Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

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. Bird of Paradise video/example link: https://youtu.be/nWfyw51DQfU?si=JfQtoiQjdcNwH1ku Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

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-co-coopercherry/phoebe-kaufman-the-wolf-man-cyptonomy?si=6d8377f23904451c984dd1b4d62368f9&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing -https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/derrida-and-freud-on-the-scene-of-writing?si=23ef1bdbd44649798216a6bfd658ae98&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

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/sets/freud?si=ce03d08b3f8742f4b1e40a2a6315888c&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

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=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

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=8d30cdd50d364b75a504427f012e02b1&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

Rocco Gangle joined Coop & Taylor to discuss Leibniz's Monadology. Rocco is Professor of Philosophy at Endicott College. He is the author of Francois Laruelle’s Philosophies of Difference: A Critical Introduction and Guide (EUP 2013) and Diagrammatic Immanence: Category Theory and Philosophy (EUP 2016), co-author of Iconicity and Abduction (Springer 2017) and co-editor of Superpositions: Laruelle and the Humanities (Rowman and Littlefield 2017). His research focuses on semiotics, diagrammatic logic, metaphysics and political philosophy. Rocco is associated with the Global Centre for Advanced Studies as a member of the GCAS Faculty and a Distinguished Research Fellow. Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

Cooper and Taylor return to A Thousand Plateaus to discuss Micropolitics and Segmentarity. Episode on Paul Virilio's Speed and Politics: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/paul-verilio-speed-and-politics?si=66d8a51400264dc7b92e429f76630374&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing A Thousand Plateaus Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/a-thousand-plateaus?si=905cdd163585446d9db0269fa5a44c37&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

Cooper and Taylor return to A Thousand Plateaus to discuss 1874: Three Novellas, or 'What Happened?" What lines do you draw and at what cost? A Thousand Plateaus Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/a-thousand-plateaus?si=845cc854fd514b439f25f145986cdf35&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Alenka Zupancic on What is Sex?: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/alenka-zupancic-what-is-sex?si=233361b3574841a296ae00dde8fe9c2c&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Dan Smith on The Fold: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/daniel-w-smith-deleuzes-the-fold?si=a16b9bb4bc7b4909af5dc6a2b2045ee2&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Jon Roff Episode: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/jon-roffe-deleuze-and-abstract-market-theory?si=9fb90bd7c8674a689810b15278c87178&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Simon Duffy: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/simon-duffy-deleuze-and-the-history-of-mathematics?si=ef89347003194adfb9fe9dcf4dfb403a&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

This week Cooper and Taylor discuss a short piece from Sigmund Freud: On the Universal Tendency to Debasement in the Sphere of Love. We focus on the implications on libidinal economy. We tie the piece to Deleuze & Guattari, Lyotard, Lacan, and Rene Girard. Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

Charles Stivale joined us to discuss November 28, 1947: How Do You Make Yourself a Body Without Organs? from Deleuze and Guattari's landmark work, A Thousand Plateaus. Stivale has authored six books in nineteenth and twentieth-century French and Francophone studies, has edited or co-edited three volumes of studies and six journal issues, has prepared translations of two major works, a half-dozen article, and the eight hour video interview with Gilles Deleuze, published (by MIT Press/Zone) as Gilles Deleuze, From A to Z (2012). He has also published eighty journal articles and chapters in edited volumes. His research fields have included study of the nineteenth-century French novel, twentieth-century critical theory and cultural studies, the writings of French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, and research on Louisiana Cajun music and dance culture. Between 2005 and 2011, he collaborated with the former director of the University of Florida Paris Research Center, Gayle Zachmann, to organize an annual meeting of scholars in nineteenth-century French studies. A Thousand Plateaus Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/a-thousand-plateaus?si=8df4d7a45bd444af84969fb20629d81d&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Dan Smith's Episode on Deleuze's The Fold: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/daniel-w-smith-deleuzes-the-fold?si=29e1f5718f394a59b441ae4fcddf0e70&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Charles Episode on the ABC's of Deleuze: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/charles-stivale-the-abcs-of-deleuze?si=7e3c396f9973460f8738e2b6acd3d841&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Charles and Dan's Episode on Deleuze and Painting: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/charles-stivale-dan-smith-painting-and-the-question-of-concepts?si=f22a83b54ac3466c970bf3bc2fd49146&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Deleuze Tee Shirt Link: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/6989967-minimal-deleuze-philosophy-of-gilles-deleuze-rhizo Photo of Deleuze Lecturing: https://share.google/images/YYVmKv9zVtX2gsA4n Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

This week, Henry Somers-Hall joined us to discuss Year Zero: Faciality from A Thousand Plateaus. Henry is a professor in philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London, and this is his third appearance on the show. A Thousand Plateaus Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/a-thousand-plateaus?si=9f09bd317a0e446585a3451be4ff2822&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Henry's website: https://henrysomershall.net/ Prior Episodes: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/henry-somers-hall-treatise-on-nomadology-the-war-machine?si=255e6923b6c44c8583192ecff8776378&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/henry-somers-hall-deleuze-difference-and-repetition?si=38c70cc79a744059b8fc1a0c427998b4&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

This week we discuss Immanuel Kant's Attempt to Introduce the Concept of Negative Magnitudes Into Philosophy. We look at how the work of Deleuze, Freud, Guattari, Leibniz, Proust, and Simondon resonates with this piece from the early Kant. Topics: Real and Logical Oppositions, lack and deprivation, the unconscious, moral philosophy, bodies in motion, bwo, zero. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

This week we look at 587 B.c.-A.D. 70: On Several Regimes from Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus. Referenced Episode Links: Isabel Millar: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/isabel-millar-preliminary-materials-for-a-theory-of-the-bombshell?si=7f723501d19f48f187c1925cb1f40474&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Eugene Holland: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/eugene-holland?si=9d88c58432324a7bb5e0117d82965957&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Henry Somers-Hall: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/henry-somers-hall-treatise-on-nomadology-the-war-machine?si=0a6fb9a895c5419489de3fc3be3503bb&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing A Thousand Plateaus Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/a-thousand-plateaus?si=5c7f74f291db4182813dba684a7eff5a&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

Conor O'Dea joined Coop and Taylor for a discussion inspired by a reading of Cannibal Metaphysics by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro. Conor is an indie scholar, accidental civil servant and patron of MUHH. Conor's links: https://www.janusunbound.com/ https://journals.library.mun.ca/index.php/JU Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

This week Coop and Taylor discuss Jean Laplanche's The Temptation of Biology: Freud's Theories of Sexuality. Topics include seduction, leaning-on (Anlehnung), Oedipus, polymorphous perversity, desiring production, instinct, drives and much more. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

Cooper and Taylor discuss November 20, 1923—Postulates of Linguistics from Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus. A Thousand Plateaus Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/a-thousand-plateaus?si=4358592c1ae54ba4b64157387003bd0b&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

This week Eugene Holland returned to the show to axiomatics and markets in the context of Deleuze and Guattari's work. Eugene's previous appearances: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/eugene-holland?si=521437745cee470da3524b081eb3e9f7&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/eugene-holland-multiplicities-axiomatics-politics?si=e71d1e6a00f74520859fe160615a9657&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

This week Timothy Jackson joined Coop and Taylor to discuss Felix Guttari's Chaosmosis: An Ethico-aesthetic Paradigm. Book PDF: https://monoskop.org/images/2/24/Guattari_Felix_Chaosmosis_An_Ethico-Aesthetic_Paradigm.pdf Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

This week Coop and Taylor discuss a short piece from Raymond Ruyer, There is No Subsconscious: Embryogenesis and Memory. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

Coop and Taylor discuss Freud's Project for a Scientific Psychology with an emphasis on how it informs the 3 syntheses of the unconscious for Deleuze and Guattari. Freud Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/freud?si=c51111042521492db6bd5311890dacd7&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh Instagram: @unconscioushh