By Cooper Cherry Jr.
Two Desiring Machines
This week Coop and Taylor speak with Jason Read on his recent book, The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work. Jason is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine and whose works include The...
Cooper and Taylor speak with Ian Buchanan, who is a Professor of Critical Theory and Cultural Studies at the University of Wollongong Australia. Ian is the author and editor of many books, some of which include Deleuzism: A Metacommentary; Fredric...
Cooper and Taylor discuss the Introduction and first chapter of Gilbert Simondon's Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information, Form and Matter. This volume was translated by our very own Taylor Adkins. https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/individuation-in-light-of-notions-of-form-and Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh
In this week's episode Cooper and Taylor speak with Elizabeth Grosz, who has published and edited over a dozen books and whose most recent work, The Incorporeal: Ontology, Ethics, and the Limits of Materialism, will be the topic of today’s...
This week, Jon Repetti joined Coop and Taylor for a discussion on Lacan's Seminar 11. Jon is finishing a phd in American literature at Princeton, focusing on naturalism, radical empiricism, and psychoanalysis. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh
Coop and Taylor speak with Jon Greenaway, aka The LitCritGuy. Writer, podcaster, and content creator from the North of England. Host of the Horror Vanguard Podcast. He writes about horror, contemporary capitalism, and cultural theory. Today we’ll be discussing his...
Rocco Gangle joined Coop and Taylor to discuss a piece titled Autopoiesis and Eigenform by Louis H. Kauffman. Article Link: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-3197/11/12/247 Rocco's first appearance: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/eric-schmid-rocco-gangle-on-mathematical-structuralism?si=26acc817ecf44e9d8f20a3b4c8330d06&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Jonathon "Rocco" Gangle is a philosopher whose current research focuses on metaphysics, semiotics, diagrammatic logic, and category theory. He...
This week Coop and Taylor discuss Freud's Totem and Taboo. Ambivalence, Anti-Oedipus, repetition, sacrifice, cannibalism and more. Freud Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/freud?si=7394d554bb4f4915ac9d731243e347f4&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh
This week, Charles Stivale and Dan Smith returned to the podcast to discuss a series of lectures Deleuze delivered titled "Painting and the Question of Concepts". They also shared a bit about their experience with the Deleuze Seminars project hosted...
Brian Massumi joined Cooper and Taylor for a discussion on his forthcoming book: The Personality of Power: A Theory of Fascism for Anti-Fascist Life. Massumi was instrumental in introducing the work of French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari to the...
Jeffrey Bell joined us to speak about his recently published book, An Inquiry into Analytic-Continental Metaphysics. Jeffrey A. Bell is Professor of Philosophy at Southeastern Louisiana University. He has recently been a Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor in Philosophy at Royal Holloway,...
Cristóbal Escobar joined Coop and Taylor to discuss his new book, The Intensive-Image in Deleuze’s Film-Philosophy. Cristóbal is a Lecturer in Screen Studies at the University of Melbourne and Film Programmer at the Santiago International Documentary Film Festival (FIDOCS). His publications...
Michael Hardt returned to discuss his most recent book, The Subversive Seventies. Hardt argues that the 1970s offers an inspiring and useful guide for contemporary radical political thought and action. Although we can still learn much from the movements of the...
Henry Somers-Hall joined us to discuss a chapter from a book he's currently writing on A Thousand Plateaus. This discussion focuses on a chapter from the book, Treatise on Nomadology: The War Machine. Henry's Links: https://henrysomershall.net/about/ https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/henry-somershall(9b215915-fcd6-4567-8463-c0c39f5aed70).html https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=YKRlvfwAAAAJ&hl=en Henry's First appearance: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/henry-somers-hall-deleuze-difference-and-repetition?si=4aa136cb26b041e2a2f6ff2a8a49513d&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh
Thomas Nail returned to discuss his new book, Matter and Motion A Brief History of Kinetic Materialism. From the Minoans to Virginia Woolf and a hint of chaos. Thomas's Links: The book we discuss: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-matter-and-motion.html Thomas's previous appearance: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/thomas-nail-marx-and-motion?si=c15df144007741479d701b7ba15899d9&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Thomas's Blog: https://philosophyofmovementblog.com/author/matterinmotionblog/ Thoma's Wikipedia Entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Nail https://liberalarts.du.edu/about/people/thomas-andrew-nail Support...
This week Graham Harman returned to discuss his first book, Tool Being, and share some great stories from his career. Graham's first appearance: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/graham-harman-object-oriented-ontology?si=d162f30106dc42088c8379e1df7ce67b&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing 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
This week we read and discuss two pieces: Freud’s Mystic Writing Pad and Derrida’s Freud and the Scene of Writing. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh
This week Gil Morejon joined us to discuss his book, The Unconscious of Thought in Leibniz, Spinoza, and Hume. Book Links: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/gil-morejon Kant's Prolegomena Episode: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/gil-morejon-kants-prolegomena-to-any-future-metaphysics?si=6e79819c620342dfb23546a21c45bbb6&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Anti-Oedipus episode: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/gil-morejon-anti-oedipus-seminar-8?si=74c3d3d0101b4970b2d7ad445d040360&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing 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
This week Grant Maxwell returned to discuss the mythic dialectic in the work of Spinoza, Nietzsche, and Deleuze. The discussion focuses on these 3 central figures in Grant's book, Integration and Difference: Constructing a Mythical Dialectic. Previously, we spoke with...
This week Coop and Taylor investigate Martin Heidegger's The Question Concerning Technology. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh
This week, Jon Repetti joined Coop and Taylor for a discussion on Deleuze's monograph, Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation. Jon is finishing a phd in American literature at Princeton, focusing on naturalism, radical empiricism, and psychoanalysis. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter:...
This week Cooper and Taylor focused on 3 essays on Transference-Love: Freud’s The Dynamics of Transference, Observations on Transference Love, and Intervention on Transference by Lacan. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh
This week Cooper and Taylor read and discussed Alain Badiou's ethics. Fidelity to the event, the genesis of evil, and much more. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh
This week Coop and Taylor discussed Jean Francois Lyotard's famous book, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. We discuss meta-narratives, language games, science and more. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh
This week Cooper and Taylor discuss Raymond Ruyer's Neofinalism. Neofinalism offers a systematic and lucidly argued treatise that deploys the innovative concepts of self-survey, form, and absolute surface to shape a theory of the virtual and the transspatial. It also...
This week Cooper and Taylor discussed Michel Serres' The Birth of Physics. A discussion centering on flows, vortices, the clinamen and optimal pathways. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh
The Acid Horizon crew joined us to discuss their new book, Anti-Oculus: A Philosophy of Escape. Adam, Craig, and Will describe the writing process, some of the key concepts, and we wrap up on the relationship between cinema and ocularity. Acid...
This week Josh spoke with Cooper about his new book, Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It. We spend some time chatting about markets, tokens, smart contracts, daos, coordination, voting, Hayek and more. Josh's Links: Site: https://theblockchainsocialist.com/ What...
This week Coop and Taylor spoke with film journalist, Max Evry about his new book, A Masterpiece in Disarray: David Lynch’s Dune. An Oral History. We discuss the soundtrack, the performances, the missed opportunities and the triumphs of this flawed...
This week Taylor and Coop investigate Julia Kristeva's Revolution in Poetic Language. Topics include semiotics/semiosis, the mother as phallus and much more. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh
This week, Griffin joined Cooper and Taylor for a look at Alan Turing's Computing Machinery and Intelligence. We dig into what it means to think, and what a machine and a human might share or how they differ when it...
This week Cooper and Taylor read two of Deleuze’s essays on Nietzsche, Nomad Thought and Nietzsche and St. Paul, Lawrence and John of Patmos. We largely focused on nomad thought and spent time discussing decoded flows and more. Support us on...
Part 2 of a two part series on Deleuze’s monograph on Nietzsche, Nietzsche and Philosophy. This episode will cover chapter 4 through the end of the book. Part One: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/deleuze-nietzsche-and-philosophy-pt-1?si=9cfb13b906bd45d6bab147d5689a2869&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh
We begin part 1 of a two part series on Deleuze’s monograph on Nietzsche, Nietzsche and Philosophy. This episode will cover the first 3 chapters, and then next week we’ll finish the second half of the book. Part Two: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/deleuze-nietzsche-and-philosophy-pt-2?si=5860243366fd4eeb9dc81b9db8af7e10&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Support us on...
This week Claire Colebrook joined Taylor and Coop for a discussion of her new book, Who Would You Kill to Save the World. Claire is the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English, Philosophy, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at...
This week Taylor and Cooper have a look at Paul Virilio's War and Cinema: The Logistics of Perception. We spend some time discussing the pseudo-concept of cinematic ontology, the co-development of both film and war machinery, and much more. Support us...
This week we're joined by Katherine Everitt, a PhD candidate at the European Graduate School. She is completing her dissertation on Hegel and the dialectics of space and is joining us for a look at The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude...
This week Ben Woodard joined us for a discussion on Henri Bergson's Creative Evolution. Topics include, vitalism, evolution, science fiction and more. Ben Woodard is currently a research fellow at the ICI in Berlin, Germany. From 2017–20 he was a...
This week Coop and Taylor tackled Gilles Deleuze's monograph on the French philosopher, Henri Bergson. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh
This week Coop and Taylor are joined by Espen Hammer, His main interests are in Kant and German Idealism, social and political philosophy, modern European philosophy, phenomenology, Critical Theory, and aesthetics. Some of his works include Adorno's Modernism: Art, Experience,...
This week Coop and Taylor take a crack at Deleuze's Kant's Critical Philosophy. We cover the famous phrase, "time is out of joint", the categorical imperative, the law, and much more. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh
The week, Taylor and I tackled Empiricism & Subjectivity: An Essay on Hume's Theory of Human Nature. A fun look at empiricism, justice, and more. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh
This week we're joined by Gil Morejon, co host of the What’s Left of Philosophy podcast, translator of french philosophy, and recently translated Spinoza's Paradoxical Conservatism by Francois Zourabichvili and is also author of The Unconscious of Thought in Leibniz,...
Dan Smith joined Coop and Taylor to discuss Deleuze's The Fold: Leibniz and The Baroque. We discussed differential calculus, the body without organs, time, the unconscious and much more in this discussion. Daniel W. Smith is an American philosopher, academic,...
This week friend of the show, Vernon Cisney, joined us to discuss his approach to teaching Deleuze and Guattari against the backdrop of part 1 of their book, What is Philosophy? Vernon is associate professor of interdisciplinary studies and Jewish studies...
This week Coop and Taylor tackle Gilles Deleuze's Spinoza: Practical Philosophy. Thoughts on ethics, morality, the untapped potential of the body and more. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh
Dr. Leon S. Brenner is a philosopher and psychoanalytic theorist from Berlin. His work focuses on the integration of philosophical and linguistic frameworks in psychoanalytic theory of subjectivity and the understanding of the relationship between culture and psychopathology. He is...
This week Taylor and I looked at the introductions to Francois Laruelle's Non-Standard Philosophy. We made an attempt to try and unpack some of the basic terminology and formulations of Laruelle's project. Taylor is currently in the process of completing...
Our guest this week, Chantelle Gray, a Professor in the School of Philosophy at North-West University and co-editor of Deleuze and Anarchism and the author of Anarchism after Deleuze and Guattari: Fabulating Futures. We discuss dogmatic images of thought, derivative logic,...
This we were joined by Gabriel Tupinambá. Gabriel is a practicing psychoanalyst and the co-author of Hegel, Lacan, Žižek and most recently the author of The Desire of Psychoanalysis: Exercises in Lacanian Thinking. Gabriel's Links: https://www.gabrieltupinamba.com/english https://www.academia.edu/45486769/The_Desire_of_Psychoanalysis Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh
