Moishe Postone - Time, Labor, and Social Domination

Moishe Postone - Time, Labor, and Social Domination

Author: Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour March 23, 2026 Duration: 1:33:12
This week Coop and Taylor discuss chapters 7, 8, and 9 of Moishe Postone's Time, Labor, and Social Domination. We discuss ties to our manuscript, Deleuze & Guattari, and Baudrillard. William Wordsworth's The World is Too Much With Us: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45564/the-world-is-too-much-with-us I Pencil PDF: https://fee.org/wp-content/uploads/ebooks/i-pencil-final-proof-for-website-pdf.pdf I Pencil Milton Friedman Video: https://youtu.be/67tHtpac5ws?si=g_2vxJt5pOH0nmu8 Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @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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Podcast Episodes
Deleuze and Guattari - Vampires, Contagion, & The Secret [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:33:23
This week Coop and Taylor discuss 1730: Becoming-Intense, Becoming-Animal, Becoming-Imperceptible from Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus. A heretical reading on alliance, filiation, fascism, and the secret. A Th…
Gilbert Simondon - Form and Matter Redux [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:34:20
This week Coop and Taylor revisit the Introduction and 1st chapter in Gilbert Simondon’s Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information: the introduction and ch 1. Form and Matter. The discussion largely focus…
Conor O'Dea - Henri Atlan on Spinoza [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:38:13
Conor O'Dea joined Coop and Taylor for a discussion on Henri Atlan focusing on Part 3: Spinoza: The Spinoza Path (2005) 209 Immanent Causality: A Spinozist Viewpoint on Evolution and the Theory of Action (1998) 2112. Spi…
Charles Stivale - Unfolding the Deleuze Seminars [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:21:25
Charles Stivale joined us this week to discuss the recently published Unfolding the Deleuze Seminars, 1970–1987. Charles co-translated Deleuze's Logic of Sense and has also published Gilles Deleuze's ABCs: The Folds of F…
Sigmund Freud - The Ego and the Id [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:19:32
This week we return to Freud and have a look at The Ego and the Id. Freud Playlist: Listen on SoundCloud Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh
Georges Bataille - The Accursed Share [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:08:11
This conversation focuses on the first 2 sections of Georges Bataille's The Accursed Share Volume 1. The discussion centers on the libidinal economics of expenditure, excess, waste and their relationship to reproduction.…
Jacques Derrida - The Time of the King [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:03:15
This week Cooper and Taylor investigate chapter 1, The Time of the King, from Jacques Derrida's Given Time: I. Counterfeit Money. The focus is on libidinal economics. Episodes referenced: -https://soundcloud.com/podcast-…
Sigmund Freud - The Economic Problem of Masochism [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:08:51
Cooper and Taylor discuss Sigmund Freud's The Economic Problem of Masochism. Reading link: https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Freud_Masochism.pdf Freud Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry…
Sigmund Freud - Future of an Illusion [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:35:57
Cooper and Taylor discuss Freud's Future of an Illusion with a heavy focus on libidinal economy. Freud Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/freud?si=dc5fe063c9964a449daf8f60849cb476&utm_source=cl…
Spinoza - Concerning God [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:05:05
This week Coop and Taylor tackle part 1 of Spinoza's Ethics, Concerning God. Gil Morejon Episode: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/gil-morejon-the-unconscious-of-thought-in-leibniz-spinoza-and-hume?si=8d30c…