Badiou's Ethics
This week Cooper and Taylor read and discussed Alain Badiou's ethics. Fidelity to the event, the genesis of evil, and much more. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh
Dec 11, 2023•1 hr 47 min
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Lyotard's The Postmodern Condition
This week Coop and Taylor discussed Jean Francois Lyotard's famous book, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. We discuss meta-narratives, language games, science and more. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh
Nov 19, 2023•1 hr 37 min
Raymond Ruyer's Neofinalism
This week Cooper and Taylor discuss Raymond Ruyer's Neofinalism. Neofinalism offers a systematic and lucidly argued treatise that deploys the innovative concepts of self-survey, form, and absolute surface to shape a theory of the virtual and the transspatial. It also makes a compelling plea for a renewed appreciation of the creative activity that organizes spatiotemporal structures and makes possible the emergence of real beings in a dynamic universe. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.c...
Nov 12, 2023•1 hr 23 min
Michel Serres - The Birth of Physics
This week Cooper and Taylor discussed Michel Serres' The Birth of Physics. A discussion centering on flows, vortices, the clinamen and optimal pathways. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh
Oct 23, 2023•1 hr 12 min
Acid Horizon - Anti-Oculus
The Acid Horizon crew joined us to discuss their new book, Anti-Oculus: A Philosophy of Escape. Adam, Craig, and Will describe the writing process, some of the key concepts, and we wrap up on the relationship between cinema and ocularity. Acid Horizon Links: Book Link: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/anti-oculus-a-philosophy-of-escape/ Podcast links: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqzFQr1LCC8xrr0fMcRctYg https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast/posts https://podcasts.apple.com/tr/podcast/a...
Oct 15, 2023•1 hr 27 min
Joshua Dávila - Blockchain Radicals
This week Josh spoke with Cooper about his new book, Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It. We spend some time chatting about markets, tokens, smart contracts, daos, coordination, voting, Hayek and more. Josh's Links: Site: https://theblockchainsocialist.com/ What is a DAO: https://theblockchainsocialist.com/crypto-leftist-heuristics-what-is-a-dao/ Blockchain 101 Resources: https://theblockchainsocialist.com/category/blockchain_101_socialists/ Breadchain: https://br...
Oct 09, 2023•1 hr 38 min
Max Evry - A Masterpiece in Disarray: David Lynch’s Dune
This week Coop and Taylor spoke with film journalist, Max Evry about his new book, A Masterpiece in Disarray: David Lynch’s Dune. An Oral History. We discuss the soundtrack, the performances, the missed opportunities and the triumphs of this flawed masterpiece. The Transcendental Ending: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcAQJsFK4yM&pp=ygUkZGF2aWQgbHluY2gncyBkdW5lIGFsdGVybmF0ZSBlbmRpbmcg https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/david-lynch-original-dune-ending-a-lot-weirder-and-better/ Max's Links: ht...
Oct 02, 2023•1 hr 36 min
Julia Kristeva: Revolution in Poetic Language
This week Taylor and Coop investigate Julia Kristeva's Revolution in Poetic Language. Topics include semiotics/semiosis, the mother as phallus and much more. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh
Sep 23, 2023•1 hr 37 min
Griffin Melson - Alan Turing's Computing Machinery and Intelligence
This week, Griffin joined Cooper and Taylor for a look at Alan Turing's Computing Machinery and Intelligence. We dig into what it means to think, and what a machine and a human might share or how they differ when it comes to thinking. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh
Sep 10, 2023•1 hr 40 min
Deleuze: Nomad Thought
This week Cooper and Taylor read two of Deleuze’s essays on Nietzsche, Nomad Thought and Nietzsche and St. Paul, Lawrence and John of Patmos. We largely focused on nomad thought and spent time discussing decoded flows and more. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh
Sep 02, 2023•1 hr 35 min
Deleuze: Nietzsche and Philosophy Pt 2
Part 2 of a two part series on Deleuze’s monograph on Nietzsche, Nietzsche and Philosophy. This episode will cover chapter 4 through the end of the book. Part One: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/deleuze-nietzsche-and-philosophy-pt-1?si=9cfb13b906bd45d6bab147d5689a2869&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh
Aug 27, 2023•1 hr 13 min
Deleuze: Nietzsche and Philosophy Pt 1
We begin part 1 of a two part series on Deleuze’s monograph on Nietzsche, Nietzsche and Philosophy. This episode will cover the first 3 chapters, and then next week we’ll finish the second half of the book. Part Two: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/deleuze-nietzsche-and-philosophy-pt-2?si=5860243366fd4eeb9dc81b9db8af7e10&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh
Aug 20, 2023•1 hr 50 min
Claire Colebrook - Who Would You Kill to Save the World
This week Claire Colebrook joined Taylor and Coop for a discussion of her new book, Who Would You Kill to Save the World. Claire is the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English, Philosophy, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Penn State University. Claire is the author of over a dozen books spanning a broad range of disciplines and topics. We speak about micropolitics, cinematic ontology, and more. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh
Aug 06, 2023•1 hr 56 min
Paul Virilio's War and Cinema
This week Taylor and Cooper have a look at Paul Virilio's War and Cinema: The Logistics of Perception. We spend some time discussing the pseudo-concept of cinematic ontology, the co-development of both film and war machinery, and much more. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh
Jul 29, 2023•1 hr 3 min
Katherine Everitt - De La Boetie's The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude
This week we're joined by Katherine Everitt, a PhD candidate at the European Graduate School. She is completing her dissertation on Hegel and the dialectics of space and is joining us for a look at The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude by Etienne de la Boétie and Montaigne’s essay “On Friendship”. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh
Jul 23, 2023•1 hr 31 min
Ben Woodard - Bergson's Creative Evolution
This week Ben Woodard joined us for a discussion on Henri Bergson's Creative Evolution. Topics include, vitalism, evolution, science fiction and more. Ben Woodard is currently a research fellow at the ICI in Berlin, Germany. From 2017–20 he was a postdoctoral researcher at the IPK (Institute of Philosophy and Sciences of Art) at Leuphana University where he completed a habilitation on the analytic/continental divide in philosophy through the work of F.H. Bradley. Since 2020 Ben has lectured at t...
Jul 04, 2023•1 hr 30 min
Deleuze: Bergsonism
This week Coop and Taylor tackled Gilles Deleuze's monograph on the French philosopher, Henri Bergson. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh
Jun 18, 2023•1 hr 28 min
Espen Hammer - Philosophy and Temporality from Kant to Critical Theory
This week Coop and Taylor are joined by Espen Hammer, His main interests are in Kant and German Idealism, social and political philosophy, modern European philosophy, phenomenology, Critical Theory, and aesthetics. Some of his works include Adorno's Modernism: Art, Experience, and Catastrophe, Adorno and the Political (Thinking the Political), and of course the topic of today’s discussion: Philosophy and Temporality from Kant to Critical Theory. Topics of discussion include, acceleration, modern...
Jun 12, 2023•1 hr 31 min
Deleuze: Kant's Critical Philosophy
This week Coop and Taylor take a crack at Deleuze's Kant's Critical Philosophy. We cover the famous phrase, "time is out of joint", the categorical imperative, the law, and much more. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh
Jun 04, 2023•1 hr 24 min
Deleuze's Empiricism & Subjectivity
The week, Taylor and I tackled Empiricism & Subjectivity: An Essay on Hume's Theory of Human Nature. A fun look at empiricism, justice, and more. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh
May 28, 2023•1 hr 36 min
Gil Morejon - Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
This week we're joined by Gil Morejon, co host of the What’s Left of Philosophy podcast, translator of french philosophy, and recently translated Spinoza's Paradoxical Conservatism by Francois Zourabichvili and is also author of The Unconscious of Thought in Leibniz, Spinoza and Hume from Edinburgh press. The topic for this week's discussion is Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Gil's Links: Book Links: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/gil-morejon Being and Event podcast episode: ...
May 21, 2023•1 hr 36 min
Daniel W. Smith - Deleuze's The Fold
Dan Smith joined Coop and Taylor to discuss Deleuze's The Fold: Leibniz and The Baroque. We discussed differential calculus, the body without organs, time, the unconscious and much more in this discussion. 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. Support us on Patreon...
May 14, 2023•2 hr
Vernon Cisney - Deleuze & Guattari's Pedagogy of the Concept
This week friend of the show, Vernon Cisney, joined us to discuss his approach to teaching Deleuze and Guattari against the backdrop of part 1 of their book, What is Philosophy? Vernon is associate professor of interdisciplinary studies and Jewish studies at Gettysburg College. He teaches at the intersections of philosophy, religion, literature, cinema, the sciences, and political philosophy, in addition to being one of the primary advisors for students creating individual, interdisciplinary maj...
May 07, 2023•1 hr 41 min
Spinoza: Practical Philosophy
This week Coop and Taylor tackle Gilles Deleuze's Spinoza: Practical Philosophy. Thoughts on ethics, morality, the untapped potential of the body and more. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh
Apr 30, 2023•1 hr 2 min
Leon Brenner - The Dermic Drive
Dr. Leon S. Brenner is a philosopher and psychoanalytic theorist from Berlin. His work focuses on the integration of philosophical and linguistic frameworks in psychoanalytic theory of subjectivity and the understanding of the relationship between culture and psychopathology. He is a training analyst, studying member of the APPI and a founder of Lacanian Affinities Berlin (laLAB) and Unconscious Berlin. His latest book on the subject of the psychoanalysis of autism is called The Autistic Subject...
Apr 24, 2023•1 hr 44 min
Non Intro to Non Standard Philosophy
This week Taylor and I looked at the introductions to Francois Laruelle's Non-Standard Philosophy. We made an attempt to try and unpack some of the basic terminology and formulations of Laruelle's project. Taylor is currently in the process of completing this translation, so stay tuned for future announcements on it's release. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh
Apr 15, 2023•55 min
Chantelle Gray - Anarchism After Deleuze and Guattari
Our guest this week, Chantelle Gray, a Professor in the School of Philosophy at North-West University and co-editor of Deleuze and Anarchism and the author of Anarchism after Deleuze and Guattari: Fabulating Futures. We discuss dogmatic images of thought, derivative logic, statist realism and fabulating futures. https://agsmorester.academia.edu/ChantelleGrayvanHeerden https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/anarchism-after-deleuze-and-guattari-9781350132399/ Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/...
Apr 10, 2023•1 hr 51 min
Gabriel Tupinamba - The Desire of Psychoanalysis
This we were joined by Gabriel Tupinambá. Gabriel is a practicing psychoanalyst and the co-author of Hegel, Lacan, Žižek and most recently the author of The Desire of Psychoanalysis: Exercises in Lacanian Thinking. Gabriel's Links: https://www.gabrieltupinamba.com/english https://www.academia.edu/45486769/The_Desire_of_Psychoanalysis Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh
Apr 03, 2023•2 hr 3 min
Stephen Houlgate - Hegel On Being
Stephen Houlgate,professor of philosophy at the University of Warwick and the president of the Hegel Society of Great Britain. His books include Hegel, Nietzsche and the Criticism of Metaphysics; An Introduction to Hegel: Freedom, Truth and History; The Opening of Hegel’s Logic: From Being to Infinity; Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit: A Reader’s Guide; and most recently, Hegel on Being in 2 volumes. Stephen was so incredibly generous and engaging as we talked through some of the misconceptions r...
Mar 27, 2023•1 hr 36 min
Brent Adkins - Death and Desire in Heidegger, Hegel and Deleuze
This week we're joined by Brent Adkins. Brent is a professor in the department of Philosophy and Religion at Roanoke College. His works include Death and Desire in Heidegger, Hegel and Deleuze; True Freedom: Spinoza’s Practical Philosophy; Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus: A Critical Introduction and Guide; and A Guide to Ethics and Moral Philosophy. For this discussion, we focused on Death and Desire in Heidegger, Hegel and Deleuze. Death Drive, the model of death, and much more round...
Mar 19, 2023•1 hr 45 min
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