Archive for the ‘Badiou’ Category
Art, Aesthetics, and Thought
I am consistently guilty over my lack of knowledge of contemporary art and aesthetics. Particularly in relation to Speculative Realism it seems that artists, curators, and media practitioners of various stripes are far better than philosophers or theorists at addressing art. This seems particularly evident in events such as The Matter of Contradiction (the video […]
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Tags: aesthetics, art, Badiou, contemporary art, Iain Hamilton Grant, reza negarestani, Schelling, unground
There will be spoilers! Besides the shadow of the Aurora shooting as well as the ridiculous comments from Romney’s camp that Bane was somehow riffing on Bain capital (suggesting that the Romney camp is incapable of a two second wikipedia search to note when Bane was created) most of the talk around the Dark Knight […]
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Tags: batman, charlie jane anders, christopher nolan, dark knight rises, mark fisher, OWS
When Facebook’s new Timeline look was announced a few months back a brilliantly funny video lampooned it by taking a clip from Mad Men where Don Draper is doing a presentation on Kodak’s new photograph slide show device. In the episode the Eastman-Kodak execs want to call the device the wheel harping on the fact […]
Filed under: art, Badiou, Deleuze, film, history, trauma | 1 Comment
Tags: 80s movies, don draper, drive, facebook, facebook timeline, mad men, memory-image, new media, nostalgia, time-image, timeline
Reading Simon Critchley’s How to Stop Living and Start Worrying I was (paradoxically?) hopeful that I had a supremely negative text on my hand. The book starts by engaging an issue I discussed here – that philosophy and life, or perhaps more accurately living, have become a mess leading philosophy towards self help and folk […]
Filed under: Badiou, cognitive science, Kant, politics, psychoanalysis | 1 Comment
Tags: ethics, levinas, nihilism, simon critchley
/1/ – Nature is the concept for the All, an All which has being as becoming but not a becoming of pure-flux or totalizing immanence. This becoming is interrupted and crystalized at various stages akin to a Schellingnian/Grantian Stufenfolge (what I have also refered to as the cosmological cascade). This process of grounding and ungrounding […]
Filed under: Badiou, Brassier, Deleuze, Iain Hamilton Grant, nature, Schelling, Speculative Realism, transcendental materialism | 2 Comments
Tags: becoming, flux, temporality
Clarification/Contestation
In response to Graham: It is not that I don’t think Badiou, Lacan, and Zizek are not idealist, or have idealist tendencies at the least, but simply that throwing them into the same lot as self-admitting idealists misses something. SR and TM will pass each other like ships in the night if Hegelianism is thrown into […]
Filed under: Badiou, Harman, Hegel, Iain Hamilton Grant, Speculative Realism, transcendental materialism, Zizek | 4 Comments
Speculative 2010
The new year invites all sorts of retrospective instincts and it’s odd to see that this blog was the Zizek and Badiou show from 2007 to mid 2008 when SR started to seep in. Speculative Heresy was formed in July of 2008 and I shifted to the nature philosophy strain in late 2008 to early 2009. Though […]
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Again to think the cosmological cascade of Dark Vitallism in these terms we start with the following: Real – Immanence – Sense – Transcendence and translate it for the realm of thinking (and to borrow from Zizek: ) unknown unknowns - known unknowns – known knowns – unKnown knowns Previously I designated the following operators: […]
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Tags: dark vitalism, epistemology, gothic materialism, immanence, the Real
The Splendid Rot of Fame
“And fame a thing devoid of judgement…” – Marcus Aurelius “Pop ate my heart [...] like a beautiful monster” – Lady Gaga In one of her Warholesque short films used on her most recent tour, Lady Gaga mentions that after being eviscerated (and the organs consumed) by the monster known as Pop what remains is […]
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Tags: fame, lady gaga, madness, the coming insurrection, the fame, vmas
