Gil Morejon Podcasts

This week we're joined by Gil Morejon, co host of the What’s Left of Philosophy podcast, translator of french philosophy, and recently translated Spinoza's Paradoxical Conservatism by Francois Zourabichvili and is also author of The Unconscious of Thought in Leibniz, Spinoza and Hume from Edinburgh press.The topic for this week's discussion is Kant…

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.Support us on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/muhhTwitter: @unconscioushhBy Cooper Cherry Jr.

In this episode, we unpack tensions between theories of equality that emphasize opportunity and outcomes in a discussion based upon Christine Sypnowich’s recent Boston Review article, “Is Equal Opportunity Enough?” We also discuss our very own William Paris’s response to Sypnowich in his essay “The Art of Equality.” We debate whether liberalism is …

The week, Taylor and I tackled Empiricism & Subjectivity: An Essay on Hume's Theory of Human Nature. A fun look at empiricism, justice, and more.Support us on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/muhhTwitter: @unconscioushhBy Cooper Cherry Jr.

In this episode we talk about Antonio Gramsci’s book The Modern Prince. Written while imprisoned by the fascists in Mussolini’s Italy, the work is a reflection on the party as a form of organization and the importance of leadership for revolutionary socialist politics. We discuss Gramsci’s realist approach to politics as an art and science, his ins…

Dan Smith joined Coop and Taylor to discuss Deleuze's The Fold: Leibniz and The Baroque. We discussed differential calculus, the body without organs, time, the unconscious and much more in this discussion. Daniel W. Smith is an American philosopher, academic, researcher, and translator. Smith is known for his interpretation of the work of the Frenc…

This week friend of the show, Vernon Cisney, joined us to discuss his approach to teaching Deleuze and Guattari against the backdrop of part 1 of their book, What is Philosophy?Vernon is associate professor of interdisciplinary studies and Jewish studies at Gettysburg College. He teaches at the intersections of philosophy, religion, literature, cin…

In this episode, we are joined by Michael Thomas to talk about Black aesthetics and hip hop in particular. We work through what it means for hip hop to be a 'problem space' that reconstructs the cultural contradictions and political messaging of a racist society in a way that is not essentializing and that aspires to address social problems without…

This week Coop and Taylor tackle Gilles Deleuze's Spinoza: Practical Philosophy. Thoughts on ethics, morality, the untapped potential of the body and more.Support us on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/muhhTwitter: @unconscioushhInstagram: @unconscioushhBy Cooper Cherry Jr.

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 La…

In this patrons-only episode we discuss Vladimir Lenin’s 1917 The State and Revolution. When he’s not snarkily dragging his political opponents for their opportunism and philistinism, Lenin tries to work through some of the most hotly contested ideas in Marxian political theory, including the role of the state in capitalist society and its ‘witheri…

This week Taylor and I looked at the introductions to Francois Laruelle's Non-Standard Philosophy. We made an attempt to try and unpack some of the basic terminology and formulations of Laruelle's project. Taylor is currently in the process of completing this translation, so stay tuned for future announcements on it's release.Support us on Patreon:…

Our guest this week, Chantelle Gray, a Professor in the School of Philosophy at North-West University and co-editor of Deleuze and Anarchism and the author of Anarchism after Deleuze and Guattari: Fabulating Futures.We discuss dogmatic images of thought, derivative logic, statist realism and fabulating futures.https://agsmorester.academia.edu/Chant…

In this inaugural episode of our new series on aesthetics, we discuss Friedrich Schiller’s 1795 Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man. We begin with his assessment of the French Revolution and its perceived failure to deliver on its lofty republican ideals, focusing on his ascription of this failure to the fragmentation of the modern self and s…

This we were joined by Gabriel Tupinambá. Gabriel is a practicing psychoanalyst and the co-author of Hegel, Lacan, Žižek and most recently the author of The Desire of Psychoanalysis: Exercises in Lacanian Thinking.Gabriel's Links:https://www.gabrieltupinamba.com/englishhttps://www.academia.edu/45486769/The_Desire_of_PsychoanalysisSupport us on Patr…

Stephen Houlgate,professor of philosophy at the University of Warwick and the president of the Hegel Society of Great Britain. His books include Hegel, Nietzsche and the Criticism of Metaphysics; An Introduction to Hegel: Freedom, Truth and History; The Opening of Hegel’s Logic: From Being to Infinity; Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit: A Reader’s Gu…

In this episode, we take a deep dive into Frantz Fanon’s first book Black Skin, White Masks. We discuss his views on racism as a form of alienation and narcissism, assess that status of reason throughout his argument, and interrogate his emphasis on futurity over history. Throughout we defend his theory of social pathology and his embrace of reason…

This week we're joined by Brent Adkins. Brent is a professor in the department of Philosophy and Religion at Roanoke College. His works include Death and Desire in Heidegger, Hegel and Deleuze; True Freedom: Spinoza’s Practical Philosophy; Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus: A Critical Introduction and Guide; and A Guide to Ethics and Moral…

Lindsay Lerman, scholar and author, joined us to discuss her most recent novel, What Are You?, as well as her other work, which includes the translation of Francois Laruelle's first book.Lindsay's Links:https://neutralspaces.co/lindsaylerman/https://www.clashbooks.com/new-products-2/lindsay-lerman-what-are-you-preorderSupport us on Patreon:https://…

In this episode we are joined by Devin Zane Shaw to talk about his book Philosophy of Antifascism: Punching Nazis and Fighting White Supremacy. We discuss the concept of the ‘three-way fight’, what Beauvoir’s analysis of the antinomies of action can teach us about emancipatory violence, and the necessity of community self-defense. Ambiguity may be …

Eugene Holland, joined us to discuss his work on Deleuze and Guattari notion of axiomatics. We discuss the potential for a new axiomatic, and analyze how capitalist axiomatics operate.Eugene is professor Emeritus of the Department of Comparative Studies at The Ohio State University, and whose books include Baudelaire and Schizoanalysis: The Sociopo…

Stephen Zepke joined Coop and Taylor for a discussion focusing on the differing approaches to aesthetics within the work of Felix Guattari and Francois Laruelle. Stephen's links:https://independent.academia.edu/stephenzepkeStephen's First Appearance on MUHH: https://soundcloud.com/podcast-co-coopercherry/stephen-zepke-i-heart-uiq?si=a8d46413d9f6427…

Feeling alienated? In this episode, we are here for you. We dig into three periods of Herbert Marcuse’s thought. Marcuse was Martin Heidegger’s student in the 1920s, a member of the Frankfurt School in the 1930s, the philosopher of the New Left in the 1960s, and stays haunting the petit bourgeois in the 2020s. We pay our respects and get to the bot…

Today Taylor and I are proud to bring you this week’s guest, Renata Salecl. She is a senior researcher at the Institute of Criminology in the Faculty of Law at the University of Ljubljana and holds a professorship at Birckbeck College, University of London. Her books include The Spoils of Freedom: Psychoanalysis and Feminism after the Fall of Socia…

This week Coop and Taylor interrogated Jean Laplanche's Life & Death in psychoanalysis.Wikipedia:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Laplanchehttps://books.google.com/books/about/Life_and_Death_in_Psychoanalysis.html?id=d_GcAAAAMAAJSupport us on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/muhhTwitter: @unconscioushh…

In this episode we dig into some early writings by the incomparable black radical feminist and communist Angela Davis. We reflect on some of the contradictions involved in the transformation of women’s labor in the development of patriarchal capitalism and the latent potentials for the emancipated life in common that these developments nevertheless…

Coop and Taylor investigate Plato's Symposium, with an eye towards drawing out it's psychoanalytic content. Topics of discussion include seduction, feminine jouissance, and more.Support us on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/muhhTwitter: @unconscioushhBy Cooper Cherry Jr.

We couldn't put together a new episode for you this week, so we thought we'd unlock an old Patreon exclusive! Thanks to everyone who helped us pick which one by voting in our Twitter poll. We'll be back with a brand new ep next Monday. -- In this episode, the crew takes on a beloved figure of the academic 'left': Michel Foucault. The discussion gra…

James Wakefield joined Coop and Taylor to discuss his chapter in the recently released Dune and Philosophy: Minds, Monads, and Muad'Dib, titled The God Emperor and the Tyrant The Political Theology of Frank Herbert’s Dune Saga.https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/457489-wakefield-jameshttps://cardiff.academia.edu/JamesWakefieldhttps://www.amazon.c…

Jared Miller-Price joined Coop and Taylor for an in-depth look at Jacques Lacan's Seminar 20. Jared completed a thesis on Jacques Lacan and Julian of Norwich. Topics include feminine jouissance, the phallic function, the non-relation, Lacan's sexuation diagram, the five discourses and much more.Support us on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/muhhTwit…