Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

Mar 09 2025 335 ep. 96 mins 861

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Adam C. Jones - The New Flesh

Mar 09 2025 98 mins

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, w

Emily Herring - Henri Bergson: Herald of a Restless World

Mar 07 2025 99 mins

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 philos

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

Feb 23 2025 100 mins

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 Nothin

David Carr - Essays on the Phenomenology of History

Feb 10 2025 116 mins

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, Hist

William Clare Roberts - Marx's Inferno

Jan 20 2025 99 mins

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. William's links

Duane Rousselle - Psychoanalysis, Sociology & the Social Bond

Dec 29 2024 111 mins

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 Unive

Freud's Screen Memories

Dec 08 2024 97 mins

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.p

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

Nov 04 2024 82 mins

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 epistemolog

Marcel Mauss's A General Theory of Magic

Oct 18 2024 98 mins

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

Oct 06 2024 93 mins

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