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Acid Horizon

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Acid Horizon and Inner Experience theory podcasts. Metaphysics, ethics, politics, critical theory, phenomenology, and beyond.

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  • Eros and Empire: A Marxist Theory of Desire, Queer Liberation, and the Limits of the Nation with Alexander Stoffel
    May 19 2025

    Support the campaign: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/acidhorizon/vintagia-i-ching-oracle-for-psychogeographers-and-creatives

    "Living Currency" syllabus: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OeUT0XSZdIQ9VpgLaqjuw0sP3blJZySG/view?usp=drive_link

    What happens when queer liberation becomes entangled with the myths of the nation-state? In this episode, we speak with Alexander Stoffel about his new book Eros and Empire, which traces the transnational roots of sexual freedom movements in the U.S. From gay liberation to Black lesbian feminism and AIDS activism, Stoffer shows how desire has been both constrained by and mobilized against imperial and capitalist systems. Together, we explore how a Marxist approach to desire can open new paths for solidarity beyond the boundaries of the bourgeois state.

    Eros and Empire: https://www.sup.org/books/politics/eros-and-empire

    Support the show

    Vintagia Pre-Launch: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/acidhorizon/vintagia-i-ching-oracle-for-psychogeographers-and-creatives

    Support the podcast:

    https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/

    Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizon

    Acid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast

    Boycott Watkins Media: https://xenogothic.com/2025/03/17/boycott-watkins-statement/

    Join The Schizoanalysis Project: https://discord.gg/4WtaXG3Qxn

    Subscribe to us on your favorite podcast: https://pod.link/1512615438

    Merch: http://www.crit-drip.com

    Subscribe to us on your favorite podcast: https://pod.link/1512615438

    LEPHT HAND: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHAND

    Happy Hour at Hippel's (Adam’s blog): https://happyhourathippels.wordpress.com

    ​Revolting Bodies (Will's Blog): https://revoltingbodies.com

    ​Split Infinities (Craig’s Substack): https://splitinfinities.substack.com/

    ​Music: https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/ and https://thecominginsurrection.bandcamp.com/

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    1 hr and 15 mins
  • Marxism, Anarchism, and the Power of Communist Imagination: Richard Gilman-Opalsky on Utopia and Revolution
    May 11 2025

    Support Vintagia: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/acidhorizon/vintagia-i-ching-oracle-for-psychogeographers-and-creatives

    What if communism isn’t a destination, but something already unfolding in everyday acts of resistance, care, and imagination? In this episode, Richard Gilman-Opalsky joins us to discuss the political force of utopian thinking, the ongoing tension between Marxism and anarchism, and the need to move beyond stale demands for “practical” revolution. Drawing from his two most recent books— Imaginary Power, Real Horizons: The Practicality of Utopianism—as well as Communist Ontologies (with Bruno Gullì) from Minor Compositions, we explore the imagination as a site of material struggle, the persistence of Cold War ideology, and the overlooked revolutionary power of small things. This conversation ranges from the German Ideology to Gaza, from the failures of liberal capitalism to the fragile flame of collective dreaming.

    Imaginary Power, Real Horizons: The Practicality of Utopianism: https://www.akpress.org/imaginary-power-real-horizons.html

    Communist Ontologies: https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=1320

    Support the show

    Vintagia Pre-Launch: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/acidhorizon/vintagia-i-ching-oracle-for-psychogeographers-and-creatives

    Support the podcast:

    https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/

    Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizon

    Acid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast

    Boycott Watkins Media: https://xenogothic.com/2025/03/17/boycott-watkins-statement/

    Join The Schizoanalysis Project: https://discord.gg/4WtaXG3Qxn

    Subscribe to us on your favorite podcast: https://pod.link/1512615438

    Merch: http://www.crit-drip.com

    Subscribe to us on your favorite podcast: https://pod.link/1512615438

    LEPHT HAND: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHAND

    Happy Hour at Hippel's (Adam’s blog): https://happyhourathippels.wordpress.com

    ​Revolting Bodies (Will's Blog): https://revoltingbodies.com

    ​Split Infinities (Craig’s Substack): https://splitinfinities.substack.com/

    ​Music: https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/ and https://thecominginsurrection.bandcamp.com/

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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • The Future of Revolution: Jasper Bernes on Communism from the Paris Commune to George Floyd
    May 4 2025

    Buy the Book: https://www.versobooks.com/products/977-the-future-of-revolution?srsltid=AfmBOopbQABhI9H6efsVC8cJLfIxh2LNXMqxpppbp8xUVVnxNMtAyEPc

    How might a twenty-first-century revolution against class society succeed?

    Communism comes from the future, but its hopes haunt our past. Reading revolutionary history from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising by the light of communist theory, from Marx to C. L. R. James, The Future of Revolution illuminates the possibilities for overcoming class society in the twenty-first century.

    When Marx wrote that the Paris Commune of 1871 showed that “the working class cannot simply lay hold of the ready-made state machinery, and wield it for its own purposes,” he identified a principle that will remain true as long as capitalism and its class antagonism persist. Historical revolutions reveal essential features of our communist horizon, which would-be revolutionaries, then as now, must negotiate one way or another. In chapters that move from a critical history of the workers’ council to a reading of Marx’s theory of value as an inverted description of communism, Jasper Bernes synthesizes from a history of failure the key criteria for success. He defines for our present moment the urgent mission of the world proletariat.

    Support the show

    Vintagia Pre-Launch: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/acidhorizon/vintagia-i-ching-oracle-for-psychogeographers-and-creatives

    Support the podcast:

    https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/

    Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizon

    Acid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast

    Boycott Watkins Media: https://xenogothic.com/2025/03/17/boycott-watkins-statement/

    Join The Schizoanalysis Project: https://discord.gg/4WtaXG3Qxn

    Subscribe to us on your favorite podcast: https://pod.link/1512615438

    Merch: http://www.crit-drip.com

    Subscribe to us on your favorite podcast: https://pod.link/1512615438

    LEPHT HAND: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHAND

    Happy Hour at Hippel's (Adam’s blog): https://happyhourathippels.wordpress.com

    ​Revolting Bodies (Will's Blog): https://revoltingbodies.com

    ​Split Infinities (Craig’s Substack): https://splitinfinities.substack.com/

    ​Music: https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/ and https://thecominginsurrection.bandcamp.com/

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    1 hr and 6 mins

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