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Affect vs Passion vs Emotion
In preparation for my comps I am marching slowly through the history of western thought and I am currently reading Spinoza’s Ethics. While I’ve read bits and pieces here and there I have never gone through the whole text which I’ve been meaning to do for some time given his discussion of nature and his […]
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Tags: affect, affectus, emotion, joy, negative affect, passion, 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
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
As I leaving the Public School Lecture in NYC I gave on Geophilosophy and Horror I shared part of my subway ride with one of the audience members. As our conversation was winding down he asked me where I was going and so I asked him the same. He said he was off to Wallstreet […]
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Tags: economic horror, occupy wallstreet, thomas ligotti, zombie capitalism, zombies
Schelling on the University
Schelling’s text On University Studies (or on the Method of Academic Study) is a peculiar text. It’s a series of lectures notes that Schelling gave at the age of 27 on the concept of studying at university and studying philosophy in particular. At the moment I’m reading this text in a course on German Idealism […]
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In the cyber fog of the Hyperstition archives Nick Land has a short entry on transcendental miserablism (no doubt to be expanded in Fanged Noumena) which he argues is an impregnable form of negation which places all negation in one entity – his example being capitalism. Land argues that the miserablist collapses all change (or […]
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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
Bennett’s Vibrant Matter
I’ve been derelict in discussing Vibrant Matter. Several posts have been made about the first few chapters many of which are linked here. The most recent posts are on Critical Animal. I want to briefly present some thoughts on the first few chapters before focusing on the vitalism chapters next week. Adrian has a very […]
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Vibrant Matter Reading Group
As Peter, Anthony, and Adrian have already posted there will be a cross-blog reading group of Jane Bennett’s Vibrant Matter. The reading schedule will be as follows: May 23-29 Host blog: Philosophy in a Time of Error (Peter Gratton) Under discussion: Preface & Chapter 1, “The Force of Things” (and overview/interview). May 30-June 5 Host […]
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Tags: jane bennett, vitalism
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
