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Just a postmodern subject born and raised on a cattle ranch in Central Texas. I'm passionate about art, culture, philosophy, and politics. I possess undergraduate degrees in English and Sociology, as well as a Master's in Mass Communication.

Cooper Cherry Jr.


    • May 18, 2025 LATEST EPISODE
    • weekly NEW EPISODES
    • 1h 36m AVG DURATION
    • 345 EPISODES

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    The Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour podcast is an absolute gem in the world of theory and film analysis. Hosted by Cooper Cherry, this show consistently delivers engaging content and thought-provoking conversations with a variety of quality guests. Whether you're a seasoned scholar or just dipping your toes into the world of leftist/anarchist concepts, this podcast is definitely worth a listen.

    One of the best aspects of The Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour is the caliber of guests that Cooper manages to bring on the show. From renowned theorists to industry professionals, each guest offers unique insight and expertise in their respective fields. This allows for a diverse range of topics to be explored, ensuring that there's something for everyone. Additionally, Cooper has a knack for keeping the pace of each episode flowing smoothly, maintaining a balance between serious discussions and lighthearted humor.

    The worst aspect of this podcast is that it can occasionally be quite dense and inaccessible for those who are new to theory or unfamiliar with complex philosophical concepts. While Cooper does his best to make the content accessible, there are moments where certain ideas may go over the heads of less experienced listeners. However, with patience and further exploration, these episodes can provide valuable learning opportunities and serve as gateways into deeper understanding.

    In conclusion, The Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour is an exceptional podcast that caters to both seasoned academics and curious learners alike. With its impressive lineup of guests, engaging topics, and well-paced discussions, it's no wonder why this show has garnered such praise from its listeners. Whether you're interested in theory, film analysis, or simply expanding your intellectual horizons, this podcast is sure to provide hours of educational entertainment.



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    Latest episodes from Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

    Timothy Jackson - Chaosmosis

    Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2025 117:14


    This week Timothy Jackson joined Coop and Taylor to discuss Felix Guttari's Chaosmosis: An Ethico-aesthetic Paradigm. Book PDF: https://monoskop.org/images/2/24/Guattari_Felix_Chaosmosis_An_Ethico-Aesthetic_Paradigm.pdf Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

    Raymond Ruyer - There is No Subsconscious: Embryogenesis and Memory

    Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2025 85:34


    This week Coop and Taylor discuss a short piece from Raymond Ruyer, There is No Subsconscious: Embryogenesis and Memory. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

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    Freud's Project for a Scientific Psychology

    Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2025 108:22


    Coop and Taylor discuss Freud's Project for a Scientific Psychology with an emphasis on how it informs the 3 syntheses of the unconscious for Deleuze and Guattari. Freud Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/freud?si=c51111042521492db6bd5311890dacd7&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

    Rocco Gangle - Peirce and Semiotic Immanence

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2025 112:56


    This week Cooper and Taylor were joined by Rocco Gangle to discuss a chapter from his book, Diagrammatic Immanence: Category Theory and Philosophy. The Chapter we'll be focusing on for today's discussion is Peirce and Semiotic Immanence. Jonathon "Rocco" Gangle is a philosopher whose current research focuses on metaphysics, semiotics, diagrammatic logic, and category theory. He is also one of the foremost translators and expositors of the work of contemporary French thinker Francois Laruelle. He has published several books, including Diagrammatic Immanence: Category Theory and Philosophy (2015) and, with Gianluca Caterina, Iconicity and Abduction (2016). He is co-director of the Center for Diagrammatic and Computational Philosophy. At Endicott, Gangle teaches a variety of courses in philosophy, intellectual history, and religious studies. Previous Episode with Rocco: https://on.soundcloud.com/h9G9GWa52d4pjztL7 Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

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    John Protevi - Regimes of Violence

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2025 95:06


    This week Taylor spoke with John Protevi about his recently published book, Regimes of Violence: Toward a Political Anthropology. John is professor of French studies and philosophy at Louisiana State University. He is author of Political Affect; Life, War, Earth; and Edges of the State, all published by the University of Minnesota Press. Book Summary: A wide-ranging examination of the roots—and possible future—of violence in human societies Is aggression inevitable among humans? In Regimes of Violence, John Protevi explores how human violence originates and exists in our societies. Taking humans as biocultural (that is, our social practices shape our bodies and minds), he shows how aggression does not arrive from any purely biological predisposition but rather occurs only in social regimes of violence that, by manipulating the ways in which culture can shape our biological inheritance of rage and aggression, condition the forms of violence able to be expressed at any one time. Offering detailed insights into human aggression throughout history, Protevi's analysis ranges from evolutionary psychology to affective ideology and finally to an alternate politics of joy. He examines a wide range of seemingly disparate topics, such as cooperation between early nomadic foragers, organized sports, berserkers and blackout rages, the experiences of maroons escaping slavery, the January 6 invasion of the United States Capitol building, and responses to the Covid-19 pandemic. As he entwines the philosophical with the anthropological, he asks readers to consider why humans' capacity for cooperation and sharing is so persistently overlooked by stories that focus on aggression and warfare. Regimes of Violence is an important contribution to studies of Deleuze and Guattari, uniquely combining cutting-edge investigations in psychology, history, evolutionary theory, cultural anthropology, and philosophy to examine the “political philosophy of the mind.” Presenting to readers a refreshingly optimistic perspective, Protevi demonstrates that we are not doomed to war and argues that humans can build a world based on antifascism, joy, and mutual empowerment. About the book: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517918750/regimes-of-violence/ Support us on Patreon: - www.patreon.com/muhh - Twitter: @unconscioushh

    Paul Verilio - Speed and Politics

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 14, 2025 77:49


    Cooper and Taylor discuss Paul Verilio's Speed and Politics. Dromology, fleet in being, the war machine, deterritorialization and reterritorialization. Verilio's wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Virilio Book Link: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781584350408/speed-and-politics/ Support us on Patreon: - www.patreon.com/muhh - Twitter: @unconscioushh

    Deleuze and Guattari - The Geology of Morals

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 5, 2025 94:10


    Cooper and Taylor discuss the third chapter from Deleuze and Guattari's seminal sequel to Anti-Oedipus, A Thousand Plateaus, The Geology of Morals. A Thousand Plateaus Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/a-thousand-plateaus?si=6b1008cffbb546de9531aae44964a934&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Support us on Patreon: - www.patreon.com/muhh - Twitter: @unconscioushh

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    Gilbert Simondon - The Evolution of Technics/Technical Reality

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2025 85:55


    In this episode Cooper and Taylor discuss the second half of Gilbert Simondon's On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects. Prior Episode - https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/gilbert-simondon-on-the-mode-of-existence-of-technical-objects?si=720ba67baa9947f3b9f353ebec4ed261&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing PDF: https://monoskop.org/images/2/20/Simondon_Gilbert_On_the_Mode_of_Existence_of_Technical_Objects_Part_I_alt.pdf Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

    Deleuze and Guattari - Rhizome and One or Several Wolves

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2025 90:04


    Cooper and Taylor discuss the first two plateaus from Deleuze and Guattari's seminal sequel to Anti-Oedipus, A Thousand Plateaus. The chapters discussed will be Introduction: Rhizome and 1914: One or several wolves. Support us on Patreon: - www.patreon.com/muhh - Twitter: @unconscioushh

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    Gilles Deleuze - The Method of Dramatization

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2025 93:47


    Coop and Taylor discuss Deleuze's The Method of Dramatization from Desert Islands, an anthology of texts and interviews written over 20 years. Book Link: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781584350187/desert-islands/ Deleuze Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/deleuze?si=3341a6281fc743ffa3cb0241f6dd9cfa&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Support us on Patreon: - www.patreon.com/muhh - Twitter: @unconscioushh

    Adam C. Jones - The New Flesh

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 10, 2025 98:46


    In this episode Cooper and Taylor are joined by Adam Jones to discuss his new book, The New Flesh: Life and Death in the Data Economy. Adam is a philosopher from East London, UK whose work focuses on Insurrectionary Communist thought, cybernetics, and the ways in which systems of social control function today. For the past four years he has co-hosted the hit podcast Acid Horizon, with whom he wrote Anti-Oculus: A Philosophy of Escape. Book Link download: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ONCI-ns9mOj7JP7uFselEEy-CW67iOL3/view?usp=sharing Adam's Links: - https://happyhourathippels.wordpress.com/ - https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ - https://x.com/SanktMaxTCI

    Emily Herring - Henri Bergson: Herald of a Restless World

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2025 99:33


    This week Coop and Taylor were joined by Emily Herring, a scholar whose work brings together intellectual history, philosophy, and the cultural currents of the 20th century. She's the author of Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People, a fascinating exploration of the life and thought of one of the most influential yet often overlooked philosophers of the modern era. Henri Bergson, known for his radical rethinking of time, consciousness, and human experience, captured the imagination of artists, intellectuals, and even political figures during the early 20th century. Emily's Links: - https://www.wellreadherring.com/ - https://linktr.ee/eherring Support us on Patreon: - www.patreon.com/muhh - Twitter: @unconscioushh

    Jacob Blumenfeld - The Concept of Property in Kant, Fichte, and Hegel

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2025 100:12


    Jacob Blumenfeld returns to the show to discuss his new book, The Concept of Property in Kant, Fichte, and Hegel: Freedom, Right, and Recognition Jacob is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oldenburg, Germany, and member of the DFG collaborative research centre, “Structural Change of Property”. Last time, we discussed his previous book All Things are Nothing to Me: The Unique Philosophy of Max Stirner. Jacob's Links: -first appearance on the podcast: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/jacob-blumenfeld-all-things-are-nothing?si=bd84d2a0f47a42e981095899200dde42&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing -https://philpeople.org/profiles/jacob-blumenfeld -https://www.routledge.com/The-Concept-of-Property-in-Kant-Fichte-and-Hegel-Freedom-Right-and/Blumenfeld/p/book/9781032575186 Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

    David Carr - Essays on the Phenomenology of History

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 10, 2025 116:58


    This week Cooper and Taylor host Professor David Carr, who is a professor emeritus of philosophy at Emory University and specializes in history and phenomenology. David is the translator of Edmund Husserl's Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology and the author of six books, including Interpreting Husserl; Time, Narrative, and History; and most recently, Historical Experience: Essays on the Phenomenology of History, the topic of today's discussion. David's Links: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Carr_(philosopher) - https://philosophy.emory.edu/people/bios/carr-david.html - Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

    William Clare Robert's - Marx's Inferno

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 21, 2025 99:23


    We speak with William Clare Roberts about his work on Marx in Marx's Inferno as well as an afterword to the latest translation of Capital. William is assistant professor of political science at McGill University, author of Marx's Inferno as well as an afterword to a new translation of Marx's Capital, Volume One, under contract with Princeton University Press.

    Duane Rousselle - Psychoanalysis, Sociology & the Social Bond

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 30, 2024 111:18


    Coop and Taylor delve into the shared terrains of psychoanalysis, sociology, prohibitions, and the social bond. Duane Rousselle, sociological theorist, Lacanian psychoanalyst, Associate Dean of Research and Associate Professor at the Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan. He is also Visiting Associate Professor at the University Colleges of Dublin, Ireland, and Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan. Duane's Links: First Appearance: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/duane-rouselle-politics-of-the-real?si=79d643ee4b8248feb5a739849549ee8d&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Website: https://www.psychoanalysispakistan.com/ https://www.drduanerousselle.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duane_Rousselle https://duanerousselle.medium.com/ https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=hjcSGTkAAAAJ&hl=en

    Freud's Screen Memories

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2024 97:44


    This week Coop and Taylor discuss Freud's Screen Memories. We tie it back to Mystic Writing Pad and Interpretation of Dreams as well as a number of Freud's case histories. Our Freud Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/freud?si=7678877ff7814a429d8c54ba96234940&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

    Michael Ardoline - Deleuze, Mathematics, Metaphysics: Difference and Necessity

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 5, 2024 82:23


    This week Cooper and Taylor were joined by Michael Ardoline to discuss his upcoming book, Deleuze, Mathematics, Metaphysics: Difference and Necessity. Michael received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Memphis in 2021. His main research is in metaphysics, continental philosophy, and the philosophy of physics and mathematics. He has published articles on the epistemology of natural laws, Deleuze and Guattari's metaphysics, and comparative philosophy between the continental and Confucian traditions. Michael's Links: Book: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-deleuze-mathematics-metaphysics.html https://www.lsu.edu/hss/prs/people/current-fac-pages/ardoline.php

    Marcel Mauss's A General Theory of Magic

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 19, 2024 98:40


    This week Cooper and Taylor dive into Marcel Mauss's A General Theory of Magic. Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh witter: @unconscioushh

    Emmanuel Levinas - Totality and Infinity

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 7, 2024 93:05


    Coop and Taylor discus Emmanuel Levinas's Totality and Infinity, the first section, The Same and the Other. Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh witter: @unconscioushh

    Max Stirner's The Unique and Its Property

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 24, 2024 84:32


    Taylor and Coop have a look at section 1, Humanity, of Max Stirner's The Unique and Its Property. Episodes Mentioned: Ego Book Series: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/the-unique-and-its-property?si=1353f061d719441caa42376e70a24966&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Saul Newman: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/saul-newman-better-call-saul?si=4fe00dacd845484b8d6e97303f2ce6a7&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/saul-newman-carl-schmitt-and-political-theology?si=4bdf3aff1dcd443684a620ea0dfe3f26&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Elmo Feiten: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/elmo-feiten-stirner-and-neuroplasticity?si=c958ed18fee7417c98b8bdce3ba4e89b&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Jacob Blumenfeld: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/jacob-blumenfeld-all-things-are-nothing?si=b30715928a42494384263d8f70d57b14&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh witter: @unconscioushh

    Matt Bower - Husserl At The Limits

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 10, 2024 89:13


    The week Coop and Taylor are joined by Matt Bower to discuss a few sections from Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Husserl at the limits of Phenomenology as well as Husserl's The Origin of Geometry. Matt is currently Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Texas State University. Matt completed his doctoral work at University of Memphis (2013) and earned by bachelors' degree, also in philosophy, from Beloit College (2007). His area of specialization is post-Kantian European philosophy, especially as it bears on topics in philosophy of mind and perception. He's published several articles about Husserl's genetic phenomenology, some attempting to explain Husserl's method and theoretical ambitions in doing genetic phenomenology and others examining its relation to developmental psychology and as a way to understand the embededness of intersubjectivity in perceptual experience. He's also published articles exploring the phenomenology of Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, and Levinas. Matt's Links: Website: https://sites.google.com/site/mattembower Twitter: https://x.com/noetic_emetic Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh witter: @unconscioushh

    Hegel's Philosophy of Right

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 27, 2024 95:10


    Cooper and Taylor discuss Hegel's Elements of the Philosophy of Right. Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh T witter: @unconscioushh

    James Wakefield - Giovanni Gentile & Actual Idealism

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 20, 2024 103:32


    James Wakefield returned to discuss the his work on Giovanni Gentile, including translations. He teaches modules on Political Thought, Government and Political Science in the Department of Politics and International Relations. His research focuses on European and American political theory, ethics, philosophy of education, and intellectual history. Jame's first appearance: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/james-wakefield-the-political-theology-of-dune?si=4a78d64e2a054af1acfad106d1b5b561&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

    The Eroticism of Contract and Gift

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2024 79:13


    The week Cooper and Taylor discuss chapter 1 of Jeanne Lorraine Schroeder's The Triumph of Venus The Erotics of the Market, Pandora's Amphora: The Eroticism of Contract and Gift.

    Rene Girard's Violence And The Sacred

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 23, 2024 70:13


    This week Cooper and Taylor discuss the first 4 chapters of Rene Girard's Violence and the Sacred: Sacrifice, The Sacrificial Crisis, Oedipus and the Surrogate Victim, and The Origins of Myth and Ritual. Marcel Mauss's The Gift Episode: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/the-gift?si=75d82545bf564e358f5a22f2b59390c3&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

    Freud's Moses And Monotheism

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 15, 2024 89:54


    This week Cooper and Taylor discuss Freud's Moses and Monotheism. This builds on what Freud laid out in Totem and Taboo as well our as discussion on that text. Working through different modes of the Oedipus complex as put forth in the concept of the primal father. This relationship between law, economy and the social bond is the focus. Our episodes on Freud's Totem and Taboo: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/freuds-totem-and-taboo?si=1f3e7d8338884e2da5dfc7a3cb48f1ae&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

    Kara Kennedy - Dune: A Critical Companion

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 7, 2024 81:32


    This week Cooper and Taylor spoke with Dr. Kara Kennedy about her book, Frank Herbert's Dune: A Critical Companion. Dr. Kennedy's publications include the books Adaptations of Dune: Frank Herbert's Story on Screen, Frank Herbert's Dune: A Critical Companion and Women's Agency in the Dune Universe: Tracing Women's Liberation through Science Fiction and various articles on Dune topics. Dr. Kennedy also gives talks and lectures on Dune and created the online course Dune 101 based on her research. Dr. Kennedy's Links: https://dunescholar.com/ https://x.com/DuneScholar https://dunescholar.com/2024/03/12/my-analysis-of-chani-in-dune-part-two/ https://dunescholar.com/2024/03/04/dune-part-twos-treatment-of-women-is-an-abomination/

    Gilbert Simondon - On The Mode Of Existence Of Technical Objects

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2024 79:06


    This week Cooper and Taylor tackle the introduction and chapter 1 of Gilbert Simondon's On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects. Chapter 1 Genesis of the technical object: the process of concretization. PDF: https://monoskop.org/images/2/20/Simondon_Gilbert_On_the_Mode_of_Existence_of_Technical_Objects_Part_I_alt.pdf Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

    Amy Ireland & Maya B. Kronic - Cute Accelarationism

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2024 108:23


    This week Amy Ireland and Maya B. Kronic joined Cooper and Taylor to discuss their collaborative project, Cute Accelerationism. Amy Ireland is a theorist and experimental writer based in Melbourne, Australia. Her research focuses on questions of agency and technology in modernity, and she is a member of the techno-materialist trans-feminist collective, Laboria Cuboniks. Maya B. Kronic (they/them) is a philosopher and Head of Research and Development at the publisher Urbanomic, which aims to engender interdisciplinary thinking and production. The Agent, patient, and product of ongoing research project on gender hyperstition and cute accelerationism. Links: Book: https://www.urbanomic.com/book/cute-accelerationism/ Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

    Adrian Johnston - Infinite Greed

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 10, 2024 90:26


    This week Coop and Taylor had the pleasure of hosting Adrian Johnston. Adrian is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque. He is the author of many books, including Time Driven: Metapsychology and the Splitting of the Drive; Irrepressible Truth: On Lacan's “The Freudian Thing”; and A New German Idealism: Hegel, Žižek, and Dialectical Materialism. This year he has co-published, with Lorenzo Chiesa, God Is Undead: Psychoanalysis for Unbelievers, and has published Infinite Greed: The Inhuman Selfishness of Capital, which is the subject of today's topic. Book: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/infinite-greed/9780231214728 Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Johnston_(philosopher) Departmental: https://philosophy.unm.edu/people/faculty/profile/adrian-johnston.html

    Bradley Mclean - Deleuze, Guattari and the Machine in Early Christianity

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2024 94:55


    This week Cooper and Taylor spoke to Bradley McClean about his book, Deleuze, Guattari and the Machine in Early Christianity Schizoanalysis, Affect and Multiplicity. Dr. Bradley H. McLean is the Professor of New Testament Language and Literature at Knox College. He is the author of seven books including Biblical Interpretation and Philosophical Hermeneutics (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and Deleuze, Guattari and the Machine in Early Christianity: Schizoanalysis, Affect, and Multiplicity (Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2022). Bradley's Links: Book: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/deleuze-guattari-and-the-machine-in-early-christianity-9781350233843/ About: https://knox.utoronto.ca/faculty-and-staff/dr-bradley-mclean/ Twitter: https://x.com/bhmclean108 Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

    Jason Read - The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work

    Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2024 89:05


    This week Coop and Taylor speak with Jason Read on his recent book, The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work. Jason is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine and whose works include The Micropolitics of Capital: Marx and the Prehistory of the Present; The Politics of Transindividuality; The Production of Subjectivity: Marx and Philosophy; and today's focus, hot off the Verso presses. Jason's Links: Book: https://www.versobooks.com/products/2920-the-double-shift Blog: http://www.unemployednegativity.com/ Social: https://x.com/Unemployedneg Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

    Ian Buchanan - Assemblage Theory

    Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2024 89:15


    Cooper and Taylor speak with Ian Buchanan, who is a Professor of Critical Theory and Cultural Studies at the University of Wollongong Australia. Ian is the author and editor of many books, some of which include Deleuzism: A Metacommentary; Fredric Jameson: Live Theory; and, most recently, The Incomplete project of Schizoanalysis: Collected Essays on Deleuze and Guattari and the topic for today's discussion Assemblage Theory and Method: An Introduction and Guide. Links: Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Buchanan_(academic) Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

    Gilbert Simondon - Form and Matter

    Play Episode Listen Later May 7, 2024 99:19


    Cooper and Taylor discuss the Introduction and first chapter of Gilbert Simondon's Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information, Form and Matter. This volume was translated by our very own Taylor Adkins. https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/individuation-in-light-of-notions-of-form-and Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

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    Elizabeth Grosz - The Incorporeal

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2024 109:49


    In this week's episode Cooper and Taylor speak with Elizabeth Grosz, who has published and edited over a dozen books and whose most recent work, The Incorporeal: Ontology, Ethics, and the Limits of Materialism, will be the topic of today's discussion. Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Grosz https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-incorporeal/9780231181631 Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

    Jon Repetti - Lacan's Seminar 11

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2024 103:16


    This week, Jon Repetti joined Coop and Taylor for a discussion on Lacan's Seminar 11. Jon is finishing a phd in American literature at Princeton, focusing on naturalism, radical empiricism, and psychoanalysis. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

    Jon Greenaway - An Introduction to the Work of Ernst Bloch

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 15, 2024 63:41


    Coop and Taylor speak with Jon Greenaway, aka The LitCritGuy. Writer, podcaster, and content creator from the North of England. Host of the Horror Vanguard Podcast. He writes about horror, contemporary capitalism, and cultural theory. Today we'll be discussing his book, A Primer on Utopian Philosophy; An Introduction to the Work of Ernst Bloch.

    Rocco Gangle - Autopoiesis and Eigenform

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2024 86:21


    Rocco Gangle joined Coop and Taylor to discuss a piece titled Autopoiesis and Eigenform by Louis H. Kauffman. Article Link: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-3197/11/12/247 Rocco's first appearance: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/eric-schmid-rocco-gangle-on-mathematical-structuralism?si=26acc817ecf44e9d8f20a3b4c8330d06&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Jonathon "Rocco" Gangle is a philosopher whose current research focuses on metaphysics, semiotics, diagrammatic logic, and category theory. He is also one of the foremost translators and expositors of the work of contemporary French thinker Francois Laruelle. He has published several books, including Diagrammatic Immanence: Category Theory and Philosophy (2015) and, with Gianluca Caterina, Iconicity and Abduction (2016). He is co-director of the Center for Diagrammatic and Computational Philosophy. At Endicott, Gangle teaches a variety of courses in philosophy, intellectual history, and religious studies. Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

    Freud's Totem and Taboo

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2024 83:43


    This week Coop and Taylor discuss Freud's Totem and Taboo. Ambivalence, Anti-Oedipus, repetition, sacrifice, cannibalism and more. Freud Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/freud?si=7394d554bb4f4915ac9d731243e347f4&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

    Charles Stivale & Dan Smith - Deleuze on Painting and the Question of Concepts

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 26, 2024 114:15


    This week, Charles Stivale and Dan Smith returned to the podcast to discuss a series of lectures Deleuze delivered titled "Painting and the Question of Concepts". They also shared a bit about their experience with the Deleuze Seminars project hosted by Purdue University. Charles' research interests include 19th-century French novels, contemporary critical theory and cultural studies, and writings of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, as well as serving as co-director, with Prof. Daniel W. Smith, of the Purdue University Deleuze Seminars web site, developing transcriptions and translations of Deleuze's university seminars. Dan Smith is professor of philosophy at Purdue University. He is the author of Essays on Deleuze (Edinburgh 2012) and editor of the Cambridge Companion to Deleuze (2012, with Henry Somers Hall); Deleuze and Ethics (2011, with Nathan Jun); and Gilles Deleuze: Image and Text (2009, with Eugene W. Holland and Charles J. Stivale). He is also the translator, from the French, of books by Gilles Deleuze, Pierre Klossowski, Isabelle Stengers, and Michel Serres. The Deleuze Seminars Website Hosted by Purdue: https://deleuze.cla.purdue.edu/ Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

    Brian Massumi - The Personality of Power

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2024 113:15


    Brian Massumi joined Cooper and Taylor for a discussion on his forthcoming book: The Personality of Power: A Theory of Fascism for Anti-Fascist Life. Massumi was instrumental in introducing the work of French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari to the English-speaking world through his translation of their key collaborative work A Thousand Plateaus (1987) and his book A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Deviations from Deleuze and Guattari (1992).[2] His 1995 essay "The Autonomy of Affect",[3] later integrated into his most well-known work, Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation (2002), is credited with playing a central role in the development of the interdisciplinary field of affect studies.[4] Massumi received his B.A. in Comparative Literature at Brown University (1979) and his Ph.D in French Literature from Yale University (1987). After a Mellon postdoctoral fellowship in the Stanford University Department of French and Italian (1987-1988), he settled in Montréal, Canada, where he taught first at McGill University (Comparative Literature Program) and later at the Université de Montréal (Communication Department), retiring in 2018. Massumi has lectured widely around the world, and his writings have been translated into more than fifteen languages. Since 2004, he has collaborated with the SenseLab,[5] founded by Erin Manning[6] as an experimental "laboratory for thought in motion" operating at the intersection of philosophy, art, and activism. Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Massumi https://recherche.umontreal.ca/english/our-researchers/professors-directory/researcher/is/in14429/ Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

    Jeffrey Bell - An Inquiry into Analytic-Continental Metaphysics

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 11, 2024 113:36


    Jeffrey Bell joined us to speak about his recently published book, An Inquiry into Analytic-Continental Metaphysics. Jeffrey A. Bell is Professor of Philosophy at Southeastern Louisiana University. He has recently been a Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor in Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London, during which time much of this book was written. He is the author of numerous books and articles on Deleuze and Deleuze and Guattari, including Deleuze and Guattari's What is Philosophy?: A Critical Introduction and Guide (Edinburgh University Press, 2016), Deleuze's Hume (Edinburgh University Press, 2008), Philosophy at the Edge of Chaos (University of Toronto Press, 2006) and The Problem of Difference: Phenomenology and Poststructuralism (University of Toronto Press, 1998). Bell is co-editor with Paul Livingston and Andrew Cutrofello of Beyond the Analytic–Continental Divide: Pluralist Philosophy in the Twenty-First Century (Routledge, 2015) and with Claire Colebrook of Deleuze and History (Edinburgh University Press, 2009). By developing a metaphysics of problems, Jeffrey Bell shows how the history of both the analytic and continental traditions of philosophy can be seen to be an ongoing response to the problem of regresses. By highlighting this shared history, Bell brings these two traditions back together to address problems that have been essential to their projects all along and central to much of the history of philosophy. Links: Book: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-an-inquiry-into-analytic-continental-metaphysics.html Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

    Cristóbal Escobar - The Intensive-Image in Deleuze's Film-Philosophy

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2024 115:33


    Cristóbal Escobar joined Coop and Taylor to discuss his new book, The Intensive-Image in Deleuze's Film-Philosophy. Cristóbal is a Lecturer in Screen Studies at the University of Melbourne and Film Programmer at the Santiago International Documentary Film Festival (FIDOCS). His publications include The Intensive-Image in Deleuze's Film-Philosophy (2023), an edited collection on Cine Cartográfico (2017), and a co-edited dossier with Barbara Creed on ‘Film and the Nonhuman' (2024). Book Link: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-intensive-image-in-deleuze-s-film-philosophy.html About Cristobal: https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/726014-cristobal-escobar-duenas Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

    Michael Hardt - The Subversive Seventies

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 26, 2024 84:33


    Michael Hardt returned to discuss his most recent book, The Subversive Seventies. Hardt argues that the 1970s offers an inspiring and useful guide for contemporary radical political thought and action. Although we can still learn much from the movements of the sixties, that decade's struggles for peace, justice, and freedom fundamentally marked the end of an era. The movements of the seventies, in contrast, responded directly to emerging neoliberal frameworks and other structures of power that continue to rule over us today. They identified and confronted political problems that remain central for us. The 1970s, in this sense, marks the beginning of our time. Looking at a wide range of movements around the globe, from the United States, to Guinea Bissau, South Korea, Chile, Turkey, and Italy, The Subversive Seventies provides a reassessment of the political action of the 1970s that sheds new light not only on our revolutionary past but also on what liberation can be and do today. Links: The book: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-subversive-seventies-9780197674659?cc=us&lang=en& Michael's Wikipedia Page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hardt Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

    Henry Somers-Hall - Treatise on Nomadology: The War Machine

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 19, 2024 107:36


    Henry Somers-Hall joined us to discuss a chapter from a book he's currently writing on A Thousand Plateaus. This discussion focuses on a chapter from the book, Treatise on Nomadology: The War Machine. Henry's Links: https://henrysomershall.net/about/ https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/henry-somershall(9b215915-fcd6-4567-8463-c0c39f5aed70).html https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=YKRlvfwAAAAJ&hl=en Henry's First appearance: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/henry-somers-hall-deleuze-difference-and-repetition?si=4aa136cb26b041e2a2f6ff2a8a49513d&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

    Thomas Nail - Matter and Motion A Brief History of Kinetic Materialism

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 11, 2024 105:02


    Thomas Nail returned to discuss his new book, Matter and Motion A Brief History of Kinetic Materialism. From the Minoans to Virginia Woolf and a hint of chaos. Thomas's Links: The book we discuss: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-matter-and-motion.html Thomas's previous appearance: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/thomas-nail-marx-and-motion?si=c15df144007741479d701b7ba15899d9&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Thomas's Blog: https://philosophyofmovementblog.com/author/matterinmotionblog/ Thoma's Wikipedia Entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Nail https://liberalarts.du.edu/about/people/thomas-andrew-nail Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

    Graham Harman - Tool Being

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 5, 2024 113:00


    This week Graham Harman returned to discuss his first book, Tool Being, and share some great stories from his career. Graham's first appearance: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/graham-harman-object-oriented-ontology?si=d162f30106dc42088c8379e1df7ce67b&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Harman https://www.sciarc.edu/people/faculty/graham-harman https://doctorzamalek2.wordpress.com/ Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

    Derrida and Freud on The Scene of Writing

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 28, 2024 88:01


    This week we read and discuss two pieces: Freud's Mystic Writing Pad and Derrida's Freud and the Scene of Writing. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

    Gil Morejon - The Unconscious of Thought in Leibniz, Spinoza, and Hume

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 21, 2024 90:02


    This week Gil Morejon joined us to discuss his book, The Unconscious of Thought in Leibniz, Spinoza, and Hume. Book Links: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/gil-morejon Kant's Prolegomena Episode: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/gil-morejon-kants-prolegomena-to-any-future-metaphysics?si=6e79819c620342dfb23546a21c45bbb6&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Anti-Oedipus episode: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/gil-morejon-anti-oedipus-seminar-8?si=74c3d3d0101b4970b2d7ad445d040360&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing https://twitter.com/gdmorejon https://gilmorejon.wordpress.com/ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whats-left-of-philosophy/id1544487624 https://www.patreon.com/leftofphilosophy https://twitter.com/leftofphil Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

    Grant Maxwell - The Mythic Dialectic In Spinoza, Nietzsche and Deleuze

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2024 93:59


    This week Grant Maxwell returned to discuss the mythic dialectic in the work of Spinoza, Nietzsche, and Deleuze. The discussion focuses on these 3 central figures in Grant's book, Integration and Difference: Constructing a Mythical Dialectic. Previously, we spoke with Grant on the whole book and so it was nice to narrow the focus a bit and center the discussion on the mythic dialectic. Grant's Links: https://www.routledge.com/Integration-and-Difference-Constructing-a-Mythical-Dialectic/Maxwell/p/book/9781032049854 https://grantmaxwellphilosophy.wordpress.com/ https://twitter.com/grantmaxwell/ Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

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