Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

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.

Grant Maxwell, philosopher and author of Integration and Difference: Constructing a Mythical Dialectic, joins Coop and Tay to discuss difference, Derrida, Deleuze's innovations on Hegel, Leibniz's monads, anger and love as powers of the idea, mythical dialectic in Deleuze, Deliz's relationship and the Oedipal complex, and Stangers' integration of science and philosophy.

The podcast explores Quentin Meillassoux's work on metaphysics and speculation. They discuss topics such as contingency, correlationism, atheism, and the concept of a self-deceiving God. They also delve into critiques of correlationism and the clash between the given and ancestrality. Additionally, they explore the nature of facts and subjectivity and the implications of correlationism on religion.

Jon Roffe joined Cooper and Taylor to discuss Deleuze and a Post-Kantian examination of markets and pricing. Time, inscription, all prices being derivative, and much more. Jon Roffe teaches philosophy at the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy. He is the author of Gilles Deleuze’s Empiricism and Subjectivity (Edinburgh University Press, 2017), Abstract Market Theory (Palgrave, 2015) and Badiou’s Deleuze (Acumen 2012). He is the co-author of Deleuze’s Philosophical Lineage II (Edinburgh University Press, 2019) and Deleuze’s Philosophical Lineage (Edinburgh University Press, 2009), Practising with Deleuze (Edinburgh University Press, 2017) and Lacan Deleuze Badiou (Edinburgh University Press, 2013), and co-editor of a number of volumes on 20th-century French thought. https://philpeople.org/profiles/jon-roffe https://mscp.academia.edu/JonRoffe Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

Greg Sadler, philosopher and Dune series analyst, joins the podcast to discuss nomadology, war machines, imperceptibility, eternal recurrence, materialism, and more. They explore the evolution of philosophy in the Dune series, the influence of video games and addiction, consciousness and identity in the Dune universe, poison, water, and the golden path, exploring identity and threatening beings, information overload and decision making challenges, value assignment and charismatic leaders, indigenous mythologies and the power of institutions, politics, religion, and the rise of a religious aspect, destroying characters and adapting to new circumstances, and revisiting books and ancient philosophy.