Brian Massumi - The Personality of Power

Brian Massumi - The Personality of Power

Author: Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour March 19, 2024 Duration: 1:53:15
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, Canada, where he taught first at McGill University (Comparative Literature Program) and later at the Université de Montréal (Communication Department), retiring in 2018. Massumi has lectured widely around the world, and his writings have been translated into more than fifteen languages. Since 2004, he has collaborated with the SenseLab,[5] founded by Erin Manning[6] as an experimental "laboratory for thought in motion" operating at the intersection of philosophy, art, and activism. Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Massumi https://recherche.umontreal.ca/english/our-researchers/professors-directory/researcher/is/in14429/ Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh

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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…
Marcel Mauss's A General Theory of Magic [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:38:40
This week Cooper and Taylor dive into Marcel Mauss's A General Theory of Magic. Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh witter: @unconscioushh
Emmanuel Levinas - Totality and Infinity [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:33:05
Coop and Taylor discus Emmanuel Levinas’s Totality and Infinity, the first section, The Same and the Other. Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh witter: @unconscioushh
Max Stirner's The Unique and Its Property [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:24:32
Taylor and Coop have a look at section 1, Humanity, of Max Stirner's The Unique and Its Property. Episodes Mentioned: Ego Book Series: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/the-unique-and-its-property?si=13…
Matt Bower - Husserl At The Limits [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:29:13
The week Coop and Taylor are joined by Matt Bower to discuss a few sections from Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s Husserl at the limits of Phenomenology as well as Husserl's The Origin of Geometry. Matt is currently Senior Lectur…
Hegel's Philosophy of Right [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:35:10
Cooper and Taylor discuss Hegel's Elements of the Philosophy of Right. Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh witter: @unconscioushh
James Wakefield - Giovanni Gentile & Actual Idealism [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:43:32
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 Rela…
The Eroticism of Contract and Gift [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:19:13
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://…
Rene Girard's Violence And The Sacred [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:10:13
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 T…