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.
Acid Horizon
Laruelle's Nietzsche and Nietzsche's 'Political Materialism' (Deleuze, Foucault, Nietzsche, Marx)
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Jeremy R. Smith returns alongside Jacob Vangeest to discuss Laruelle's view on Nietzsche and Nietzsche's influence upon the milieu of 20th century French thought, which includes thinkers such as Bataille, Deleuze & Guattari, Foucault, and others. Our brush with Laruelle's 'Nietzsche Contra Heidegger' involves a discussion of Laruelle's theory of 'political materialism' in addition to various political appropriations of Nietzsche's thought.
Acts of reading. Non-philosophy and humanities: https://www.fabula.org/actualites/111229/acts-of-reading-non-philosophy-and-humanities.html
Laruelle's 'Phenomenon & Difference': https://tripleampersand.org/books/phnomenon-difference/#:~:text=Phenomenon%20and%20Difference%20is%20a,as%20the%20%E2%80%9Cblack%20universe.%E2%80%9D
Jeremy's translation of François Laruelle's “The Problem of the Heideggerian Interpretation of Nietzsche,” from 'Nietzsche Contre Heidegger' (1977):
https://endemictheory.wordpress.com/2022/04/07/translation-of-francois-laruelle-the-problem-of-the-heideggerian-interpretation-of-nietzsche-from-nietzsche-contre-heidegger-1977/
"Nietzschean Problematics" by Jacob Vangeest: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=9745&context=etd
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