Anti-Oedipus

Taylor and I began a new series of discussions on Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's landmark work, Anti-Oedipus. 

We've covered The Schreber Case and Beyond the Pleasure Principle, which might help with some of the background.

https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/freud

Anti Oedipus - Seminar 1

Todd McGowan & Ryan Engley of the Why Theory podcast joined us for a discussion of the complicated personal and theoretical relationships between Jacques Lacan and Felix Guattari.  There is the backdrop of the broad implications of theories of the unconscious and capitalism.

Why Theory Links:

https://soundcloud.com/whytheory

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-theory/id1299863834

https://www.amazon.com/Capitalism-Desire-Psychic-Cost-Markets/dp/0231178727

https://www.pomona.edu/directory/people/ryan-engley

https://www.uvm.edu/cas/english/profiles/todd-mcgowan

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Todd McGowan & Ryan Engley - Guattari Avec Lacan

Friend of the show, Damian, joined Taylor and I for a look at the first two section of Chapter 2 of Deleuze and Guattari's Anti Oedipus, The Imperialism of Oedipus and Three Texts of Freud.

Seminar 1:

https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/anti-oedipus-seminar-1

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Damian - Anti Oedipus - Seminar 2

In this episode, Cooper and Taylor focus the discussion on Chapter 2 of Deleuze and Guattari's Anti Oedipus: 3. The Connective Synthesis of Production, 4. The Disjunctive Synthesis of Recording, and 5. The Conjunctive Synthesis of Consumption-Consummation.

Anti Oedipus Playlist: 

https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/anti-oedipus

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Anti Oedipus - Seminar 3

In this episode, Cooper and Taylor focus the discussion on Chapter 2 of Deleuze and Guattari's Anti Oedipus: 6. A Recapitulation of the Three Synthesis 7. Social Repression and Psychic Repression 8. Neuroses and Psychosis 9. The Process 

Anti Oedipus Playlist: 

https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/anti-oedipus

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Anti Oedipus - Seminar 4

Daniel Tutt, co-host of the Jouissance Vampires podcast and future The Palgrave Lacan Series author joined Coop & Taylor to discuss the first 3 sections of Anti-Oedipus Chapter 3: The Inscribing Socius, The Primitive Territorial Machine, and The Problem of Oedipus

Anti-Oedipus Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/anti-oedipus

Daniel's Links:

https://danieltutt.com/about/

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jouissance-vampires/id1496860192

https://jouissancevampires.libsyn.com/

https://twitter.com/jouissancevamps/status/1428456135963598849

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Daniel Tutt - Anti Oedipus - Seminar 5

Madeline (@madd13line) joined Coop & Taylor to chat about sections 4-7 from chapter 3 of Deleuze and Guattari's Anti Oedipus. Psychoanalysis and Ethnology, Territorial Representation, The Barbarian Despotic Machine, and Barbarian or Imperial Representation.

Anti-Oedipus Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/anti-oedipus

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Madeline (@madd13line) - Anti Oedipus - Seminar 6

Gary Genosko joined Cooper and Taylor this week to discuss a little about the trajectory of his work from Baudrillard to Guattari with a critical eye towards the future. Asignification is the refrain.

Dr. Genosko works on communication and cultural theory, subcultures in the digital underground, and whistle-blowers. His philosophical interests includes the philosophy of Félix Guattari. Post-media, communication modelling, critical semiotics, and media ecology play important roles in his writing.

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=26HocbIAAAAJ&hl=en

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Gary Genosko - An Aberrant Introduction

Cooper and Taylor return to tackle Anti-Oedipus Chapter 3 sections 8. The Urstaat and 9. The Civilized Capitalist Machine

Anti-Oedipus Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/anti-oedipus

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Anti Oedipus - Seminar 7

In our latest episode, Cooper and Taylor have a vigorous discussion with Duane Rousselle on Lacan, Žižek, Badiou, anarchism, sociology, realism, the capitalist discourse, and much more! 

https://www.drduanerousselle.com/

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

https://duanerousselle.medium.com/

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=hjcSGTkAAAAJ&hl=en

Duane Rouselle - Politics of the Real

This week, Graham Harman, one of the key figures in Object Oriented Ontology and Speculative Realism to share some of his experiences in academia and expound on some key points of Triple-O.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/graham-harman-object-oriented-ontology/id1234384916?i=1000549489591

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7BPZdJfK4eOoI582uxxEPR?si=UQRLAUGyQ0mcG30I23sYQQ

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

https://www.sciarc.edu/people/faculty/graham-harman

https://doctorzamalek2.wordpress.com/




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Graham Harman - Object Oriented Ontology

On this week’s episode, Cooper and I welcome Ray Brassier to discuss the trajectory of his philosophical education, his translations of contemporary French theorists, the key insights of Prometheanism, nihilism, and his future work on Fatelessness.

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Ray Brassier - Brassier Unbound

Gil, co-host of the What's Left of Philosophy Podcast and translator of French Philosophy joined Coop & Taylor to discuss sections 9 The Civilized Capitalist Machine, 10 Capitalist Representation, & 11 Oedipus at Last of Chapter 3: Savages, Barbarians and Civilized Men.

Gil's Links:

https://twitter.com/gdmorejon

https://gilmorejon.wordpress.com/

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whats-left-of-philosophy/id1544487624

https://www.patreon.com/leftofphilosophy

https://twitter.com/leftofphil

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Gil Morejon - Anti-Oedipus Seminar 8

Coop and Taylor return to cover Anti Oedipus Chapter 4, Introduction to Schizoanalysis. This episode will cover sections 1. The Social Field, 2. The Molecular Unconscious, and 3. Psychoanalysis and Capitalism.

Anti Oedipus Playlist:
https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/anti-oedipus?si=5205bc8ed5f34f5e87aa11428428f368&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

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Anti Oedipus Seminar 9

Cooper and Taylor speak with Ian Buchanan, who is a Professor of Critical Theory and Cultural Studies at the University of Wollongong Australia. Ian is the author and editor of many books, some of which include Deleuzism: A Metacommentary; Fredric Jameson: Live Theory; and, most recently, The Incomplete project of Schizoanalysis: Collected Essays on Deleuze and Guattari and the topic for today’s discussion Assemblage Theory and Method: An Introduction and Guide.

Links:

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Buchanan_(academic)

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Ian Buchanan - Assemblage Theory

This week Coop and Taylor speak with Jason Read on his recent book, The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work.

Jason is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine and whose works include The Micropolitics of Capital: Marx and the Prehistory of the Present; The Politics of Transindividuality; The Production of Subjectivity: Marx and Philosophy; and today’s focus, hot off the Verso presses.

Jason's Links:

Book: https://www.versobooks.com/products/2920-the-double-shift

Blog: http://www.unemployednegativity.com/

Social: https://x.com/Unemployedneg

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Jason Read - The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work

This week Cooper and Taylor tackle the introduction and chapter 1 of Gilbert Simondon’s On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects. Chapter 1 Genesis of the technical object: the process of concretization.

PDF:
https://monoskop.org/images/2/20/Simondon_Gilbert_On_the_Mode_of_Existence_of_Technical_Objects_Part_I_alt.pdf

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Gilbert Simondon - On The Mode Of Existence Of Technical Objects

The week Coop and Taylor are joined by Matt Bower to discuss a few sections from Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s Husserl at the limits of Phenomenology as well as Husserl's The Origin of Geometry. 

Matt is currently Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Texas State University. Matt completed his doctoral work at University of Memphis (2013) and earned by bachelors' degree, also in philosophy, from Beloit College (2007). His area of specialization is post-Kantian European philosophy, especially as it bears on topics in philosophy of mind and perception. He’s published several articles about Husserl's genetic phenomenology, some attempting to explain Husserl's method and theoretical ambitions in doing genetic phenomenology and others examining its relation to developmental psychology and as a way to understand the embededness of intersubjectivity in perceptual experience. He’s  also published articles exploring the phenomenology of Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, and Levinas.

Matt's Links:

Website: https://sites.google.com/site/mattembower

Twitter: https://x.com/noetic_emetic

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Matt Bower - Husserl At The Limits

We speak with William Clare Roberts about his work on Marx in Marx's Inferno as well as an afterword to the latest translation of Capital. 

William is assistant professor of political science at McGill University, author of Marx’s Inferno as well as an afterword to a new translation of Marx’s Capital, Volume One, under contract with Princeton University Press.

William's links:
-https://www.mcgill.ca/politicalscience/william-clare-roberts

-https://x.com/MarxinHell?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

-https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=gYZCXscAAAAJ&hl=en

-https://press.princeton.edu/our-authors/roberts-william-clare?srsltid=AfmBOooSmXhWfR1Ff-qbObsLNGpgfqpyFfESCxUJmu9B-flKFPWhwgvX

-https://www.boundary2.org/2024/10/william-clare-roberts-three-varieties-of-misunderstanding/

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William Clare Roberts - Marx's Inferno

Cooper and Taylor discuss the first two plateaus from Deleuze and Guattari’s seminal sequel to Anti-Oedipus, A Thousand Plateaus. The chapters discussed will be Introduction: Rhizome and 1914: One or several wolves. 

A Thousand Plateaus Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/sets/a-thousand-plateaus?si=6b1008cffbb546de9531aae44964a934&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

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Deleuze and Guattari - Rhizome and One or Several Wolves

Cooper and Taylor discuss Paul Verilio's Speed and Politics. Dromology, fleet in being, the war machine, deterritorialization and reterritorialization.

Verilio's wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Virilio

Book Link: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781584350408/speed-and-politics/

War and Cinema Episode: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/paul-virilios-war-and-cinema?si=0724bffa7ead438f970f51defa7d09ee&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

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Paul Virilio - Speed and Politics

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

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Eugene Holland - Axiomatics and Markets

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

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Deleuze and Guattari - Year Zero: Faciality

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: 
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Deleuze and Guattari - How Do You Make Yourself a Body Without Organs?

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. 

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Sigmund Freud - Debasement in the Sphere of Love

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

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Deleuze and Guattari - Three Novellas or What Happened?

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

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Deleuze and Guattari - Micropolitics and Segmentarity

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.

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Rocco Gangle - Leibniz's Monadology

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



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Spinoza - Concerning God

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

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Sigmund Freud - Future of an Illusion

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

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Sigmund Freud - The Economic Problem of Masochism

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

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Jacques Derrida - The Time of the King

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

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