Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

In this episode, Cooper and Taylor focus the discussion on Chapter 2 of Deleuze and Guattari's Anti Oedipus: 6. A Recapitulation of the Three Synthesis 7. Social Repression and Psychic Repression 8. Neuroses and Psychosis 9. The Process Anti Oedipus Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/anti-oedipus Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

The podcast explores Nietzsche's 'Twilight of the Idols' and its relevance today, discussing topics such as psychoanalytic resonances, poetry, symbolic exchange, Lacan's engagement with Nietzsche and Hegel, freedom as a burden and debt, pain, instinct, and overcoming, Nietzsche's critique of language, rationality, and morality, eternal return and nostalgia, and Nietzsche's perspective on power and desire.

Jack and Will of the Acid Horizon Podcast join Cooper and Taylor to discuss simulating the name of god, The Other, and more. Topics include symbolic exchange in death, the unique nature of Twitter, engaging with deviance and the Other, functionalism and the maintenance of order, Durkheim's systematization and the church's role in power, belief, desire, and the unconscious, the looking glass self and identity formation, exploring Nietzsche's philosophy, and upcoming projects.

This week Cooper and Taylor discuss chapter 2 of Jean Baudrillard's Symbolic Exchange and death, titled The Three Orders of Simulacra. Symbolic Exchange & Death Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/symbolic-exchange-and-death Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

Cooper and Taylor discuss Marcel Mauss's The Gift and its influence on symbolic exchange and death in 20th-century philosophy. They explore the concept of the gift in the critique of capital, the power dynamics of the potlatch, betrayal in Game of Thrones, reciprocity in the Olympic Games, the importance of trust in economic exchanges, the historical context of debt and taxation, sentimental value and the accrual of interest, suffering and redemption, and the significance of mice in thinkers' works.

In this episode, Cooper and Taylor focus the discussion on Chapter 2 of Deleuze and Guattari's Anti Oedipus: 3. The Connective Synthesis of Production, 4. The Disjunctive Synthesis of Recording, and 5. The Conjunctive Synthesis of Consumption-Consummation. Anti Oedipus Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/anti-oedipus Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

The podcast explores topics such as the ineffectiveness of governments and politics, the impact of COVID-19 on production dislocation, bailouts and subprime loans, simulacra and media form, the foreclosure of death and the hypercharged system, strikes and the crisis of representation, the power of signs and the capitalist system, lost objects and symbolic exchange, and the metaphysics of code.

Friend of the show, Damian, joined Taylor and I for a look at the first two section of Chapter 2 of Deleuze and Guattari's Anti Oedipus, The Imperialism of Oedipus and Three Texts of Freud. Seminar 1: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/anti-oedipus-seminar-1 Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

Todd McGowan & Ryan Engley of the Why Theory podcast joined us for a discussion of the complicated personal and theoretical relationships between Jacques Lacan and Felix Guattari. There is the backdrop of the broad implications of theories of the unconscious and capitalism. Why Theory Links: https://soundcloud.com/whytheory https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-theory/id1299863834 https://www.amazon.com/Capitalism-Desire-Psychic-Cost-Markets/dp/0231178727 https://www.pomona.edu/directory/people/ryan-engley https://www.uvm.edu/cas/english/profiles/todd-mcgowan Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

Phoebe Kaufman joins to discuss The Wolf Man's Magic Word. They delve into holes, wounds, and openings. They explore cryptonomy and the interplay between the symbolic and imaginary. They touch on animal behavior, secrecy, recognition, and misrecognition. They also explore rhyme, numerology, and the unsayable. They discuss hidden desires, the symbolism of the nose, listening, and werewolves. They consider implications, reality, fantasy, and encryption. They share final thoughts and a podcast recommendation.