

Acid Horizon
Acid Horizon
Emerging from affinities with post-structuralism, abolitionism, biopolitics, communism, critical metaphysics, critical mysticism, and ontological anarchy, Acid Horizon is a philosophy and theory podcast committed to thought in motion and political struggle. While these are our grounding currents, each episode opens out onto a wider constellation: ethics, politics, phenomenology, decolonial thought, queer theory, post-psychoanalysis, disability/crip theory, anarchism, Marxism, feminism, and analyses of the emergence of the new right.Comprised of a decentralized collective of friends and comrades, Acid Horizon cultivates a terrain of militant inquiry. From readings that span 20th-century French communism to new perspectives on German idealism, the collective has also undertaken forays into aesthetic experimentation, philosophical heresy, and the history of revolt. We seek the concepts and intensities that gesture toward new forms of life.Acid Horizon pushes theory beyond the academy through live engagements, collaborative reading groups, and collective interventions.
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Sep 18, 2023 • 11min
Impulses, Phantasms, and Individuality: The Impulsional Theories of Klossowski and Nietzsche
Exploring the concept of individuality through Pierre Klossowski's notions of impulse and phantasm. Discussing Nietzsche's theory of forces and drives. Delving into the challenges of articulating singularity and the limitations of language in capturing ambiguous and subtle drives. Examining the concept of the phantasm in Klossowski's impulsional theories and its impact on relationships, internal conflicts, and artistic representations.

Sep 12, 2023 • 57min
Klossowski and Nietzsche: Impulsional Theory in "Living Currency" with Vernon W. Cisney
Vernon W. Cisney, an expert on Pierre Klossowski's 'Living Currency' and Nietzsche's theory of drives, discusses the influence of Klossowski's work on French thinkers like Deleuze & Guattari and Foucault. They explore Nietzsche's perspective on atheism and value positing, as well as the creativity of values in relation to Christianity and monotheism. The podcast also covers the synthesis of Nietzsche's affective theory with Marx's analysis of capitalism and the challenges of navigating Marxist theory and Freudian concepts in continental philosophy.

Sep 1, 2023 • 1h 6min
Solarpunk and Its Discontents: The Politics of Science Fiction and the Solarpunk Genre
The podcast discusses the politics of science fiction in relation to the solar punk genre, including the challenges of escaping reactionary beliefs and the potential for science fiction to become revolutionary. They explore the way corporate wokeness can compromise revolutionary ideals and criticize Saudi Arabia's Neom project. The podcast also examines the political assumptions of science fiction books, contrasts the ideologies of Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein, and discusses the desensitization to war and violence in society. The power of science fiction in challenging hegemony and promoting new subjects is highlighted.

Aug 29, 2023 • 1h 10min
Are We Narcissistic Enough? 'Narcissus in Bloom' and The History of the Selfie with Matt Colquhoun
Matt Colquhoun, author of 'Narcissus in Bloom,' explores the history of self-portraits from Renaissance painters to Kim Kardashian. They delve into the story of Narcissus, discuss transformative self-representation, the rise of individualism, and the connection between narcissism and photography. The chapter also explores the relationship between narcissism and anti-authoritarianism, and the potential of embracing the self.

Aug 25, 2023 • 10min
Gilles Deleuze's 'Nietzsche & Philosophy': The Preface
This podcast explores Gilles Deleuze's interpretation of Nietzsche's work and his theory of forces. It highlights key themes such as the will to power, the eternal return, and Nietzsche's impact on Western philosophy. The chapters delve into the concepts of forces, propositions, and the power of recognition. Deleuze challenges the common understanding of Nietzsche's eternal return and critiques the traditional image of thought.

Aug 23, 2023 • 1h 4min
Marx and Spinoza on the Ideology of Work Under Capitalism: Jason Read's 'The Double Shift'
The podcast explores the attachment to work under capitalism, the role of imagination in challenging the system, the impact of COVID-19 on work, the relationship between affective labor and labor in philosophy, Marx's engagement with classical philosophy, and the changing nature of work in the 21st century.

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Aug 15, 2023 • 1h 20min
The Jung/Deleuze Connection with Acid Horizon, Grant Maxwell, and Friends
Pre-Order Anti-Oculus (10.10.23): https://repeaterbooks.com/product/anti-oculus-a-philosophy-of-escape/What is the connection between the work of Carl Jung and Gilles Deleuze? Looking at the work of Grant Maxwell in his book "Integration and Difference: Constructing A Mythical Dialectic' we explore the impact of Jung's work on Deleuze and how Deleuzian thought allows us to reconsider Jung. Also featured in the discussion are Sigmund Freud, James Hillman, Isabelle Stegners, Felix Guattari, and more.Quique Autrey of Psyche Podcast: quiqueautrey.comKeanu Clark: @nonmarkov_fieldSupport the podcast:Pre-Order Anti-Oculus (10.10.23): https://repeaterbooks.com/product/anti-oculus-a-philosophy-of-escape/Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizonAcid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastZer0 Books and Repeater Media Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zer0repeaterMerch: http://www.crit-drip.comOrder 'The Philosopher's Tarot': https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-philosophers-tarot/Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/169wvvhiHappy Hour at Hippel's (Adam’s blog): https://happyhourathippels.wordpress.comRevolting Bodies (Will's Blog): https://revoltingbodies.comSplit Infinities (Craig’s Substack): https://splitinfinities.substack.com/Music: https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/ and https://thecominginsurrection.bandcamp.com/Support the showSupport the podcast:https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizonAcid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast Boycott Watkins Media: https://xenogothic.com/2025/03/17/boycott-watkins-statement/ Join The Schizoanalysis Project: https://discord.gg/4WtaXG3QxnSubscribe to us on your favorite podcast: https://pod.link/1512615438Merch: http://www.crit-drip.comSubscribe to us on your favorite podcast: https://pod.link/1512615438 LEPHT HAND: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHANDHappy Hour at Hippel's (Adam’s blog): https://happyhourathippels.wordpress.comRevolting Bodies (Will's Blog): https://revoltingbodies.comSplit Infinities (Craig’s Substack): https://splitinfinities.substack.com/Music: https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/ and https://thecominginsurrection.bandcamp.com/

Aug 9, 2023 • 47min
Georges Bataille, Sustainability, and Climate Change with Stuart Kendall and Acid Horizon (Part 2)
Acid Horizon Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastAnti-Oculus: https://www.amazon.com/Anti-Oculus-Acid-Horizon/dp/1915672090Zer0/Repeater Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zer0repeaterThe Acid Horizon crew are once again joined by Bataille scholar and translator Stuart Kendall to discuss his writings on General Economy, Waste, and Sustainability in the era of climate crisis. How is our ecologically destructive mode of production complimented by a capitalist mode of consumption? Is luxury antithetical to sustainable society? And how do we make more of waste in a world where the dominant tendencies of production aim at an infinite extraction of value? Join us as we investigate how the economic works of Georges Bataille can direct us away from planetary catastrophe, towards sustainable, even glorious, new modes of consumption. Featured in the discussion: Bataille, Kojève, Blanchot, Deleuze, Nancy, and Junger.Support the podcast:Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizonAcid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastZer0 Books and Repeater Media Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zer0repeaterMerch: http://www.crit-drip.comOrder 'The Philosopher's Tarot': https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-philosophers-tarot/Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/169wvvhiHappy Hour at Hippel's (Adam’s blog): https://happyhourathippels.wordpress.comRevolting Bodies (Will's Blog): https://revoltingbodies.comSplit Infinities (Craig’s Substack): https://splitinfinities.substack.com/Music: https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/ and https://thecominginsurrection.bandcamp.com/Support the showSupport the podcast:https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizonAcid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast Boycott Watkins Media: https://xenogothic.com/2025/03/17/boycott-watkins-statement/ Join The Schizoanalysis Project: https://discord.gg/4WtaXG3QxnSubscribe to us on your favorite podcast: https://pod.link/1512615438Merch: http://www.crit-drip.comSubscribe to us on your favorite podcast: https://pod.link/1512615438 LEPHT HAND: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHANDHappy Hour at Hippel's (Adam’s blog): https://happyhourathippels.wordpress.comRevolting Bodies (Will's Blog): https://revoltingbodies.comSplit Infinities (Craig’s Substack): https://splitinfinities.substack.com/Music: https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/ and https://thecominginsurrection.bandcamp.com/

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Aug 4, 2023 • 50min
Georges Bataille, Sustainability, and Climate Change with Stuart Kendall and Acid Horizon (Part 1)
Acid Horizon Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastAnti-Oculus: https://www.amazon.com/Anti-Oculus-Acid-Horizon/dp/1915672090Zer0/Repeater Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zer0repeaterThe Acid Horizon crew are once again joined by Bataille scholar and translator Stuart Kendall to discuss his writings on General Economy, Waste, and Sustainability in the era of climate crisis. How is our ecologically destructive mode of production complimented by a capitalist mode of consumption? Is luxury antithetical to sustainable society? And how do we make more of waste in a world where the dominant tendencies of production aim at an infinite extraction of value? Join us as we investigate how the economic works of Georges Bataille can direct us away from planetary catastrophe, towards sustainable, even glorious, new modes of consumption. Featured in the discussion: Bataille, Kojève, Blanchot, Deleuze, Nancy, and Junger.Support the podcast:Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizonAcid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastZer0 Books and Repeater Media Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zer0repeaterMerch: http://www.crit-drip.comOrder 'The Philosopher's Tarot': https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-philosophers-tarot/Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/169wvvhiHappy Hour at Hippel's (Adam’s blog): https://happyhourathippels.wordpress.comRevolting Bodies (Will's Blog): https://revoltingbodies.comSplit Infinities (Craig’s Substack): https://splitinfinities.substack.com/Music: https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/ and https://thecominginsurrection.bandcamp.com/Support the showSupport the podcast:https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizonAcid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast Boycott Watkins Media: https://xenogothic.com/2025/03/17/boycott-watkins-statement/ Join The Schizoanalysis Project: https://discord.gg/4WtaXG3QxnSubscribe to us on your favorite podcast: https://pod.link/1512615438Merch: http://www.crit-drip.comSubscribe to us on your favorite podcast: https://pod.link/1512615438 LEPHT HAND: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHANDHappy Hour at Hippel's (Adam’s blog): https://happyhourathippels.wordpress.comRevolting Bodies (Will's Blog): https://revoltingbodies.comSplit Infinities (Craig’s Substack): https://splitinfinities.substack.com/Music: https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/ and https://thecominginsurrection.bandcamp.com/

Jul 31, 2023 • 56min
Cautious, A Boat Adrift: Working Class Writing in the 21st Century with Tommy Sissons (Acid Horizon on Zer0/Repeater)
Buy the book: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/cautious-a-boat-adrift/As a failing journalist cares for his alcoholic grandfather, remnants of the elderly man’s long-buried stories resurface and drive him to an obsessional search for truth.“The land of men is an untouched one. It is the companionship of quiet. It is so many darkened boats, heading their own way, in the night.”Leeds, 2017. Disaffected journalist Fred Whitby and his mother visit Grandad Norman following the death of his callous second wife, Brenda. Norman has relapsed into alcoholism. Brenda’s daughter and her husband have invaded the house.Whilst writing a diary in attempt to revive his creativity, Fred finds himself cast adrift in his family history, trying frantically to piece together the fragmented memories, half-truths, secrets and mythologies that lie therein. Disappearances. Post-war protection rackets. An IRA bomb plot. Romantic rivalries. The kidnap of a traitorous miner.As spectres of the past meet with the looming presence of a post-truth future, Fred must navigate the illogical and unprovable stories of his grandfather and come to terms with the absence of irrecoverable voices in his quest for whatever truth and meaning remains.***Support the podcast:Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizonAcid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastZer0 Books and Repeater Media Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zer0repeaterMerch: http://www.crit-drip.comOrder 'The Philosopher's Tarot': https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-philosophers-tarot/Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/169wvvhiHappy Hour at Hippel's (Adam’s blog): https://happyhourathippels.wordpress.comRevolting Bodies (Will's Blog): https://revoltingbodies.comSplit Infinities (Craig’s Substack): https://splitinfinities.substack.com/Music: https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/ and https://thecominginsurrection.bandcamp.com/Support the showSupport the podcast:https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizonAcid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast Boycott Watkins Media: https://xenogothic.com/2025/03/17/boycott-watkins-statement/ Join The Schizoanalysis Project: https://discord.gg/4WtaXG3QxnSubscribe to us on your favorite podcast: https://pod.link/1512615438Merch: http://www.crit-drip.comSubscribe to us on your favorite podcast: https://pod.link/1512615438 LEPHT HAND: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHANDHappy Hour at Hippel's (Adam’s blog): https://happyhourathippels.wordpress.comRevolting Bodies (Will's Blog): https://revoltingbodies.comSplit Infinities (Craig’s Substack): https://splitinfinities.substack.com/Music: https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/ and https://thecominginsurrection.bandcamp.com/