Archive for the ‘Kant’ Category
At the Speculative Aesthetics conference back in March, Ray Brassier connected ‘the new accelerationism’ (that which functions in a epistemological-political register rather than, in Land, an ontological-political register) to what he dubbed a Prometheanism. This Prometheanism, following in the wake of Lenin and the Cosmists, puts forth the axiom that revolutionary politics requires rigorous post-capitalist […]
Filed under: art, Brassier, Hegel, Iain Hamilton Grant, Kant, nature, politics, Schelling, Speculative Realism | 1 Comment
Tags: accelerate, accelerationism, alex williams, benedict singleton, ccru, German Idealism, nick srnicek, pete wolfendale
Now on to the dissertation…
PAF was more than an amazing experience as it forced me to really push myself mentally in numerous ways (as only 15+ hours of presenting your thinking in front of a diverse room of intelligent people can do). This was particularly useful as I am going into my focused dissertation writing stage and I am struggling […]
Filed under: Deleuze, Kant, Speculative Realism, Schelling, Iain Hamilton Grant | Leave a Comment
Futures of Schelling Conference
I am coordinating the next annual North American Schelling Society Conference which will take place at my home base of Western University. The theme of the conference is Futures of Schelling. The CFP is below. Also, if you are a graduate student interested in attending and want to do things on the cheap please let […]
Filed under: cognitive science, Hegel, history, Iain Hamilton Grant, Kant, nature, ontology, politics, Schelling, Speculative Realism, transcendental materialism, Zizek | 3 Comments
Tags: Brandom, Fichte, Future, Futuristic German Idealism, fwj von schelling, German Idealism, German Philosophy, Hegel, Iain Hamilton Grant, Naturphilosophie, Objective Idealism
There are too many ways to address the difference, to try and even partially grapple what the difference really means. In Speculative Realism broadly construed and the related fields generally realism is taken as deflationary and materialism is inflationary. Realism is taken to be more concerned with epistemology whereas materialism is more concerned with doing […]
Filed under: cognitive science, Harman, Hegel, history, Kant, nature, ontology, psychoanalysis, Schelling, Speculative Realism, transcendental materialism | Leave a Comment
Tags: Adrian Johnston, cognitive science, eliminativism, epistemology, hyperobjects, material, realism
My thoughts on Sellars have benefited hugely from Brassier’s recent talks (here in Zagreb, here in Bonn) as well as Pete Wolfendale’s comments, Dan Sacilotto’s comments, and their comments on each other. What I’m interested in doing, and what a third of dissertation will attempt to do, is read Schelling as a realist through philosophies […]
Filed under: Brassier, Deleuze, Hegel, history, Iain Hamilton Grant, Kant, nature, Schelling, transcendental materialism | 1 Comment
I’ve started reading Hasana Sharp’s Spinoza and the Politics of Renaturalization. I have a feeling already that this is going to be one of those ‘so near, nor far!’ kind of reading experiences but it is a bit too early to tell. Looking at the abstract for Levi Bryant’s upcoming talk (which is also about […]
Filed under: Brassier, Deleuze, Kant, nature, ontology, Schelling | 1 Comment
Tags: deleuze, Hasana Sharp, Renaturalization, Schelling, spinoza
I’ve made several recent posts regarding possible connections between the prehistory of Speculative Realism (in particular the work of the CCRU as technologically focused philosophy, cyber-feminism, and weird Deleuzian experimentalism) and rising movements and recent turns: affective turn, the posthuman, the nonhuman, and so on. There is an intertwined interest in moving past the […]
Filed under: cognitive science, Deleuze, feminism, Kant, Massumi, nature, ontology, politics, Speculative Realism, transcendental materialism | Leave a Comment
Tags: ccru, inhuman, inhumanism, nick land, nonhuman, nonhuman turn, Sadie Plant
Some Notes on Bataille
I am currently in the middle of writing a final paper for a course on death and desire on Bataille and economies of death or on the scalability of Bataille’s concepts of expenditure and sacrifice as they apply or don’t apply to death and extinction. Basically, I’m wondering if the relation between death and extinction […]
Filed under: Brassier, Deleuze, Freud, Heidegger, Kant | 1 Comment
Tags: bataille, death, expenditure, georges bataille, sacrifice
