Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

Richard Seaford - Brothel and Coin 25.06.2026 1j 59min

This week we investigate Richard Seaford’s, Money and the Early Greek Mind. Four foregrounded threads: (1) money decodes flows (2) theodicy of money/market (3) hauntology / market / primal father (4) simulation / hyperreality Referenced Seaford talk on Youtube: https://youtu.be/wDFpo-jq5eo?si=Zk4swOK2KoXCaV4K Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

Gilbert Simondon - Membrane, Disparation, & the Amortized Individual 30.05.2026 1j 42min

Vital Units: Membrane, Disparation, and the Amortized Individual. Simondon, Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information, Vol. 1. The individual is not a thing, it is an ongoing operation, and the character of that operation is thanatological, topological, and ultimately collective. Conformal Cyclic Cosmology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conformal_cyclic_cosmology Gilbert Simondon Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/gilbert-simondon?si=52b2d9a5a18b46f682a84f762c7b8f0d&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

Sigmund Freud - Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego 03.05.2026 1j 1min

This week Coop and Taylor explore Freud's Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego. Our Freud Playlist: https://on.soundcloud.com/xZlIgPSrGbyuvlW2J0 Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

Deleuze and Guattari - Vampires, Contagion, & The Secret 19.04.2026 1j 33min

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 Thousand Plateaus Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/a-thousand-plateaus?si=1949e892aff44277bc4c23f63739e5a1&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

Moishe Postone - Time, Labor, and Social Domination 23.03.2026 1j 33min

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

Gilbert Simondon - Form and Matter Redux 07.03.2026 1j 34min

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 focuses on developing a Simondian political economy by way of his critique of the hylomorphic schema and theory of individuation. Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

Conor O'Dea - Henri Atlan on Spinoza 21.02.2026 1j 38min

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. Spinozist Neurophysiology (2007) 237 13. Knowledge, Glory, and ‘‘On Human Dignity’’ (2007), Golems, and Noise as a Principle of Self-Organization (1972/1979) from Selected Writings: On Self-Organization, Philosophy, Bioethics, and Judaism. 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

Charles Stivale - Unfolding the Deleuze Seminars 09.02.2026 1j 21min

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 Friendship among others. deleuze.cla.purdue.edu/ Book Link: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-unfolding-the-deleuze-seminars-1970-1987.html Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/muhh Twitter: @unconscioushh

Sigmund Freud - The Ego and the Id 24.01.2026 1j 19min

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 05.01.2026 1j 8min

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

Jacques Derrida - The Time of the King 30.11.2025 1j 3min

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

Sigmund Freud - The Economic Problem of Masochism 18.11.2025 1j 8min

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

Sigmund Freud - Future of an Illusion 28.10.2025 1j 35min

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

Spinoza - Concerning God 22.10.2025 1j 5min

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 - Leibniz's Monadology 12.10.2025 1j 24min

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

Deleuze and Guattari - Micropolitics and Segmentarity 04.10.2025 1j 17min

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

Deleuze and Guattari - Three Novellas or What Happened? 16.09.2025 1j 4min

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

Sigmund Freud - Debasement in the Sphere of Love 08.09.2025 1j 14min

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

Deleuze and Guattari - How Do You Make Yourself a Body Without Organs? 31.08.2025 1j 34min

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

Deleuze and Guattari - Year Zero: Faciality 27.07.2025 1j 27min

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