21st Century Schizoid Podcast

James Wakefield returned to discuss the his work on Giovanni Gentile, including translations. He teaches modules on Political Thought, Government and Political Science in the Department of Politics and International Relations. His research focuses on European and American political theory, ethics, philosophy of education, and intellectual history. Jame's first appearance: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/james-wakefield-the-political-theology-of-dune?si=4a78d64e2a054af1acfad106d1b5b561&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

The week Cooper and Taylor discuss chapter 1 of Jeanne Lorraine Schroeder's The Triumph of Venus The Erotics of the Market, Pandora’s Amphora: The Eroticism of Contract and Gift. Marcel Mauss's The Gift Episode: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/the-gift?si=75d82545bf564e358f5a22f2b59390c3&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

This week Cooper and Taylor discuss the first 4 chapters of Rene Girard’s Violence and the Sacred: Sacrifice, The Sacrificial Crisis, Oedipus and the Surrogate Victim, and The Origins of Myth and Ritual. Marcel Mauss's The Gift Episode: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/the-gift?si=75d82545bf564e358f5a22f2b59390c3&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

This week Cooper and Taylor discuss Freud's Moses and Monotheism. This builds on what Freud laid out in Totem and Taboo as well our as discussion on that text. Working through different modes of the Oedipus complex as put forth in the concept of the primal father. This relationship between law, economy and the social bond is the focus. Our episodes on Freud's Totem and Taboo: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/freuds-totem-and-taboo?si=1f3e7d8338884e2da5dfc7a3cb48f1ae&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

This week Cooper and Taylor spoke with Dr. Kara Kennedy about her book, Frank Herbert's Dune: A Critical Companion. Dr. Kennedy's publications include the books Adaptations of Dune: Frank Herbert’s Story on Screen, Frank Herbert’s Dune: A Critical Companion and Women’s Agency in the Dune Universe: Tracing Women’s Liberation through Science Fiction and various articles on Dune topics. Dr. Kennedy also gives talks and lectures on Dune and created the online course Dune 101 based on her research. Dr. Kennedy's Links: https://dunescholar.com/ https://x.com/DuneScholar https://dunescholar.com/2024/03/12/my-analysis-of-chani-in-dune-part-two/ https://dunescholar.com/2024/03/04/dune-part-twos-treatment-of-women-is-an-abomination/

This week Cooper and Taylor tackle the introduction and chapter 1 of Gilbert Simondon’s On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects. Chapter 1 Genesis of the technical object: the process of concretization. PDF: https://monoskop.org/images/2/20/Simondon_Gilbert_On_the_Mode_of_Existence_of_Technical_Objects_Part_I_alt.pdf Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

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. Links: Book: https://www.urbanomic.com/book/cute-accelerationism/ Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

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

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 Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

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 Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

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) Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

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 Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

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 Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

This week, Jon Repetti joined Coop and Taylor for a discussion on Lacan's Seminar 11. Jon is finishing a phd in American literature at Princeton, focusing on naturalism, radical empiricism, and psychoanalysis. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

Coop and Taylor speak with Jon Greenaway, aka The LitCritGuy. Writer, podcaster, and content creator from the North of England. Host of the Horror Vanguard Podcast. He writes about horror, contemporary capitalism, and cultural theory. Today we’ll be discussing his book, A Primer on Utopian Philosophy; An Introduction to the Work of Ernst Bloch. Jon's Links: https://soundcloud.com/user-317910500 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/horror-vanguard/id1445594437 https://twitter.com/horrorvanguard Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

Rocco Gangle joined Coop and Taylor to discuss a piece titled Autopoiesis and Eigenform by Louis H. Kauffman. Article Link: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-3197/11/12/247 Rocco's first appearance: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/eric-schmid-rocco-gangle-on-mathematical-structuralism?si=26acc817ecf44e9d8f20a3b4c8330d06&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Jonathon "Rocco" Gangle is a philosopher whose current research focuses on metaphysics, semiotics, diagrammatic logic, and category theory. He is also one of the foremost translators and expositors of the work of contemporary French thinker Francois Laruelle. He has published several books, including Diagrammatic Immanence: Category Theory and Philosophy (2015) and, with Gianluca Caterina, Iconicity and Abduction (2016). He is co-director of the Center for Diagrammatic and Computational Philosophy. At Endicott, Gangle teaches a variety of courses in philosophy, intellectual history, and religious studies. Support us o

This week Coop and Taylor discuss Freud's Totem and Taboo. Ambivalence, Anti-Oedipus, repetition, sacrifice, cannibalism and more. Freud Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/freud?si=7394d554bb4f4915ac9d731243e347f4&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

This week, Charles Stivale and Dan Smith returned to the podcast to discuss a series of lectures Deleuze delivered titled "Painting and the Question of Concepts". They also shared a bit about their experience with the Deleuze Seminars project hosted by Purdue University. Charles' research interests include 19th-century French novels, contemporary critical theory and cultural studies, and writings of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, as well as serving as co-director, with Prof. Daniel W. Smith, of the Purdue University Deleuze Seminars web site, developing transcriptions and translations of Deleuze's university seminars. Dan Smith is professor of philosophy at Purdue University. He is the author of Essays on Deleuze (Edinburgh 2012) and editor of the Cambridge Companion to Deleuze (2012, with Henry Somers Hall); Deleuze and Ethics (2011, with Nathan Jun); and Gilles Deleuze: Image and Text (2009, with Eugene W. Holland and Charles J. Stivale). He is also the translator, from the French, of books by Gilles

Brian Massumi joined Cooper and Taylor for a discussion on his forthcoming book: The Personality of Power: A Theory of Fascism for Anti-Fascist Life. Massumi was instrumental in introducing the work of French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari to the English-speaking world through his translation of their key collaborative work A Thousand Plateaus (1987) and his book A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Deviations from Deleuze and Guattari (1992).[2] His 1995 essay "The Autonomy of Affect",[3] later integrated into his most well-known work, Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation (2002), is credited with playing a central role in the development of the interdisciplinary field of affect studies.[4] Massumi received his B.A. in Comparative Literature at Brown University (1979) and his Ph.D in French Literature from Yale University (1987). After a Mellon postdoctoral fellowship in the Stanford University Department of French and Italian (1987-1988), he settled in Montréal,

Jeffrey Bell joined us to speak about his recently published book, An Inquiry into Analytic-Continental Metaphysics. Jeffrey A. Bell is Professor of Philosophy at Southeastern Louisiana University. He has recently been a Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor in Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London, during which time much of this book was written. He is the author of numerous books and articles on Deleuze and Deleuze and Guattari, including Deleuze and Guattari's What is Philosophy?: A Critical Introduction and Guide (Edinburgh University Press, 2016), Deleuze’s Hume (Edinburgh University Press, 2008), Philosophy at the Edge of Chaos (University of Toronto Press, 2006) and The Problem of Difference: Phenomenology and Poststructuralism (University of Toronto Press, 1998). Bell is co-editor with Paul Livingston and Andrew Cutrofello of Beyond the Analytic–Continental Divide: Pluralist Philosophy in the Twenty-First Century (Routledge, 2015) and with Claire Colebrook of Deleuze and History (Edinburgh