Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

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

This week we're joined by Brent Adkins. Brent is a professor in the department of Philosophy and Religion at Roanoke College. His works include Death and Desire in Heidegger, Hegel and Deleuze; True Freedom: Spinoza’s Practical Philosophy; Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus: A Critical Introduction and Guide; and A Guide to Ethics and Moral Philosophy. For this discussion, we focused on Death and Desire in Heidegger, Hegel and Deleuze. Death Drive, the model of death, and much more round out this conversation. https://roanoke.academia.edu/BrentAdkins https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-death-and-desire-in-hegel-heidegger-and-deleuze.html Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

Guest Lindsay Lerman, scholar and author, discusses her novel 'What Are You?' and other work including translating Francois Laruelle's book. Topics include shifting perception after gaining attention, the transition as the dark night of the soul, the dialectical complicity of creation and destruction, solitude's importance in writing and parenting, and the act of confronting dark forces and risking oneself. Hosts express gratitude and discuss future possibilities for Lindsay's work.

Eugene Holland, joined us to discuss his work on Deleuze and Guattari notion of axiomatics. We discuss the potential for a new axiomatic, and analyze how capitalist axiomatics operate. Eugene is professor Emeritus of the Department of Comparative Studies at The Ohio State University, and whose books include Baudelaire and Schizoanalysis: The Sociopoetics of Modernism; Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus: Introduction to Schizoanalysis; Nomad Citizenship: Free-Market Communism and the Slow-Motion General Strike; Reader’s Guide to A Thousand Plateaus. Eugene's first appearance: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/eugene-holland?si=cfc0259092fa42d7b61e9002ced48d95&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

Stephen Zepke joined Coop and Taylor for a discussion focusing on the differing approaches to aesthetics within the work of Felix Guattari and Francois Laruelle. Stephen's links: https://independent.academia.edu/stephenzepke Stephen's First Appearance on MUHH: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/stephen-zepke-i-heart-uiq?si=a8d46413d9f6427484374930db8d4fca&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh