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Acid Horizon

Acid Horizon
Philosophy
Fascism
Capitalism
Georges Bataille
Nietzsche
Gilles Deleuze
Communism
Marxism
Deleuze
Psychoanalysis
Deleuze and Guattari
Friedrich Nietzsche
Kant
Existentialism
Mental Health
Relationships
Anti-Oedipus
Hegel
Wilhelm Reich
Technology

Emerging from affinities with post-structuralism, abolitionism, biopolitics, communism, critical metaphysics, critical mysticism, and ontological anarchy, Acid Horizon is a philosophy and theory podcast committed to thought in motion and political struggle. While these are our grounding currents, each episode opens out onto a wider constellation: ethics, politics, phenomenology, decolonial thought... more

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Recent Guests

Stuart Kendall
Writer and translator discussing Georges Bataille's work
Episode: Excesses of Georges Bataille: Deep Time and the Privileged Instant with Stuart Kendall
Conrad Alexander Billet
Writer of *Shake the City: Experiments in Space and Time, Music and Crisis*
1968 Press
Episode: *PATREON EXCLUSIVE* Acid Communism and the Sonic Imagination: 'Shake the City' with Alexander Billet
Henry Somers-Hall
Author of Reading A Thousand Plateaus, Adventures in Nomad Thought
Edinburgh University Press
Episode: What Is 'Nomad Thought' in Deleuze & Guattari? Henry Somers-Hall on 'Reading A Thousand Plateaus'
Leon Kehoe
Comrade, The Left Page
The Left Page
Episode: Grimdark Dialectics: Hegel and the Philosophy of Warhammer 40K
Jon Greenaway
The Lit Crit Guy
The Lit Crit Guy (guest)
Episode: Grimdark Dialectics: Hegel and the Philosophy of Warhammer 40K
Ennan Wu
Co-author of Listening to Hauntological Time, Chinese Dream Corps, Millennial Memories, and the Temporal Crisis in the Anthropocene; PhD candidate in Literary and Cultural Anthropology
University of Bologna; Sichuan University
Episode: Chinese Dreamcore: Tangping, Mark Fisher, and Hauntology in the Anthropocene
Wenhan Hu
Colleague of Ennan, affiliated with theater curriculum in Music and Theatre Studies
University of Bologna
Episode: Chinese Dreamcore: Tangping, Mark Fisher, and Hauntology in the Anthropocene
Tiger Liu
PhD candidate, previously discussed Bataille and sadism on the show
CMEP, Center for Research in Modern European Philosophy
Episode: Chinese Dreamcore: Tangping, Mark Fisher, and Hauntology in the Anthropocene
Jonas Marvin
Author of The Breaking of the English Working Class
Verso (authoring a book)
Episode: *PATREON PREVIEW* 'The Breaking of the English Working Class' with Jonas Patrick Marvin

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Craig
Host of the show and guide for discussions
Adam
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Reviews

4.6 out of 5 stars from 925 ratings
  • Good stuff!

    I especially love when acid horizon invites voices that are less represented in the world of philosophy podcasts! 😉

    I feel like I miss some point in the not-too-distant past when fewer episodes were behind a paywall. Is a paywall supposed to be better than ads? At least a person can fast-forward through ads. A paywall means excluding an audience that may be really excited to support and promote your work, but who might not have enough disposable income for (even a meager) patreon subscriptio... more

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    CatsForHands
    United Statesa month ago
  • great stuff

    It is a great podcast, they're extremely descriptive with their language and personable at the same time. Edifying, smart, and reverent in ways that I’ve never encountered in before in a podcast.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Rohit Bhisikar
    India3 months ago
  • Kills everything it touches

    I have listened to Acid Horizon on and off for the past few years. Each time, the host and the guests manage to suck all the vitality out of the object of their attention by theorizing it to death. The faux edginess, the empty posturing, the absurd framing, the obtuse takes: this show is made of the sort of nonsense that I had hoped to leave behind in grad school. No wonder everyone hates the academy. Acid indeed!

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    1
    Primo diPietro
    United States6 months ago
  • The best podcast

    This podcast is incredible. A really high level of discussion and engagement with ideas that really matter to the world, at this point in time. This is highly useful in pushing forward my own thinking,

    both in relation to my academic and creative life. Thanks all involved xxx

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    hairbyslice
    United Kingdom9 months ago
  • Mediocre claptrap

    Looks like esotericism is the new grift these days. This show is mostly nobody pseudo-academics giving their uninformed rambles disguised as some form of “edgy” wisdom. There are better podcasts with more real depth and rigour out there. I have this many attempts - could not finish even one episode. My ears are allergic to mediocrity, no thank you!

    Apple Podcasts
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    Atattin
    Australia10 months ago

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*PATREON EXCLUSIVE* Acid Communism and the Sonic Imagination: 'Shake the City' with Alexander Billet
Q: What does a focus on rhythm as opposed to purely on these more direct linguistic semiotic content of music help us understand the time of everyday life and how capitalist forces come to mediate it?
Billet says rhythm, tempo and sonic texture reveal how music shapes experience beyond lyrics. He connects popular music's repetitive rhythms to capitalism's demands for repetitive production and its influence on urban life, work and leisure.
What Is 'Nomad Thought' in Deleuze & Guattari? Henry Somers-Hall on 'Reading A Thousand Plateaus'
Q: If you were to introduce nomad thought to someone, how would you explain it in practical terms and with examples?
Explain it first through a non-art, non-media example like segmentariti micro-politics to show how states ground distinctions, then contrast with non-state societies where distinctions emerge from a field of intensity rather than pre-existing language.
What Is 'Nomad Thought' in Deleuze & Guattari? Henry Somers-Hall on 'Reading A Thousand Plateaus'
Q: What was your approach to this book, and was my analogy accurate in any sense?
The approach was to work through any paragraph in detail, tracing sources and contexts to understand what Deleuze and Guattari are doing, and to present it in a way that can be engaged with in multiple domains beyond academic prose.
Unfolding the Deleuze Seminars: Experimental Pedagogy, Philosophy, and Politics Inside Deleuze's Classroom (with Charles J. Stivale)
Q: What did a typical Deleuze seminar room look like in Vincennes after May 1968?
It was an experimental, close-knit space with cramped rooms designed for exchange rather than traditional lecturing, housing a community that valued student participation and a laboratory vibe.
The Obsolescence of the Human: AI, Nuclear Weapons, and the Philosophy of Günther Anders
Q: What is the world that Anders envisions? Does he have a positive program or is there an alternative given the pervasiveness of technology?
The guests discuss Anders's ambivalence toward technology: while not a blanket rejection, he emphasizes living with a critical awareness of how media and tools reorganize human life, asking who benefits and whether the world remains livable.

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2. Conrad Alexander Billet
3. Henry Somers-Hall
4. Leon Kehoe
5. Jon Greenaway
6. Ennan Wu
7. Wenhan Hu
8. Tiger Liu

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