Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

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

Coop and Taylor interview Adam and Craig from Acid Horizon podcast discussing chapter 3 of Lyotard's Libidinal Economy. Topics include the interconnection of desire and political economy in Marx and Freud, the growth of edifice in relation to capitalism, Leotar's writing and critical negative modality, feedback loops and potlatch in capitalism, and the difficulty in finding guests to discuss a particular book.

Simon Duffy discusses the convergence of history of mathematics and philosophy, exploring topics such as perspective in Spinoza, Deliz's work on serialism and calculus, integration of historical mathematics, Lautman's Platonism, consciousness and intensity, differential philosophy, and mathematics as a nomadic science.

Alenka Zupancic joined Coop and Taylor to discuss the ontological and epistemological implications of the problematic associated with the signification of the sexual. Alenka is a member of the Ljubljana school along with Slavoj Zizek and others and has written on jokes, Kant, Nietzsche and more. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

Author, hip-hop artist, and holder of a PhD from Warwick University, Nicholas Blincoe joins Coop and Taylor for a look at Nick Land's Making it With Death: Remarks on Thanatos and Desiring-Production. Land was Nicholas's phd advisor at Warwick, and Nicholas was friends with Iian Hamilton Grant, so he shares a little about his experiences from this period. Nicholas's Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Blincoe https://youtu.be/14ADgVsHeeA https://twitter.com/nicholasblincoe Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

Henry Somers Hall, an expert in Deleuze's Difference and Repetition, discusses topics such as Deleuze's unique approach to philosophy, the complexities of representing time, untangling complex texts, connections between Delir's work and Hegel, the concept of the dice throw and potentiality, engaging with the teleological suspension of the ethical in Kierkegaard's work, and the critique of logomorphic model and phenomenology.

Eric Santner, a scholar at the University of Chicago, discusses his latest book and the connections between philosophy, literature, and a life in theory. The conversation explores topics such as the transformation from atheism to belief, Freud's understanding of unconscious mental activity, the concept of psychotheology, the relationship between theory and praxis, and the concept of sensuousness and vulnerability in theory.