Archive for June, 2008
Katerina Kolozova’s The Real and the “I” is a brilliant text which complicates Francois Laruelle’s non-philosophy with post-structuralist feminist theory, psychoanalysis, and various continental philosophies. Like Brassier’s Nihil Unbound, Kolozova’s project is a heretical reading of Laruelle’s philsopy which, while maintaining the basic tenets of his system (unilateral duality, vision in one, the Real, transcendence […]
Filed under: Badiou, Brassier, Butler, Copjec, feminism, Lacan, ontology, politics, psychoanalysis, Speculative Realism, transcendental materialism, Zizek, Zupancic | 1 Comment
Tags: feminism, francois laruelle, katerina kolozova, ray brassier, the Real
Let us make a decision – cut one half of the vicious fluid from the other – for our purposes slime is an organic substance and is different from waste in that waste is what the organic sheds to shed whereas slime harbors a stronger claim to the core of the organism – it’s functions […]
Filed under: Badiou, Brassier, comic books/graphic novels, Freud, Lacan, marxism, politics, psychoanalysis, Speculative Realism, Zizek | 3 Comments
Tags: hardt, marxism, negri, politics, pollution, ray brassier, slime, Speculative Realism, Zizek
A fairly recent study to verify the existence of non-conscious effects in the brain entailed a subject being flashed with a fearful face so quickly (33 milliseconds) that it could not be consciously registered. Yet, as caught on a high res MRI, the face had an observable effect – causing anxiety in the test subject. […]
Filed under: Brassier, cognitive science, film, literature, Meillassoux, psychoanalysis, Speculative Realism, trauma | 1 Comment
Tags: collapse iv, concept horror, horror movie, lovecraft, quentin meillassoux, ray brassier, slasher, the thing
Speculative Realism is first and foremost a philosophy of depth: For Brassier it is the hopeless depth of nihil, for Harman the demanding depth of objects, for Grant the seething depth of nature and for Meillassoux it is the depth of Hyper-chaos. In this sense the speculative realist has a downward momentum into the abyss […]
Filed under: Badiou, Brassier, Massumi, Meillassoux, ontology, politics, Speculative Realism | 15 Comments
Tags: Althusser, Graham Harman, quentin meillassoux, ray brassier, Speculative Realism, Zielinski
Non-linearity and Momentum
Following Nick of The Accursed Share’s brilliant remarks on Brassier’s reading of Deleuze, I wish to return to the following passage from Nihil Unbound: “In Zizek’s Hegelianism, the subject achieves its autonomy by retroactively positing/reintegrating its own contingent material determinants: freedom is the subjective necessity of objective contingency. But by dissolving the idea of a […]
Filed under: Brassier, Deleuze, Freud, Lacan, Meillassoux, ontology, psychoanalysis, Speculative Realism, transcendental materialism, Zizek | 11 Comments
Tags: continental philosophy, Free Will, quantum physics, quentin meillassoux, ray brassier, Speculative Realism, transcendental materialism, Zizek
