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Contingency and Hyper-Chaos

Cooper and Taylor take a foray into the work of Quentin Meillassoux, one of the four horseman of Speculative Realism or Speculative Materialism as Meillassoux identifies as his project. We looked at Metaphysics, Speculation, Correlation translated by mr Taylor Adkins. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentin_Meillassoux Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

Aug 07, 20221 hr 35 min

Jon Roffe - Deleuze and Abstract Market Theory

Jon Roffe joined Cooper and Taylor to discuss Deleuze and a Post-Kantian examination of markets and pricing. Time, inscription, all prices being derivative, and much more. Jon Roffe teaches philosophy at the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy. He is the author of Gilles Deleuze’s Empiricism and Subjectivity (Edinburgh University Press, 2017), Abstract Market Theory (Palgrave, 2015) and Badiou’s Deleuze (Acumen 2012). He is the co-author of Deleuze’s Philosophical Lineage II (Edinburgh Un...

Jul 30, 20222 hr 2 min

Greg Sadler - Speculative Heretics of Dune

Friend of the show Greg Sadler joined us for a look at Frank Herbert's Dune series. We discuss nomadology, war machines, imperceptibility, eternal recurrence, materialism, and much more. Dr. Sadler is currently an adjunct professor at Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Editor of Stoicism Today, the producer of the Half Hour Hegel series, and the president of our local SOPHIA (Society of Philosophers in America) chapter. but you might be more familiar with his YouTube channel, Gregory B. Sadl...

Jul 24, 20221 hr 59 min

Elmo Feiten - Stirner And Neuroplasticity

Elmo Feiten joined Cooper and Taylor to discuss his essay Ethics of the Care for the Brain Neuroplasticity with Stirner, Malabou and Foucault. We discuss mischaracterizations of Stirner, the life sciences, the umwelt, Jakob Johann von Uexküll, resonances with Deleuze/Guattari, and much more! Elmo's Links https://twitter.com/tim_elmo https://uc.academia.edu/TimElmoFeiten https://www.academia.edu/63130316/Ethics_of_the_Care_for_the_Brain_Neuroplasticity_with_Stirner_Malabou_and_Foucault Support us...

Jul 18, 20221 hr 52 min

Guattari and Marx on Machines

This week, Coop and Tay focus on Marx's Fragment on Machines from The Grundrisse and Guattari's Machine and Structure. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

Jul 09, 20221 hr 10 min

Saul Newman - Carl Schmitt and Political Theology

Friend of the show, Saul Newman, returns to discuss his most recent work on Political Theology. The discussion focuses on Political Theology: A Critical Introduction and a forthcoming work titled Order, Crisis, and Redemption: Political Theology after Schmitt. We take a look at Schmitt's concepts of the sovereignty, the sovereign acception, Schmitt's relation to anarchism and Stirner, and much more! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Newman https://theanarchistlibrary.org/category/author/saul-ne...

Jul 02, 20221 hr 16 min

Lorenzo Chiesa - The God Hypothesis

In this episode, Cooper and Taylor sit down with Lacanian philosopher Lorenzo Chiesa to discuss his work The Not-Two: God and Logic in Lacan and his forthcoming work God Is Undead to discuss the legacy and practice of psychoanalysis, its interrelations with Marxism, the logic and illogic of the sexual relation, the status of God in strong agnosticism and atheism, the ontological implications of incompleteness and inconsistency, and the exploration of what the author calls 'meta-critical realism....

Jun 25, 20222 hr 7 min

Thomas Nail - Marx and Motion

Thomas Nail joined Coop and Taylor for a discussion primarily focusing on his book Marx in Motion. We discuss the swerve of the atom, primitive accumulation, kinetic communism, and much more in this week's installment of MUHH. Thomas's Links: https://philosophyofmovementblog.com/author/matterinmotionblog/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Nail https://liberalarts.du.edu/about/people/thomas-andrew-nail Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

Jun 20, 20222 hr 9 min

Jeremy Smith - Laruelle and Non-Humanism

Friend of the show, Jeremy Smith, joins us to discuss Laruelle, translations, non-humanism, and more on this week's edition of MUHH. We looked at Laruelle's Homo Ex Machina. Jeremy's Links: Blog: https://endemictheory.wordpress.com/ London Critical Conference http://londoncritical.org/ Unlearning Nihilism http://unlearningnihilism.org/ Oraxiom: Journal of Non-Philosophy http://oraxiom.org/ Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

Jun 11, 20221 hr 41 min

Andrew Culp - A Guerrilla Guide to Refusal

Andrew Culp returns to MUHH to discuss his new book, A Guerrilla Guide to Refusal and much much more. Andrew's Links: http://www.andrewculp.org/ https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/a-guerrilla-guide-to-refusal Andrew's First Appearance discussing Dark Deleuze: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/dr-andrew-culp-dark-deleuze?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Machines in Flames: https://machinesinflames.com/ Support us on Patreon: https:/...

Jun 04, 20222 hr 17 min

Eugene Holland - Perverse Capital

Eugene Holland, Professor Emeritus at Ohio State University, and author of several books ranging from Baudelaire and Schizoanalysis: The Sociopoetics of Modernism to to his upcoming book, Perversion of the Market: Sadism, Masochism and the Culture of Capitalism. Eugene's Links: https://comparativestudies.osu.edu/people/holland.1 https://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/book_review/author/eugene_holland/ Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

May 28, 20221 hr 39 min

Daniel Tutt - Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Family

Friend of the show and co-host of the Jouissance Vampires podcast, Daniel Tutt, joined Coop and Tay to discuss his new book in the Palgrave Lacan Series, Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Family: The Crisis of Initiation. Our Anti-Oedipus Episode with Daniel https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/daniel-tutt-anti-oedipus-seminar-5?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Daniel's Links: https://danieltutt.com/about/ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podca...

May 21, 20221 hr 31 min

Impromptu Jam

Coop & Taylor discuss a wide swath of topics including Marx, the work of Thomas Nail, partial objects, and more. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

May 02, 20221 hr 10 min

Yung Marx: Democritus vs Epicurus

This week Coop & Tay have a look at Marx's dissertation, The Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature. The dissertation is a focal point in Thomas Nail's Marx in Motion, which we will be discussing in next week's episode. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

Apr 24, 20221 hr 26 min

Gil Morejon - Anti-Oedipus Seminar 8

Gil, co-host of the What's Left of Philosophy Podcast and translator of French Philosophy joined Coop & Taylor to discuss sections 9 The Civilized Capitalist Machine, 10 Capitalist Representation, & 11 Oedipus at Last of Chapter 3: Savages, Barbarians and Civilized Men. Gil's Links: 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/leftofp...

Apr 17, 20221 hr 38 min

Decode - Jean Baudrillard: The Spirit of Terrorism

Cute Noumena and Yung Agamben joined Coop and Tay to discuss Jean Baudrillard's The Spirit of Terrorism. We cover everything from potlatch to the end of history and more. Decode Links: https://soundcloud.com/cute-noumena https://twitter.com/decode_cast https://www.patreon.com/Decodecast Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

Apr 10, 20221 hr 37 min

Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses

Coop & Taylor perform a very unorthodox analysis of Louis Althursser's famous Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses essay as it pertains to desire, desiring production, the dialectic, the unconscious and what's at stake. Link to the Reading: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/althusser/1970/ideology.htm Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

Apr 03, 20221 hr 29 min

Ray Brassier - Brassier Unbound

On this week’s episode, Cooper and I welcome Ray Brassier to discuss the trajectory of his philosophical education, his translations of contemporary French theorists, the key insights of Prometheanism, nihilism, and his future work on Fatelessness. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

Mar 21, 20221 hr 51 min

Will (@EmoFoucault) - Going Astray

Will (@EmoFoucault), co-host of the Acid Horizon podcast has a project of his own, called RevoltingBodies. We took a look at Will's piece titled Going Astray. https://revoltingbodies.com/2021/12/13/going-astray/. Will's Links: https://t.co/RzYKf50ZcP?amp=1 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/acid-horizon/id1512615438 Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

Mar 15, 20221 hr 30 min

Jake Flores - Jokes & the Unconscious

Stand-up and host of Pod Damn America, Jake Flores, joined Coop and Taylor to discuss Freud's Jokes and the Unconscious. Just an all-around fun episode, and it was great to have Jake's experience to really round out the exploration of the libidinal economics of jokes. http://www.feraljokes.com/ Pod Damn America https://soundcloud.com/poddamnamerica Why You Mad? https://soundcloud.com/whyyoumadpod Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/poddamnamerica Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh ...

Mar 07, 20221 hr 51 min

Daniel W. Smith - Articulating Deleuze

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. https://deleuze.cla.purdue.edu/ Charles Stivale Episode https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/charles-stivale-the-abcs-of-deleuze?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Support us on P...

Feb 28, 20221 hr 36 min

Symbolic Exchange & Death - Seminar 6

Taylor and Coop investigate Chapter 56of Jean Baudrillard's Symbolic Exchange and Death: The Extermination of the Name of God. Symbolic Exchange & Death Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/symbolic-exchange-and-death Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

Feb 21, 20221 hr 25 min

Acid Horizon - Acidic Unconscious Happy Horizon

Craig, Adam, Matt, and Will from Acid Horizon joined us for a long awaited collaboration. The format is a Q&A with questions pulled from twitter. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/acid-horizon/id1512615438 https://twitter.com/acidhorizonpod?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast/posts https://www.instagram.com/acidhorizonpod/?hl=en https://acidhorizonpodcast.buzzsprout.com/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqzFQr1LCC8xrr0fMcRctYg...

Feb 13, 20221 hr 44 min

Charles Stivale - The ABC's of Deleuze

Charles Stivale joined Cooper and Taylor to discuss his work transcribing and translating Deleuze's seminars as a part of a current project with Dan Smith at Purdue University, and more. Charles co-translated Deleuze's Logic of Sense and has also published Gilles Deleuze's ABCs: The Folds of Friendship among others. https://deleuze.cla.purdue.edu/ Gilles Deleuze from A to Z (HD) https://youtu.be/SlNYVnCUvVg Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @u...

Feb 08, 20221 hr 39 min

Graham Harman - Object Oriented Ontology

This week, Graham Harman, one of the key figures in Object Oriented Ontology and Speculative Realism to share some of his experiences in academia and expound on some key points of Triple-O. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/graham-harman-object-oriented-ontology/id1234384916?i=1000549489591 https://open.spotify.com/episode/7BPZdJfK4eOoI582uxxEPR?si=UQRLAUGyQ0mcG30I23sYQQ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Harman https://www.sciarc.edu/people/faculty/graham-harman https://doctorzamalek2.wor...

Jan 31, 20221 hr 50 min

Vernon Cisney - Deleuze & Derrida: Splitting Difference

Vernon Cisney, Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Philosophy at Gettysburg College, joined Taylor and I to discuss his book Deleuze and Derrida: Difference and the Power of the Negative.

Jan 25, 20222 hr

John Protevi - Edges Of The State

John Protevi, Professor of French Studies and professor of philosophy at Louisiana State University. We discuss his 2019 book Edges of the state. This book takes a look at the formation, and edges, of states: their breakdowns and attempts to repair them, and their encounters with non-state peoples. It draws upon anthropology, political philosophy, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, child developmental psychology, and other fields to look at states as projects of constructing “bodies politic,” w...

Jan 18, 20221 hr 18 min

Duane Rouselle - Politics of the Real

In our latest episode, Cooper and Taylor have a vigorous discussion with Duane Rousselle on Lacan, Žižek, Badiou, anarchism, sociology, realism, the capitalist discourse, and much more! https://www.drduanerousselle.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duane_Rousselle https://duanerousselle.medium.com/ https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=hjcSGTkAAAAJ&hl=en

Jan 10, 20222 hr 13 min

Eliot Rosenstock - The Ego & Its Hyperstate

Friend of the show, Eliot Rosenstock, joined Cooper and Taylor to discuss his new book: The Ego And Its Hyperstate A Psychoanalytically Informed Dialectical Analysis of Self-Interest. https://www.amazon.com/Ego-Its-Hyperstate-Dialectical-Self-Interest/dp/1789045134 https://twitter.com/CtrlRetrnRpresd https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/authors/eliot-rosenstock https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5irXEV0jAnXb66-TqZ2ioQ/videos Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @u...

Jan 01, 20221 hr 28 min

Jack (@jackpaulsartre) - Transcendence of the Ego

Jack (@jackpaulsartre) joined Taylor and I discussed Sartre's Transcendence of the Ego. Jack's Links: https://alwaysother.bandcamp.com/ https://soundcloud.com/always-other https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV2onpCTFnMTwvI_pEEsWQA https://www.tiktok.com/@alwaysother? Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

Dec 19, 20211 hr 32 min
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