Archive for the ‘transcendental materialism’ Category
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. […]
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Tags: ccru, cyberfeminism, cyborg, haraway, Iain Hamilton Grant, luciana parisi, nick land
Futures/Promotions/Plans
Again I’ve fallen behind on posting mostly due to my relocation to Canada and starting my PhD program in Theory and Criticism at the University of Western Ontario. This upcoming week I will be responding to JJ Cohen at the second Speculative Medievalisms event and on the following day (Saturday the 17th) I’ll be presenting […]
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Quite some time ago when I first started to write about Speculative Realism and ‘dark’ aesthetics Alex Williams made a comment which I should of taken as a strong suggestion. The comment was on this post from over two years ago where I tried to outline what a Speculative Realist Naturphilosophie would be and that […]
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Tags: transcendental dynamism
Iain Grant’s transcendental materialism (though I am not even sure if he would still want to use this to describe his own project) is partially in response to Schelling’s critique of Kant, specifically in regards to the transcendental. Instead of the transcendental focusing on the Kantian categories, the transcendental is a kind of power, or […]
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Weirdos: A Response
Over at Hypertiling Fabio has an interesting post about the weird, China Mieville, and the relationship of the weird to speculative philosophy. In general, the post is interesting and provides some interesting bits of clarification but, at times, the language is unnecessarily mean spirited. It would be an exacerbation of ego to assume that it […]
Filed under: Kant, ligotti, Schelling, transcendental materialism | 1 Comment
Tags: hellboy, weird fiction
If Zizek is unwilling (or simply uninterested) in the non-ideal (except as pre-ideal, as the stuff of representation) than the transcendental becomes a hollow jump, an act that is only that, a exercise of the subject – pre-subjectivizing but in the subject. It is no wonder why Deleuze wars against Hegel since the tyrannical concept […]
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There are at least two strains of transcendental materialism: 1-Psychoanalytic/Zizekian 2-Deleuzo-Guattarian/Land 3-And then the question becomes whether Iain Hamilton Grant is a different strain altogether or not 1-The first strain has been laid out by Adrian Johnston – which centers on a theory of the material for the more than material, the subject as escaping […]
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Repreive/Report/Research/Ramble
Having no talks for several months now blogging should pick up again…the Return of Metaphysics conference was the highlight of the last few months. The talks were very strong across the board and Speculative Realism (either directly or indirectly) was a constant (except for the Heidegger panel) though mostly with Meillassoux as a target for […]
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Several interesting conferences coming up: 1 – The schedule for the next Dundee conference on 21st century idealisms is here. 2-The schedule for the Cyclonopedia event in NYC on March 11th is here. 3-The first issue of continent (an onlline journal started by some fellow EGSers) is available online here. I have a short piece […]
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