Follow Vintagia now: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/acidhorizon/vintagia-i-ching-oracle-for-psychogeographers-and-creatives What if capitalism isn’t just an economic system—but a transcendental structure that configures our very experience? In this episode, philosopher Henry Somers-Hall helps us unravel Deleuze and Guattari’s enigmatic claim that capi ... Show More
Jul 19
*PATREON EXCLUSIVE* Forget Foucault & Forget Baudrillard: Power Versus Seduction and Why Fascism Is Obsolete on Arrival (with Cooper Cherry) [Teaser]
AHRC Classes are enrolling now: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-coursesCan a theory be so complete, so magistral, that it is dead on arrival?That's the charge Baudrillard levels at Foucault in 'Forget Foucault', the 1977 book review that got him blacklisted from French th ... Show More
5m 34s
Jul 14
Kojève's End of History: Hegel, Stalin, Bataille, Deleuze, and the Return to Animality
Enroll now at AHRC: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-coursesAttend 'University of Excess' free: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast/posts/new-panel-of-and-163158129?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_linkBuy ... Show More
1h 20m
Mar 2025
Pure Excess: Capitalism, Commodity Fetishism, and the Promise of More
<p>Todd McGowan joins the show once again, this time to discuss his newest book <a href= "https://cup.columbia.edu/book/pure-excess/9780231217590">"Pure Excess: Capitalism and the Commodity".</a> Together, he and Breht discuss commodity fetishism, the tensions between Marxism and ... Show More
1h 28m
Jul 2023
Why we can't just blame capitalism for everything
We’re sharing an episode of The Gray Area from our friends at Vox.
The Gray Area is a philosophical take on culture, politics, and your daily life. In the episode we’re sharing with you today, host Sean Illing speaks with New York Magazine writer Eric Levitz about the viability ... Show More
50m 19s
Oct 2023
75 TEASER | Power, Reason, and Justification: Rainer Forst’s Critical Theory
<p>In this episode, we discuss the social theory of the Kantian critical theorist Rainer Forst in his book <em>Normativity and Power</em>. We work through how well his theory of the relationship between power and reason accounts for economic domination, why he thinks power and vi ... Show More
8m 14s