Episodes

  • 'The Philosophy of Movement: An Introduction' with Thomas Nail
    Nov 4 2024

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    About 'The Philosophy of Movement: An Introduction':

    Why are city dwellers worldwide walking on average ten percent faster than they were a decade ago? Why are newcomer immigrant groups so often maligned when migration has always constituted civilization? To analyze and understand the depth of the reasons, Thomas Nail suggests that it serves us well to turn to a philosophy of movement. Synthesizing and extending many years of his influential work, The Philosophy of Movement is a comprehensive argument for how motion is the primary force in human and natural history.

    Nail critiques the bias toward stasis at the core of Western thought, asking: what would a philosophy that began with the primacy of movement look like? Interrogating the consequences of movement throughout history and in daily life in the twenty-first century, he draws connections and traces patterns between scales of reality, periods of history, and fields of knowledge. In our age of rapid movements shaped by accelerating climate change and ensuing mass global migration, as well as ubiquitous digital media, Nail provides a contemporary philosophy that helps us understand how we got here and how to grapple with these interlocking challenges.

    With a foreword by philosopher Daniel W. Smith, The Philosophy of Movement: An Introduction is a must-read for scholars and students not only of philosophy but also history, anthropology, science and technology studies, mobility studies, and other fields across the humanities and social sciences.

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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • Acéphalous Launch Livestream is Today, October 31st at 12PM EST!
    Oct 31 2024

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    2 mins
  • 'Machine and Sovereignty: For a Planetary Thinking' with Yuk Hui
    Oct 27 2024

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    What is “planetary thinking” today? Arguing that a new approach is urgently needed, Yuk Hui develops a future-oriented mode of political thought that encompasses the unprecedented global challenges we are confronting: the rise of artificial intelligence, the ecological crisis, and intensifying geopolitical conflicts.

    Machine and Sovereignty starts with three premises. The first affirms the necessity of developing a new language of coexistence that surpasses the limits of nation-states and their variations; the second recognizes that political forms, including the polis, empire, and the state, are technological phenomena, which Lewis Mumford terms “megamachines.” The third suggests that a particular political form is legitimated and rationalized by a corresponding political epistemology. The planetary thinking that this book sketches departs from the opposition between mechanism and organism, which characterized modern thought, to understand the epistemological foundations of Hegel’s political state and Schmitt’s Großraum and their particular ways of conceiving the question of sovereignty. Through this reconstruction, Hui exposes the limits of the state and reflects on a new theoretical matrix based on the interrelated concepts of biodiversity, noodiversity, and technodiversity.

    Arguing that we are facing the limit of modernity, of the eschatological view of history, of globalization, and of the human, Hui conceives necessary new epistemological and technological frameworks for understanding and rising to the crises of our present and our future.

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    1 hr and 20 mins
  • The Philosophy of Simone Weil with Kenny Novis and David Levy
    Oct 17 2024

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    In this episode of Acid Horizon, Will takes the lead as host, welcoming Kenny Novis and special guest David Levy. David, a philosophy professor at the University of Edinburgh and one of the translators and editors of 'Simone Weil: Basic Writings', joins the conversation. Simone Weil, the renowned French mystic and political activist, has influenced a broad range of thinkers. Today, we explore Weil’s key concepts, such as decreation, her moral philosophy, and her critique of colonialism.

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    1 hr and 14 mins
  • The States of the Earth: An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization w/ Mohamed Amer Meziane
    Sep 29 2024

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    HOW THE DISENCHANTMENT OF EMPIRE LED TO CLIMATE CHANGE

    While industrial states competed to colonize Asia and Africa in the nineteenth century, conversion to Christianity was replaced by a civilizing mission. This new secular impetus strode hand in hand with racial capitalism in the age of empires: a terrestrial paradise was to be achieved through accumulation and the ravaging of nature.

    Far from a defence of religion, The States of the Earth argues that phenomena such as evangelism and political Islam are best understood as products of empire and secularization. In a world where material technology was considered divine, religious and secular forces both tried to achieve Heaven on Earth by destroying Earth itself.

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    ​Music: https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/ and https://thecominginsurrection.bandcamp.com/

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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • Death and Time in the Work of Gilles Deleuze with Ben Decarie
    Sep 22 2024

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    Ben Decarie is a graduate student from Penn state University who is working on a paper using Deleuze's theory of time to confront the concurrent ecological crises and the question of extinction. Craig and Ben explore Deleuze's theory of time, death, ressentiment, and Deleuze's own twist on Nietzsche's eternal return in paired readings of Difference and Repetition and The Logic of Sense.

    More Acid Horizon episodes which touch on Deleuze and ressentiment:

    DELEUZE AND REVENGE: On Nietzsche, Amor Fati, and the Stoicism of Becoming Worthy of the Event: https://youtu.be/U2w4dQzoSHw

    Gilles Deleuze's 'Nietzsche & Philosophy': Chapter 2, "Active and Reactive" and Hierarchy: https://youtu.be/xJxE-rJKo-s

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    54 mins
  • Resisting AI with Dan McQuillan
    Sep 16 2024

    Resisting AI: https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/resisting-ai
    Dan's website: www.danmcquillan.org

    Durations Festival: https://publicrecords.nyc/events/durations-festival-2024/

    Adam and Will are joined by Dan McQuillan, a lecturer in creative and social computing, to discuss his book "Resisting AI: An Anti-Fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence", an essential read to understand the computational processes of optimization, dataification, and efficiency that are sold to as 'AI' solutions to social problems, but instead serve to intensify forms of control and oppression in contemporary capitalist society. We discuss the meaning of neural networks and machine learning, the colonial and eugenic roots of the 'AI' view of the world, and how to resist it philosophically through new materialist, feminist, and indigenous approaches to science, as well as politically through non-representational worker and democratic councils.

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    56 mins
  • Anti-Identity: Becoming-Woman and Becoming-Imperceptible in Deleuze and Guattari w/ Claire Colebrook
    Sep 8 2024

    Essays on Extinction Volume 2: Sex After Life https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/sex-after-life/

    Who Would You Kill to Save the World?: https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496234988/who-would-you-kill-to-save-the-world/

    Craig sits down with Claire Colebrook to discuss the basics of 'minor becomings' through the concepts of 'becoming-woman' and 'becoming-imperceptible' in the work of Deleuze and Guattari. How do becomings challenge notions of liberal feminism and unsettle the forces that recuperate capitalism? Can there be a 'becoming-man' in the minoritarian sense? What do Deleuze and Guattari's views on becoming mean for the current escalations global crises?

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    ​Revolting Bodies (Will's Blog): https://revoltingbodies.com

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    37 mins