Lindsay Lerman, scholar and author, joined us to discuss her most recent novel, What Are You?, as well as her other work, which includes the translation of Francois Laruelle's first book. Lindsay's Links: https://neutralspaces.co/lindsaylerman/ https://www.clashbooks.com/new-products-2/lindsay-lerman-what-are-you-preorder Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh
Mar 12, 2023•1 hr 21 min
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...
Mar 05, 2023•1 hr 39 min
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 T...
Feb 25, 2023•1 hr 28 min
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....
Feb 18, 2023•1 hr 24 min
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
Feb 12, 2023•1 hr 18 min
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
Feb 06, 2023•1 hr 58 min
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
Jan 28, 2023•1 hr 38 min
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
Jan 21, 2023•1 hr 26 min
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 (...
Jan 15, 2023•1 hr 38 min
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:...
Jan 08, 2023•1 hr 38 min
Coop and Taylor reach the exciting conclusion to our series on Anti-Oedipus. This episode will cover Chapter 4, The First Positive Task of Schizoanalysis and The Second Positive Task of Schizoanalysis. Non-human sexes, pre-capitalist political economy, class struggle, and much more are a focus. Anti Oedipus Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/anti-oedipus?si=5205bc8ed5f34f5e87aa11428428f368&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Sup...
Dec 31, 2022•1 hr 33 min
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
Dec 25, 2022•1 hr 14 min
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=......
Dec 18, 2022•1 hr 22 min
A discussion on Jean Baudrillard's The Ecstasy of Communication with Adam and Craig from Acid Horizon. The discussion was originally offered to Patrons of the Zero Books YouTube Channel. Video Link: https://youtu.be/AK7WoO5Ky6I 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://acidhorizonpo...
Dec 10, 2022•52 min
Gail Newman and Mari Ruti joined Coop and Taylor to discuss their upcoming co-authored text, Against Neoliberal Self-Optimization: Marion Milner and D.W. Winnicott. Gail is the Chair for the Center of Global Languages, Literatures, and Cultures and is the Harold J. Henry Professor of German at Williams College; her research interests include psychoanalytic theory, German literature and culture and she has published on Goethe, Kleist, Hoffman, and Novalis (among others), including a book titled L...
Nov 27, 2022•2 hr 17 min
Friend of the show, Isabel Millar, joined Coop and Taylor to discuss her article, Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Bombshell. We discuss Deleuze and Guattari's semiotic theory of the face, faciality as evoked by the 2022 film Blonde from Andrew Dominik. The discussion draws heavily from Year Zero: Faciality from A Thousand Plateaus and Tiqqun's Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl. Isabel's links: https://www.isabelmillar.com/ https://twitter.com/IsabelVMillar Isabel's f...
Nov 20, 2022•1 hr 39 min
This week, Matthew Flisfeder joins Coop and Taylor to discuss his latest book, Algorithmic Desire:Toward a New Structuralist Theory of Social Media. Matthew is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Communications at The University of Winnipeg, where he teaches courses on Communication Theory, Popular Culture, Critical Theories of Discourse and Ideology, and Critical Studies of Social Media. Matthew's Links: https://matthewflisfeder.com/ https://www.uwinnipeg.ca/cultural-studies/faculty/matthew-fli...
Nov 12, 2022•1 hr 43 min
Coop and Taylor return to cover Anti Oedipus Chapter 4, Introduction to Schizoanalysis. This episode will cover sections 1. The Social Field, 2. The Molecular Unconscious, and 3. Psychoanalysis and Capitalism. Anti Oedipus Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/anti-oedipus?si=5205bc8ed5f34f5e87aa11428428f368&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh
Nov 07, 2022•1 hr 31 min
Christopher Satoor joined Coop and Taylor for a discussion of FWJ Schelling's The Ages of the World. Christopher's Links: https://yorku.academia.edu/ChristopherSatoor https://twitter.com/aufgehendeRest https://www.youtube.com/christophersatoor
Oct 31, 2022•1 hr 52 min
This week Dorothea Olkowski joined Coop and Taylor to discuss her work on Deleuze, Bergson, and Phenomenology among other topics. We focused on her latest book, Deleuze, Bergson, Merleau-Ponty: The Logic and Pragmatics of Creation, Affective Life, and Perception as well as The Universal (In the Realm of the Sensible): Beyond Continental Philosophy. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh
Oct 22, 2022•1 hr 46 min
Melody, creator of the A World to Win YouTube channel joined Coop and Taylor for a discussion centering on Friedrich Engels' Anti-Duhring. Labor theory of value, labor power, dialectics, dialectics of nature, surplus value and more round out the conversation. Melody's Links: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAqnMGJduurVhGI7S3uSA8w https://t.co/7RF9VsOEhl https://www.patreon.com/aworldtowin Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh...
Oct 15, 2022•1 hr 27 min
This week Taylor and Coop discuss Freud's Mourning and Melancholia. The discussion includes threads on libidinal economy, depression, narcissism and more. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh
Oct 08, 2022•1 hr 13 min
Sean Bowden, author of The Priority of Events: Deleuze's Logic of Sense, joined Coop and Taylor for a look at metaphysics, ontology, events, and sense. https://www.amazon.com/Priority-Events-Deleuzes-Plateaus-Directions/dp/0748643648 https://www.deakin.edu.au/about-deakin/people/sean-bowden Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh
Oct 01, 2022•1 hr 39 min
Coop and Taylor participated in a livestream for the Zer0 Books YouTube channel, alongside Adam & Craig from Acid Horizon. We looked at chapter 3 of Jean Francois Lyotard's Libidinal Economy, titled The Desire Named Marx. Video Link: https://youtu.be/4Opu6yggeYA 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/acid...
Sep 24, 2022•1 hr 30 min
Cooper and Taylor chat with Simon Duffy about the history of mathematics and the history of philosophy converging in the investigation and determination of problems and Ideas. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=IGVRZUMAAAAJ&hl=en Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh
Sep 17, 2022•1 hr 36 min
Alenka Zupancic joined Coop and Taylor to discuss the ontological and epistemological implications of the problematic associated with the signification of the sexual. Alenka is a member of the Ljubljana school along with Slavoj Zizek and others and has written on jokes, Kant, Nietzsche and more. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh
Sep 11, 2022•1 hr 17 min
Author, hip-hop artist, and holder of a PhD from Warwick University, Nicholas Blincoe joins Coop and Taylor for a look at Nick Land's Making it With Death: Remarks on Thanatos and Desiring-Production. Land was Nicholas's phd advisor at Warwick, and Nicholas was friends with Iian Hamilton Grant, so he shares a little about his experiences from this period. Nicholas's Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Blincoe https://youtu.be/14ADgVsHeeA https://twitter.com/nicholasblincoe Support us o...
Sep 03, 2022•1 hr 25 min
Henry Somers-Hall joined Coop and Tay for a rousing discussion focusing primarily on Henry's Deleuze's Difference and Repetition: Deleuze's Difference and Repetition: An Edinburgh Philosophical Guide. Henry's Links: https://henrysomershall.net/about/ https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/henry-somershall(9b215915-fcd6-4567-8463-c0c39f5aed70).html https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=YKRlvfwAAAAJ&hl=en Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscio...
Aug 29, 2022•1 hr 53 min
Eric Santner joined Coop and Tay for a really lovely discussion on a life in theory. We weave in Eric's latest book, Untying Things Together: Philosophy, Literature, and a Life in Theory and My Own Private Germany: Daniel Paul Schreber's Secret History of Modernity. Schreber is the backdrop for this look at what a body and what theory can do. Eric L. Santner is an American scholar. He is Philip and Ida Romberg Professor in Modern Germanic Studies, and Chair, in the Department of Germanic Studies...
Aug 20, 2022•1 hr 27 min
Friend of the show, Grant Maxwell joined Coop and Tay for a discussion on his new book, Integration and Difference: Constructing a Mythical Dialectic. We examine the approaches to difference pursued by both Derrida and Deleuze, how Deleuze innovates on Hegel and opens up a future space, and much more. Grant's Links: https://www.routledge.com/Integration-and-Difference-Constructing-a-Mythical-Dialectic/Maxwell/p/book/9781032049854 https://grantmaxwellphilosophy.wordpress.com/ https://twitter.com/...
Aug 13, 2022•1 hr 46 min