Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

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.

Elmo Feiten joined Cooper and Taylor to discuss his essay Ethics of the Care for the Brain Neuroplasticity with Stirner, Malabou and Foucault. We discuss mischaracterizations of Stirner, the life sciences, the umwelt, Jakob Johann von Uexküll, resonances with Deleuze/Guattari, and much more! Elmo's Links https://twitter.com/tim_elmo https://uc.academia.edu/TimElmoFeiten https://www.academia.edu/63130316/Ethics_of_the_Care_for_the_Brain_Neuroplasticity_with_Stirner_Malabou_and_Foucault Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

The hosts discuss Marx and Guattari's views on machines and structures, exploring topics such as revolutionary politics, the impact of machines on surplus extraction, exporting pollution and thermodynamics, capitalism's reliance on externalities, Marx's analysis of disposable time and surplus labor, the role of voice in shaping structure, and the transformation of labor into machinery.

Saul Newman, author of Political Theology: A Critical Introduction and Order, Crisis, and Redemption, discusses Carl Schmitt's concepts of sovereignty and the sovereign exception, his relation to anarchism and Stirner, and explores the relevance of Schmitt's ideas in times of crises, including the rise of right-wing populism and the ecological crisis.

In this episode, Cooper and Taylor sit down with Lacanian philosopher Lorenzo Chiesa to discuss his work The Not-Two: God and Logic in Lacan and his forthcoming work God Is Undead to discuss the legacy and practice of psychoanalysis, its interrelations with Marxism, the logic and illogic of the sexual relation, the status of God in strong agnosticism and atheism, the ontological implications of incompleteness and inconsistency, and the exploration of what the author calls 'meta-critical realism. Lorenzo's Links: https://www.lorenzochiesa.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenzo_Chiesa https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/not-two Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

Thomas Nail joined Coop and Taylor for a discussion primarily focusing on his book Marx in Motion. We discuss the swerve of the atom, primitive accumulation, kinetic communism, and much more in this week's installment of MUHH. Thomas's Links: https://philosophyofmovementblog.com/author/matterinmotionblog/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Nail https://liberalarts.du.edu/about/people/thomas-andrew-nail Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

Jeremy Smith, expert in Laruelle and non-humanism, discusses topics such as the concept of non-humanism and its relation to violence and information, the title and influences of their thesis, the concept of the on-demic and its relation to redefining humanity, the value of translation and sharing perspectives, the role of invention in emancipation, Laura Wells' work on superior racism and its connection to Nietzsche and biopolitical parallelism, the unsettling aspects of vitality and politics, reinvigorating discussions on non-philosophy, and the role of philosophy for non-philosophy.