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

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.
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Derrida and Freud on The Scene of Writing [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:28:01
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Heidegger's The Question Concerning Technology [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:14:39
This week Coop and Taylor investigate Martin Heidegger's The Question Concerning Technology. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh
Jon Repetti - Deleuze's Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:34:17
This week, Jon Repetti joined Coop and Taylor for a discussion on Deleuze's monograph, Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation. Jon is finishing a phd in American literature at Princeton, focusing on naturalism, radical em…
Freud on Transference Love [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:17:10
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Badiou's Ethics [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:46:55
This week Cooper and Taylor read and discussed Alain Badiou's ethics. Fidelity to the event, the genesis of evil, and much more. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh
Lyotard's The Postmodern Condition [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:36:53
This week Coop and Taylor discussed Jean Francois Lyotard's famous book, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. We discuss meta-narratives, language games, science and more. Support us on Patreon: https://www.p…
Raymond Ruyer's Neofinalism [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:22:59
This week Cooper and Taylor discuss Raymond Ruyer's Neofinalism. Neofinalism offers a systematic and lucidly argued treatise that deploys the innovative concepts of self-survey, form, and absolute surface to shape a theo…