Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

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.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

This week Coop & Tay have a look at Marx's dissertation, The Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature. The dissertation is a focal point in Thomas Nail's Marx in Motion, which we will be discussing in next week's episode. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

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 Capitalist Machine, 10 Capitalist Representation, & 11 Oedipus at Last of Chapter 3: Savages, Barbarians and Civilized Men. Gil's Links: https://twitter.com/gdmorejon https://gilmorejon.wordpress.com/ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whats-left-of-philosophy/id1544487624 https://www.patreon.com/leftofphilosophy https://twitter.com/leftofphil Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

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 of history and more. Decode Links: https://soundcloud.com/cute-noumena https://twitter.com/decode_cast https://www.patreon.com/Decodecast Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

Coop & Taylor perform a very unorthodox analysis of Louis Althursser's famous Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses essay as it pertains to desire, desiring production, the dialectic, the unconscious and what's at stake. Link to the Reading: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/althusser/1970/ideology.htm Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

On this week’s episode, Cooper and I welcome Ray Brassier to discuss the trajectory of his philosophical education, his translations of contemporary French theorists, the key insights of Prometheanism, nihilism, and his future work on Fatelessness. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

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 Astray. https://revoltingbodies.com/2021/12/13/going-astray/. Will's Links: https://t.co/RzYKf50ZcP?amp=1 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/acid-horizon/id1512615438 Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

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 episode, and it was great to have Jake's experience to really round out the exploration of the libidinal economics of jokes. http://www.feraljokes.com/ Pod Damn America https://soundcloud.com/poddamnamerica Why You Mad? https://soundcloud.com/whyyoumadpod Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/poddamnamerica Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

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. https://deleuze.cla.purdue.edu/ Charles Stivale Episode https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/charles-stivale-the-abcs-of-deleuze?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

Taylor and Coop investigate Chapter 56of Jean Baudrillard's Symbolic Exchange and Death: The Extermination of the Name of God. Symbolic Exchange & Death Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/symbolic-exchange-and-death Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

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. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/acid-horizon/id1512615438 https://twitter.com/acidhorizonpod?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast/posts https://www.instagram.com/acidhorizonpod/?hl=en https://acidhorizonpodcast.buzzsprout.com/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqzFQr1LCC8xrr0fMcRctYg Zer0 Books YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/Zer0Books Happy Hour at Hippel's (Adam’s blog): https://happyhourathippels.wordpress.com Destratified (Matt’s Blog): https://destratified.com/ ​Revolting Bodies (Will's Blog): https://revoltingbodies.com ​Split Infinities (Craig’s Substack): https://splitinfinities.substack.com/ ​Music: https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/ Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast) Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

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 Smith at Purdue University, and more. Charles co-translated Deleuze's Logic of Sense and has also published Gilles Deleuze's ABCs: The Folds of Friendship among others. https://deleuze.cla.purdue.edu/ Gilles Deleuze from A to Z (HD) https://youtu.be/SlNYVnCUvVg Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

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 expound on some key points of Triple-O. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/graham-harman-object-oriented-ontology/id1234384916?i=1000549489591 https://open.spotify.com/episode/7BPZdJfK4eOoI582uxxEPR?si=UQRLAUGyQ0mcG30I23sYQQ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Harman https://www.sciarc.edu/people/faculty/graham-harman https://doctorzamalek2.wordpress.com/ Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

Vernon Cisney, Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Philosophy at Gettysburg College, joined Taylor and I to discuss his book Deleuze and Derrida: Difference and the Power of the Negative.

John Protevi, Professor of French Studies and professor of philosophy at Louisiana State University. We discuss his 2019 book Edges of the state. This book takes a look at the formation, and edges, of states: their breakdowns and attempts to repair them, and their encounters with non-state peoples. It draws upon anthropology, political philosophy, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, child developmental psychology, and other fields to look at states as projects of constructing “bodies politic,” where the civic and the somatic intersect. http://www.protevi.com/ https://proteviblog.typepad.com/protevi/ https://www.lsu.edu/hss/philosophy/people/protevi.php https://twitter.com/JohnProtevi?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

In our latest episode, Cooper and Taylor have a vigorous discussion with Duane Rousselle on Lacan, Žižek, Badiou, anarchism, sociology, realism, the capitalist discourse, and much more! https://www.drduanerousselle.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duane_Rousselle https://duanerousselle.medium.com/ https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=hjcSGTkAAAAJ&hl=en

Friend of the show, Eliot Rosenstock, joined Cooper and Taylor to discuss his new book: The Ego And Its Hyperstate A Psychoanalytically Informed Dialectical Analysis of Self-Interest. https://www.amazon.com/Ego-Its-Hyperstate-Dialectical-Self-Interest/dp/1789045134 https://twitter.com/CtrlRetrnRpresd https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/authors/eliot-rosenstock https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5irXEV0jAnXb66-TqZ2ioQ/videos Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

Jack (@jackpaulsartre) joined Taylor and I discussed Sartre's Transcendence of the Ego. Jack's Links: https://alwaysother.bandcamp.com/ https://soundcloud.com/always-other https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV2onpCTFnMTwvI_pEEsWQA https://www.tiktok.com/@alwaysother? Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

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-snuff-memories https://www.amazon.com/Snuff-Memories-David-Roden/dp/B08VY76S6H https://soundcloud.com/david-roden Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

Cooper and Taylor return to tackle Anti-Oedipus Chapter 3 sections 8. The Urstaat and 9. The Civilized Capitalist Machine Anti-Oedipus Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/anti-oedipus Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

Taylor and Coop investigate Chapter 5 of Jean Baudrillard's Symbolic Exchange and Death, Political Economy and Death. Symbolic Exchange & Death Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/symbolic-exchange-and-death Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

Rapper Victor Vazquez, formerly of Das Racist, joined Coop and Taylor to discuss a roundtable discussion called In Flux from Chaosophy. https://koolad.bandcamp.com/ https://twitter.com/veeveeveeveevee https://soundcloud.com/koolad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ8ViYIeH04 Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

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 towards the future. Asignification is the refrain. Dr. Genosko works on communication and cultural theory, subcultures in the digital underground, and whistle-blowers. His philosophical interests includes the philosophy of Félix Guattari. Post-media, communication modelling, critical semiotics, and media ecology play important roles in his writing. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=26HocbIAAAAJ&hl=en Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

Madeline (@madd13line) joined Coop & Taylor to chat about sections 4-7 from chapter 3 of Deleuze and Guattari's Anti Oedipus. Psychoanalysis and Ethnology, Territorial Representation, The Barbarian Despotic Machine, and Barbarian or Imperial Representation. Anti-Oedipus Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/anti-oedipus Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

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 towards the enigmatic psychoanalyst. Lacan Lecture referenced in episode: https://youtu.be/w1PmWy4aSaQ Peter's Links: https://www.pdmathews.com/ https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030452032 Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

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, the synthetic other, and the various modalities of the rim. https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030507145 https://leonbrenner.com/ https://twitter.com/leonbrennercom?lang=en Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

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 Palgrave Lacan Series. https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030507145 https://leonbrenner.com/ https://twitter.com/leonbrennercom?lang=en Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

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 castration, the phallus, strip tease, masturbation, repression and more. Symbolic Exchange & Death Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/symbolic-exchange-and-death Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

Daniel Tutt, co-host of the Jouissance Vampires podcast and future The Palgrave Lacan Series author joined Coop & Taylor to discuss the first 3 sections of Anti-Oedipus Chapter 3: The Inscribing Socius, The Primitive Territorial Machine, and The Problem of Oedipus Anti-Oedipus Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/anti-oedipus Daniel's Links: https://danieltutt.com/about/ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jouissance-vampires/id1496860192 https://jouissancevampires.libsyn.com/ https://twitter.com/jouissancevamps/status/1428456135963598849 Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

This week Cooper and Taylor took a look at several essays from Pierre Clastres' Society Against the State: Copernicus and the Savages, Exchange and Power: Philosophy of the Indian Chieftainship, The Bow and the Basket, The Duty to Speak, Of Torture in Primitive Societies and Society Against the state. I think this is an indispensable companion for not only Anti-Oedipus but Guattari in particular.

This week Cooper and Taylor discuss chapter 3 of Jean Baudrillard's Symbolic Exchange and death, titled Fashion, Or The Enchanting Spectacle of the Code. Symbolic Exchange & Death Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/symbolic-exchange-and-death Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

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 Synthesis 7. Social Repression and Psychic Repression 8. Neuroses and Psychosis 9. The Process Anti Oedipus Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/anti-oedipus Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

Cooper and Taylor investigate Nietzsche's Twighlight of the Idols, with a particular focus on its psychoanalytic resonances.

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. Jack's Links: https://www.youtube.com/c/snowdriftmoon?ltclid= https://open.spotify.com/artist/2pmRjfi9hiaPn51EbZzDYa?si=cITrbzJmT1uErJQdASo-3Q&ltclid= https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/snow-drift/1339905192?ltclid= https://snowdrift.bandcamp.com/?ltclid= Will's Links: https://t.co/RzYKf50ZcP?amp=1 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/acid-horizon/id1512615438 Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

This week Cooper and Taylor discuss chapter 2 of Jean Baudrillard's Symbolic Exchange and death, titled The Three Orders of Simulacra. Symbolic Exchange & Death Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/symbolic-exchange-and-death Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

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 Lyotard's Libidinal Economy and Anti-Oedipus. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

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, 4. The Disjunctive Synthesis of Recording, and 5. The Conjunctive Synthesis of Consumption-Consummation. Anti Oedipus Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/anti-oedipus Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

Taylor and Cooper discuss the first chapter of Jean Baudrillard's Symbolic Exchange and Death (1976), The End of Production. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

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 Imperialism of Oedipus and Three Texts of Freud. Seminar 1: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/anti-oedipus-seminar-1 Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

Todd McGowan & Ryan Engley of the Why Theory podcast joined us for a discussion of the complicated personal and theoretical relationships between Jacques Lacan and Felix Guattari. There is the backdrop of the broad implications of theories of the unconscious and capitalism. Why Theory Links: https://soundcloud.com/whytheory https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-theory/id1299863834 https://www.amazon.com/Capitalism-Desire-Psychic-Cost-Markets/dp/0231178727 https://www.pomona.edu/directory/people/ryan-engley https://www.uvm.edu/cas/english/profiles/todd-mcgowan Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

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://twitter.com/sad_porous_grad Podcast Money Can't Buy You Class: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/money-cant-buy-you-class/id1561023184 Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

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 Schreber notes in Wolf Man's identification with Christ.

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 primary topics of discussion as well as a general discussion of the case history. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

This week Taylor and I again discussed Freud's A Case of 'Obsessional Neurosis, colloquially referred to as The Rat Man.

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 are focused on among other psychoanalytic concepts.

This week Taylor and I discussed 3 of Freud's essays: Instincts And Their Vicissitudes, Repression, and Negation.

Dr. Isabel Millar joined Taylor and I to discuss her new book, The Psychoanalysis of Artificial Intelligence. We discuss the lathouse, Schreber, enjoyment, and more in this amazing installment of the happy hour. Isabel's Links: https://www.isabelmillar.com/ https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030679804

This week Taylor and I discussed Freud's On Narcissism.

Eliot Rosenstock, practicing psychotherapist and author of Zizek In The Clinic, joined us for an in-depth discussion of Lacan's 3rd Seminar: The Psychoses.

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 and Beyond the Pleasure Principle, which might help with some of the background. https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/freud