Archive for the ‘Harman’ Category
Vibrant Matter – Chapter 5
In chapter five of Vibrant Matter Bennett turns her attention to vitalism in order to flesh out her project of a vital materialism. As with the previous chapter, Bennett notes the importance of annhilating distinctions. What kinds of distinctions are being dissolved and in what fashion is a problem obscured in the term materialism. As […]
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Tags: jane bennett, materialism, Schelling, vibrant matter, vitalism, volta
Dark Vitalism 3/10 – Vitalism
/3/ – Vitalism, instead of being taken as a singular life-force which animates or enlivens all things, is instead taken to be a collection of forces compromising a larger prohairesis which disintegrates what we take to be the solidity of being both in creation, destruction, and transformation. As a result the organic/inorganic distinction is not an ontological distinction. So near so […]
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Tags: jane bennett, vibrant matter
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
My goal in the next few weeks is to work through the ten points of the previous post and dedicate an entry to each in an attempt to flesh out (and really explain to myself) the metaphysical Frankenstein’s monster of Dark Vitalism. One question I have is regarding the four terms Real-Immanence-Sense-Transcendence. The last term troubles me and […]
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Tags: Adrian Johnston, Paul Ennis
Errata
Here are a few very interesting posts which I noticed far too long after the fact. Himanshu Damle’s excellent post on Nature between Grant. Two posts at Avoiding the void on Nature. In more recent posts… Levi has two very interesting posts on his system versus Graham’s as well as some comments on potentiality and powers […]
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More Speculations
Both Graham and Levi respond to my previous post. Levi makes the case that OOO/OOP is doing well because it has produced, and will continue to produce, useful research projects. It’s of course no surprise that a philosophy of objects has useful pragmatic output but this fact is still, as I said before, connected to […]
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Tags: manuel delanda, ooo
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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Brassier and Grant
From the recent interview which has been making the rounds: “The first problem is that the word ‘speculative’ actually means something quite specific in the context of post-Kantian Idealism: it refers to a type of philosophy (of which Hegel is perhaps the supreme exemplar) that proceeds on the basis of the ‘speculative’ identification of thinking […]
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Tags: Iain Grant, ray brassier, Speculative Realism
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 […]
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Tags: gabriel catren, levi bryant, ooo, oop, quantum mechanics, vitalism
Slime, Time, Space
The alchemist term azoth stretches from the beginning to the end in its etymological roots and unites cohesion and corrosion. This term may have inspired Lovecraft’s gibbering monstrosity known as Azathoth. This blind idiot god, I argue, is somewhere between or perhaps an interpenetration of Oken’s Zero and Plotinus’ One.
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Tags: azathoth, lovecraft, slime
