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 Moses And Monotheism [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:29:54
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 pu…
Kara Kennedy - Dune: A Critical Companion [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:21:32
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…
Gilbert Simondon - On The Mode Of Existence Of Technical Objects [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:19:06
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:…
Amy Ireland & Maya B. Kronic - Cute Accelarationism [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:48:23
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 researc…
Adrian Johnston - Infinite Greed [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:30:26
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, inc…
Ian Buchanan - Assemblage Theory [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:29:15
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…
Gilbert Simondon - Form and Matter [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:39:19
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. htt…
Elizabeth Grosz - The Incorporeal [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:49:49
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 t…