Dr. Leon S. Brenner is a philosopher and psychoanalytic theorist from Berlin. His work focuses on the integration of philosophical and linguistic frameworks in psychoanalytic theory of subjectivity and the understanding of the relationship between culture and psychopathology. He is a training analyst, studying member of the APPI and a founder of Lacanian Affinities Berlin (laLAB) and Unconscious Berlin. His latest book on the subject of the psychoanalysis of autism is called The Autistic Subject: On the Threshold of Language, where he presents a novel account of autistic subjectivity from a Lacanian psychoanalytic perspective.

This week Leon joined us to discuss his ongoing work on the dermic drive, which evolved out of his work on autism stemming from his book, The Autistic Subject: On the Threshold of Language. 

Leon also joined us twice last year to discuss autism and the autistic rim, which are two very important components he builds on in his latest work on the skin and psychoanalysis. 

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https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/leon-brenner-the-autistic-rim?si=18eebf5244204e239b1040c1d25d6f6d&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

https://leonbrenner.com/

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Leon Brenner - The Dermic Drive

This week Coop and Taylor take a crack at Deleuze's Kant's Critical Philosophy. We cover the famous phrase, "time is out of joint", the categorical imperative, the law, and much more.

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Deleuze: Kant's Critical Philosophy

This week Cooper and Taylor discuss Raymond Ruyer's Neofinalism. Neofinalism offers a systematic and lucidly argued treatise that deploys the innovative concepts of self-survey, form, and absolute surface to shape a theory of the virtual and the transspatial. It also makes a compelling plea for a renewed appreciation of the creative activity that organizes spatiotemporal structures and makes possible the emergence of real beings in a dynamic universe.

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Raymond Ruyer's Neofinalism

David Roden takes us through the viscous labyrinth of Speculative Posthumanism, Disconnection Thesis, Sonic Ontology and Agency, and his recent work, Xenoerotics.

David Roden's published work has addressed the relationship between deconstruction and analytic philosophy, philosophical naturalism, the metaphysics of sound, and posthumanism. His works include Posthuman Life: Philosophy at the Edge of the Human(2014), Snuff Memories (2021), Xenoerotics(2023).

Cold Reading

Posthuman Xenophilia w/David Roden

Nucleosynthesis

This week we read and discuss two pieces: Freud’s Mystic Writing Pad and Derrida’s Freud and the Scene of Writing.

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Derrida and Freud on The Scene of Writing

Jeffrey Bell joined us to speak about his recently published book, An Inquiry into Analytic-Continental Metaphysics.

Jeffrey A. Bell is Professor of Philosophy at Southeastern Louisiana University. He has recently been a Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor in Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London, during which time much of this book was written. He is the author of numerous books and articles on Deleuze and Deleuze and Guattari, including Deleuze and Guattari's What is Philosophy?: A Critical Introduction and Guide (Edinburgh University Press, 2016), Deleuze’s Hume (Edinburgh University Press, 2008), Philosophy at the Edge of Chaos (University of Toronto Press, 2006) and The Problem of Difference: Phenomenology and Poststructuralism (University of Toronto Press, 1998). Bell is co-editor with Paul Livingston and Andrew Cutrofello of Beyond the Analytic–Continental Divide: Pluralist Philosophy in the Twenty-First Century (Routledge, 2015) and with Claire Colebrook of Deleuze and History (Edinburgh University Press, 2009).


By developing a metaphysics of problems, Jeffrey Bell shows how the history of both the analytic and continental traditions of philosophy can be seen to be an ongoing response to the problem of regresses. By highlighting this shared history, Bell brings these two traditions back together to address problems that have been essential to their projects all along and central to much of the history of philosophy.

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Book:
https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-an-inquiry-into-analytic-continental-metaphysics.html


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Jeffrey Bell - An Inquiry into Analytic-Continental Metaphysics

Brian Massumi joined Cooper and Taylor for a discussion on his forthcoming book: The Personality of Power: A Theory of Fascism for Anti-Fascist Life.

Massumi was instrumental in introducing the work of French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari to the English-speaking world through his translation of their key collaborative work A Thousand Plateaus (1987) and his book A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Deviations from Deleuze and Guattari (1992).[2] His 1995 essay "The Autonomy of Affect",[3] later integrated into his most well-known work, Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation (2002), is credited with playing a central role in the development of the interdisciplinary field of affect studies.[4]

Massumi received his B.A. in Comparative Literature at Brown University (1979) and his Ph.D in French Literature from Yale University (1987). After a Mellon postdoctoral fellowship in the Stanford University Department of French and Italian (1987-1988), he settled in Montréal, Canada, where he taught first at McGill University (Comparative Literature Program) and later at the Université de Montréal (Communication Department), retiring in 2018. Massumi has lectured widely around the world, and his writings have been translated into more than fifteen languages.

Since 2004, he has collaborated with the SenseLab,[5] founded by Erin Manning[6] as an experimental "laboratory for thought in motion" operating at the intersection of philosophy, art, and activism. 

Links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Massumi

https://recherche.umontreal.ca/english/our-researchers/professors-directory/researcher/is/in14429/



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Brian Massumi - The Personality of Power

Material from the first part of an improvised set I performed in Madrid with Ed Keller for the Cosmic Brains Symposium at Matadero Media Lab. The last part of the performance is featured in a video of the Symposium here
https://youtu.be/EGbBnCsOP-w?si=aVP8lwFUB1Sczqys

Antikythera Part I

In this week's episode Cooper and Taylor speak with Elizabeth Grosz, who has published and edited over a dozen books and whose most recent work, The Incorporeal: Ontology, Ethics, and the Limits of Materialism, will be the topic of today’s discussion.

Links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Grosz

https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-incorporeal/9780231181631

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Elizabeth Grosz - The Incorporeal

Sweet Nothing Calvin Harris (St Helena)

Philosopher, musican and purveyor of abstruse filth. Interested in eccentric alternatives to humanity.

New book out: Xenoeroticshttps://www.amazon.com/Xenoerotics-David-Roden/dp/B0CH2PPCB3

Antikythera Part I

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