Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour
Two Desiring Machines explore philosophy, critical theory, and the intersections of technology and desire in a conversational format.
Episodes
Richard Seaford - Brothel and Coin
This week we investigate Richard Seaford’s, Money and the Early Greek Mind.
Four foregrounded threads:
(1) money decodes flows
(2) theodicy of money/market
(3) hauntology / market / primal father
(4) simulation / hyperreality
Referenced Seaford talk on Youtube:
https://youtu.be/wDFpo-jq5eo?si=Zk4swOK2KoXCaV4K
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Gilbert Simondon - Membrane, Disparation, & the Amortized Individual
Vital Units: Membrane, Disparation, and the Amortized Individual. Simondon, Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information, Vol. 1.
The individual is not a thing, it is an ongoing operation, and the character of that operation is thanatological, topological, and ultimately collective.
Conformal Cyclic Cosmology:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conformal_cyclic_cosmology
Gilbert Simond
Sigmund Freud - Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego
This week Coop and Taylor explore Freud's Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego.
Our Freud Playlist:
https://on.soundcloud.com/xZlIgPSrGbyuvlW2J0
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Deleuze and Guattari - Vampires, Contagion, & The Secret
This week Coop and Taylor discuss 1730: Becoming-Intense, Becoming-Animal, Becoming-Imperceptible from Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus. A heretical reading on alliance, filiation, fascism, and the secret.
A Thousand Plateaus Playlist:
https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/a-thousand-plateaus?si=1949e892aff44277bc4c23f63739e5a1&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_cam
Moishe Postone - Time, Labor, and Social Domination
This week Coop and Taylor discuss chapters 7, 8, and 9 of Moishe Postone's Time, Labor, and Social Domination. We discuss ties to our manuscript, Deleuze & Guattari, and Baudrillard.
William Wordsworth's The World is Too Much With Us:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45564/the-world-is-too-much-with-us
I Pencil PDF:
https://fee.org/wp-content/uploads/ebooks/i-pencil-final-proof-for-website
Gilbert Simondon - Form and Matter Redux
This week Coop and Taylor revisit the Introduction and 1st chapter in Gilbert Simondon’s Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information: the introduction and ch 1. Form and Matter. The discussion largely focuses on developing a Simondian political economy by way of his critique of the hylomorphic schema and theory of individuation.
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Conor O'Dea - Henri Atlan on Spinoza
Conor O'Dea joined Coop and Taylor for a discussion on Henri Atlan focusing on Part 3: Spinoza: The Spinoza Path (2005) 209 Immanent Causality: A Spinozist Viewpoint on Evolution and the Theory of Action (1998) 2112. Spinozist Neurophysiology (2007) 237 13. Knowledge, Glory, and ‘‘On Human Dignity’’ (2007), Golems, and Noise as a Principle of Self-Organization (1972/1979) from Selected Writings:
Charles Stivale - Unfolding the Deleuze Seminars
Charles Stivale joined us this week to discuss the recently published Unfolding the Deleuze Seminars, 1970–1987.
Charles co-translated Deleuze's Logic of Sense and has also published Gilles Deleuze's ABCs: The Folds of Friendship among others.
deleuze.cla.purdue.edu/
Book Link: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-unfolding-the-deleuze-seminars-1970-1987.html
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Sigmund Freud - The Ego and the Id
This week we return to Freud and have a look at The Ego and the Id.
Freud Playlist:
Listen on SoundCloud
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Georges Bataille - The Accursed Share
This conversation focuses on the first 2 sections of Georges Bataille's The Accursed Share Volume 1. The discussion centers on the libidinal economics of expenditure, excess, waste and their relationship to reproduction.
Bird of Paradise video/example link:
https://youtu.be/nWfyw51DQfU?si=JfQtoiQjdcNwH1ku
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Jacques Derrida - The Time of the King
This week Cooper and Taylor investigate chapter 1, The Time of the King, from Jacques Derrida's
Given Time: I. Counterfeit Money. The focus is on libidinal economics.
Episodes referenced:
-https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/phoebe-kaufman-the-wolf-man-cyptonomy?si=6d8377f23904451c984dd1b4d62368f9&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
-https://soundcloud.co
Sigmund Freud - The Economic Problem of Masochism
Cooper and Taylor discuss Sigmund Freud's The Economic Problem of Masochism.
Reading link:
https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Freud_Masochism.pdf
Freud Playlist:
https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/freud?si=ce03d08b3f8742f4b1e40a2a6315888c&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
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Sigmund Freud - Future of an Illusion
Cooper and Taylor discuss Freud's Future of an Illusion with a heavy focus on libidinal economy.
Freud Playlist:
https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/freud?si=dc5fe063c9964a449daf8f60849cb476&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
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Spinoza - Concerning God
This week Coop and Taylor tackle part 1 of Spinoza's Ethics, Concerning God.
Gil Morejon Episode:
https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/gil-morejon-the-unconscious-of-thought-in-leibniz-spinoza-and-hume?si=8d30cdd50d364b75a504427f012e02b1&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
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Rocco Gangle - Leibniz's Monadology
Rocco Gangle joined Coop & Taylor to discuss Leibniz's Monadology.
Rocco is Professor of Philosophy at Endicott College. He is the author of Francois Laruelle’s Philosophies of Difference: A Critical Introduction and Guide (EUP 2013) and Diagrammatic Immanence: Category Theory and Philosophy (EUP 2016), co-author of Iconicity and Abduction (Springer 2017) and co-editor of Superpositions: Laruell
Deleuze and Guattari - Micropolitics and Segmentarity
Cooper and Taylor return to A Thousand Plateaus to discuss Micropolitics and Segmentarity.
Episode on Paul Virilio's Speed and Politics:
https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/paul-verilio-speed-and-politics?si=66d8a51400264dc7b92e429f76630374&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
A Thousand Plateaus Playlist:
https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets
Deleuze and Guattari - Three Novellas or What Happened?
Cooper and Taylor return to A Thousand Plateaus to discuss 1874: Three Novellas, or 'What Happened?" What lines do you draw and at what cost?
A Thousand Plateaus Playlist:
https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/a-thousand-plateaus?si=845cc854fd514b439f25f145986cdf35&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
Alenka Zupancic on What is Sex?:
https://soundcloud
Sigmund Freud - Debasement in the Sphere of Love
This week Cooper and Taylor discuss a short piece from Sigmund Freud: On the Universal Tendency to Debasement in the Sphere of Love. We focus on the implications on libidinal economy. We tie the piece to Deleuze & Guattari, Lyotard, Lacan, and Rene Girard.
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Deleuze and Guattari - How Do You Make Yourself a Body Without Organs?
Charles Stivale joined us to discuss November 28, 1947: How Do You Make Yourself a Body Without Organs? from Deleuze and Guattari's landmark work, A Thousand Plateaus.
Stivale has authored six books in nineteenth and twentieth-century French and Francophone studies, has edited or co-edited three volumes of studies and six journal issues, has prepared translations of two major works, a half-dozen
Deleuze and Guattari - Year Zero: Faciality
This week, Henry Somers-Hall joined us to discuss Year Zero: Faciality from A Thousand Plateaus. Henry is a professor in philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London, and this is his third appearance on the show.
A Thousand Plateaus Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/a-thousand-plateaus?si=9f09bd317a0e446585a3451be4ff2822&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_
Immanuel Kant - Negative Magnitudes
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.
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Deleuze and Guattari - On Several Regimes of Signs
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.
Conor O'Dea - Cannibal Metaphysics
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
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Jean Laplanche - The Temptation of Biology: Freud's Theories of Sexuality
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.
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Deleuze and Guattari - Postulates of Linguistics
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
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Eugene Holland - Axiomatics and Markets
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-axiomat
Timothy Jackson - Chaosmosis
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
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Raymond Ruyer - There is No Subsconscious: Embryogenesis and Memory
This week Coop and Taylor discuss a short piece from Raymond Ruyer, There is No Subsconscious: Embryogenesis and Memory.
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Freud's Project for a Scientific Psychology
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
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Rocco Gangle - Peirce and Semiotic Immanence
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
John Protevi - Regimes of Violence
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
Paul Virilio - Speed and Politics
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=072
Deleuze and Guattari - The Geology of Morals
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
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Deleuze and Guattari - Rhizome and One or Several Wolves
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_cam
Gilbert Simondon - The Evolution of Technics/Technical Reality
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/Simond
Gilles Deleuze - The Method of Dramatization
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
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Adam C. Jones - The New Flesh
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 wro
Emily Herring - Henri Bergson: Herald of a Restless World
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 mode
Jacob Blumenfeld - The Concept of Property in Kant, Fichte, and Hegel
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
David Carr - Essays on the Phenomenology of History
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:
William Clare Roberts - Marx's Inferno
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.mcgil
Duane Rousselle - Psychoanalysis, Sociology & the Social Bond
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, Kazakhsta
Freud's Screen Memories
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
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Michael Ardoline - Deleuze, Mathematics, Metaphysics: Difference and Necessity
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 law
Marcel Mauss's A General Theory of Magic
This week Cooper and Taylor dive into Marcel Mauss's A General Theory of Magic.
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Emmanuel Levinas - Totality and Infinity
Coop and Taylor discus Emmanuel Levinas’s Totality and Infinity, the first section, The Same and the Other.
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Max Stirner's The Unique and Its Property
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-ca
Matt Bower - Husserl At The Limits
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
Hegel's Philosophy of Right
Cooper and Taylor discuss Hegel's Elements of the Philosophy of Right.
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James Wakefield - Giovanni Gentile & Actual Idealism
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/p
The Eroticism of Contract and Gift
The week Cooper and Taylor discuss chapter 1 of Jeanne Lorraine Schroeder's The Triumph of Venus The Erotics of the Market, Pandora’s Amphora: The Eroticism of Contract and Gift.
Marcel Mauss's The Gift Episode:
https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/the-gift?si=75d82545bf564e358f5a22f2b59390c3&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
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Rene Girard's Violence And The Sacred
This week Cooper and Taylor discuss the first 4 chapters of Rene Girard’s Violence and the Sacred: Sacrifice, The Sacrificial Crisis, Oedipus and the Surrogate Victim, and The Origins of Myth and Ritual.
Marcel Mauss's The Gift Episode:
https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/the-gift?si=75d82545bf564e358f5a22f2b59390c3&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
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Freud's Moses And Monotheism
This week Cooper and Taylor discuss Freud's Moses and Monotheism. This builds on what Freud laid out in Totem and Taboo as well our as discussion on that text. Working through different modes of the Oedipus complex as put forth in the concept of the primal father. This relationship between law, economy and the social bond is the focus.
Our episodes on Freud's Totem and Taboo: https://soundcloud.c
Kara Kennedy - Dune: A Critical Companion
This week Cooper and Taylor spoke with Dr. Kara Kennedy about her book, Frank Herbert's Dune: A Critical Companion.
Dr. Kennedy's publications include the books Adaptations of Dune: Frank Herbert’s Story on Screen, Frank Herbert’s Dune: A Critical Companion and Women’s Agency in the Dune Universe: Tracing Women’s Liberation through Science Fiction and various articles on Dune topics. Dr. Kennedy
Gilbert Simondon - On The Mode Of Existence Of Technical Objects
This week Cooper and Taylor tackle the introduction and chapter 1 of Gilbert Simondon’s On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects. Chapter 1 Genesis of the technical object: the process of concretization.
PDF:
https://monoskop.org/images/2/20/Simondon_Gilbert_On_the_Mode_of_Existence_of_Technical_Objects_Part_I_alt.pdf
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Amy Ireland & Maya B. Kronic - Cute Accelarationism
This week Amy Ireland and Maya B. Kronic joined Cooper and Taylor to discuss their collaborative project, Cute Accelerationism.
Amy Ireland is a theorist and experimental writer based in Melbourne, Australia. Her research focuses on questions of agency and technology in modernity, and she is a member of the techno-materialist trans-feminist collective, Laboria Cuboniks.
Maya B. Kronic (they/them
Adrian Johnston - Infinite Greed
This week Coop and Taylor had the pleasure of hosting Adrian Johnston. Adrian is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque. He is the author of many books, including Time Driven: Metapsychology and the Splitting of the Drive; Irrepressible Truth: On Lacan’s “The Freudian Thing”; and A New German Idealism: Hegel, Žižek, and Dialectical M
Bradley Mclean - Deleuze, Guattari and the Machine in Early Christianity
This week Cooper and Taylor spoke to Bradley McClean about his book, Deleuze, Guattari and the Machine in Early Christianity Schizoanalysis, Affect and Multiplicity.
Dr. Bradley H. McLean is the Professor of New Testament Language and Literature at Knox College. He is the author of seven books including Biblical Interpretation and Philosophical Hermeneutics (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and
Jason Read - The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work
This week Coop and Taylor speak with Jason Read on his recent book, The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work.
Jason is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine and whose works include The Micropolitics of Capital: Marx and the Prehistory of the Present; The Politics of Transindividuality; The Production of Subjectivity: Marx and Philosophy; and today’s focus
Ian Buchanan - Assemblage Theory
Cooper and Taylor speak with Ian Buchanan, who is a Professor of Critical Theory and Cultural Studies at the University of Wollongong Australia. Ian is the author and editor of many books, some of which include Deleuzism: A Metacommentary; Fredric Jameson: Live Theory; and, most recently, The Incomplete project of Schizoanalysis: Collected Essays on Deleuze and Guattari and the topic for today’s d
Gilbert Simondon - Form and Matter
Cooper and Taylor discuss the Introduction and first chapter of Gilbert Simondon's Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information, Form and Matter.
This volume was translated by our very own Taylor Adkins.
https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/individuation-in-light-of-notions-of-form-and
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Elizabeth Grosz - The Incorporeal
In this week's episode Cooper and Taylor speak with Elizabeth Grosz, who has published and edited over a dozen books and whose most recent work, The Incorporeal: Ontology, Ethics, and the Limits of Materialism, will be the topic of today’s discussion.
Links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Grosz
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-incorporeal/9780231181631
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Jon Repetti - Lacan's Seminar 11
This week, Jon Repetti joined Coop and Taylor for a discussion on Lacan's Seminar 11.
Jon is finishing a phd in American literature at Princeton, focusing on naturalism, radical empiricism, and psychoanalysis.
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Jon Greenaway - An Introduction to the Work of Ernst Bloch
Coop and Taylor speak with Jon Greenaway, aka The LitCritGuy. Writer, podcaster, and content creator from the North of England. Host of the Horror Vanguard Podcast. He writes about horror, contemporary capitalism, and cultural theory. Today we’ll be discussing his book, A Primer on Utopian Philosophy; An Introduction to the Work of Ernst Bloch.
Jon's Links:
https://soundcloud.com/user-317910500
Rocco Gangle - Autopoiesis and Eigenform
Rocco Gangle joined Coop and Taylor to discuss a piece titled Autopoiesis and Eigenform by Louis H. Kauffman.
Article Link:
https://www.mdpi.com/2079-3197/11/12/247
Rocco's first appearance:
https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/eric-schmid-rocco-gangle-on-mathematical-structuralism?si=26acc817ecf44e9d8f20a3b4c8330d06&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
Jo
Freud's Totem and Taboo
This week Coop and Taylor discuss Freud's Totem and Taboo. Ambivalence, Anti-Oedipus, repetition, sacrifice, cannibalism and more.
Freud Playlist:
https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/freud?si=7394d554bb4f4915ac9d731243e347f4&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
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Twitter: @unconscioushh
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Charles Stivale & Dan Smith - Deleuze on Painting and the Question of Concepts
This week, Charles Stivale and Dan Smith returned to the podcast to discuss a series of lectures Deleuze delivered titled "Painting and the Question of Concepts". They also shared a bit about their experience with the Deleuze Seminars project hosted by Purdue University.
Quick recap
The team discussed the introduction of a new feature on Zoom that can summarize discussions. They also discussed th
Brian Massumi - The Personality of Power
Brian Massumi joined Cooper and Taylor for a discussion on his forthcoming book: The Personality of Power: A Theory of Fascism for Anti-Fascist Life.
Massumi was instrumental in introducing the work of French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari to the English-speaking world through his translation of their key collaborative work A Thousand Plateaus (1987) and his book A User's Guide to
Jeffrey Bell - An Inquiry into Analytic-Continental Metaphysics
Jeffrey Bell joined us to speak about his recently published book, An Inquiry into Analytic-Continental Metaphysics.
Jeffrey A. Bell is Professor of Philosophy at Southeastern Louisiana University. He has recently been a Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor in Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London, during which time much of this book was written. He is the author of numerous books and
Cristóbal Escobar - The Intensive-Image in Deleuze’s Film-Philosophy
Cristóbal Escobar joined Coop and Taylor to discuss his new book, The Intensive-Image in Deleuze’s Film-Philosophy.
Cristóbal is a Lecturer in Screen Studies at the University of Melbourne and Film Programmer at the Santiago International Documentary Film Festival (FIDOCS). His publications include The Intensive-Image in Deleuze’s Film-Philosophy (2023), an edited collection on Cine Cartográfico
Michael Hardt - The Subversive Seventies
Michael Hardt returned to discuss his most recent book, The Subversive Seventies.
Hardt argues that the 1970s offers an inspiring and useful guide for contemporary radical political thought and action. Although we can still learn much from the movements of the sixties, that decade's struggles for peace, justice, and freedom fundamentally marked the end of an era. The movements of the seventies, i
Henry Somers-Hall - Treatise on Nomadology: The War Machine
Henry Somers-Hall joined us to discuss a chapter from a book he's currently writing on A Thousand Plateaus. This discussion focuses on a chapter from the book, Treatise on Nomadology: The War Machine.
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/citati
Thomas Nail - Matter and Motion A Brief History of Kinetic Materialism
Thomas Nail returned to discuss his new book, Matter and Motion
A Brief History of Kinetic Materialism. From the Minoans to Virginia Woolf and a hint of chaos.
Thomas's Links:
The book we discuss:
https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-matter-and-motion.html
Thomas's previous appearance:
https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/thomas-nail-marx-and-motion?si=c15df144007741479d701b7b
Graham Harman - Tool Being
This week Graham Harman returned to discuss his first book, Tool Being, and share some great stories from his career.
Graham's first appearance:
https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/graham-harman-object-oriented-ontology?si=d162f30106dc42088c8379e1df7ce67b&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Harman
https://www.sciarc.ed
Derrida and Freud on The Scene of Writing
This week we read and discuss two pieces: Freud’s Mystic Writing Pad and Derrida’s Freud and the Scene of Writing.
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Gil Morejon - The Unconscious of Thought in Leibniz, Spinoza, and Hume
This week Gil Morejon joined us to discuss his book, The Unconscious of Thought in Leibniz, Spinoza, and Hume.
Book Links:
https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/gil-morejon
Kant's Prolegomena Episode:
https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/gil-morejon-kants-prolegomena-to-any-future-metaphysics?si=6e79819c620342dfb23546a21c45bbb6&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_
Grant Maxwell - The Mythic Dialectic In Spinoza, Nietzsche and Deleuze
This week Grant Maxwell returned to discuss the mythic dialectic in the work of Spinoza, Nietzsche, and Deleuze. The discussion focuses on these 3 central figures in Grant's book, Integration and Difference: Constructing a Mythical Dialectic.
Previously, we spoke with Grant on the whole book and so it was nice to narrow the focus a bit and center the discussion on the mythic dialectic.
Grant's
Heidegger's The Question Concerning Technology
This week Coop and Taylor investigate Martin Heidegger's The Question Concerning Technology.
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Jon Repetti - Deleuze's Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation
This week, Jon Repetti joined Coop and Taylor for a discussion on Deleuze's monograph, Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation.
Jon is finishing a phd in American literature at Princeton, focusing on naturalism, radical empiricism, and psychoanalysis.
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Freud on Transference Love
This week Cooper and Taylor focused on 3 essays on Transference-Love: Freud’s The Dynamics of Transference, Observations on Transference Love, and Intervention on Transference by Lacan.
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