What if depression isn’t an illness to cure but a collective mood that reveals the soul of a broken world? In this episode, Mark Fisher meets James Hillman in a conversation that bridges depth psychology and cultural theory, asking how melancholy and mania shape life under late capitalism. Joined by Emma Stamm, we explore the intersections of acid communism ... Show More
Oct 4
What Is 'Nomad Thought' in Deleuze & Guattari? Henry Somers-Hall on 'Reading A Thousand Plateaus'
Current courses at AHRC: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-coursesWhat if the way we think about everything from gender, race, and class to the very idea of a "thing," rests on a transcendental illusion that mistakes the representation of thought for thinking itself? Henry ... Show More
1h 3m
Sep 27
*PATREON EXCLUSIVE* Deleuze and Guattari on Class: Digital Capitalism, Against Workerism, and Reifications of the Worker
Did Deleuze and Guattari have a theory of class? A better question: how did the French philosophers reformulate class and the bourgeoisie in anticipation of digital capitalism unfolding on a global scale? In this Patreon-exclusive discussion, we (Emma, Adam, and Craig) set Deleuz ... Show More
4m 59s
Sep 2020
#218 — Welcome to the Cult Factory
In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Tristan Harris about the ways in which social media is fracturing society. They discuss the rise in teen depression and suicide, political polarization, conspiracy theories, information warfare, the decoupling of power and re ... Show More
47m 22s
Feb 2022
Episode 230: Be Happy (Lars von Trier's "Melancholia")
<p>David and Tamler sink deeper and deeper into Melancholia, Lars von Trier's harrowing and stunningly beautiful depiction of depression, anxiety, and a wedding reception that just won't end. They bring Freud's "Mourning and Melancholia" into the conversation and confront the que ... Show More
1h 50m
Jun 2024
depressive slumps & the Sad Girl culture: serving CANT
<p><strong>podmothers sephy & wing enter the chat:</strong> spiralling on the reality of depressive episodes, anxiety, social media, discourses on mindfulness and virtue signalling, vulnerability, and Khloe Kardashian. ✷</p><br><p>see more ✷ <a href="https://open.acast.com/ne ... Show More
51m 33s
Sep 2025
The Crisis of Despair w/ P.E. Moskowitz
Julia is joined by genius mind P.E. Moskowitz for a conversation about their new memoir Breaking Awake, which chronicles the mental breakdown that drove them to experiment with drugs, reckon with trauma, and draw meaning from suffering. From Klonopin and SSRIs to ketamine and LSD ... Show More
55m 51s
Jul 2021
Mental Health, Eco-Despair, & Revolutionary Optimism
<p dir="ltr" data-test-bidi="">In this second installment of our ongoing series "Dialectics and Psychedelics", Joshua Kahn Russell joins Breht to discuss anxiety and depression, how trauma shapes left movements and organizations, what constitutes a truly healthy left organization ... Show More
1h 40m
Mar 2017
#68 — Reality and the Imagination
Sam Harris speaks with Yuval Noah Harari about meditation, the need for stories, the power of technology to erase the boundary between fact and fiction, wealth inequality, the problem of finding meaning in a world without work, religion as a virtual reality game, the difference b ... Show More
38m 30s