Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

Frequent contributor Taylor Adkins discusses Sigmund Freud's 'Beyond the Pleasure Principle'. Topics include death in single-cell organisms, Freud's concept of individuation, eros and complexity in distributed systems, Freud and Lacan's views on the unconscious, the distinction between Lacanian death drive and desire, the intensity of information, the concept of death and its relationship to life, the influence of 'Beyond the Pleasure Principle' on later thought, and the connections between love, crying, and passion.

Taylor Adkins, @CNoumena, and @YAgamben discuss Jean Francois Lyotard's Libidinal Economy, covering topics such as the concept of women as currency in trade, analyzing Freud and Lyotard's perspectives on sterilization, the blockchain and its relationship to money, capitalism, crypto, and currency, waste and extravagance in relation to Versailles, exploring concepts such as monopoly and recantalism, contradictions in Leotard's ideas, the violence of the state and the locking of information, capitalism and the culture of competition, trade, Lyotard, and the free use of women's bodies, and an appreciation for the transcendental artistry of prose.

Taylor Adkins, @CNoumena, @YAgamben join the podcast to discuss Jean Francois Lyotard's Libidinal Economy. They explore topics such as the relationship between currency, value, and meaning, the concept of organic and inorganic bodies in relation to labor power and capital, exclusive destruction and quantic observation, the role of excessive consumption in primitive societies, flows in economics and its parallels to phallocentrism, the aftermath of the May 68 revolution, and the spontaneous use of language and unexamined faith.

Translator Taylor Adkins joins for a discussion on Lyotard, Baudrillard, Deleuze and Guattari, Don Delillo, and the failure of markets. They also explore the little economy and its relationship to language, movie ratings and preferences, time and capitalism, teaching 'Brave New World', 'Gilgamesh', and 'The Odyssey', and literary coding and influence.

Guests: John Zigterman, co-host of Beep Beep Lettuce; Adam, co-host of Acid Horizon; Eliot Rosenstock, author of Zizek and The Clinic. Interesting topics: Sterner's influence on Marx, exploring autonomy and society's enclosure, the illusory nature of identity, the concept of transgression, freedom and unfreedom in power structures, individualism, capitalism, and revolutionary thought, revolution and insurrection, and the freedom of unfixed purpose.

Part 3 of a series of discussions with Taylor Adkins, @CNoumena, and @YAgamben on Jean Francois Lyotard's Libidinal Economy (1974). Lyotard referred to it as his evil book, and it was a major influence on Nick Land. In this episode, we cover the first half of chapter 3, The Desire named Marx (pgs. 95-122) from the Grant translation. Part 1: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/taylor-adkins-cnoumena-yagamben-wicked-lyotard-pt-1 Part 2: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/taylor-adkins-cnoumena-yagamben-wicked-lyotard-pt-2 Taylor's Links: https://soundcloud.com/user-659574533 https://soundcloud.com/theory-talk https://fractalontology.wordpress.com/ https://twitter.com/tadkins613 Cute Noumena: https://twitter.com/CNoumena https://linktr.ee/Cute_Noumena Yung Agamben: https://twitter.com/YAgamben Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/machinicunconscioushh

Taylor Adkins discusses Jean Francois Lyotard's Libidinal Economy (1974), delving into topics such as the great zero and its association with negativity and nihilism, the relationship between speeding up and intensities, exploring Lyotard's ideas of deterritorialization, the concept of the tensor, exploring consequences of intention in post-phonemic sign systems, counter-transference and the hysteric body, exploring Jordan Peterson's foot fetish explanation, simulation and schizophrenia, the concept of a stopgap and its relation to the Schizo, translation of 'force' and its influence on civilization, the relationship between a pimp and a prostitute, the status of the criminal, capitalism, prostitution, and desire, and complexity and context.

In this episode, Jack Collis, an expert in egoism and the Right To Be Greedy, discusses various intriguing topics. These include analyzing a publication critiquing anarchism, exploring the connection between greed and a communist society, discussing billionaires and the cult of individualism, and emphasizing the need to move past capitalism for true freedom. The hosts also delve into how property shapes one's sense of self, explore the concept of self-interest, and touch upon false consciousness.

Guest Jack Collis joins the podcast to discuss Egoist Communism and the convergence of anarchist and Marxist thought. They explore the influence of Hegel and the Young Hegelians, the relationship between power and belief, the motivations of Jeff Bezos, the interconnection of anti-natalism and capitalism, the concept of state capitalism, the narrow form of self-interest in capitalism, the impact of the printing press, and the complexities of property and power.

Taylor Adkins, a knowledgeable individual on Jean Francois Lyotard's Libidinal Economy (1974), discusses various topics including Leotard's 'Evil Book' and its connection to Anti-Oedipus, desire and representation, challenging Victorian hypocrisy, the signifiers of makeup and desire, the concept of the Bar in dis intensification, Nick Land's anthropocentric vision, Freud's topological interventions, Lyotard's views on language games and topology, double articulation and capitalism, introducing numina and idealism, the current state of theory, and interactions and coordination on social media.