Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

Author: Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour Language: English Episodes: 100
There's a certain kind of conversation that happens when the formalities fade and ideas are allowed to collide freely, often aided by a shared drink. That's the atmosphere cultivated in Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour. This podcast operates from a simple, potent premise: we are all desiring machines, complex systems shaped by culture, technology, and unconscious drives. Each episode is an exploration from that starting point, a meandering yet focused dialogue that digs into the strange intersections of daily life and deeper philosophical currents. You'll hear discussions that might begin with a current event or a piece of art and spiral into considerations of psychology, social structures, and the invisible forces that choreograph our wants and actions. It’s less a lecture and more a participatory eavesdropping on a conversation that is both intellectually rigorous and casually human. The hosts, embodying the show's own title, approach topics without a rigid agenda, allowing the discourse to find its own organic rhythm and conclusions. For anyone curious about the undercurrents of society and the self, this podcast offers a unique, engaging space to reflect on the machinery of our collective existence. Tune in for thoughtful, unstructured, and genuinely connective audio.
Episodes
Deleuze and Guattari - The Geology of Morals [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:34:10
Cooper and Taylor discuss the third chapter from Deleuze and Guattari’s seminal sequel to Anti-Oedipus, A Thousand Plateaus, The Geology of Morals. A Thousand Plateaus Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-cooperch…
Gilbert Simondon - The Evolution of Technics/Technical Reality [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:25:55
In this episode Cooper and Taylor discuss the second half of Gilbert Simondon's On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects. Prior Episode - https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/gilbert-simondon-on-the-mode-o…
Adam C. Jones - The New Flesh [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:38:46
In this episode Cooper and Taylor are joined by Adam Jones to discuss his new book, The New Flesh: Life and Death in the Data Economy. Adam is a philosopher from East London, UK whose work focuses on Insurrectionary Comm…
Gilles Deleuze - The Method of Dramatization [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:33:47
Coop and Taylor discuss Deleuze’s The Method of Dramatization from Desert Islands, an anthology of texts and interviews written over 20 years. Book Link: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781584350187/desert-islands/ Deleuze Pla…
Emily Herring - Henri Bergson: Herald of a Restless World [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:39:33
This week Coop and Taylor were joined by Emily Herring, a scholar whose work brings together intellectual history, philosophy, and the cultural currents of the 20th century. She’s the author of Herald of a Restless World…
Jacob Blumenfeld - The Concept of Property in Kant, Fichte, and Hegel [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:40:12
Jacob Blumenfeld returns to the show to discuss his new book, The Concept of Property in Kant, Fichte, and Hegel: Freedom, Right, and Recognition Jacob is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oldenburg,…
David Carr - Essays on the Phenomenology of History [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:56:58
This week Cooper and Taylor host Professor David Carr, who is a professor emeritus of philosophy at Emory University and specializes in history and phenomenology. David is the translator of Edmund Husserl’s Crisis of Eur…
William Clare Roberts - Marx's Inferno [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:39:23
We speak with William Clare Roberts about his work on Marx in Marx's Inferno as well as an afterword to the latest translation of Capital. William is assistant professor of political science at McGill University, author…
Duane Rousselle - Psychoanalysis, Sociology & the Social Bond [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:51:18
Coop and Taylor delve into the shared terrains of psychoanalysis, sociology, prohibitions, and the social bond. Duane Rousselle, sociological theorist, Lacanian psychoanalyst, Associate Dean of Research and Associate Pro…
Freud's Screen Memories [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:37:44
This week Coop and Taylor discuss Freud's Screen Memories. We tie it back to Mystic Writing Pad and Interpretation of Dreams as well as a number of Freud's case histories. Our Freud Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/podca…