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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

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63:59

What Is 'Nomad Thought' in Deleuze & Guattari? Henry...

Acid Horizon ·

2026/10/04

Current courses at AHRC: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-courses What if the way we think about everything from gender, race, and class to the very idea of a "thing," rests on a transcendental illusion that mistakes the representation of thought for thinking itself? Henry Somers-Hall joins us to discuss Reading A Thousand Plateaus: Adventures in Nomad Thought, a kind of remix of Deleuze and Guattari that works through the problem of judgment, asks what happens to predicates and measur...

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4:59

*PATREON EXCLUSIVE* Deleuze and Guattari on Class:...

Acid Horizon ·

2026/09/27

Did Deleuze and Guattari have a theory of class? A better question: how did the French philosophers reformulate class and the bourgeoisie in anticipation of digital capitalism unfolding on a global scale? In this Patreon-exclusive discussion, we (Emma, Adam, and Craig) set Deleuze and Guattari's theory of class against workerism and the scapegoating of particular categories of worker within contemporary trends of proletarianization. Working through Anti-Oedipus chapter three, section te...

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64:09

Grimdark Dialectics: Hegel and the Philosophy of...

Acid Horizon ·

2026/09/24

Acid Horizon Events: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/events Acid Horizon Research Commons (Ongoing Course Series): https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-courses Adam is joined by Jon Greenaway AKA The Lit Crit Guy and Leon from The Left Page to unpack the grimdark dialectics of Warhammer 40,000. How do we narrativize dystopia when utopian futures have been crushed by neoliberalism? How does the Horus Heresy help us understand Hegelian ideas about tragedy, religion, and the origins of E...

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62:17

Chinese Dreamcore: Tangping, Mark Fisher, and...

Acid Horizon ·

2026/09/13

Acid Horizon offers affordable online philosophy and humanities courses: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-courses Can you feel homesick for something that hasn't even disappeared yet? This week Craig and Adam sit down with Dr. Ennan Wu, Wenhan Hu, and Tiger Liu to talk about Chinese Dreamcore, an internet aesthetic built from sound images of old classroom bells and the half-remembered echoes of early milennium schoolyards. We get into anticipatory homesickness, tangping 躺平 (lying flat...

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5:00

*PATREON PREVIEW* 'The Breaking of the English...

Acid Horizon ·

2026/09/06

Listen to the full interview here: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast/posts/patreon-breaking-168601216?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link What has capital done to us in order to fight off the threat of the oppressed? How can we take a historical materialist approach to understanding the shattering of working class militancy and subjectivity as a political force in the 20th century? What does it mean to be a p...

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71:52

The Kyoto School Explained: Japanese Philosophy,...

Acid Horizon ·

2026/08/26

Enroll here: acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-courses. Use code 3FOR2FALL2026 at checkout for three courses at the price of two. Were the philosophers of the Kyoto School fascist collaborators, or were they meeting in secret with the Imperial Navy to try to stop a war? Fernando Wirtz and Takeshi Morisato join Craig for a primer on Japan's most influential and most contested philosophical tradition, from Nishida and Tanabe through Miki Kiyoshi and Tosaka Jun. The conversation covers what "nothingn...

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59:56

Derrida's "Odyssey": Hospitality, Borders, and the...

Acid Horizon ·

2026/08/18

Fall/Autumn 2026 Courses at AHRC: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-courses What do we really owe a stranger at the door, and what grounds that obligation? In this episode, Craig and Adam turn to Jacques Derrida's writing on hospitality to unpack Christopher Nolan's new adaptation of The Odyssey, tracing how xenia, the ancient Greek law of guest and host, becomes a lens for thinking through breaking Zeus's law, the massacre of the suitors, and the slow collapse of Bronze Age civilizati...

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5:00

*PATREON EXCLUSIVE* 'The Logic of Sense' in Michael...

Acid Horizon ·

2026/08/08

Enroll in Bob's class coming soon: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-courses/p/jung-and-spinoza-god-affect-destiny How does "heat" in Michael Mann's 1995 film Heat relate to concepts in Deleuze's The Logic of Sense? Craig is joined by Bob Langan, and Jay Conway to read Michael Mann's film through The Logic of Sense, tracing how cop and criminal, attachment and discipline, hot and cold, resonate across the film's Los Angeles backdrop. Along the way we touch on the professional monastici...

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53:24

University of Excess - AHRC Public Panel Discussion...

Acid Horizon ·

2026/07/27

Watch the full discussion here: https://youtu.be/MwUJGWWFOSU Join us for 'Fanon & Anders: On Revolution': https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast/posts/final-summer-on-164624401?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_fan&utm_content=web_share What does it mean when even compliance with the demands of the neoliberal university no longer guarantees institutional legitimacy or security? As universities become increasingly governed through financ...

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5:34

*PATREON EXCLUSIVE* Forget Foucault & Forget...

Acid Horizon ·

2026/07/19

AHRC Classes are enrolling now: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-courses Can a theory be so complete, so magistral, that it is dead on arrival? That's the charge Baudrillard levels at Foucault in 'Forget Foucault', the 1977 book review that got him blacklisted from French theory and earned him the title "shame of the profession" from Deleuze. Cooper Cherry of Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour joins us to work through reversibility, seduction, the potlatch, and what Baudrillard thinks th...

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80:44

Kojève's End of History: Hegel, Stalin, Bataille,...

Acid Horizon ·

2026/07/14

Enroll now at AHRC: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-courses Attend 'University of Excess' free: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast/posts/new-panel-of-and-163158129?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link Buy the Book: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3232-alexandre-kojeve?srsltid=AfmBOorrKB0ugBN0vBNZjBdT9aeqMWBFGCK5bOl9l8sOeWm7nmKwWQtp In this intellectual biography, critic and philosopher Boris Groys ...

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10:00

*PATREON EXCLUSIVE* The Promise of Cruelty: Fascism...

Acid Horizon ·

2026/07/05

Become a patron today and listen to all of our exclusive recordings: https://www.patreon.com/c/acidhorizonpodcast Final AHRC Summer Series Courses enrolling now: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-courses What if fascism isn't a break from capitalism but just capitalism finally being honest about itself? Craig sits down with the podcast's very own Adam C. Jones to unpack his essay "The Promise of Cruelty: Fascism and Social Murder," tracing Engels' concept of social murder through Nietz...

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62:40

Should We All Live in Communes? AHRC Public Panel...

Acid Horizon ·

2026/06/29

Emma's anti-civ class: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-courses/p/anti-civilization-recovering-from-industry-and-progress Watch this panel discussion on YouTube: https://youtu.be/epvd2MT04OM Should we all live in communes? AHRC Panel Host Emma Stamm is joined by sociocultural anthropologist Fern Thompsett and environmental humanities scholar Henry Kramer to dig into the commune form, anti-civilization thinking, the reclamation of imagination, and what radical world-building actually ...

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43:10

Magnifica Humanitas: Religion, Humanism, and the...

Acid Horizon ·

2026/06/15

AHRC Summer Mini-Bundle: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-courses Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast Who owns your dignity, and what does it cost to get it back? Craig, Adam, and Emma work through Pope Leo XIV's encyclical on artificial intelligence, finding beneath its alleged radicalism a familiar liberal kernel: private property, mediated class relations, and a conspicuous absence of anything resembling class struggle. The launch event, staged with card...

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78:56

Trauma is a Time Machine: A Cinematic Primer with...

Acid Horizon ·

2026/06/08

Latest courses at AHRC: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-courses If you could go back in time, would you change the past, even if it meant changing who you are? Is existing in time itself traumatic? Is power over time a cinematic endeavour, and what makes a good director an even better time traveller? This week on Acid Horizon we're joined by Kwasu D. Tembo to talk about his latest book Trauma in 21st-Century Time Travel Cinema, discussing the philosophy of time travel in films such a...

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77:24

Boards of Canada's 'Inferno': Top Tracks, Hidden...

Acid Horizon ·

2026/05/31

Vintagia: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/vintagia-basecamp Acid Horizon Research Commons summer courses: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-courses Jack and Tonx on Instagram: @jack.chuter, @tonx Craig's review in 'The Quietus': https://thequietus.com/quietus-reviews/boards-of-canada-inferno/ "Solidarity with Children" discussion on LEPHT HAND: https://www.patreon.com/posts/how-can-we-build-159633309?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_fan...

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51:47

Revolutionary Forgiveness: Beyond Moralism, Toward...

Acid Horizon ·

2026/05/24

How do we connect collective struggle with the search for justice? Adam is joined by historian Hazel Croft and theorist David Renton to discuss the concept of forgiveness and its strategic role in revolutionary struggles against structural and interpersonal harms. In doing so, we draw on our previous episode on the Comrade Delta scandal earlier this year, and the failure of Marxist organisations to develop new principles and procedures of justice and reparation. David's book "Revolutionary Fo...

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67:56

Bataille’s 'Guilty' Explained: Stuart Kendall on War,...

Acid Horizon ·

2026/05/17

AHRC Courses: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-courses What does Georges Bataille’s Guilty reveal about war, time, and the unstable ground of thought itself? In this episode, Craig and Adam speak with Stuart Kendall about Bataille’s confrontation with catastrophe, the “privileged instant,” and the strange oscillation between order and excess in his writing. The conversation explores how Guilty stages a meditation on war, nonknowledge, and the limits of philosophy at the edge of histor...

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51:55

The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy: Why the Right Blames...

Acid Horizon ·

2026/05/10

Vintagia Second Run: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/vintagia-basecamp AHRC Summer School 2026: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-courses Buy A.J.'s book: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3239-the-cultural-marxism-conspiracy?srsltid=AfmBOopb7nUxKpzOmh6_QpxdBOvbaHwusliMo8ukxi8i1iCy29Ui1i5_ The definitive history of a dangerous right-wing conspiracy theory “Cultural Marxism” is one of the far right’s favorite buzzwords. But despite its currency, the meaning and origins of the te...

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73:40

David Foster Wallace & Mark Fisher: Irony, Sincerity,...

Acid Horizon ·

2026/04/29

Enroll now for AHRC Summer School — https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-courses Is sincerity even possible when the medium is rigged against it? In this episode, Hannah Smart, fiction writer, critic, and author of the debut novel Meat Puppets, joins Craig, Adam, and Emma to think through the legacy of David Foster Wallace and Mark Fisher, tracing the connections between Wallace's call for a new sincerity and Fisher's hauntological vision of a culture that forgot how to imagine its own fut...

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