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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

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

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

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

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 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 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

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

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