Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

A discussion on Jean Baudrillard's The Ecstasy of Communication with Adam and Craig from Acid Horizon. The discussion was originally offered to Patrons of the Zero Books YouTube Channel. Video Link: https://youtu.be/AK7WoO5Ky6I https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/acid-horizon/id1512615438 https://twitter.com/acidhorizonpod?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast/posts https://www.instagram.com/acidhorizonpod/?hl=en https://acidhorizonpodcast.buzzsprout.com/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqzFQr1LCC8xrr0fMcRctYg Zer0 Books YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/Zer0Books Happy Hour at Hippel's (Adam’s blog): https://happyhourathippels.wordpress.com Destratified (Matt’s Blog): https://destratified.com/ ​Revolting Bodies (Will's Blog): https://revoltingbodies.com ​Split Infinities (Craig’s Substack): https://splitinfinities.substack.com/ ​Music: https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/ Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast) Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

Gail Newman and Mari Ruti joined Coop and Taylor to discuss their upcoming co-authored text, Against Neoliberal Self-Optimization: Marion Milner and D.W. Winnicott. Gail is the Chair for the Center of Global Languages, Literatures, and Cultures and is the Harold J. Henry Professor of German at Williams College; her research interests include psychoanalytic theory, German literature and culture and she has published on Goethe, Kleist, Hoffman, and Novalis (among others), including a book titled Locating the Romantic Subject: Novalis with Winnicott. https://german.williams.edu/profile/gnewman/ Mari is a Distinguished Professor of Critical Theory and Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Toronto. Her books include The Singularity of Being: Lacan and the Immortal Within; The Ethics of Opting Out: Defiance and Affect in Queer Theory; and Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings: The Emotional Costs of Everyday Life. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mari_Ruti Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

Friend of the show, Isabel Millar, joined Coop and Taylor to discuss her article, Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Bombshell. We discuss Deleuze and Guattari's semiotic theory of the face, faciality as evoked by the 2022 film Blonde from Andrew Dominik. The discussion draws heavily from Year Zero: Faciality from A Thousand Plateaus and Tiqqun's Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl. Isabel's links: https://www.isabelmillar.com/ https://twitter.com/IsabelVMillar Isabel's first appearance: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/isabel-millar-psychoanalysis-ai-schrebers-basilisk?si=31eb9ebc76a64881a17c65ff8c0d30d3&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

This week, Matthew Flisfeder joins Coop and Taylor to discuss his latest book, Algorithmic Desire:Toward a New Structuralist Theory of Social Media. Matthew is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Communications at The University of Winnipeg, where he teaches courses on Communication Theory, Popular Culture, Critical Theories of Discourse and Ideology, and Critical Studies of Social Media. Matthew's Links: https://matthewflisfeder.com/ https://www.uwinnipeg.ca/cultural-studies/faculty/matthew-flisfeder.html https://twitter.com/MattFlisfeder https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810143333/algorithmic-desire/ Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

Explore the concept of the body without organs and its connection to social organization. Discuss schizoanalysis, the social field, the molecular unconscious, and the relationship between psychoanalysis and capitalism. Examine 'partial objects' and their relationship to intensive matter. Learn about adaptations to dark environments and sensory experiences. Explore the blurring of individuality in systems of information. Challenge the anthropomorphic view of sex and introduce the concept of a machinic or molecular unconscious. Discuss the link between private property, the family, and social reproduction. Explore the basics of the capitalist axiomatic. Discuss the countervailing tendency of the human security system and the emergence of a new Earth.

Christopher Satoor joined Coop and Taylor for a discussion of FWJ Schelling's The Ages of the World. Christopher's Links: https://yorku.academia.edu/ChristopherSatoor https://twitter.com/aufgehendeRest https://www.youtube.com/christophersatoor

This week Dorothea Olkowski joined Coop and Taylor to discuss her work on Deleuze, Bergson, and Phenomenology among other topics. We focused on her latest book, Deleuze, Bergson, Merleau-Ponty: The Logic and Pragmatics of Creation, Affective Life, and Perception as well as The Universal (In the Realm of the Sensible): Beyond Continental Philosophy. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

Melody, creator of the A World to Win YouTube channel joined Coop and Taylor for a discussion centering on Friedrich Engels' Anti-Duhring. Labor theory of value, labor power, dialectics, dialectics of nature, surplus value and more round out the conversation. Melody's Links: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAqnMGJduurVhGI7S3uSA8w https://t.co/7RF9VsOEhl https://www.patreon.com/aworldtowin Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

This week Taylor and Coop discuss Freud's Mourning and Melancholia. The discussion includes threads on libidinal economy, depression, narcissism and more. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

Sean Bowden, author of The Priority of Events: Deleuze's Logic of Sense, joined Coop and Taylor for a look at metaphysics, ontology, events, and sense. https://www.amazon.com/Priority-Events-Deleuzes-Plateaus-Directions/dp/0748643648 https://www.deakin.edu.au/about-deakin/people/sean-bowden Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh