Acid Horizon
Acid Horizon
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, queer theory, post-psychoanalysis, disability/crip theory, anarchism, Marxism, feminism, and analyses of the emergence of the new right.Comprised of a decentralized collective of friends and comrades, Acid Horizon cultivates a terrain of militant inquiry. From readings that span 20th-century French communism to new perspectives on German idealism, the collective has also undertaken forays into aesthetic experimentation, philosophical heresy, and the history of revolt. We seek the concepts and intensities that gesture toward new forms of life.Acid Horizon pushes theory beyond the academy through live engagements, collaborative reading groups, and collective interventions.
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May 10, 2026 • 52min
The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy: Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West with A.J.A. Woods
A.J.A. Woods, historian and author who traced the origins of the 'cultural Marxism' conspiracy, joins to unpack how a set of Frankfurt School ideas were recast as a global menace. He traces the meme from LaRouche and William S. Lind through alternative media and internet subcultures. Conversations cover why émigré scholars were targeted, the role of media tactics, and how the theory persists online.
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Apr 29, 2026 • 1h 14min
David Foster Wallace & Mark Fisher: Irony, Sincerity, and Late Capitalism
Hannah Smart, fiction writer and critic and author of Meat Puppets, joins to trace David Foster Wallace and Mark Fisher's cultural diagnoses. They dissect irony vs sincerity, how TV and TikTok shape performative selfhood, the death of boredom, and whether creativity or solitude can escape late capitalism’s attention traps.
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Apr 17, 2026 • 1h 18min
Communion of Atmospheres: Prophecy, Nostalgia & the Return of Boards of Canada
Jack Chuter, musician, mastering engineer, label head and writer, talks Boards of Canada obsession and his shoegaze covers project. They trace the band’s visual mystique, lo-fi production craft, cryptic promos and the communal surge around Tape 05. Conversations touch hauntology, cultic imagery, synchronicities and ritualized listening practices.
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Apr 13, 2026 • 1h 16min
'The Future in our Past: The General Strike, 1926/2026' with Callum Cant and Matthew Lee
Matthew Lee, researcher on labour politics, and Callum Cant, labour historian, unpack the 1926 General Strike and its centenary echoes. They tour coalfields, docks and workshops. Conversations range from rank-and-file organising and union bureaucracy to regional fieldwork and modern labour actions like Amazon and courier walkouts.
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Apr 5, 2026 • 48min
Unfolding the Deleuze Seminars: Experimental Pedagogy, Philosophy, and Politics Inside Deleuze's Classroom (with Charles J. Stivale)
Charles J. Stavall, distinguished professor emeritus and co-director of the Deleuze Seminars Archive, guides listeners through Deleuze's crowded, experimental seminars. He describes the intense proximity of teacher and students, pedagogy as sensation and problem-finding, and how classroom debates and interruptions helped shape Deleuze's concepts.
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Mar 31, 2026 • 1h 9min
Deleuze, Drugs, and Death: Psychedelic Thanatology at the End of Life (LEPHT HAND crossover)
Sujit Thomas, anthropologist studying psychedelics and end-of-life care, probes how psychedelic rituals reshape dying. The conversation traces Foucault and Deleuze through clinical settings, metaphysical belief shifts, and the commodification of mystical experiences. Short takes on ritual, inequality of access, and whether marketed transcendence pacifies or amplifies life’s excesses.
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Mar 21, 2026 • 1h 18min
Desire, Institutions, and the Left: Susana Caló & Godofredo Pereira on CERFI Analysis Beyond Guattari
Godofredo Pereira, architect, theorist and environmental activist, and Susana Caló, independent researcher on radical psychiatric histories, discuss CERFI’s experiments in institutional analysis. They trace militant roots, everyday programming, collective research techniques, and practical tools like grids, meetings with no agenda, and democratic documentation. The conversation centers on transforming institutions from within through pragmatic experiments.
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Mar 16, 2026 • 1h 25min
The Revenge of Reason: Hegel, Kant, and Neo-Rationalism with Pete Wolfendale
Pete Wolfendale, philosopher and author of The Revenge of Reason, outlines neo-rationalism and its stakes. He contrasts classical rationalism with online rationalist culture. He connects Kant and Hegel to computation, mutual recognition, and institutional thought. He explores Prometheanism, general intelligence, autonomy, and how critique ought to reshape social institutions.
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Mar 8, 2026 • 1h 19min
The Obsolescence of the Human: AI, Nuclear Weapons, and the Philosophy of Günther Anders
Nicholas de Warren, a Penn State philosopher working on media and phenomenology, and Christopher John Müller, a cultural studies scholar and translator of Anders, explore Promethean shame, media’s phantom world, nuclear annihilation, AI’s frictionless effects, and how technology reshapes responsibility and human feeling. Short, sharp conversation linking Anders’ voice to today’s digital spectacle and existential anxieties.
Mar 7, 2026 • 14min
Patreon Preview: Bataille’s 'Guilty' Explained: Stuart Kendall on War, Time, and Instability
Stuart Kendall, scholar-translator of Georges Bataille and instructor, walks through Guilty with lively attention to war, the ‘privileged instant,’ and the instability at the heart of thought. He maps Bataille’s shifting genres and how form stages catastrophe. Short, sharp conversations on temporality, historical rupture, and why Bataille writes the way he does.
