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Acid Horizon

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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.

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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.

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  1. Excesses of Georges Bataille: Deep Time and the Privileged Instant with Stuart Kendall

    · 46 min

    AHRC courses: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-courses Attend DURATIONS Festival 2026 with Acid Horizon: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/events/durations-festival-2026 Can wasting better solve the biggest…

  2. *PATREON EXCLUSIVE* Acid Communism and the Sonic Imagination: 'Shake the City' with Alexander Billet

    · 10 min · Explicit

    Full episode is here: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast/posts/patreon-acid-and-172245661?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link What is the…

  3. What Is 'Nomad Thought' in Deleuze & Guattari? Henry Somers-Hall on 'Reading A Thousand Plateaus'

    · 1 h 04 min

    Current courses at AHRC: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-courses What if the way we think about everything from gender, race, and class to the very idea of a "thing," rests on a transcendental illusion that…

  4. *PATREON EXCLUSIVE* Deleuze and Guattari on Class: Digital Capitalism, Against Workerism, and Reifications of the Worker

    · 4:59

    Did Deleuze and Guattari have a theory of class? A better question: how did the French philosophers reformulate class and the bourgeoisie in anticipation of digital capitalism unfolding on a global scale? In this…

  5. Grimdark Dialectics: Hegel and the Philosophy of Warhammer 40K

    · 1 h 04 min

    Acid Horizon Events: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/events Acid Horizon Research Commons (Ongoing Course Series): https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-courses Adam is joined by Jon Greenaway AKA The Lit Crit…

  6. Chinese Dreamcore: Tangping, Mark Fisher, and Hauntology in the Anthropocene

    · 1 h 02 min

    Acid Horizon offers affordable online philosophy and humanities courses: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-courses Can you feel homesick for something that hasn't even disappeared yet? This week Craig and Adam…

  7. *PATREON PREVIEW* 'The Breaking of the English Working Class' with Jonas Patrick Marvin

    · 5:00

    Listen to the full interview here: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast/posts/patreon-breaking-168601216?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link What has…

  8. The Kyoto School Explained: Japanese Philosophy, Marxism, and Nothingness

    · 1 h 12 min

    Enroll here: acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-courses. Use code 3FOR2FALL2026 at checkout for three courses at the price of two. Were the philosophers of the Kyoto School fascist collaborators, or were they meeting in…

  9. Derrida's "Odyssey": Hospitality, Borders, and the Meaning of 'Xenia'

    · 1 h 00 min · Explicit

    Fall/Autumn 2026 Courses at AHRC: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-courses What do we really owe a stranger at the door, and what grounds that obligation? In this episode, Craig and Adam turn to Jacques…

  10. *PATREON EXCLUSIVE* 'The Logic of Sense' in Michael Mann's 'Heat': Deleuze, Crime, and the Crystal Image

    · 5:00

    Enroll in Bob's class coming soon: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-courses/p/jung-and-spinoza-god-affect-destiny How does "heat" in Michael Mann's 1995 film Heat relate to concepts in Deleuze's The Logic of…

  11. University of Excess - AHRC Public Panel Discussion (Audio Excerpt)

    · 53 min

    Watch the full discussion here: https://youtu.be/MwUJGWWFOSU Join us for 'Fanon & Anders: On Revolution': https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast/posts/final-summer-on-164624401?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=c…

  12. *PATREON EXCLUSIVE* Forget Foucault & Forget Baudrillard: Power Versus Seduction and Why Fascism Is Obsolete on Arrival (with Cooper Cherry) [Teaser]

    · 5:34

    AHRC Classes are enrolling now: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-courses Can a theory be so complete, so magistral, that it is dead on arrival? That's the charge Baudrillard levels at Foucault in 'Forget…

  13. Kojève's End of History: Hegel, Stalin, Bataille, Deleuze, and the Return to Animality

    · 1 h 21 min

    Enroll now at AHRC: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-courses Attend 'University of Excess' free: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast/posts/new-panel-of-and-163158129?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=co…

  14. *PATREON EXCLUSIVE* The Promise of Cruelty: Fascism and Social Murder with Adam C. Jones

    · 10 min

    Become a patron today and listen to all of our exclusive recordings: https://www.patreon.com/c/acidhorizonpodcast Final AHRC Summer Series Courses enrolling now: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-courses What if…

  15. Should We All Live in Communes? AHRC Public Panel with Fern Thompsett and Henry Kramer

    · 1 h 03 min

    Emma's anti-civ class: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-courses/p/anti-civilization-recovering-from-industry-and-progress Watch this panel discussion on YouTube: https://youtu.be/epvd2MT04OM Should we all live…

  16. Magnifica Humanitas: Religion, Humanism, and the Critique of 'AI'

    · 43 min

    AHRC Summer Mini-Bundle: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-courses Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast Who owns your dignity, and what does it cost to get it back? Craig, Adam, and Emma…

  17. Trauma is a Time Machine: A Cinematic Primer with Kwasu D. Tembo

    · 1 h 19 min

    Latest courses at AHRC: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-courses If you could go back in time, would you change the past, even if it meant changing who you are? Is existing in time itself traumatic? Is power…

  18. Boards of Canada's 'Inferno': Top Tracks, Hidden Themes & Life After the Inferno Sessions

    · 1 h 17 min · Explicit

    Vintagia: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/vintagia-basecamp Acid Horizon Research Commons summer courses: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-courses Jack and Tonx on Instagram: @jack.chuter, @tonx Craig's…

  19. Revolutionary Forgiveness: Beyond Moralism, Toward Liberation (with David Renton and Dr Hazel Croft)

    · 52 min

    How do we connect collective struggle with the search for justice? Adam is joined by historian Hazel Croft and theorist David Renton to discuss the concept of forgiveness and its strategic role in revolutionary…

  20. Bataille’s 'Guilty' Explained: Stuart Kendall on War, Time, and Instability (Full Episode Unlocked!)

    · 1 h 08 min · Explicit

    AHRC Courses: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-courses What does Georges Bataille’s Guilty reveal about war, time, and the unstable ground of thought itself? In this episode, Craig and Adam speak with Stuart…

  21. The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy: Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West with A.J.A. Woods

    · 52 min

    Vintagia Second Run: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/vintagia-basecamp AHRC Summer School 2026: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-courses Buy A.J.'s book:…

  22. David Foster Wallace & Mark Fisher: Irony, Sincerity, and Late Capitalism

    · 1 h 14 min

    Enroll now for AHRC Summer School — https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-courses Is sincerity even possible when the medium is rigged against it? In this episode, Hannah Smart, fiction writer, critic, and author of…

  23. Communion of Atmospheres: Prophecy, Nostalgia & the Return of Boards of Canada

    · 1 h 18 min

    What does it mean to inhabit a communion of atmospheres? And what happens when that communion, after thirteen years of silence, suddenly has something new to say? Craig is joined by musician, mastering engineer,…

  24. 'The Future in our Past: The General Strike, 1926/2026' with Callum Cant and Matthew Lee

    · 1 h 16 min

    Enroll in our new courses at AHRC: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ The Future in Our Past tells the story of the 1926 General Strike on its centenary. It is a compelling on-the-ground account of how workers…

  25. Unfolding the Deleuze Seminars: Experimental Pedagogy, Philosophy, and Politics Inside Deleuze's Classroom (with Charles J. Stivale)

    · 48 min

    What would it mean to experience philosophy not as a body of knowledge to be transmitted, but as a sensation to be felt? Craig is joined by Charles J. Stivale, author of Unfolding the Deleuze Seminars 1970-1987 and…

  26. Deleuze, Drugs, and Death: Psychedelic Thanatology at the End of Life (LEPHT HAND crossover)

    · 1 h 09 min

    Enroll in classes now: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-courses Subcribe to LEPHT HAND: https://www.patreon.com/LEPHTHAND What if the psychedelic revolution in end-of-life care is less a liberation from the…

  27. Desire, Institutions, and the Left: Susana Caló & Godofredo Pereira on CERFI Analysis Beyond Guattari

    · 1 h 18 min

    Enroll at the AHRC today: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-main Buy 'CERFI Analysis Everywhere': https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=1661 Between the radical energies of the 1960s and the shifting terrains of…

  28. The Revenge of Reason: Hegel, Kant, and Neo-Rationalism with Pete Wolfendale

    · 1 h 25 min

    Enroll in Timothy Jackson's latest course: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-courses/p/ontogenesis-is-impossible-anarchic-origins-in-science-life-and-art-with-simondon-bataille-schrmann-and-friends What is the…

  29. The Obsolescence of the Human: AI, Nuclear Weapons, and the Philosophy of Günther Anders

    · 1 h 19 min

    What does it mean to feel outclassed by your own creations? In this episode, host Craig is joined by Christopher John Müller, translator and co-editor of the new University of Minnesota Press edition of Günther Anders'…

  30. Patreon Preview: Bataille’s 'Guilty' Explained: Stuart Kendall on War, Time, and Instability

    · 14 min

    *Patreon Preview* To access the rest of this discussion, becoming paid subscriber on our Patreon page, or enroll in 'Formless', which begins March 11th. Links are below. What does Georges Bataille’s Guilty reveal…

  31. Communize the Eschaton: Thomas Müntzer and the German Peasants' War

    · 1 h 19 min

    Adam is joined by Massimiliano Tomba, O.L. Silverman, and Loren Goldman to discuss the biggest series of uprisings in Europe before the French Revolution, the German Peasants' War, which had its 500th anniversary in…

  32. 'Digital Theory' Panel Discussion: Is Theory Itself Digital? (Fazi, Galloway, Weatherby, Handleman)

    · 1 h 15 min

    In this free public panel hosted by the Acid Horizon Research Commons, we discuss Digital Theory (University of Minnesota Press) with contributors Alexander R. Galloway, M. Beatrice Fazi, Matthew Handelman, and Leif…

  33. Communist Ontologies: Communism as a Form of Life with Bruno Gulli and Richard Gilman-Opalsky

    · 1 h 24 min

    What does it mean to think communism philosophically, and how can a political rupture be understood as an ontological transformation of the conditions of everyday life? Adam is joined by Bruno Gulli and Richard…

  34. Hyperreality Is Dead: Baudrillard, the Age of Trump, and 'The Gulf War Did Not Take Place' Revisited

    · 1 h 03 min

    Adam's intensive Kant course now enrolling: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/2026-classes In this episode, we revisit Jean Baudrillard’s The Gulf War Did Not Take Place, a text that diagnosed the emergence of war as…

  35. The Spectral Woman with Ciara Cremin

    · 53 min

    Join Adam's class here: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/2026-classes/p/cause-category-and-command-an-introduction-to-kants-1st-and-2nd-critiques Adam is joined by Ciara Cremin to discuss the libidinal economy of…

  36. Comrade Delta: Organisation, Theory, and the Failure of Britain's Biggest Revolutionary Party

    · 1 h 05 min

    Amidst the unceasing murderous march of capitalist imperialism and its transformation into new fascisms, the mantra of the revolutionary is to become organised, either by founding or joining a revolutionary…

  37. Deleuze’s 'The Logic of Sense': Reversing Platonism and Affirming Philosophy with Jay Conway

    · 1 h 12 min

    Join our new The Logic of Sense reading group on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast Reading Group Syllabus: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1a6vx8efg0BFCPVm6mdpfeNAvDobx0_Tn/view?usp=sharing Enroll…

  38. 5 Misconceptions About Friedrich Nietzsche (Will to Power, Übermensch, Fascism) with Devin Gouré

    · 1 h 00 min

    Enroll at AHRC: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/2026-classes YouTube Version of the interview: https://youtu.be/Rh9URa_txGU In this on-the-road episode of Acid Horizon, Craig is joined by Devin Gouré of the Moral…

  39. AHRC 2026: A Brief Hiatus & A Reflection on Vattimo’s “Beyond the Subject

    · 35 min

    In this end-of-year installment, we’re sharing a conversation originally released on LEPHT HAND as we take a rare and well-earned brief hiatus from regular publishing or episodes. This pause marks a moment of…

  40. Purging the Devil: Exorcism, Possession & Political Panic with Grafton Tanner

    · 58 min

    Why does the figure of the devil keep returning in moments of political panic, social anxiety, and cultural decay? In this episode, we sit down with author Grafton Tanner about exorcism, possession, moral panic, and…

  41. The Revolt Eclipses Whatever the World Has to Offer: Idris Robinson on Martyrdom, Destituent Power, and Political Death

    · 1 h 11 min

    Craig and Adam are joined by Idris Robinson to ask the question of destituent revolt in a murderous and counter-revolutionary world. We discussed Idris' work on the nature of martyrdom, the relation of the insurgent to…

  42. A Life in Rebellion: Up Against the Wall Motherfucker, Black Mask, and the Surrealist Struggle in 1960-70s New York

    · 58 min · Explicit

    Adam is joined by comrades Abigail Susik (@abigailsusik7), Ben Morea (@ben_morea), and Breanne Fahs to discuss the synthesis of art and activism, as exemplified by Ben’s central role within such collectives as Up…

  43. Philosophy and Magic: Meredith Graves on the Politics of the Occult and Thinking Magically in a Disenchanted World

    · 1 h 05 min

    In this Halloween episode, Meredith Graves joins Acid Horizon to explore the occulted correspondences between philosophy, ritual, and the practice of magic. Together we trace the tangled histories of witchcraft, labor,…

  44. Mark Fisher Meets James Hillman: Melancholy, Manic Culture & the End of Capitalist Realism (with Emma Stamm)

    · 1 h 05 min

    What if depression isn’t an illness to cure but a collective mood that reveals the soul of a broken world? In this episode, Mark Fisher meets James Hillman in a conversation that bridges depth psychology and cultural…

  45. Witness to the Hellfire of Genocide: Wasim Said’s Testament from Gaza

    · 49 min

    In this episode, we present the work of Wasim Said, a comrade from Gaza who has documented the atrocities they and their people have experienced during the ongoing intensification of Israel's genocidal war on Palestine…

  46. Deleuze vs Hegel: Beyond Kant and Representation with Henry Somers-Hall

    · 54 min

    What happens when Deleuze and Hegel are set in violent philosophical encounter over the ruins of Kantian representation? In this episode, we explore how both thinkers attempt to move beyond the categories of judgment…

  47. The Politics of Ghosting: Dominic Pettman on Absence, Intimacy, and Digital Life

    · 1 h 07 min

    What does it mean to live in a world where relationships can vanish overnight, without explanation or closure? In this episode, Acid Horizon speaks with cultural theorist Dominic Pettman about his new book Ghosting: On…

  48. Western Marxism vs. Stalinism: Domenico Losurdo’s Controversial Legacy with Ross Wolfe

    · 58 min

    What if the very idea of Western Marxism has less to do with geography than with defeat? In this episode of Acid Horizon, we dive into Domenico Losurdo’s controversial use of the term and ask what’s at stake in his…

  49. Wilhelm Reich, Fascism & Work Democracy: Philip Bennett & David Silver at Orgonon

    · 54 min

    Video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/sbwVioWlhS0 What happens when we revisit Wilhelm Reich’s journey from Freud’s student to radical theorist of desire, politics, and repression? In this episode, we sit down with…

  50. From Blake to Bataille: Romanticism, Communism, and the Commons with Joseph Albernaz

    · 1 h 01 min

    What does Romanticism have to do with communism, enclosure, and the commons today? In this episode we speak with Joseph Albernaz, author of Common Measures: Romanticism and the Groundlessness of Community, about the…

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