Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

Today Taylor and I are proud to bring you this week’s guest, Renata Salecl. She is a senior researcher at the Institute of Criminology in the Faculty of Law at the University of Ljubljana and holds a professorship at Birckbeck College, University of London. Her books include The Spoils of Freedom: Psychoanalysis and Feminism after the Fall of Socialism; On Anxiety; Choice; and her latest book A Passion for Ignorance: What We Choose Not To Know and Why. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

This week Coop and Taylor interrogated Jean Laplanche's Life & Death in psychoanalysis. Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Laplanche https://books.google.com/books/about/Life_and_Death_in_Psychoanalysis.html?id=d_GcAAAAMAAJ Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

Coop and Taylor investigate Plato's Symposium, with an eye towards drawing out it's psychoanalytic content. Topics of discussion include seduction, feminine jouissance, and more. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

James Wakefield joined Coop and Taylor to discuss his chapter in the recently released Dune and Philosophy: Minds, Monads, and Muad'Dib, titled The God Emperor and the Tyrant The Political Theology of Frank Herbert’s Dune Saga. https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/457489-wakefield-james https://cardiff.academia.edu/JamesWakefield https://www.amazon.com/Dune-Philosophy-MuadDib-Blackwell-Culture/dp/1119841399 Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

Jared Miller-Price joined Coop and Taylor for an in-depth look at Jacques Lacan's Seminar 20. Jared completed a thesis on Jacques Lacan and Julian of Norwich. Topics include feminine jouissance, the phallic function, the non-relation, Lacan's sexuation diagram, the five discourses and much more. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

Samo holds a PhD in Philosophy and is currently an interim professor of philosophy at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg, as well as researcher at the Interdisciplinary Laboratory Matters of Activity at the Humboldt University Berlin. His research areas comprise contemporary European philosophy, structuralism and poststructuralism, psychoanalysis (Freud and Lacan), epistemology, and political philosophy. Recent publications include The Capitalist Unconscious (2015) and The Labour of Enjoyment (2018) which will be the focus of today’s conversation. Samo's Links: https://hfbk-hamburg.de/en/namenregister/samo-tomsic/ https://www.amazon.com/Labour-Enjoyment-Critique-Libidinal-Explorations/dp/3941360566 Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

This week Coop and Taylor discuss Freud's Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905). Sublimation, polymorphous perversity, the Bwo and more make their way into this one. https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Freud_SE_Three_Essays_complete.pdf Our Freud Playlist with over 20 hours of content: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/freud?si=e0410cd7f90943ada176bb034ccbc0dc&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

In this episode, the hosts discuss non-human sexes, pre-capitalist political economy, class struggle, and more. They explore the benefits of starting with the final chapter, the significance of syntheses and the stakes of schizoanalysis, the connection between political economy and filial alliances, the concept of the signifying chain, the relationship between Christianity, capitalism, and the motley image, the parallels between capitalist exploitation and the creation of a bride by Frankenstein, the revolutionary potential of art and science, the concept of non-human sex and its connection to human sexuality, and the challenge of dealing with difference and incorporating mortality.

Michael Hardt joined Coop and Taylor for a look at his work with a focus on an article from he and Toni Negri titled, Empire, 20 Years On. We look back at some of the arguments made in the text and discuss a bit about Michael's experience collaborating with Negri. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

This week our guests are Eric Schmid and Rocco Gangle. We’ll be discussing Eric’s new book, Prolegomenon to a Treatise: On Mathematical Structuralism, Constructive Computationalism, De-ontologized Metaphysics of Hermeneutics, and The Synthetic a Priori. Eric's Links: http://ericschmid.com/ Rocco's Links: https://www.endicott.edu/academics/schools/social-sciences-communication-humanities/faculty/j/jonathan-gangle Rocco Gangle: Books - Amazon.comhttps://www.amazon.com › Books-Rocco-Gangle › rh=... Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh