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.
Episodes
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Jul 3, 2020 • 1h 8min
Mark Fisher and Poscapitalist Desire: Reading "Egress: On Mourning, Melancholy, and Mark Fisher" with Matt Colquhoun (Part 1)
Matt Colquhoun, an author and photographer, joins the podcast to discuss his book 'Egress: On Mourning, Melancholy, and Mark Fisher.' They explore concepts like postcapitalist desire and Mark Fisher's unfinished manifesto on acid communism. They also touch on the works of Bataille, Blanchot, Deleuze & Guattari, Kant, Freud, Ray Brassier, Nick Land, and others.
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Jun 21, 2020 • 1h 16min
Foucault's "Politics of Health" and "What Is Enlightenment?"
This podcast explores Foucault's ideas on medicalization, Enlightenment thought, and their relation to the COVID-19 pandemic. It discusses the transformation of medicine in the 18th century, social divisions in healthcare, surveillance technologies, and the relevance of Foucault's work for social theory and Marxism.
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May 28, 2020 • 11min
Concepts in Focus: Foucault and Docile Bodies
This bonus episode offers a detailed reading of Foucault's concept of docile bodies from 'Discipline and Punish'. It explores power and governance in the classical era, the creation of docile bodies, and technologies of discipline that shape various spaces.
May 25, 2020 • 60min
Postmodernization in Hardt & Negri's Empire
More than twenty years from its initial publication, we examine Hardt & Negri's Empire. In this episode we attempt to unpack the authors' notion of 'postmodernization' or 'informatization'. We also speculate on the relevance of this work against the backdrop of a post-covid world.Support the showSupport the podcast:AHRCCurrent classes at Acid Horizon Research Commons (AHRC): acidhorizonresearchcommons.comAHRC Course Archive: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-course-archivesSubmit your course proposal: acidhorizonresearchcommons@gmail.comMore LinksWebsite: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizonAcid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastBoycott Watkins Media: https://xenogothic.com/2025/03/17/boycott-watkins-statement/Subscribe to us on your favorite podcast: https://pod.link/1512615438Merch: http://www.crit-drip.comSubscribe to us on your favorite podcast platform: https://pod.link/1512615438LEPHT HAND: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHANDHappy Hour at Hippel's (Adam’s blog): https://happyhourathippels.wordpress.comSplit Infinities (Craig’s Substack): https://splitinfinities.substack.com/Music: https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/ and https://thecominginsurrection.bandcamp.com/
May 23, 2020 • 10min
Concepts in Focus: Bataille's Metaphilosophy
This special episode of the podcast focuses on Georges Bataille's metaphilosophy as discussed in his Theory of Religion. It explores the challenge and possibility of philosophy, encourages mobile thought, and discusses the difference between science and philosophy.
May 13, 2020 • 1h 5min
Deleuze, Foucault, and Prisons: Revisiting "Intellectuals and Power"
Deleuze and Foucault discuss theory, power, and activism in this podcast. They explore the roles of intellectuals, the tension between academia and power, and the formation of subjects. The episode also covers the challenges of working in a prison, the impact of COVID-19 on incarcerated individuals, and the importance of political praxis. The speakers reflect on privilege and the need to create spaces for marginalized voices.
May 9, 2020 • 35min
Welcome Episode: The Syllabus May 2020
In this live episode, the hosts discuss readings in political philosophy, including Foucault and Deleuze. They explore the post-modernization of production and the relevance of Batai's theory of religion to activism. Will focuses on the politics of health in the 18th century. They also share their guilty pleasures in music and relaxation activities like celebrity stalking.
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May 6, 2020 • 25min
Concepts in Focus: The Body without Organs (Part 1)
This podcast explores Deleuze and Guattari's concept of the body without organs and its relation to desire, suffering, and capitalism. It discusses the nature of organization in organisms and the theory of flows and breaks as the basis of desire. It also explores the forces of repulsion, appropriation, and attraction in the body without organs, and how it relates to the socius and capital. Overall, this episode provides an insightful analysis of this intriguing philosophical concept.
