Vital Units: Membrane, Disparation, and the Amortized Individual. Simondon, Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information, Vol. 1.

The individual is not a thing, it is an ongoing operation, and the character of that operation is thanatological, topological, and ultimately collective.

Conformal Cyclic Cosmology:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conformal_cyclic_cosmology

Gilbert Simondon Playlist:

https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/gilbert-simondon?si=52b2d9a5a18b46f682a84f762c7b8f0d&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

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This week Coop and Taylor explore Freud's Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego.

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This week Coop and Taylor discuss 1730: Becoming-Intense, Becoming-Animal, Becoming-Imperceptible from Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus. A heretical reading on alliance, filiation, fascism, and the secret.

A Thousand Plateaus Playlist:

https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/a-thousand-plateaus?si=1949e892aff44277bc4c23f63739e5a1&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

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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:

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I Pencil Milton Friedman Video:

https://youtu.be/67tHtpac5ws?si=g_2vxJt5pOH0nmu8

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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.

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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

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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

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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:

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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

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