Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

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-pdf.pdf I Pencil Milton Friedman Video: https://youtu.be/67tHtpac5ws?si=g_2vxJt5pOH0nmu8 Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

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. Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

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: On Self-Organization, Philosophy, Bioethics, and Judaism. 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 Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

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 Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

<p>This week we return to Freud and have a look at The Ego and the Id.</p> <p><strong>Freud Playlist:</strong><br> <a href="https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/freud?si=c1283792d67b4901823373fdcc096393&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing">Listen on SoundCloud</a></p> <p><strong>Support us on Patreon:</strong><br> <a href="https://www.patreon.com/muhh">patreon.com/muhh</a></p> <p><strong>Twitter:</strong> <a href="https://twitter.com/unconscioushh">@unconscioushh</a></p>

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 Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

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.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/derrida-and-freud-on-the-scene-of-writing?si=23ef1bdbd44649798216a6bfd658ae98&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

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 Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

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 Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

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 Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

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: Laruelle and the Humanities (Rowman and Littlefield 2017). His research focuses on semiotics, diagrammatic logic, metaphysics and political philosophy. Rocco is associated with the Global Centre for Advanced Studies as a member of the GCAS Faculty and a Distinguished Research Fellow. Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

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/a-thousand-plateaus?si=905cdd163585446d9db0269fa5a44c37&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

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.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/alenka-zupancic-what-is-sex?si=233361b3574841a296ae00dde8fe9c2c&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Dan Smith on The Fold: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/daniel-w-smith-deleuzes-the-fold?si=a16b9bb4bc7b4909af5dc6a2b2045ee2&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Jon Roff Episode: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/jon-roffe-deleuze-and-abstract-market-theory?si=9fb90bd7c8674a689810b15278c87178&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Simon Duffy: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/simon-duffy-deleuze-and-the-history-of-mathematics?si=ef89347003194adfb9fe9dcf4dfb403a&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

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. Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh