Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour Cooper Cherry Jr.

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.

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Book: https://www.urbanomic.com/book/cute-accelerationism/

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Buchanan_(academic)

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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

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