Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

Exploring Freud's concept of transference love, its connection to childhood experiences, and the role of the analyst. Examining parallels between Marx and Freud's theories, uncovering the origins of transference, and exploring the mystic writing pad. Delving into the intricacies of transference love and unconscious desires.

Discussion on rules of eating, biased thinking, violence of information, murder, the queen, and a vanishing boy. Badiou's ethics and its connection to Lacanian notions of desire. Badiou's evolution in politics and relationship with Spinoza and Lacan. Deviance, ethics, and truth procedures. Fidelity to truth and the challenges of maintaining it. Exploring book endings, societal inequality, and transformation of politics. Exploring trauma, cooperation, healers, and confrontation in 'God Emperor'. Delving into martyrdom sacrifice, confrontation, and adversaries.

In this podcast, Coop and Taylor discuss Jean Francois Lyotard's 'The Postmodern Condition' and explore topics such as meta-narratives, language games, science, and the downfall of grand narratives. They touch on the shift from modernity to postmodernity, the role of doubt and uncertainty in science, and the desires and limits of knowledge. The podcast also delves into the concept of language games, the implications of imposing a grand meta-narrative, and the role of narratives in legitimating scientific knowledge.

This week Cooper and Taylor discuss Raymond Ruyer's Neofinalism. Neofinalism offers a systematic and lucidly argued treatise that deploys the innovative concepts of self-survey, form, and absolute surface to shape a theory of the virtual and the transspatial. It also makes a compelling plea for a renewed appreciation of the creative activity that organizes spatiotemporal structures and makes possible the emergence of real beings in a dynamic universe. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

Discussion on Michel Serres' The Birth of Physics, including flows, vortices, clinamen, and optimal pathways. Exploring ancient thinkers, discontinuities in science, the concept of time and motion, Freud's Anoclitic Type, deterritorialized forms, accretion and optimal paths for living, and seeking the path of least resistance.

The Acid Horizon crew, authors of "Anti-Oculus: A Philosophy of Escape," discuss the writing process, key concepts, and the relationship between cinema and ocularity. They explore thermostatic governance, early cybernetists, the role of creativity in philosophy, and the interconnectedness of thought and action. They also discuss reshuffled time in the film "Memento" and the use of Steadicam in "Rocky" and the Lord of the Rings cartoons. The podcast ends with a casual conversation about childhood experiences, upcoming live events, and future projects.

Joshua Dávila, author of 'Blockchain Radicals', discusses markets, tokens, smart contracts, daos, voting, Hayek, ownership on the internet, the origins of writing, blockchain, ledgers, exclusion of women's labor, critique of price signals, and the potential of blockchain technology for social arrangements.

Film journalist Max Evry joins the podcast to discuss his new book on David Lynch's Dune. They explore Lynch's unique visual style, the trippy imagery in the film, the use of practical effects and CGI, and interviews with the cast and crew. They also touch on character discussions, social media presence, and wrapping up with enthusiasm for an upcoming event.

This podcast delves into Julia Kristeva's Revolution in Poetic Language, touching on topics such as semiotics, the mother as phallus, signification, the defensive aspect of the signifier, retouralization, the connection between poetry and music, the mother as mediator, signifying's repression by capitalism, and Kristeva's theory of language.

Griffin Melson discusses Alan Turing's Computing Machinery and Intelligence with Cooper and Taylor. They explore Lacan's concept of masculine and feminine position, compare programming include statements to brainstem functions, understand programming functions and the problem of forgetting in machine learning. They also delve into the potential of quantum computing to break encryption and discuss who decides what is important. The episode wraps up with a farewell from the hosts.