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
Mark Fisher Meets James Hillman: Melancholy, Manic Culture & the End of Capitalist Realism (with Emma Stamm)
Witness to the Hellfire of Genocide: Wasim Said’s Testament from Gaza
Deleuze vs Hegel: Beyond Kant and Representation with Henry Somers-Hall
The Politics of Ghosting: Dominic Pettman on Absence, Intimacy, and Digital Life
Western Marxism vs. Stalinism: Domenico Losurdo’s Controversial Legacy with Ross Wolfe
Wilhelm Reich, Fascism & Work Democracy: Philip Bennett & David Silver at Orgonon
From Blake to Bataille: Romanticism, Communism, and the Commons with Joseph Albernaz
LEPHT HAND - Myth, Nostalgia, and Liberation: Federico Campagna’s 'Otherworlds: Mediterranean Lessons On Escaping History'
Identity on Credit: Ajax, Achilles, and the Modern Self with Fredrik Westerlund
From Chaos to Creation: Deleuze, Francis Bacon, 'On Painting', and 'The Logic of Sensation' with Charles J. Stivale
How Did Analytic Philosophy Become the Ruling Class of Thought? Christoph Schuringa Explains
Becoming Worthy of the Event: Deleuze, Nietzsche, and Revolutionary Ethics with Justin
Fanon and Sartre: Rethinking Praxis, Race, and Revolution
The Roots of 'Gender-Critical' Fascism: White Supremacy, Reactionary Feminism, and the Far Right
Georges Bataille’s 'On Nietzsche': War, Chance, and the Collapse of Meaning with Stuart Kendall
Hermaphrodite Logic: A History of Intersex Liberation with Juliana Gleeson
'Black Mirror', Henri Bergson, and the Death of Creative Time with Emily Herring
The Lamella and the Lacanian Break: Taylor Adkins on “Position of the Unconscious”
Ontologies of Queerness: Deleuze, Butler, and Beyond with Billie Cashmore and Xenogothic
Eros and Empire: A Marxist Theory of Desire, Queer Liberation, and the Limits of the Nation with Alexander Stoffel
Marxism, Anarchism, and the Power of Communist Imagination: Richard Gilman-Opalsky on Utopia and Revolution
The Future of Revolution: Jasper Bernes on Communism from the Paris Commune to George Floyd
The Transcendental Logic of Capitalism: Henry Somers-Hall on Deleuze, Guattari, and Kant
New Emergences: Reading Groups, Live Events, Vintagia, and What’s Next for Acid Horizon