Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour
Episodes
Vernon Cisney - Deleuze & Guattari's Pedagogy of the Concept
07 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 thei...
Spinoza: Practical Philosophy
30 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week Coop and Taylor tackle Gilles Deleuze's Spinoza: Practical Philosophy. Thoughts on ethics, morality, the untapped potential of the body and ...
Leon Brenner - The Dermic Drive
24 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Leon S. Brenner is a philosopher and psychoanalytic theorist from Berlin. His work focuses on the integration of philosophical and linguistic fram...
Non Intro to Non Standard Philosophy
15 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ba...
Chantelle Gray - Anarchism After Deleuze and Guattari
10 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 a...
Gabriel Tupinamba - The Desire of Psychoanalysis
03 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This we were joined by Gabriel Tupinambá. Gabriel is a practicing psychoanalyst and the co-author of Hegel, Lacan, Žižek and most recently the auth...
Stephen Houlgate - Hegel On Being
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Stephen Houlgate,professor of philosophy at the University of Warwick and the president of the Hegel Society of Great Britain. His books include Hegel...
Brent Adkins - Death and Desire in Heidegger, Hegel and Deleuze
19 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Lindsay Lerman - What Are You
12 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 translati...
Eugene Holland - Deleuze & Guattari: Multiplicities, Axiomatics, Politics
05 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Stephen Zepke - Guattari & Laruelle: Ethico-Aesthetic Paradigms
25 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Stephen Zepke joined Coop and Taylor for a discussion focusing on the differing approaches to aesthetics within the work of Felix Guattari and Francoi...
Renata Salecl - A Passion for Ignorance
18 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 Facult...
Jean Laplanche's Life & Death in Psychoanalysis
12 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week Coop and Taylor interrogated Jean Laplanche's Life & Death in psychoanalysis. Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Laplanche http...
Plato's Symposium
06 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Coop and Taylor investigate Plato's Symposium, with an eye towards drawing out it's psychoanalytic content. Topics of discussion include seduction, fe...
James Wakefield - The Political Theology of Dune
28 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
James Wakefield joined Coop and Taylor to discuss his chapter in the recently released Dune and Philosophy: Minds, Monads, and Muad'Dib, titled The Go...
Jared Miller-Price - Lacan Seminar 20
21 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Samo Tomsic - The Labour of Enjoyment: Towards a Critique of Libidinal Economy
15 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 th...
Freud's Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
08 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week Coop and Taylor discuss Freud's Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905). Sublimation, polymorphous perversity, the Bwo and more make ...
Anti Oedipus Seminar 10
31 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Coop and Taylor reach the exciting conclusion to our series on Anti-Oedipus. This episode will cover Chapter 4, The First Positive Task of Schizoanaly...
Michael Hardt - Empire, 20 Years On
25 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 bac...
Eric Schmid & Rocco Gangle - On Mathematical Structuralism
18 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week our guests are Eric Schmid and Rocco Gangle. We’ll be discussing Eric’s new book, Prolegomenon to a Treatise: On Mathematical Structural...
Craig & Adam - The Ecstasy of Communication
10 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A discussion on Jean Baudrillard's The Ecstasy of Communication with Adam and Craig from Acid Horizon. The discussion was originally offered to Patron...
Gail Newman & Mari Ruti - Against Neoliberal Self-Optimization: Marion Milner and D.W. Winnicott
27 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Gail Newman and Mari Ruti joined Coop and Taylor to discuss their upcoming co-authored text, Against Neoliberal Self-Optimization: Marion Milner and D...
Isabel Millar - Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Bombshell
20 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Friend of the show, Isabel Millar, joined Coop and Taylor to discuss her article, Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Bombshell. We discuss Dele...
Matthew Flisfeder - Algorithmic Desire
12 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Matthew Flisfeder joins Coop and Taylor to discuss his latest book, Algorithmic Desire:Toward a New Structuralist Theory of Social Media. ...
Anti Oedipus Seminar 9
07 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Coop and Taylor return to cover Anti Oedipus Chapter 4, Introduction to Schizoanalysis. This episode will cover sections 1. The Social Field, 2. The M...
Christopher Satoor - Schelling and The Ages of the World
31 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Dorothea Olkowski - Deleuze, Bergson, Merleau-Ponty
22 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week Dorothea Olkowski joined Coop and Taylor to discuss her work on Deleuze, Bergson, and Phenomenology among other topics. We focused on her la...
Melody - Engels and the Dialectics of Nature
15 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Melody, creator of the A World to Win YouTube channel joined Coop and Taylor for a discussion centering on Friedrich Engels' Anti-Duhring. Labor theor...
Mourning and Melancholia
08 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week Taylor and Coop discuss Freud's Mourning and Melancholia. The discussion includes threads on libidinal economy, depression, narcissism and m...
Sean Bowden - The Priority of Events: Deleuze's Logic of Sense
01 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Acid Horizon - The Desire Named Marx
24 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 J...
Simon Duffy - Deleuze and the History of Mathematics
17 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Cooper and Taylor chat with Simon Duffy about the history of mathematics and the history of philosophy converging in the investigation and determinati...
Alenka Zupancic - What Is Sex?
11 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Alenka Zupancic joined Coop and Taylor to discuss the ontological and epistemological implications of the problematic associated with the significatio...
Nicholas Blincoe - Making It With The Outside
03 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 D...
Henry Somers Hall - Deleuze, Difference, and Repetition
29 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Henry Somers-Hall joined Coop and Tay for a rousing discussion focusing primarily on Henry's Deleuze's Difference and Repetition: Deleuze's Difference...
Eric Santner - A Life In Theory
20 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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: Philosop...
Grant Maxwell - Integration and Difference
13 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Friend of the show, Grant Maxwell joined Coop and Tay for a discussion on his new book, Integration and Difference: Constructing a Mythical Dialectic....
Contingency and Hyper-Chaos
07 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Cooper and Taylor take a foray into the work of Quentin Meillassoux, one of the four horseman of Speculative Realism or Speculative Materialism as Mei...
Jon Roffe - Deleuze and Abstract Market Theory
30 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jon Roffe joined Cooper and Taylor to discuss Deleuze and a Post-Kantian examination of markets and pricing. Time, inscription, all prices being deriv...
Greg Sadler - Speculative Heretics of Dune
24 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Friend of the show Greg Sadler joined us for a look at Frank Herbert's Dune series. We discuss nomadology, war machines, imperceptibility, eternal rec...
Elmo Feiten - Stirner And Neuroplasticity
18 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Elmo Feiten joined Cooper and Taylor to discuss his essay Ethics of the Care for the Brain Neuroplasticity with Stirner, Malabou and Foucault. We disc...
Guattari and Marx on Machines
09 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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:...
Saul Newman - Carl Schmitt and Political Theology
02 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Friend of the show, Saul Newman, returns to discuss his most recent work on Political Theology. The discussion focuses on Political Theology: A Critic...
Lorenzo Chiesa - The God Hypothesis
25 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 f...
Thomas Nail - Marx and Motion
20 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 accumu...
Jeremy Smith - Laruelle and Non-Humanism
11 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 Laru...
Andrew Culp - A Guerrilla Guide to Refusal
04 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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/ ht...
Eugene Holland - Perverse Capital
28 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Eugene Holland, Professor Emeritus at Ohio State University, and author of several books ranging from Baudelaire and Schizoanalysis: The Sociopoetics ...
Daniel Tutt - Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Family
21 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 Seri...
Impromptu Jam
02 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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....
Yung Marx: Democritus vs Epicurus
24 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week Coop & Tay have a look at Marx's dissertation, The Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature. The dissertation i...
Gil Morejon - Anti-Oedipus Seminar 8
17 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 Cap...
Decode - Jean Baudrillard: The Spirit of Terrorism
10 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses
03 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Coop & Taylor perform a very unorthodox analysis of Louis Althursser's famous Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses essay as it pertains to desir...
Ray Brassier - Brassier Unbound
21 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode, Cooper and I welcome Ray Brassier to discuss the trajectory of his philosophical education, his translations of contemporary...
Will (@EmoFoucault) - Going Astray
15 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Jake Flores - Jokes & the Unconscious
07 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 episod...
Daniel W. Smith - Articulating Deleuze
28 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel W. Smith is an American philosopher, academic, researcher, and translator. Smith is known for his interpretation of the work of the French phil...
Symbolic Exchange & Death - Seminar 6
21 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Taylor and Coop investigate Chapter 56of Jean Baudrillard's Symbolic Exchange and Death: The Extermination of the Name of God. Symbolic Exchange & D...
Acid Horizon - Acidic Unconscious Happy Horizon
13 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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. htt...
Charles Stivale - The ABC's of Deleuze
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 S...
Graham Harman - Object Oriented Ontology
31 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Vernon Cisney - Deleuze & Derrida: Splitting Difference
25 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Vernon Cisney, Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Philosophy at Gettysburg College, joined Taylor and I to discuss his book Deleuze ...
John Protevi - Edges Of The State
18 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
John Protevi, Professor of French Studies and professor of philosophy at Louisiana State University. We discuss his 2019 book Edges of the state. Th...
Duane Rouselle - Politics of the Real
10 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In our latest episode, Cooper and Taylor have a vigorous discussion with Duane Rousselle on Lacan, Žižek, Badiou, anarchism, sociology, realism, the...
Eliot Rosenstock - The Ego & Its Hyperstate
01 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Friend of the show, Eliot Rosenstock, joined Cooper and Taylor to discuss his new book: The Ego And Its Hyperstate A Psychoanalytically Informed Diale...
Jack (@jackpaulsartre) - Transcendence of the Ego
19 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jack (@jackpaulsartre) joined Taylor and I discussed Sartre's Transcendence of the Ego. Jack's Links: https://alwaysother.bandcamp.com/ https://sou...
David Roden - Snuff Memories
13 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
John Roden, author of Snuff Memories joined Taylor and I to discuss the book, theory, Dune, and more. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57088427-sn...
Anti Oedipus - Seminar 7
05 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Cooper and Taylor return to tackle Anti-Oedipus Chapter 3 sections 8. The Urstaat and 9. The Civilized Capitalist Machine Anti-Oedipus Playlist: http...
Symbolic Exchange & Death - Seminar 5
28 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Taylor and Coop investigate Chapter 5 of Jean Baudrillard's Symbolic Exchange and Death, Political Economy and Death. Symbolic Exchange & Death Play...
Victor Vazquez (Kool A.D.) - Combination Deleuze & Guattari
15 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Rapper Victor Vazquez, formerly of Das Racist, joined Coop and Taylor to discuss a roundtable discussion called In Flux from Chaosophy. https://koola...
Gary Genosko - An Aberrant Introduction
07 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Gary Genosko joined Cooper and Taylor this week to discuss a little about the trajectory of his work from Baudrillard to Guattari with a critical eye ...
Madeline (@madd13line) - Anti Oedipus - Seminar 6
01 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Madeline (@madd13line) joined Coop & Taylor to chat about sections 4-7 from chapter 3 of Deleuze and Guattari's Anti Oedipus. Psychoanalysis and Ethno...
Peter Mathews - Lacan The Charlatan
25 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Mathews, author of Lacan The Charlatan, part of the Palgrave Lacan Series joined us to discuss some of his critics and their various approaches ...
Leon Brenner - The Autistic Rim
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Leon Brenner, Author of The Autistic Subject: on the Threshold of Language joined us again this week to pick up on a discussion of the drive circuit, ...
Leon Brenner - The Autistic Subject: On the Threshold of Language
11 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Leon Brenner joined us for the first of two discussions on his book, The Autistic Subject: On the Threshold of Language. It's also part of the Palgrav...
Symbolic Exchange & Death - Seminar 4
04 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Taylor and Coop investigate Chapter 4 of Jean Baudrillard's Symbolic Exchange and Death, The Body, or the Mass Grave of Signs. Topics covered include ...
Daniel Tutt - Anti Oedipus - Seminar 5
27 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel Tutt, co-host of the Jouissance Vampires podcast and future The Palgrave Lacan Series author joined Coop & Taylor to discuss the first 3 sectio...
Society Against The State
20 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week Cooper and Taylor took a look at several essays from Pierre Clastres' Society Against the State: Copernicus and the Savages, Exchange and Po...
Symbolic Exchange & Death - Seminar 3
14 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week Cooper and Taylor discuss chapter 3 of Jean Baudrillard's Symbolic Exchange and death, titled Fashion, Or The Enchanting Spectacle of the Co...
Anti Oedipus - Seminar 4
05 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Cooper and Taylor focus the discussion on Chapter 2 of Deleuze and Guattari's Anti Oedipus: 6. A Recapitulation of the Three Synthesi...
Twilight Of The Idols
29 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Cooper and Taylor investigate Nietzsche's Twighlight of the Idols, with a particular focus on its psychoanalytic resonances.
Jack & Will - Posting In The Name Of
23 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jack (@snowdriftmoon) & Will of the Acid Horizon Podcast joined Cooper and Taylor for a discussion on simulating the name of god, The Other, and more....
Symbolic Exchange & Death - Seminar 2
17 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week Cooper and Taylor discuss chapter 2 of Jean Baudrillard's Symbolic Exchange and death, titled The Three Orders of Simulacra. Symbolic Excha...
The Gift
12 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Cooper and Taylor tackle Marcel Mauss's The Gift. It's an essential reference for Baudrillard's Symbolic Exchange and Death. It's also referenced in L...
Anti Oedipus - Seminar 3
04 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Cooper and Taylor focus the discussion on Chapter 2 of Deleuze and Guattari's Anti Oedipus: 3. The Connective Synthesis of Production...
Symbolic Exchange & Death - Seminar 1
26 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Taylor and Cooper discuss the first chapter of Jean Baudrillard's Symbolic Exchange and Death (1976), The End of Production. Support us on Patreon: ...
Damian - Anti Oedipus - Seminar 2
12 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Friend of the show, Damian, joined Taylor and I for a look at the first two section of Chapter 2 of Deleuze and Guattari's Anti Oedipus, The Imperiali...
Todd McGowan & Ryan Engley - Guattari Avec Lacan
05 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Todd McGowan & Ryan Engley of the Why Theory podcast joined us for a discussion of the complicated personal and theoretical relationships between Jacq...
Phoebe Kaufman - The Wolf Man: Cyptonomy
28 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Phoebe Kaufman joined us for a look at The Wolf Man's Magic Word A Cryptonymy by Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok. Phoebe's Links: Twitter: https://t...
The Wolf Man: Libidinal Economics
21 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Taylor and I returned to Freud's most famous case, The Wolf Man, to discuss the libidinal economics implied in the text. We also pick up on some Schre...
The Wolf Man: Case History
12 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week Taylor and I take a look at another of Freud's famous cases, The Wolf Man. Castration, Oedipus, and libidinal economy are some of the primar...
The Rat Man Pt 2
07 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week Taylor and I again discussed Freud's A Case of 'Obsessional Neurosis, colloquially referred to as The Rat Man.
The Rat Man Pt 1
31 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week Taylor and I discussed Freud's A Case of 'Obsessional Neurosis, colloquially referred to as The Rat Man. Transference, Oedipus, and so on ar...
Instincts, Repression & Negation
23 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week Taylor and I discussed 3 of Freud's essays: Instincts And Their Vicissitudes, Repression, and Negation.
Isabel Millar - Psychoanalysis & Ai: Schreber's Basilisk
16 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Isabel Millar joined Taylor and I to discuss her new book, The Psychoanalysis of Artificial Intelligence. We discuss the lathouse, Schreber, enjoy...
Narcissus Unbound
10 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week Taylor and I discussed Freud's On Narcissism.
Eliot Rosenstock - Lacan Seminar 3
04 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Eliot Rosenstock, practicing psychotherapist and author of Zizek In The Clinic, joined us for an in-depth discussion of Lacan's 3rd Seminar: The Psych...
Anti Oedipus - Seminar 1
27 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Taylor and I began a new series of discussions on Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's landmark work, Anti-Oedipus. We've covered The Schreber Case a...