Episodes

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

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    "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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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.

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    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
  • The Transcendental Logic of Capitalism: Henry Somers-Hall on Deleuze, Guattari, and Kant
    Apr 26 2025

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    What if capitalism isn’t just an economic system—but a transcendental structure that configures our very experience? In this episode, philosopher Henry Somers-Hall helps us unravel Deleuze and Guattari’s enigmatic claim that capitalism is an axiomatic system. Drawing from Kant, set theory, and the metaphysics of representation, we explore how capital binds and rebinds flows—subjects, territories, even revolt itself. Together we ask: what becomes of revolution when even resistance can be axiomatized?

    Henry's paper: https://henrysomershall.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/somers-hall-binding-and-axiomatics.pdf

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    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 17 mins
  • New Emergences: Reading Groups, Live Events, Vintagia, and What’s Next for Acid Horizon
    Apr 24 2025

    In this special 10-minute solo dispatch, Craig reveals what’s brewing behind the scenes. From the unveiling of Vintagia: I Ching Oracle for Psychogeography and Creative Discovery to a series of live events that blend philosophy, art, and sound—this is your glimpse into the next season of the Acid Horizon project.

    We talk about the upcoming artist residency in State College, Pennsylvania, where Craig will host live podcast tapings, experimental seminars, and collaborative experiences. Plus, we mark our return to Durations Festival in Brooklyn this fall—with an exciting guest in tow.

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    "Philosophers and the Friend" reading group syllabus: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VF7IZDocnkoK-vgwFNRFEXCOseBvNQJA/view

    Contact Adam: ajonesworkmail@gmail.com

    Walking away: https://splitinfinities.substack.com/p/crossing-the-line-the-repeater-books

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

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

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    11 mins
  • A Reading of "Friendship" by Maurice Blanchot
    Apr 20 2025

    In this episode, Will reads Maurice Blanchot’s essay Friendship, a haunting reflection on the impersonal and ineffable nature of true friendship. Blanchot challenges the idea of friendship as mutual understanding, revealing instead a relation marked by silence, distance, and exposure. This reading anticipates our upcoming "Philosophers and the Friend" reading group beginning May 18, featuring works by Blanchot, Foucault, Derrida, and more.

    Reading group syllabus: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VF7IZDocnkoK-vgwFNRFEXCOseBvNQJA/view

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    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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    12 mins
  • Mysticism Without Transcendence? Laruelle’s 'Vision-in-One' with Jeremy R. Smith
    Apr 20 2025

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    In this special crossover episode of LEPHT HAND and Acid Horizon, we explore the radical mysticism of François Laruelle through his essay Vision-in-One or Unlearned Knowing. Laruelle proposes a mysticism stripped of transcendence and doctrine—one grounded in solitude, immanence, and the irreducibility of lived experience. Our guest, translator Jeremy R. Smith, helps unpack Laruelle’s challenge to Neoplatonism, dialectics, and the pedagogical authority of philosophy. Along the way, we consider how this "unlearned knowing" might offer tools for thinking mysticism on the left, beyond both theology and theory.

    Vision-in-One or Unlearned Knowing: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n-i7-kfCt_ykSxrMrUIeNxLwLKcCzcl3LbSJCR_etVQ/edit?tab=t.0

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    ​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 10 mins
  • Simulacra and Simulation: Baudrillard, Techno-Fascism, and the Tyranny of Advertising
    Apr 13 2025

    Cameron Carsten is back with us to enjoy an exploration of Jean Baudrillard’s concept of “absolute advertising” and its transformation of communication, desire, and the public sphere. This discussion addresses the rise of techno-fascism and the symbolic saturation of everyday life in view of Baudrillard's 'Simulacra and Simulation'. What happens when advertising becomes the default mode of mediation, indistinguishable from culture itself? Together, we unravel how content collapses into form—and how even resistance may be a commodity.

    Cameron's blog: https://camtology.substack.com/

    Hire the inimitable Adam C. Jones: @SanktMaxTCI on Twitter or email us: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/

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    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 14 mins