Acid Horizon

By Acid Horizon

Emerging from affinities with post-structuralism, abolitionism, biopolitics, communism, critical metaphysics, critical mysticism, and ontological anarchy, Acid Horizon is a philosophy and

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March 16, 2025 Peter Thiel Unmasked: From Lapsed Libertarian to Architect of the New Right
Boycott Watkins Media: https://xenogothic.com/2025/03/17/boycott-watkins-statement/
Craig's blog: https://splitinfinities.substack.com/publish/post/158302947

Dr. Sadler's links:
Substack: https://substack.com/@gregorybsadler
Class on Plato's dialogues: https://reasonio.teachable.com/p/six-key-platonic-dialogues-2025

Peter Thiel began his career as a libertarian idealist, championing free markets and techno-utopian escape from politics, but his trajectory has led him into the heart of reactionary power. From PayPal to Palantir, his vision has shifted from decentralization to a fusion of state and corporate control, aligning himself with the rising forces of the new right. In this episode, we examine his 2009 essay The Education of a Libertarian, tracing the contradictions in his ideology and the deeper implications of his political influence today. Joined by Dr. Gregory Sadler, we explore Thiel’s evolution, his role in shaping contemporary conservatism, and what his vision means for the future of democracy and governance.
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Boycott Watkins Media: https://xenogothic.com/2025/03/17/boycott-watkins-statement/
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Happy Hour at Hippel's (Adam’s blog): https://happyhourathippels.wordpress.com

Split Infinities (Craig’s Substack): https://splitinfinities.substack.com/

Music: https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/ and https://thecominginsurrection.bandcamp.com/
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March 10, 2025 Bataille, Eroticism, and the Future of Porn with Vex Ashley (aka @vextape)
Read this: https://splitinfinities.substack.com/p/crossing-the-line-the-repeater-books

CW: explicit discussions of sex and pornography

In this episode, we explore the intersections of eroticism, pornography, and theory with special guest Vex Ashley of Four Chambers. We discuss the influence of Georges Bataille on erotic art, the political stakes of sex work in an increasingly censorious cultural climate, and the boundaries between pornography and artistic expression. Vex shares insights into her creative process, the resurgence of the "mommy" archetype, and how erotic filmmaking can challenge dominant narratives about sex and power. We also examine the impact of digital platforms on intimacy, censorship, and the shifting landscape of desire.

ig: @vextape
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Acid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast
Boycott Watkins Media: https://xenogothic.com/2025/03/17/boycott-watkins-statement/
Subscribe to us on your favorite podcast: https://pod.link/1512615438

Merch: http://www.crit-drip.com

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Happy Hour at Hippel's (Adam’s blog): https://happyhourathippels.wordpress.com

Split Infinities (Craig’s Substack): https://splitinfinities.substack.com/

Music: https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/ and https://thecominginsurrection.bandcamp.com/
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February 25, 2025 PATREON PREVIEW: Jung, Freud, and Deleuze, & Guattari: Rethinking Libido and Desiring-Production with Dr. Bob Langan
Join our Patreon! Get the full discussion here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/jung-freud-and-122995561?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

Bob on Jung and Spinoza on LEPHT HAND: https://www.patreon.com/posts/jung-and-spinoza-118447298?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_fan&utm_content=web_share

Jung and Spinoza: Pass age Through the Blessed Self: https://www.routledge.com/Jung-and-Spinoza-Passage-Through-The-Blessed-Self/Langan/p/book/9781032851853

https://www.roberthlangan.com/

In this session of the Anti-Oedipus Files, Dr. Bob Langan joins the reading group to explore Carl Jung’s theory of libido, particularly as it appears in Symbols of Transformation, where Jung challenges Freud’s strictly sexual definition of libido. The conversation examines how Jung’s model of psychic energy may have influenced Deleuze and Guattari’s reconceptualization of desire in Anti-Oedipus, particularly in the shift from a repressed, Oedipal unconscious to a dynamic model of desiring-production. Jung’s tensions with Freud, his engagement with myth, and the role of archetypes as energetic processes rather than static typologies are central to the discussion, as is the way his work has been co-opted and misrepresented by figures like Jordan Peterson. The group also unpacks Jung’s connections to Spinoza, his late-career interest in synchronicity, and how his Red Book offers a more radical and experiential engagement with the unconscious than his later, more systematized theories suggest. If you want access to the full discussion and more in-depth reading groups on thinkers like Foucault, Hegel, and the politics of friendship, head to our Patreon and support the show!
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Acid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast
Boycott Watkins Media: https://xenogothic.com/2025/03/17/boycott-watkins-statement/
Subscribe to us on your favorite podcast: https://pod.link/1512615438

Merch: http://www.crit-drip.com

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LEPHT HAND: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHAND

Happy Hour at Hippel's (Adam’s blog): https://happyhourathippels.wordpress.com

Split Infinities (Craig’s Substack): https://splitinfinities.substack.com/

Music: https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/ and https://thecominginsurrection.bandcamp.com/
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22min
February 22, 2025 The Cybernetic Arcana: Hexen 2.0 & 5.0 Tarot with Suzanne Treister
Buy Hexen 2.0 Tarot and the forthcoming Hexen 5.0 Tarot: https://cosmogenesis.world

Preview Hexen 5.0's: new images: https://www.suzannetreister.net/HEXEN_5/HEXEN5.html

Lars Bang Larson's Essay: https://www.suzannetreister.net/HEXEN2/HEXEN_2_LBLessay.html

Note: if you were watching the tarot deck flip through on YouTube, you are seeing the Hexen 2.0 deck.

About the new deck:
HEXEN 5.0, an update of HEXEN 2.0 (2011), presents a critical, historical and mystical exploration of new global developments in terrestrial and interplanetary technologies, science and communications, corporate and governmental forces, the ecosystem and climate crisis, recent and traditional fields of knowledge and spirituality, new branches of bio/socio/political theory, contemporary countercultural and futuristic movements, new directions in science-fiction, and proposed possible solutions for an ethical survival of the human race.

The visual structure of the works is largely based on alchemical drawings of the 13th - 18th centuries, entwining these subjects into a holistic mystical space where they become differently animated and resonant. In alchemical drawings, science, art and religion/spirituality co-exist, echoing the recently converging fields illuminated in some of the cards, such as Spiritual Ecology, Nexus thinking and Earth System Science, fields which may lead to better solutions for the climate crisis and to returning the planet towards a self-regulating system.

Where HEXEN 2.0 analysed the legacy of cybernetics as embodied in Web 2.0 and systems of control, showing how Web 2.0 works as a societal controlling system, HEXEN 5.0 traces cybernetics' relevance to whole earth systems and how the cybernetic self-regulating feedback loops of the planetary ecosystem, which we have sent out of whack, need to be addressed through an understanding of the workings of the total global ecosystem. This is embodied in the aims of Earth System Science and potentially in an even more holistic system incorporating traditional knowledges and spirituality.
The published deck of tarot cards is intended to be used as a tool for groups to discuss and envision positive alternative futures and may be used in conjunction with HEXEN 2.0 Tarot deck.

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Acid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast
Boycott Watkins Media: https://xenogothic.com/2025/03/17/boycott-watkins-statement/
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Happy Hour at Hippel's (Adam’s blog): https://happyhourathippels.wordpress.com

Split Infinities (Craig’s Substack): https://splitinfinities.substack.com/

Music: https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/ and https://thecominginsurrection.bandcamp.com/
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February 14, 2025 The Male Loneliness Epidemic and Hegemonic Masculinity with Chuck LeBlanc
In this episode of Acid Horizon, Chuck LeBlanc, therapist and host of Couch to Couch, joins us to explore masculinity, loneliness, and mental health in an era of social alienation. We discuss the male loneliness epidemic, stoic ideals, and the harmful influence of figures like Andrew Tate and Jordan Peterson. Chuck shares insights from his therapeutic work, integrating Deleuze and Guattari, Hillman, and Gendlin. We examine the historical provider archetype, the performativity of male friendships, and social media’s role in fostering disconnectedness. Chuck also introduces an active imagination exercise to help clients connect with their emotions. This episode highlights the importance of vulnerability, connection, and rethinking masculinity in contemporary society.

Chuck's podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/2KHIRPerXEenEKOTV5X22n
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Boycott Watkins Media: https://xenogothic.com/2025/03/17/boycott-watkins-statement/
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Happy Hour at Hippel's (Adam’s blog): https://happyhourathippels.wordpress.com

Split Infinities (Craig’s Substack): https://splitinfinities.substack.com/

Music: https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/ and https://thecominginsurrection.bandcamp.com/
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1h 36min
February 09, 2025 Disaster Nationalism: The Collapse of Liberalism and Why the Far Right is Winning with Richard Seymour
Subscribe to Richard's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/richardseymourwtf

Buy 'Disaster Nationalism' from Verso Books: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3147-disaster-nationalism?srsltid=AfmBOopgAeJTt7Sq9b5zlzC_iKR5wKPHiFxddWihiDPy1iepY7AisWQa

The rise of the new far right has left the world grappling with a profound misunderstanding. While the spotlight often shines on the actions of charismatic leaders such as Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro, the true peril lies elsewhere. Defeating these people will not stem the tide driving them forward. They are merely the embodiment of profound forces that are rarely understood. Propelled through the vast networks of social media and fueled by far-right influencers, enthralled by images of disaster and fantasies of doom, they have emerged from a reservoir of societal despair, fear, and isolation. Within this seething cauldron, we witness not only the surge of far-right political movements but also the sparks of individual and collective violence against perceived enemies, from ‘lone wolf’ killers to terrifying pogroms. Should a new fascism emerge, it will coalesce from these very elements. This is disaster nationalism.

Richard Seymour delves deep into this alarming development in world politics, dissecting its roots, its influencers, and the threats it poses. With meticulous analysis and compelling storytelling, Seymour offers a stark warning. The battle against disaster nationalism is not just political; it is a struggle for our collective soul and the future of civilization itself. Unless we understand the deeper forces propelling the far-right resurgence, we have little chance of stopping it.
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Boycott Watkins Media: https://xenogothic.com/2025/03/17/boycott-watkins-statement/
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Happy Hour at Hippel's (Adam’s blog): https://happyhourathippels.wordpress.com

Split Infinities (Craig’s Substack): https://splitinfinities.substack.com/

Music: https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/ and https://thecominginsurrection.bandcamp.com/
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February 04, 2025 Why Does Everyone Want To Be A Fascist? Guattari's Micropolitics of Desire
Join our latest reading groups here: patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast

"Creativity and Intoxication" with Adam C. Jones: https://thenewcentre.org/seminars/creativity-and-intoxication/

In this episode, we explore Félix Guattari’s essay "Everybody Wants to Be a Fascist", dissecting its critique of micro-fascisms in everyday life. The discussion examines how desire, power, and subjectivity become entangled in oppressive structures beyond traditional authoritarianism. Drawing from Guattari’s solo work and his collaboration with Gilles Deleuze, we analyze how resistance must operate at both individual and collective levels to escape fascistic formations in contemporary society.

The essay: https://www.revue-chimeres.fr/IMG/pdf/everybody-wants-to-be-a-fascist.pdf

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Boycott Watkins Media: https://xenogothic.com/2025/03/17/boycott-watkins-statement/
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Happy Hour at Hippel's (Adam’s blog): https://happyhourathippels.wordpress.com

Split Infinities (Craig’s Substack): https://splitinfinities.substack.com/

Music: https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/ and https://thecominginsurrection.bandcamp.com/
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1h 10min
January 27, 2025 A Reading of "Against Knowingness" from Adorno & Horkheimer's 'Dialectic of Enlightenment'
From Adorno & Horkheimer's "The Dialectic of Enlightenment" (1947). Support the podcast! Links below.
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Happy Hour at Hippel's (Adam’s blog): https://happyhourathippels.wordpress.com

Split Infinities (Craig’s Substack): https://splitinfinities.substack.com/

Music: https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/ and https://thecominginsurrection.bandcamp.com/
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January 18, 2025 'Evil : A Study of Lost Techniques' with Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh
Have you read 'Omnicide' yet?

Join us for 'Libidinal Lunch'!

"Evil is an infinitely complex set of micro-techniques somehow lost in time—that is, subtle inflections of possibility and obscure typologies of influence that once reached across every divide." Jason joins Will, Adam, and Craig for another plunge down the rabbit hole to discuss images of darkness and an inventory of evils in their utter specificity. This discussion contains mentions of the work of Nietzsche, Kojève, Deleuze, Bataille, and Foucault.

'Evil: A Study of Lost Techniques' by Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh is forthcoming from Scarlett Press.
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Acid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast
Boycott Watkins Media: https://xenogothic.com/2025/03/17/boycott-watkins-statement/
Subscribe to us on your favorite podcast: https://pod.link/1512615438

Merch: http://www.crit-drip.com

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LEPHT HAND: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHAND

Happy Hour at Hippel's (Adam’s blog): https://happyhourathippels.wordpress.com

Split Infinities (Craig’s Substack): https://splitinfinities.substack.com/

Music: https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/ and https://thecominginsurrection.bandcamp.com/
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January 11, 2025 Mark Fisher vs. Peter Thiel: Acid Communism Against the Coming Fascism with Jac Lewis
Read Jac Lewis' paper: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jjADwnniVjKjAVymI64dEY96Z7_XgLbt/view?usp=sharing

Join us for 'The Anti-Oedipus Files' and hop in 'The Schizoanaylsis Project' Discord server: https://www.patreon.com/posts/exciting-changes-117794727

In this episode, we are joined by Jac Lewis to explore his reflections on the counter-revolutionary psychedelic politics of the 1960s and early 1970s, and how today's reactionaries pursue similar agendas through what he calls "experimental alienation." The rise of "acid fascism" emerges as a rival to Mark Fisher's concept of "acid communism." How do contemporary trends in online fascist politics converge with the broader reactionary turn shaping today's world?
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Website: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizon

Acid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast
Boycott Watkins Media: https://xenogothic.com/2025/03/17/boycott-watkins-statement/
Subscribe to us on your favorite podcast: https://pod.link/1512615438

Merch: http://www.crit-drip.com

Subscribe to us on your favorite podcast platform: https://pod.link/1512615438
LEPHT HAND: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHAND

Happy Hour at Hippel's (Adam’s blog): https://happyhourathippels.wordpress.com

Split Infinities (Craig’s Substack): https://splitinfinities.substack.com/

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