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:

Jon Greenaway - An Introduction to the Work of Ernst Bloch

12 days ago 1h 3m

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’

Rocco Gangle - Autopoiesis and Eigenform

19 days ago 1h 26m

Rocco Gangle joined Coop and Taylor to discuss a piece titled Autopoiesis and Eigenform by Louis H. Kauffman. Article Link:https://www.mdpi.com/2079-3197/11/12/247Rocco's first appearance:https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/eri

Freud's Totem and Taboo

27 days ago 1h 23m

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&u

Charles Stivale & Dan Smith - Deleuze on Painting and the Question of Concepts

Mar 26th, 2024 1h 54m

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 h

Brian Massumi - The Personality of Power

Mar 19th, 2024 1h 53m

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 Fé

Jeffrey Bell - An Inquiry into Analytic-Continental Metaphysics

Mar 11th, 2024 1h 53m

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 Visit

Cristóbal Escobar - The Intensive-Image in Deleuze’s Film-Philosophy

Mar 5th, 2024 1h 55m

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 Docu

Michael Hardt - The Subversive Seventies

Feb 26th, 2024 1h 24m

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

Henry Somers-Hall - Treatise on Nomadology: The War Machine

Feb 19th, 2024 1h 47m

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

Thomas Nail - Matter and Motion A Brief History of Kinetic Materialism

Feb 11th, 2024 1h 45m

Thomas Nail returned to discuss his new book, Matter and MotionA 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-

Graham Harman - Tool Being

Feb 5th, 2024 1h 53m

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=d162f3010

Derrida and Freud on The Scene of Writing

Jan 28th, 2024 1h 28m

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/muhhTwitter: @unconscioushh

Gil Morejon - The Unconscious of Thought in Leibniz, Spinoza, and Hume

Jan 21st, 2024 1h 30m

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-morejonKant's Prolegomena Episode:https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-cooper

Grant Maxwell - The Mythic Dialectic In Spinoza, Nietzsche and Deleuze

Jan 15th, 2024 1h 33m

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.

Heidegger's The Question Concerning Technology

Jan 6th, 2024 1h 14m

This week Coop and Taylor investigate Martin Heidegger's The Question Concerning Technology.Support us on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/muhhTwitter: @unconscioushh

Jon Repetti - Deleuze's Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation

Dec 25th, 2023 1h 34m

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 psychoana

Freud on Transference Love

Dec 17th, 2023 1h 17m

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/muhhTwi

Badiou's Ethics

Dec 11th, 2023 1h 46m

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/muhhTwitter: @unconscioushh

Lyotard's The Postmodern Condition

Nov 19th, 2023 1h 36m

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/muhhTwitt

Raymond Ruyer's Neofinalism

Nov 12th, 2023 1h 22m

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 th

Michel Serres - The Birth of Physics

Oct 23rd, 2023 1h 12m

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/muhhTwitter: @unconscioushh

Acid Horizon - Anti-Oculus

Oct 15th, 2023 1h 26m

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

Joshua Dávila - Blockchain Radicals

Oct 9th, 2023 1h 38m

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 L

Max Evry - A Masterpiece in Disarray: David Lynch’s Dune

Oct 2nd, 2023 1h 36m

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 fl