no music)
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizon Just how 'artificial' is 'artificial intelligence'? How do he ruling class understand with this technology, and how do they obscure the labour relations within? Who is the proletarian of the data mines, and how do we break through the new digital ideologies of Cyber-Capital? Adam reads through an article by Kissinger, Schmidt, and Huttenlocher to reveal the mystification that separates mankind from the new data machines. Refugees help power machine le...
18 Maj 202313min
Data is Dead Labor: Capitalism, Ideology, and AI
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizon Just how 'artificial' is 'artificial intelligence'? How do he ruling class understand with this technology, and how do they obscure the labour relations within? Who is the proletarian of the data mines, and how do we break through the new digital ideologies of Cyber-Capital? Adam reads through an article by Kissinger, Schmidt, and Huttenlocher to reveal the mystification that separates mankind from the new data machines. Refugees help power machine le...
17 Maj 202313min
'High John the Conqueror: A Novel' and Beyond: An Interview with Tariq Goddard
Grab 'High John the Conqueror: A Novel' here: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/high-john-the-conqueror-a-novel/ When children start going missing in a rural town, the investigation takes twists and turns into the strange world of privilege and the realm of the occult. "I always wanted to be a writer, but I became a policeman instead." WESSEX, 2016. Teenagers are vanishing off the council estates of a small provincial city. A crop of herbs that are said to posses magical powers which only ...
9 Maj 20231h 13min
What Do Deleuze and Guattari Mean by 'Becoming-Animal'? (vs. Plato, Carl Jung, and James Hillman)
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizon (This video has incidental moderate visual strobe effects) This video is an introduction to Deleuze and Guattari's concept of 'becoming-animal' from A Thousand Plateaus. We also briefly cover the authors' theory of anti-representation in contracts with such figures as Plato, Carl Jung, and James Hillman. Support the podcast: Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizon Acid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast Zer0 Books and Re...
7 Maj 202315min
