Hello all,
Here are the links for the reading group sessions and the respective times:
Saturday, 7PM EDT: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84539431765
Sunday, 2PM EDT/7PM GMT: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84668761473
See you there!
This weekend we will cover about 40 pages in the "Becoming-Intense, Becoming-Animal ..." plateau. (pp. 232-272 in the Minnesota edition). We look forward to seeing everyone there. I will post links for the session a little bit later in the week. See you there!
2023-04-26 11:38:54 +0000 UTC View Post
**A special for patrons only! Coming to Zer0/Repeater on Thursday of this week.**
For post-Jungian archetypal psychologist James Hillman, the concept of the ego familiar to the work of Freud, Jung, and other psychoanalytic thinkers maintains a almost tyrannical predominance in the tradition of psychoanalysis. The myth of Hercules looms large over the discipline and our lives writ large. For Hillman undue importance of the ego has precipitated a multitude of psychological, social, and p...
Here, Will and Adam from Acid Horizon engage in a discussion on a simultaneously well known and largely overlooked enigmatic figure in the history of German philosophy, idealism and its discontents, and even insurrectionary anarchism, Max Stirner. The discussion provides both an in-depth look at Stirner’s core philosophical commitments and the intellectual milieu within which and against which he toiled. What is at stake in Stirner’s The Unique and its Property? How are we to understand S...
2023-04-25 00:46:55 +0000 UTC View Post"A sadist and a masochist walk into a podcast, the masochist says 'hurt me', the sadist says 'no'" Our laughter at such a scene conveys our habitual association between violence and possession, De Sade and Sacher-Masoch, or to take them in their 20th century philosophical champions: Georges Bataille and Gilles Deleuze. How are Sadism and Masochism problems not only of psychology, but logical problems of philosophy and the limits of reason? How does the economy of each relation to one's self a...
2023-04-21 13:24:16 +0000 UTC View Post
"A sadist and a masochist walk into a podcast, the masochist says 'hurt me', the sadist says 'no'" Our laughter at such a scene conveys our habitual association between violence and possession, De Sade and Sacher-Masoch, or to take them in their 20th century philosophical champions: Georges Bataille and Gilles Deleuze. How are Sadism and Masochism problems not only of psychology, but logical problems of philosophy and the limits of reason? How does the economy of each relation to one's self a...
2023-04-21 13:21:31 +0000 UTC View PostAcid Horizon and Jim sit down again with Dr. Gregory Sadler to discuss stoicism and anger management, specifically through the work of Seneca and Epictetus.
Find Dr. Sadler here: https://www.youtube.com/@GregoryBSadler
I just wanted to take a moment to say thank you to all the patrons who continue to support us!
We had a very hectic five or six weeks in which we finalized the manuscript for our book. Going forward, we will have a bit more time to invest in some new features for patrons.
In the meantime, we wish you good health, and look forward to some new interviews very soon!
Craig
2023-04-03 02:06:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Alexander R. Galloway and Andrew Culp join Acid Horizon to discuss their new podcast series on Alain Badiou's 1988 work Being and Event. We discuss Badiou's mathematical ontology and its roots in Cantor's Set Theory and Cohen's theory of the Generic. We also trace the roots of his militant arithmetic in philosophers of the French Resistance such as Cavailles, and his revolutionary Marxist Anti-Statism.
There will be an online launch event for their new podcast series where people can l...
Alexander R. Galloway and Andrew Culp join Acid Horizon to discuss their new podcast series on Alain Badiou's 1988 work Being and Event. We discuss Badiou's mathematical ontology and its roots in Cantor's Set Theory and Cohen's theory of the Generic. We also trace the roots of his militant arithmetic in philosophers of the French Resistance such as Cavailles, and his revolutionary Marxist Anti-Statism.
There will be an online launch event for their new podcast series where people can l...
Hello everyone. I just wanted to give a heads up about the reading group next weekend. We will be covering the plateau "Year Zero: Faciality". As you might already know, we did an episode on this plateau with Sean of Buddies Without Organs/Wyrd Signal. The links below are to the respective sessions which occur at the regular times. Also, I will include a link to the aforementioned episode. Looking forward to seeing everyone there.
Saturday, March 25, 7PM EST: 2023-03-18 21:43:51 +0000 UTC View Post
In the decade prior to the publication of Inner Experience (L'expérience intérieure), the twentieth-century French philosopher Georges Bataille produced a nascent masterwork containing some of his most original and extensive reflections on a range of subjects. With thoughts on ritual sacrifice and military conquest, the nature of laughter, and the mechanisms of capitalism, The Limit of the Useful, as Bataille had planned to title the work, illuminates the philosopher's later corpus, yet it ...
2023-03-10 18:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
In the decade prior to the publication of Inner Experience (L'expérience intérieure), the twentieth-century French philosopher Georges Bataille produced a nascent masterwork containing some of his most original and extensive reflections on a range of subjects. With thoughts on ritual sacrifice and military conquest, the nature of laughter, and the mechanisms of capitalism, The Limit of the Useful, as Bataille had planned to title the work, illuminates the philosopher's later corpus, yet it ...
2023-03-10 18:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello all,
We've updated the set of syllabi for all the ongoing reading groups. Browse upcoming readings here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gPyTvMfiOJHeoag3zzjjlhkuJpjn75fh/view?usp=share_link
Also, we ware recording an episode on Bataille's "The Limit of the Useful" on Friday. It should be an excellent complement to the work being conduc...
What are the possibilities and limitations of commoning education outside of formal academic institutions? If we’ve reached as stage where, as Harney and Moten claim, studying is the one thing you can’t do in the university, does it become essential to escape from formalized teaching spaces inorder to create times and spaces to be able read, think, and theorize together?
2023-03-07 01:20:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Acid Horizon and Sean from Wyrd Signal are joined by the philosopher, theologian, and author David Bentley Hart to discuss the nature and philosophy of mind amongst today's AI-anxious conceptual landscape. We discussed his critiques of David Chalmers and Daniel Dennett in terms of his rejection of a computational model of the mental in light if the intentionality and synthetic unity of consciousness; and the political stakes of a reduction of the conscious to the machinic in times of encroach...
2023-03-05 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostAcid Horizon and Sean from Wyrd Signal are joined by the philosopher, theologian, and author David Bentley Hart to discuss the nature and philosophy of mind amongst today's AI-anxious conceptual landscape. We discussed his critiques of David Chalmers and Daniel Dennett in terms of his rejection of a computational model of the mental in light if the intentionality and synthetic unity of consciousness; and the political stakes of a reduction of the conscious to the machinic in times of encroach...
2023-03-05 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostToday on Acid Horizon we wrap up our last reading group on Deleuze and Guattari's "the postulates of linguistics" from 'A Thousand Plateaus', illustrating their critique of Chomsky whilst at the same time integrating linguistics into a wider cybernetic ontology of functions and flows. We aim to provide an introduction to Deleuzoguattarian pragmatics, and its political efficacy in understanding the reactionary media ecology of today and how to fight it amongst emerging fascisms.
2023-02-26 16:59:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Today on Acid Horizon we wrap up our last reading group on Deleuze and Guattari's "the postulates of linguistics" from 'A Thousand Plateaus', illustrating their critique of Chomsky whilst at the same time integrating linguistics into a wider cybernetic ontology of functions and flows. We aim to provide an introduction to Deleuzoguattarian pragmatics, and its political efficacy in understanding the reactionary media ecology of today and how to fight it amongst emerging fascisms.
2023-02-26 16:59:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello all,
Here are the links to this weekend reading group sessions. Looking forward to seeing you there.
Saturday at 7PM EST: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84690001893
Sunday at 2PM EST/7PM GMT: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87552522389
Welcome back to the Lost Cyberhighway, where friend of the show Nick Travaglini joins us to discuss the history of the Cybernetics movement, its core concepts, and its cultural and technical impact today. We'll be discussing some of the key thinkers of the field such as Shannon, Wiener, and von Neumann in their historical context of the burgeoning cold war. Additionally we'll also cover feedback loops, systems theory, constructivism, and the legacy of the image of a cybernetic future in the p...
2023-02-11 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome back to the Lost Cyberhighway, where friend of the show Nick Travaglini joins us to discuss the history of the Cybernetics movement, its core concepts, and its cultural and technical impact today. We'll be discussing some of the key thinkers of the field such as Shannon, Wiener, and von Neumann in their historical context of the burgeoning cold war. Additionally we'll also cover feedback loops, systems theory, constructivism, and the legacy of the image of a cybernetic future in the p...
2023-02-11 11:12:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Just wanted to share our gratitude for you ongoing support. Also know that when hard times strike and you cannot support financially, just reach out and we'll get you into sessions and events. I will post the links for these sessions as the month goes on.
Thank you,
Craig
2023-02-02 12:06:55 +0000 UTC View PostA reading of "Sacrifices" by Georges Bataille from 'Visions of Excess'.
2023-01-30 23:25:37 +0000 UTC View Post
A reading of "Sacrifices" by Georges Bataille from 'Visions of Excess',
2023-01-30 23:24:59 +0000 UTC View Post
