Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

The week, Taylor and I tackled Empiricism & Subjectivity: An Essay on Hume's Theory of Human Nature. A fun look at empiricism, justice, and more. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

This week we're joined by Gil Morejon, co host of the What’s Left of Philosophy podcast, translator of french philosophy, and recently translated Spinoza's Paradoxical Conservatism by Francois Zourabichvili and is also author of The Unconscious of Thought in Leibniz, Spinoza and Hume from Edinburgh press. The topic for this week's discussion is Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Gil's Links: Book Links: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/gil-morejon Being and Event podcast episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/113hRB7XvidPzW0GdnyuyT?si=jAXdKwBFTyCT2NxX2DON-g 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

Dan Smith joined Coop and Taylor to discuss Deleuze's The Fold: Leibniz and The Baroque. We discussed differential calculus, the body without organs, time, the unconscious and much more in this discussion. Daniel W. Smith is an American philosopher, academic, researcher, and translator. Smith is known for his interpretation of the work of the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze and is the author of Essays on Deleuze. He is also the co-director of The Deleuze Seminars project. Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

This week friend of the show, Vernon Cisney, joined us to discuss his approach to teaching Deleuze and Guattari against the backdrop of part 1 of their book, What is Philosophy? Vernon is associate professor of interdisciplinary studies and Jewish studies at Gettysburg College. He teaches at the intersections of philosophy, religion, literature, cinema, the sciences, and political philosophy, in addition to being one of the primary advisors for students creating individual, interdisciplinary majors. Vern's Links: https://vernonwcisney.com/index.html https://www.gettysburg.edu/academic-programs/interdisciplinary-studies/faculty/employee_detail.dot?empId=08006335820013349&pageTitle=Vernon+W.+Cisney https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Yzlu8rQAAAAJ&hl=en Vern's first Appearance: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/vernon-cisney-deleuze-derrida-difference Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

This week Coop and Taylor tackle Gilles Deleuze's Spinoza: Practical Philosophy. Thoughts on ethics, morality, the untapped potential of the body and more. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

Dr. Leon S. Brenner is a philosopher and psychoanalytic theorist from Berlin. His work focuses on the integration of philosophical and linguistic frameworks in psychoanalytic theory of subjectivity and the understanding of the relationship between culture and psychopathology. He is a training analyst, studying member of the APPI and a founder of Lacanian Affinities Berlin (laLAB) and Unconscious Berlin. His latest book on the subject of the psychoanalysis of autism is called The Autistic Subject: On the Threshold of Language, where he presents a novel account of autistic subjectivity from a Lacanian psychoanalytic perspective. This week Leon joined us to discuss his ongoing work on the dermic drive, which evolved out of his work on autism stemming from his book, The Autistic Subject: On the Threshold of Language. Leon also joined us twice last year to discuss autism and the autistic rim, which are two very important components he builds on in his latest work on the skin and psychoanalysis. Links: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/leon-brenner-the-autistic-subject-on-the-threshold-of-language?si=1bbe063f125c40aa95fee90fa1c21096&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/leon-brenner-the-autistic-rim?si=18eebf5244204e239b1040c1d25d6f6d&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing https://leonbrenner.com/ Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

This week Taylor and I looked at the introductions to Francois Laruelle's Non-Standard Philosophy. We made an attempt to try and unpack some of the basic terminology and formulations of Laruelle's project. Taylor is currently in the process of completing this translation, so stay tuned for future announcements on it's release. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

Our guest this week, Chantelle Gray, a Professor in the School of Philosophy at North-West University and co-editor of Deleuze and Anarchism and the author of Anarchism after Deleuze and Guattari: Fabulating Futures. We discuss dogmatic images of thought, derivative logic, statist realism and fabulating futures. https://agsmorester.academia.edu/ChantelleGrayvanHeerden https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/anarchism-after-deleuze-and-guattari-9781350132399/ Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

This we were joined by Gabriel Tupinambá. Gabriel is a practicing psychoanalyst and the co-author of Hegel, Lacan, Žižek and most recently the author of The Desire of Psychoanalysis: Exercises in Lacanian Thinking. Gabriel's Links: https://www.gabrieltupinamba.com/english https://www.academia.edu/45486769/The_Desire_of_Psychoanalysis Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

Stephen Houlgate,professor of philosophy at the University of Warwick and the president of the Hegel Society of Great Britain. His books include Hegel, Nietzsche and the Criticism of Metaphysics; An Introduction to Hegel: Freedom, Truth and History; The Opening of Hegel’s Logic: From Being to Infinity; Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit: A Reader’s Guide; and most recently, Hegel on Being in 2 volumes. Stephen was so incredibly generous and engaging as we talked through some of the misconceptions regarding dialectics, Hegel's overall work, and so much more. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh