Archive for November, 2009
The Uneasiness in Nature
Zizek’s Unbehagen In Der Nature addresses current discussions surrounding ecology and nature. Right off the bat however Zizek’s conceptualization of nature is limited – seeming to be nature as it appears to us, nature as we can manipulate it. The anxieity or uneasiness that Zizek discusses seems more to be more about the loss of […]
Filed under: Kant, Lacan, nature, ontology, psychoanalysis, Speculative Realism, Zizek | 4 Comments
Tags: ecology, environment, nature, Speculative Realism, Zizek
Maupassant’s Horror
Guy de Maupassant’s short horror tale The Horla (the out there) is excellent ground for darkly vitalistic speculations. The gothic tale, one of the many celebrated in Lovecraft’s “Supernatural Horror in Literature” is told in a series of diary entries. The author who at the start revels in the wonders of nature (the stream, the […]
Filed under: literature, nature, ontology, Schelling, Speculative Realism | Leave a Comment
Tags: dynamics, maupassant
Points and Objects
Levi has an interesting post about quantum mechanics and Speculative Realism. A whole slew of issues arises surrounding epistemological versus ontological realism particularly in regards to the issue of observation and the uncertainty principle. As the Dailykos post he references makes clear, decoherence does not assert that everything depends on observation, but that at some […]
Filed under: Brassier, Deleuze, Harman, Meillassoux, nature, ontology, Speculative Realism, transcendental materialism | 2 Comments
Tags: gabriel catren, levi bryant, ooo, oop, quantum mechanics, vitalism
Darknesses
The limit or non-limit of darkness is its terrifying feature – if the darkness is expansive and not invasive (oil or plague like, creeping inside organisms) then it is its formalized bound that must be decided which also allows for the possibility of a darkness within darkness. Take the following from Ligotti’s “Flowers of the […]
Filed under: Deleuze, Iain Hamilton Grant, ligotti, nature, ontology, Schelling, Speculative Realism, transcendental materialism | 1 Comment
Tags: dark vitalism, darkness, vitalism
Monstrous Futurity
Drugs in Milk makes a few notes on my Lady Gaga post which points out LG’s articulation of the monstrousness of fame-as-drive. The strange repetitious motion of the drive (the pleasure of the mouth moving and not the food within it, not the object within it following Zupancic) describes the function of fame and yet […]
Filed under: Freud, Lacan, music, psychoanalysis, Zizek, Zupancic | 2 Comments
Tags: capitalism, fame, lady gaga, monsters, the fame
