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.
Episodes
288 episodes
Communion of Atmospheres: Prophecy, Nostalgia & the Return of Boards of Canada
What does it mean to inhabit a communion of atmospheres? And what happens when that communion, after thirteen years of silence, suddenly has something new to say? Craig is joined by musician, mastering engineer, writer, and label head Jack Chut...
'The Future in our Past: The General Strike, 1926/2026' with Callum Cant and Matthew Lee
Enroll in our new courses at AHRC: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/The Future in Our Past tells the story of the 1926 General Strike on its centenary. It is a compelling on-the-ground account of how workers brought the countr...
Unfolding the Deleuze Seminars: Experimental Pedagogy, Philosophy, and Politics Inside Deleuze's Classroom (with Charles J. Stivale)
What would it mean to experience philosophy not as a body of knowledge to be transmitted, but as a sensation to be felt? Craig is joined by Charles J. Stivale, author of Unfolding the Deleuze Seminars 1970-1987 and co-director of the D...
Deleuze, Drugs, and Death: Psychedelic Thanatology at the End of Life (LEPHT HAND crossover)
Enroll in classes now: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-coursesSubcribe to LEPHT HAND: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHANDWhat if the psychedelic revolution in end-of-life care is less a liberation from the medicalization of...
Desire, Institutions, and the Left: Susana Caló & Godofredo Pereira on CERFI Analysis Beyond Guattari
Enroll at the AHRC today: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-mainBuy 'CERFI Analysis Everywhere': https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=1661Between the radical energie...
The Revenge of Reason: Hegel, Kant, and Neo-Rationalism with Pete Wolfendale
Enroll in Timothy Jackson's latest course: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-courses/p/ontogenesis-is-impossible-anarchic-origins-in-science-life-and-art-with-simondon-bataille-schrmann-and-friendsWhat is the fate of Reason in the ...
The Obsolescence of the Human: AI, Nuclear Weapons, and the Philosophy of Günther Anders
What does it mean to feel outclassed by your own creations? In this episode, host Craig is joined by Christopher John Müller, translator and co-editor of the new University of Minnesota Press edition of Günther Anders' The Obsolescence of t...
Patreon Preview: Bataille’s 'Guilty' Explained: Stuart Kendall on War, Time, and Instability
*Patreon Preview* To access the rest of this discussion, becoming paid subscriber on our Patreon page, or enroll in 'Formless', which begins March 11th. Links are below.What does Georges Bataille’s Guilty reveal about war...
Communize the Eschaton: Thomas Müntzer and the German Peasants' War
Adam is joined by Massimiliano Tomba, O.L. Silverman, and Loren Goldman to discuss the biggest series of uprisings in Europe before the French Revolution, the German Peasants' War, which had its 500th anniversary in 2025. In this discussion, we...
'Digital Theory' Panel Discussion: Is Theory Itself Digital? (Fazi, Galloway, Weatherby, Handleman)
In this free public panel hosted by the Acid Horizon Research Commons, we discuss Digital Theory (University of Minnesota Press) with contributors Alexander R. Galloway, M. Beatrice Fazi, Matthew Handelman, and Leif Weatherby. The conversation ...
Communist Ontologies: Communism as a Form of Life with Bruno Gulli and Richard Gilman-Opalsky
What does it mean to think communism philosophically, and how can a political rupture be understood as an ontological transformation of the conditions of everyday life? Adam is joined by Bruno Gulli and Richard Gilman-Opalsky to discuss their b...
Hyperreality Is Dead: Baudrillard, the Age of Trump, and 'The Gulf War Did Not Take Place' Revisited
Adam's intensive Kant course now enrolling: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/2026-classesIn this episode, we revisit Jean Baudrillard’s The Gulf War Did Not Take Place, a text that diagnosed the emergence of war as media event...
The Spectral Woman with Ciara Cremin
Join Adam's class here: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/2026-classes/p/cause-category-and-command-an-introduction-to-kants-1st-and-2nd-critiquesAdam is joined by Ciara Cremin to discuss the libidinal economy of femininity in her lates...
Comrade Delta: Organisation, Theory, and the Failure of Britain's Biggest Revolutionary Party
Amidst the unceasing murderous march of capitalist imperialism and its transformation into new fascisms, the mantra of the revolutionary is to become organised, either by founding or joining a revolutionary organisation such a party, in order t...
Deleuze’s 'The Logic of Sense': Reversing Platonism and Affirming Philosophy with Jay Conway
Join our new The Logic of Sense reading group on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastReading Group Syllabus: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1a6vx8efg0BFCPVm6mdpfeNAvDobx0_Tn/view?usp=sharingEnroll now in ...
5 Misconceptions About Friedrich Nietzsche (Will to Power, Übermensch, Fascism) with Devin Gouré
Enroll at AHRC: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/2026-classesYouTube Version of the interview: https://youtu.be/Rh9URa_txGUIn this on-the-road episode of Acid Horizon, Craig is joined by Devin Gouré of the Moral Minority podcast...
AHRC 2026: A Brief Hiatus & A Reflection on Vattimo’s “Beyond the Subject
In this end-of-year installment, we’re sharing a conversation originally released on LEPHT HAND as we take a rare and well-earned brief hiatus from regular publishing or episodes. This pause marks a moment of transition rather than retreat, as ...
Purging the Devil: Exorcism, Possession & Political Panic with Grafton Tanner
Why does the figure of the devil keep returning in moments of political panic, social anxiety, and cultural decay? In this episode, we sit down with author Grafton Tanner about exorcism, possession, moral panic, and the strange ne...
The Revolt Eclipses Whatever the World Has to Offer: Idris Robinson on Martyrdom, Destituent Power, and Political Death
Craig and Adam are joined by Idris Robinson to ask the question of destituent revolt in a murderous and counter-revolutionary world. We discussed Idris' work on the nature of martyrdom, the relation of the insurgent to death, and the political ...
A Life in Rebellion: Up Against the Wall Motherfucker, Black Mask, and the Surrealist Struggle in 1960-70s New York
Adam is joined by comrades Abigail Susik (@abigailsusik7), Ben Morea (@ben_morea), and Breanne Fahs to discuss the synthesis of art and activism, as exemplified by Ben’s central role within such collectives as Up Against the Wall Motherfucker! ...
Philosophy and Magic: Meredith Graves on the Politics of the Occult and Thinking Magically in a Disenchanted World
In this Halloween episode, Meredith Graves joins Acid Horizon to explore the occulted correspondences between philosophy, ritual, and the practice of magic. Together we trace the tangled histories of witchcraft, labor, and belief—from Aleister ...
Mark Fisher Meets James Hillman: Melancholy, Manic Culture & the End of Capitalist Realism (with Emma Stamm)
What if depression isn’t an illness to cure but a collective mood that reveals the soul of a broken world? In this episode, Mark Fisher meets James Hillman in a conversation that bridges depth psychology and cultural theory, asking how melancho...
Witness to the Hellfire of Genocide: Wasim Said’s Testament from Gaza
In this episode, we present the work of Wasim Said, a comrade from Gaza who has documented the atrocities they and their people have experienced during the ongoing intensification of Israel's genocidal war on Palestine in his first book "Witnes...
Deleuze vs Hegel: Beyond Kant and Representation with Henry Somers-Hall
What happens when Deleuze and Hegel are set in violent philosophical encounter over the ruins of Kantian representation? In this episode, we explore how both thinkers attempt to move beyond the categories of judgment and identity to recover the...
The Politics of Ghosting: Dominic Pettman on Absence, Intimacy, and Digital Life
What does it mean to live in a world where relationships can vanish overnight, without explanation or closure? In this episode, Acid Horizon speaks with cultural theorist Dominic Pettman about his new book Ghosting: On Disappearance (P...
