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.
Episodes
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Oct 4, 2020 • 60min
Phaedrus Phun: Reading Plato Through Nietzsche, Foucault, Deleuze, and Derrida (with Taylor Adkins)
Theory maven and translator Taylor Adkins joins Will and Craig to explore interpretations of Plato's 'Phaedrus' through Nietzsche, Foucault, Deleuze, and Derrida. Topics discussed include desire, writing, rhetoric, self-reflection, beauty, internal suppression, Greek sexuality, madness, memory, and the fear of nature and writing in Socrates' dialogue.
Sep 28, 2020 • 1h 5min
Georges Bataille's "Notion of Expenditure"
Anti-utilitarianism, the sacred, expenditure and destruction under capitalism, comparison to Deleuze and Guattari's antiproduction, Marxism, Mauss, cultural anthropology, Bataille's critique of utilitarianism, transitioning from aristocratic to bourgeois expenditure, the notion of outside in French theory and its relationship to politics, Bataille's views on Christianity and revolution.
Sep 20, 2020 • 41min
Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures of Mark Fisher
Mark Fisher, author and lecturer, gives his last lectures on postcapitalist desire. Topics include the impact of Fisher's lectures, the relationship between Marcuse and Fisher's reading of Anti-Oedipus, the influence of Markusa, Guataridu, and Freud on contemporary thought, the relationship between genealogy, desire, and standpoint theory, and the intersection of patriarchy and capitalism.
Sep 12, 2020 • 1h 25min
Answers Without Organs: Acid Horizon's First Q&A Session
The hosts answer listener questions, recommend affordable universities in critical theory, and discuss the role of academia in radical theory. They delve into D'Liz and Gattari's contributions to philosophy, approaches to reading 'A Thousand Plateaus,' and their admiration for Taylor Adkins. They explore the influence of academic understandings on contemporary politics, the struggle to find a metaphysical framework, and ways to escape the dogmatic image of thought.
Sep 10, 2020 • 11min
A Reading of Gilles Deleuze's "Instincts and Institutions"
This podcast explores the concepts of instincts, institutions, and laws. It discusses how individuals develop artificial means for satisfaction, the relationship between tendency, institution, and instinct, and the advantages of instinct to a species. It also examines the synthesis of tendencies, the role of intelligence in instinct, and the relationship between instinct and institutions in animal-human interactions.
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Sep 5, 2020 • 52min
Uses of Nietzsche in Political Philosophy and Deleuze's Recasting of the Concept of Ressentiment
Explore the applications of Nietzsche's philosophy in political theory and leftist programs. Discuss Nietzsche's influence on political thinking, his concepts of ressentiment and eternal return, and debunk the caricature of Nietzsche as a fascist. Delve into Deleuze's reinterpretation of ressentiment, genealogy as a methodology, and Nietzsche's concept of ressentiment as the motor of history. Discover the person of Rezontemann and the political implications of Nietzsche's philosophy.
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Aug 30, 2020 • 16min
Concepts in Focus: The Hegelian Dialectic
This podcast explores the Hegelian dialectic, debunking misconceptions and highlighting its differences from Marx's views. They use examples from popular culture, like Fallout: New Vegas, to explain the three-step process of the dialectic. They also discuss the interdependence of opposing poles using a magnet as an analogy, and how this understanding relates to Marx's analysis of class identities within capitalism.
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Aug 23, 2020 • 54min
Who is 'Dark Deleuze'?: A Discussion with Andrew Culp
Guest Andrew Culp discusses his book 'Dark Deleuze' and challenges to Deleuze's philosophy. Topics include negativity/positivity in Deleuze and Foucault's philosophy, politics of blame and ressentiment, radical groups and actions, conspiracy and imperceptibility, and tactical media and resistance.
Aug 16, 2020 • 1h 5min
Understanding Foucault and the Feminist Philosophy of Disability with Shelley Tremain
Shelley Tremain, an expert in feminist philosophy of disability, discusses her essay on a historicist and relativist feminist philosophy of disability, exploring the work of Foucault and the struggles of disabled voices in academia. They address the naturalization of disability, Foucault's analytical approach, subjectivation and self-subjectivity, and the emergence of diagnostic reasoning. They also analyze the interplay of medicine, social forces, and the pandemic crisis.
Aug 8, 2020 • 1h 6min
Althusser's Concept of Ideology: A Discussion with Anthony Gavin
Anthony Gavin, host of Out of Left Field, joins the hosts to discuss Althusser's concept of ideology. They explore the functioning of the prison system and its impact on education, compare Althusser's ideas with those of Foucault and Deleuze and Guattari, and delve into the encoding of ideology on the body. They also touch on Althusser's shift in philosophy after a mental health crisis and discuss teaching in prisons.
