Acid Horizon
Emerging from affinities with post-structuralism, abolitionism, biopolitics, communism, critical metaphysics, critical mysticism, and ontological anarchy, Acid Horizon is a philosophy and theory podcast committed to thought in motion and political struggle. While these are our grounding currents, each episode opens out onto a wider constellation: ethics, politics, phenomenology, decolonial thought, queer theory, post-psychoanalysis, disability/crip theory, anarchism, Marxism, feminism, and analyses of the emergence of the new right.
Comprised of a decentralized collective of friends and comrades, Acid Horizon cultivates a terrain of militant inquiry. From readings that span 20th-century French communism to new perspectives on German idealism, the collective has also undertaken forays into aesthetic experimentation, philosophical heresy, and the history of revolt. We seek the concepts and intensities that gesture toward new forms of life.
Acid Horizon pushes theory beyond the academy through live engagements, collaborative reading groups, and collective interventions.
Acid Horizon
The Stranger Returns: The Politics of Mental Health and Nietzsche on Forgiving and Forgetting
CW: self-harm, suicide, clinical challenges to gender transitioning
The final episode of Acid Horizon for 2023 is an informal conversation between Craig and The Stranger (twitter: @4Q248). Together we discuss the politics of mental health, Nietzsche versus Psychoanalysis--and we indulge a little bit of playful dreamwork at the end. Thank you for supporting us this year!
Links to research referenced in the episode:
Why Depression Rates Are Higher Among Liberals: https://magazine.columbia.edu/article/why-depression-rates-are-higher-among-liberals
Mental Illness and the Left: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341609819_Mental_Illness_and_the_Left
Are liberals truly more depressed than conservatives?: https://news.northeastern.edu/2023/05/31/mental-health-politics-liberal-conservative/
Contributing factors to suicide: Political, social, cultural and economic: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0091743521000827
Suicide rates tend to rise under Tory rule: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2002/sep/19/uk.conservatives
Right-wing governments 'increase suicide rates': https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2817-right-wing-governments-increase-suicide-rates/
Republicans Report Much Better Mental Health Than Others: https://news.gallup.com/poll/102943/republicans-report-much-better-mental-health-than-others.aspx
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