Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

This week Graham Harman returned to discuss his first book, Tool Being, and share some great stories from his career. Graham's first appearance: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/graham-harman-object-oriented-ontology?si=d162f30106dc42088c8379e1df7ce67b&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Harman https://www.sciarc.edu/people/faculty/graham-harman https://doctorzamalek2.wordpress.com/ Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

This week we read and discuss two pieces: Freud’s Mystic Writing Pad and Derrida’s Freud and the Scene of Writing. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

This week Gil Morejon joined us to discuss his book, The Unconscious of Thought in Leibniz, Spinoza, and Hume. Book Links: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/gil-morejon Kant's Prolegomena Episode: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/gil-morejon-kants-prolegomena-to-any-future-metaphysics?si=6e79819c620342dfb23546a21c45bbb6&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Anti-Oedipus episode: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/gil-morejon-anti-oedipus-seminar-8?si=74c3d3d0101b4970b2d7ad445d040360&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing https://twitter.com/gdmorejon https://gilmorejon.wordpress.com/ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whats-left-of-philosophy/id1544487624 https://www.patreon.com/leftofphilosophy https://twitter.com/leftofphil Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

Grant Maxwell, author of Integration and Difference: Constructing a Mythical Dialectic, discusses the mythic dialectic in the work of Spinoza, Nietzsche, and Deleuze. Topics include reverse engineering origin stories, the connection between music and philosophy, the influence of Nietzsche and Spinoza, the significance of 'Jabberwocky', favorite books and artworks, TV shows and Dune, and upcoming projects.

Coop and Taylor explore Heidegger's 'The Question Concerning Technology' and discuss his involvement with the Nazi Party. They analyze Heidegger's views on truth procedures, poetry, and technology. They also discuss the neutrality of technology and its relationship with the Butlerian Jihad in the Dune books. The hosts explore the significance of art in the Dune universe and delve into the concept of Expenditure and its connection to the sacred.

This week, Jon Repetti joined Coop and Taylor for a discussion on Deleuze's monograph, Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation. Jon is finishing a phd in American literature at Princeton, focusing on naturalism, radical empiricism, and psychoanalysis. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

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