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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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.
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.
Feb 28, 2026 • 1h 19min
Communize the Eschaton: Thomas Müntzer and the German Peasants' War
Loren Goldman, translator and scholar of Müntzer; O.L. Silverman, political theorist; Massimiliano Tomba, historian of early modern Europe. They trace the German Peasants' War, the scale of the uprisings, Müntzer’s apocalyptic communism, vernacular worship and prophetic practice, law and commons, Münster’s aftermath, and how Müntzer was later reshaped in Marxist and modern memory.
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Feb 19, 2026 • 1h 15min
'Digital Theory' Panel Discussion: Is Theory Itself Digital? (Fazi, Galloway, Weatherby, Handleman)
Leif Weatherby, director and AI/language scholar; Matthew Handelman, mathematician-turned-critic; Alexander Galloway, theorist of computation; Beatrice Fazi, philosopher of technology. They debate whether digitality is a foundational mode of thought, trace its history from arithmetic to floating point, and rethink abstraction, representation, and dialectics in relation to continuity and theory.
Feb 16, 2026 • 1h 24min
Communist Ontologies: Communism as a Form of Life with Bruno Gulli and Richard Gilman-Opalsky
Bruno Gulli, philosopher and poet exploring ontology and becoming. Richard Gilman-Opalsky, Marxist philosopher and percussionist probing abolition and insurgent ontologies. They probe communism as a form of life. Short, sharp conversations on identity and difference. Discussions move through embodied knowing, uprising as ontological rupture, and how care and collective becoming reconfigure everyday existence.
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Jan 31, 2026 • 1h 3min
Hyperreality Is Dead: Baudrillard, the Age of Trump, and 'The Gulf War Did Not Take Place' Revisited
Cameron Carsten, a graduate student in continental philosophy who studies state power and the production of reality, joins to probe Baudrillard’s Gulf War thesis. They examine media as spectacle, AI-altered images undermining credibility, the state turning real events into non-events, and whether the simulacrum has collapsed or the real has returned. Short, sharp takes on deterrence, political decay, and contemporary spectacle.
