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Two Desiring Machines

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour Cooper Cherry Jr.

    • Society & Culture
    • 4.8 • 90 Ratings

Two Desiring Machines

    Adrian Johnston - Infinite Greed

    Adrian Johnston - Infinite Greed

    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

    • 1 hr 30 min
    Bradley Mclean - Deleuze, Guattari and the Machine in Early Christianity

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

    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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    • 1 hr 34 min
    Jason Read - The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work

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

    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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    • 1 hr 29 min
    Ian Buchanan - Assemblage Theory

    Ian Buchanan - Assemblage Theory

    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)

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    • 1 hr 29 min
    Gilbert Simondon - Form and Matter

    Gilbert Simondon - Form and Matter

    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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    • 1 hr 39 min
    Elizabeth Grosz - The Incorporeal

    Elizabeth Grosz - The Incorporeal

    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

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    • 1 hr 49 min

Customer Reviews

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90 Ratings

90 Ratings

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Rhizomoto

Great for ripping around mountains on motorcycle or falling asleep

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GET TO THE POINT

30 minutes at the start of the episode of "about the author" is too long! Get to the point!

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Open yourself to the machinic phylum!

Do you sometimes wish to god you were in a media studies or comp lit grad program involving a lot of continental philosophy and psychoanalysis? Do you want to could stay up to date with the lates scholarship on Lacan, Deleuze Guattari ? Maybe catch up on books you wished you’d read but would have wanted to discuss engaged and insightful people? Well guess what— you don’t have go broke on (a likely ill-fated) a return to the academy — to enjoy coruscating conversations about the guys mentioned above, as well as Lyotard, Beaudrillard, and your various favorite theorists. Hosts Cooper and Taylor bring you an extraordinary opportunity to learn and laugh (and think!) as you listen to their conversations with professors, practicing analysts, and independent researchers on subjects as varied as Saussure’s anagrams(one of the Symbolic Exchange and Death episodes) to the faciality of Marilyn Monroe(Isabelle Millar episode). Coop and Taylor keep things informal but raise incisive questions( Cooper especially comes up with some really sharp ones( so beware)) and make provocative connections. It’s the ultimate theory podcast. Killer theme song too, I might add.

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