This week we discuss Immanuel Kant's Attempt to Introduce the Concept of Negative Magnitudes Into Philosophy. We look at how the work of Deleuze, Freud, Guattari, Leibniz, Proust, and Simondon resonates with this piece from the early Kant. Topics: Real and Logical Oppositions, lack and deprivation, the unconscious, moral philosophy, bodies in motion, bwo, zero. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh
Jul 12, 2025•51 min
This week we look at 587 B.c.-A.D. 70: On Several Regimes from Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus. Referenced Episode Links: Isabel Millar: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/isabel-millar-preliminary-materials-for-a-theory-of-the-bombshell?si=7f723501d19f48f187c1925cb1f40474&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Eugene Holland: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/eugene-holland?si=9d88c58432324a7bb5e0117d82965957&utm_sour...
Jun 29, 2025•1 hr 32 min
Conor O'Dea joined Coop and Taylor for a discussion inspired by a reading of Cannibal Metaphysics by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro. Conor is an indie scholar, accidental civil servant and patron of MUHH. Conor's links: https://www.janusunbound.com/ https://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/JU Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh
Jun 23, 2025•1 hr 49 min
This week Coop and Taylor discuss Jean Laplanche's The Temptation of Biology: Freud's Theories of Sexuality. Topics include seduction, leaning-on (Anlehnung), Oedipus, polymorphous perversity, desiring production, instinct, drives and much more. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh
Jun 15, 2025•1 hr 7 min
Cooper and Taylor discuss November 20, 1923—Postulates of Linguistics from Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus. A Thousand Plateaus Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/a-thousand-plateaus?si=4358592c1ae54ba4b64157387003bd0b&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh
Jun 10, 2025•1 hr 36 min
This week Eugene Holland returned to the show to axiomatics and markets in the context of Deleuze and Guattari's work. Eugene's previous appearances: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/eugene-holland?si=521437745cee470da3524b081eb3e9f7&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/eugene-holland-multiplicities-axiomatics-politics?si=e71d1e6a00f74520859fe160615a9657&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=te...
Jun 02, 2025•2 hr 9 min
This week Timothy Jackson joined Coop and Taylor to discuss Felix Guttari's Chaosmosis: An Ethico-aesthetic Paradigm. Book PDF: https://monoskop.org/images/2/24/Guattari_Felix_Chaosmosis_An_Ethico-Aesthetic_Paradigm.pdf Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh
May 18, 2025•1 hr 57 min
This week Coop and Taylor discuss a short piece from Raymond Ruyer, There is No Subsconscious: Embryogenesis and Memory. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh
May 12, 2025•1 hr 26 min
Coop and Taylor discuss Freud's Project for a Scientific Psychology with an emphasis on how it informs the 3 syntheses of the unconscious for Deleuze and Guattari. Freud Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/freud?si=c51111042521492db6bd5311890dacd7&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh
May 05, 2025•1 hr 48 min
This week Cooper and Taylor were joined by Rocco Gangle to discuss a chapter from his book, Diagrammatic Immanence: Category Theory and Philosophy. The Chapter we’ll be focusing on for today’s discussion is Peirce and Semiotic Immanence. Jonathon "Rocco" Gangle is a philosopher whose current research focuses on metaphysics, semiotics, diagrammatic logic, and category theory. He is also one of the foremost translators and expositors of the work of contemporary French thinker Francois Laruelle. He...
Apr 28, 2025•1 hr 53 min
This week Taylor spoke with John Protevi about his recently published book, Regimes of Violence: Toward a Political Anthropology. John is professor of French studies and philosophy at Louisiana State University. He is author of Political Affect; Life, War, Earth; and Edges of the State, all published by the University of Minnesota Press. Book Summary: A wide-ranging examination of the roots—and possible future—of violence in human societies Is aggression inevitable among humans? In Regimes of Vi...
Apr 21, 2025•1 hr 35 min
Cooper and Taylor discuss Paul Verilio's Speed and Politics. Dromology, fleet in being, the war machine, deterritorialization and reterritorialization. Verilio's wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Virilio Book Link: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781584350408/speed-and-politics/ War and Cinema Episode: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/paul-virilios-war-and-cinema?si=0724bffa7ead438f970f51defa7d09ee&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_shar...
Apr 14, 2025•1 hr 18 min
Cooper and Taylor discuss the third chapter from Deleuze and Guattari’s seminal sequel to Anti-Oedipus, A Thousand Plateaus, The Geology of Morals. A Thousand Plateaus Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/a-thousand-plateaus?si=6b1008cffbb546de9531aae44964a934&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Support us on Patreon: - www.patreon.com/muhh - Twitter: @unconscioushh
Apr 05, 2025•1 hr 34 min
Cooper and Taylor discuss the first two plateaus from Deleuze and Guattari’s seminal sequel to Anti-Oedipus, A Thousand Plateaus. The chapters discussed will be Introduction: Rhizome and 1914: One or several wolves. A Thousand Plateaus Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/a-thousand-plateaus?si=6b1008cffbb546de9531aae44964a934&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Support us on Patreon: - www.patreon.com/muhh - Twitter: @unconscious...
Apr 05, 2025•1 hr 30 min
In this episode Cooper and Taylor discuss the second half of Gilbert Simondon's On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects. Prior Episode - https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/gilbert-simondon-on-the-mode-of-existence-of-technical-objects?si=720ba67baa9947f3b9f353ebec4ed261&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing PDF: https://monoskop.org/images/2/20/Simondon_Gilbert_On_the_Mode_of_Existence_of_Technical_Objects_Part_I_alt.pdf Support us on Patr...
Mar 30, 2025•1 hr 26 min
Coop and Taylor discuss Deleuze’s The Method of Dramatization from Desert Islands, an anthology of texts and interviews written over 20 years. Book Link: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781584350187/desert-islands/ Deleuze Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/deleuze?si=3341a6281fc743ffa3cb0241f6dd9cfa&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Support us on Patreon: - www.patreon.com/muhh - Twitter: @unconscioushh
Mar 17, 2025•1 hr 34 min
In this episode Cooper and Taylor are joined by Adam Jones to discuss his new book, The New Flesh: Life and Death in the Data Economy. Adam is a philosopher from East London, UK whose work focuses on Insurrectionary Communist thought, cybernetics, and the ways in which systems of social control function today. For the past four years he has co-hosted the hit podcast Acid Horizon, with whom he wrote Anti-Oculus: A Philosophy of Escape. Book Link download: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ONCI-ns9...
Mar 17, 2025•1 hr 39 min
This week Coop and Taylor were joined by Emily Herring, a scholar whose work brings together intellectual history, philosophy, and the cultural currents of the 20th century. She’s the author of Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People, a fascinating exploration of the life and thought of one of the most influential yet often overlooked philosophers of the modern era. Henri Bergson, known for his radical rethinking of time, consciousness, and human experience...
Mar 08, 2025•1 hr 40 min
Jacob Blumenfeld returns to the show to discuss his new book, The Concept of Property in Kant, Fichte, and Hegel: Freedom, Right, and Recognition Jacob is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oldenburg, Germany, and member of the DFG collaborative research centre, “Structural Change of Property”. Last time, we discussed his previous book All Things are Nothing to Me: The Unique Philosophy of Max Stirner. Jacob's Links: -first appearance on the podcast: https://soundcloud.com/po...
Feb 23, 2025•1 hr 40 min
This week Cooper and Taylor host Professor David Carr, who is a professor emeritus of philosophy at Emory University and specializes in history and phenomenology. David is the translator of Edmund Husserl’s Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology and the author of six books, including Interpreting Husserl; Time, Narrative, and History; and most recently, Historical Experience: Essays on the Phenomenology of History, the topic of today’s discussion. David's Links: - https://e...
Feb 10, 2025•1 hr 57 min
We speak with William Clare Roberts about his work on Marx in Marx's Inferno as well as an afterword to the latest translation of Capital. William is assistant professor of political science at McGill University, author of Marx’s Inferno as well as an afterword to a new translation of Marx’s Capital, Volume One, under contract with Princeton University Press. William's links: -https://www.mcgill.ca/politicalscience/william-clare-roberts -https://x.com/MarxinHell?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5...
Jan 21, 2025•1 hr 39 min
Coop and Taylor delve into the shared terrains of psychoanalysis, sociology, prohibitions, and the social bond. Duane Rousselle, sociological theorist, Lacanian psychoanalyst, Associate Dean of Research and Associate Professor at the Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan. He is also Visiting Associate Professor at the University Colleges of Dublin, Ireland, and Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan. Duane's Links: First Appearance: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/duane-rouselle-pol...
Dec 30, 2024•1 hr 51 min
This week Coop and Taylor discuss Freud's Screen Memories. We tie it back to Mystic Writing Pad and Interpretation of Dreams as well as a number of Freud's case histories. Our Freud Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/freud?si=7678877ff7814a429d8c54ba96234940&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh
Dec 08, 2024•1 hr 38 min
This week Cooper and Taylor were joined by Michael Ardoline to discuss his upcoming book, Deleuze, Mathematics, Metaphysics: Difference and Necessity. Michael received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Memphis in 2021. His main research is in metaphysics, continental philosophy, and the philosophy of physics and mathematics. He has published articles on the epistemology of natural laws, Deleuze and Guattari’s metaphysics, and comparative philosophy between the continental and Confuc...
Nov 05, 2024•1 hr 22 min
This week Cooper and Taylor dive into Marcel Mauss's A General Theory of Magic. Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh witter: @unconscioushh
Oct 19, 2024•1 hr 39 min
Coop and Taylor discus Emmanuel Levinas’s Totality and Infinity, the first section, The Same and the Other. Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh witter: @unconscioushh
Oct 07, 2024•1 hr 33 min
Taylor and Coop have a look at section 1, Humanity, of Max Stirner's The Unique and Its Property. Episodes Mentioned: Ego Book Series: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/the-unique-and-its-property?si=1353f061d719441caa42376e70a24966&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Saul Newman: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/saul-newman-better-call-saul?si=4fe00dacd845484b8d6e97303f2ce6a7&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&am...
Sep 24, 2024•1 hr 25 min
The week Coop and Taylor are joined by Matt Bower to discuss a few sections from Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s Husserl at the limits of Phenomenology as well as Husserl's The Origin of Geometry. Matt is currently Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Texas State University. Matt completed his doctoral work at University of Memphis (2013) and earned by bachelors' degree, also in philosophy, from Beloit College (2007). His area of specialization is post-Kantian European philosophy, especial...
Sep 10, 2024•1 hr 29 min
Cooper and Taylor discuss Hegel's Elements of the Philosophy of Right. Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh witter: @unconscioushh
Aug 27, 2024•1 hr 35 min
James Wakefield returned to discuss the his work on Giovanni Gentile, including translations. He teaches modules on Political Thought, Government and Political Science in the Department of Politics and International Relations. His research focuses on European and American political theory, ethics, philosophy of education, and intellectual history. Jame's first appearance: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/james-wakefield-the-political-theology-of-dune?si=4a78d64e2a054af1acfad106d1b5...
Aug 20, 2024•1 hr 44 min