Buddies Without Organs: Recent Episodes
Sean Pearce, Matt Colquhoun and Corey J. White
Buddies Without Organs is a podcast by Sean Pearce, Matt Colquhoun and Corey J. White, three buddies interested in the philosophical works of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari.
Deleuze and Guattari are notoriously difficult thinkers. Together, Sean, Matt and Corey hope to improve their understanding of their works and open up new lines of flight for others in the process — all through the medium of friendship!
The 'Buddies Without Organs' podcast theme tune was written and recorded by George Rennie.
This week, the buddies step away from the CCRU (though maybe not too far) and turn their attention to a blogpost Mark Fisher wrote about Stanley Kubrick’s last film, Eyes Wide Shut. The buddies discuss the film and its representations of sex, desire, ritual, eroticism, conspiracism, and the dreary spectacle of Power. Below are linksContinue reading "Episode #4: “Have You Been Enjoying Yourself?”"
In episode 3, the Buddies dive deeper into the work of Mark Fisher with help from special guest Amy Ireland. Falling further down the CCRU K-hole, we cover the multi-layered hyperstitional piece “Who’s Pulling Your Strings?”, belief and unbelief, Monarch conspiracies, the numogram, and more. Amy Ireland is an experimental writer and theorist best knownContinue reading "Episode #3: “Who’s Pulling Your Strings?” w/ Amy Ireland"
This week, we continue our exploration of the work of Mark Fisher with an extensive interview with his friend and collaborator Robin Mackay. Last week, we dipped our collective toe into the blogosphere of the mid-2000s, discussing hyperstition, 70s pulp sci-fi and some of Fisher’s most enduring weird and eerie interests. Lurking in the backgroundContinue reading "Episode #2: The Ccru w/ Robin Mackay"
Last year, Buddies Without Organs explored the works of Gilles Deleuze. Now, in association with Zer0 Books, we are turning towards the lesser-known works of Mark Fisher. Fisher is a writer we all already love, and we felt he’d be great to read together. We’re starting as we intend to go on with a oft-neglectedContinue reading "Episode #1: Megalithic Astropunk"
Hello Buddies! It has been a while… Sorry about that. We were well and truly defeated by The Fold. But rather than abandon our reading completely, we decided to branch out and try and make sense of one concept at the heart of the book. Lucky for us, it is a concept that remains atContinue reading "Episode #09: The Event"
This week we are joined by a very special guest, Lucy from the Wyrd Signal podcast. Together, we read the nomadology chapter on Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus. We spoke about the form and content of State apparatuses, war machines, nomads, blobs, and how this all relates to conflicts in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel-PalestineContinue reading "Episode #08: The War Machine"
It has been a long time coming… I don’t think we fully appreciated what we getting ourselves into here. Unfolding, with intervals, over the coming months, the buddies begin their three-part reading of Gilles Deleuze’s 1988 book The Fold. Beginning with a quick look at the life and times of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, each ofContinue reading "Episode #07: The Fold (Part 1)"
The buddies are doing something a little different this episode. Having previously announced a three-episode deep-dive in Deleuze’s The Fold, they all had pretty rotten Aprils. Corey suggested we cover something a bit lighter in the meantime… Instead we read Chronosis. Written by Reza Negarestani and Robin Mackay, with astounding artwork by Keith Tilford, ChronosisContinue reading "Episode #06: Chronosis and the Three Buddy Problem"
It is possible that writing has an intrinsic relationship with lines of flight. To write is to trace lines of flight which are not imaginary, and which one is indeed forced to follow, because in reality writing involves us there, draws us in there. To write is to become, but has nothing to do withContinue reading "Episode #05: On the Superiority of Anglo-American Literature"
God is a lobster, or a double pincer, a double bind. Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus This week, Sean and Matt are joined by a new buddy, Corey! Together, they talk about what is likely the most notorious text in Deleuze and Guattari’s oeuvre. Topics covered include geology, North Korea, theory-fiction and the humiliationContinue reading "Episode #04: The Geology of Morals"
Snow on the peaks and upper slopes, gray rock down into the valleys, swatches of green, boulders, firs. It was sopping cold, the water trickled down the rocks and leapt across the path. The fir boughs sagged in the damp air. Gray clouds drifted across the sky, but everything so stifling, and then the fog floated up and crept heavy and damp through the bushes, so sluggish, so clumsy. He walked onward, caring little one way or another, to him the path mattered not, now up , now down. He felt no fatigue, except sometimes it annoyed him that he could not walk on his head. At first he felt a tightening in his chest when the rocks skittered away, the gray woods below him shook, and the fog now engulfed the shapes, now half-revealed their powerful limbs; things were building up inside him, he was searching for something, as if for lost dreams, but was finding nothing. Everything seemed so small, so near, so wet, he would have liked to set the earth down behind an oven, he could not grasp why it took so much time to clamber down a slope, to reach a distant point; he was convinced he could cover it all with a pair of strides.
Georg Büchner, Lenz
This week, Sean and Matt overcomplicate Oedipus whilst talking about fascists in the Capitol, chickens, eggs, and psychoanalysis.
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If you would like to read along with us, this discussion was primarily based on “Desiring-Machines”, the first chapter of Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus.
The Buddies Without Organs podcast theme tune was written and recorded by George Rennie.
Only friends can set out a place of immanence as a ground from which idols have been cleared.
Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, What is Philosophy?
Only friends…? What about… Buddies?
This week, Sean and Matt talk about the weather, philosophizing between buddies, and the limits of thought.
Listen below or, alternatively, find us on Spotify, iTunes, Soundcloud, Podbean and YouTube.
If you would like to read along with us, this discussion was primarily based on “The Plane of Immanence” chapter from Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s What is Philosophy?
The Buddies Without Organs podcast theme tune was written and recorded by George Rennie.
Welcome to the inaugural episode of Buddies Without Organs. We began our adventure with our podcast’s namesake — the body without organs.
Listen below or, alternatively, find us on Spotify, iTunes , Soundcloud, Podbean and YouTube.
If you would like to read along with us, this discussion was primarily based on the sixth chapter of A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, entitled “November 28, 1947: How do you Make Yourself a Body Without Organs?”
The Buddies Without Organs podcast theme tune was written and recorded by George Rennie.