Adam is joined by Dr James Fox to discuss the legacy of cybernetics and organizational theory, its Leftist critics, and the potential for a cybernetics of the commune, one which politicizes the dynamic systems of democracy at play in worker organizing. We discussed public attitudes to cyber-theory, the history of the field from Wiener to Bogdanov and Stafford Beer, and the use of machinic language from Deleuze to the CCRU.

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Also: Catch James' talk on his work for the COVER centre at the University of Essex https://youtu.be/BO2LszSj9o8 

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A reading of Michel Foucault's 1966 essay "The Utopian Body".

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Adam and Will are joined by Professor Steven Shaviro to discuss his work on the philosophy of science fiction, developing on themes from recent texts such as Extreme Fabulations and 2016's Discognition out on Repeater Books. We asked Steven about the various techniques that writers such as Frank Herbert, Adrian Tchaikovsky, and China Mieville to unearth possible futures in the present; and how they extrapolate from, speculate upon, and generate fables about dominant tendencies of our political and technological situation. We also touched upon philosophies of time and narrative such as Bergson, Deleuze, Whitehead, Foucault, Marshall McLuhan, and Darko Suvin.

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We explore the origins of Deleuze's concept of the Control society by taking a deep dive into the priest of the Beat Generation: William S. Burroughs. Taking cues from texts such as The Limits of Control, Nova Express, Naked Lunch, and his lectures on viral communication, we articulate the fundamental tension at the heart of control systems, how images can 'go viral' in the age of social media, and explore Burroughs' own accounts of communication and cut-up writing techniques in pursuit of an understanding of how to short-circuit these apparatuses today.

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Just how 'artificial' is 'artificial intelligence'? How do he ruling class understand with this technology, and how do they obscure the labour relations within? Who is the proletarian of the data mines, and how do we break through the new digital ideologies of Cyber-Capital? Adam reads through an article by Kissinger, Schmidt, and Huttenlocher to reveal the mystification that separates mankind from the new data machines.

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Just how 'artificial' is 'artificial intelligence'? How do he ruling class understand with this technology, and how do they obscure the labour relations within? Who is the proletarian of the data mines, and how do we break through the new digital ideologies of Cyber-Capital? Adam reads through an article by Kissinger, Schmidt, and Huttenlocher to reveal the mystification that separates mankind from the new data machines.

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When children start going missing in a rural town, the investigation takes twists and turns into the strange world of privilege and the realm of the occult.

"I always wanted to be a writer, but I became a policeman instead."

WESSEX, 2016. Teenagers are vanishing off the council estates of a small provincial city. A crop of herbs that are said to posses magical powers which only grow once every fifty years are found in the woods. A supernatural creature believed to be the guardian of the herbs is seen in nightmares. Rumours of orgiastic rituals on the estates of the rich and powerful excite the curious. And the Queen of England decides to celebrate her 90th birthday with a visit to the city’s famous cathedral spire. 

Into this madness, two ambitious detectives, one with doomed literary ambitions, seek to solve the mystery, their only lead that “posh people are taking our children”.

Blending mysticism, class war, societal malfeasance and transcendence, High John The Conqueror identifies the point in our recent history when the ghosts of our past become the political monsters of the present.

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This video is an introduction to Deleuze and Guattari's concept of 'becoming-animal' from A Thousand Plateaus. We also briefly cover the authors' theory of anti-representation in contracts with such figures as Plato, Carl Jung, and James Hillman.

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Colin Drumm is an educator and organizer at the Mimbres School, which on their Discord server is described as "dedicated to the pursuit of an intellectual life beyond the decaying ruins of the university system."  He joins Acid Horizon to discuss his views on higher ed, monetary theory, value theory, and Marxism.

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For post-Jungian archetypal psychologist James Hillman, the concept of the ego familiar to the work of Freud, Jung, and other psychoanalytic thinkers maintains a almost tyrannical predominance in the tradition of psychoanalysis. The myth of Hercules looms large over the discipline and our lives writ large. For Hillman undue importance of the ego has precipitated a multitude of psychological, social, and political problems. The solution? A break with the ego's oppositionalism and a deep dive into the world of the imagination.

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