Archive for the ‘ontology’ Category
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
Recently I have been thinking about the collapse of metaphysics and ontology. It seems they were once clearly distinct but have become almost interchangeable. One the one hand metaphysics is the broader school of issues historically deemed to be beyond the physical which eventually became (due to the progression of modern science) that which is […]
Filed under: Harman, Iain Hamilton Grant, Meillassoux, nature, ontology, Schelling, Speculative Realism | Leave a Comment
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
Ravaisson/Negarestani/Schelling
Ravaisson begins to close Of Habit writing: “Between the ultimate depths of nature and the highest point of reflective freedom, there are an infinite number of degrees of measuring the development of one and the same power, and as one rises through them, extension – the condition of knowledge – increases with the distinction and […]
Filed under: Deleuze, Hegel, Iain Hamilton Grant, nature, ontology, Schelling, Speculative Realism, transcendental materialism, Uncategorized | 3 Comments
Tags: Leper Creativity, ravaisson, reza negarestani
The proofs for Slime Dynamics have been approved and I’m quite happy to see this project complete. Looking over the draft and working on my talk for the Nonhuman turn conference has gotten me thinking again about Dark Vitalism. Previously I lamented the fact that I once thought Dark Vitalism could be a name for […]
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Tags: Negarestani, ravaisson, Slime Dynamics, Zero books
Transcendental Dynamism breaks and re-integrates Real-Materiality-Sense-Intelligence with transcendence and immanence modalities and trans-modalities between the different regimes of being. Immanence, as a mode of philosophy, explores thought and materiality on one plane, whereas transcendence admits the artificiality of separating thought and being. In order to understand the various uses of transcendence and immanence – I […]
Filed under: Brassier, Deleuze, nature, ontology | 2 Comments
Tags: deleuze, francois laruelle, transcendental dynamism
I was quite unable to keep up with the exchanges between Jussi Parika, the commenters on his blog, and the OOO folks (Harman, Bogost, Bryant, Paul Caplan, and Robert Jackson). It’s always hard in such situations to separate the critique from the shit talking as argumentative strategy falls right in the middle. Part of the […]
Filed under: Brassier, Harman, ontology, Speculative Realism | 9 Comments
Tags: Ian Bogost, levi bryant, ooo
I’ve made some comments on the reception of Deleuze in the past which seemed to trouble some. In so many of the developments of SR and related movements (though OOO is openly critical of Deleuze on the whole) Deleuze is a central figure (implicitly or explicitly) usually cited alongside Guattari, Whitehead, Spinoza, James, and Stengers. […]
Filed under: Butler, Deleuze, feminism, Iain Hamilton Grant, Massumi, nature, ontology, queer theory, Speculative Realism, transcendental materialism | 3 Comments
Tags: ccru, cyberfeminism, cyborg, haraway, Iain Hamilton Grant, luciana parisi, nick land
CALL FOR PAPERS for the FIRST ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SCHELLING SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA (SSNA) AUGUST 31 – SEPTEMBER 1, 2012 SEATTLE UNIVERSITY (SEATTLE, WASHINGTON USA) The SSNA is open to anyone who conducts research on Schelling and Schellingian philosophy in the English language. The SSNA mission is to (1) further research in English, […]
Filed under: Iain Hamilton Grant, nature, ontology, religion, Schelling | Leave a Comment
Tags: cfp, conference, Jason Wirth, Schelling, Sean McGrath
