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Misc. Things
A really interesting interview with Iain Hamilton Grant is available at After Nature here. At the end of the interview Grant mentions that he is still working on his next text Grounds and Powers which, I believe was previously referred to as Grounds, Powers, and Time. Grant says that he will be testing some of the material at the […]
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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 […]
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Tags: Brandom, Fichte, Future, Futuristic German Idealism, fwj von schelling, German Idealism, German Philosophy, Hegel, Iain Hamilton Grant, Naturphilosophie, Objective Idealism
Iain Hamilton Grant
Update: Graham responds to my note below here. I did not intend to say that he was saying Grant was Fichtean, that was meant in relation to the previous point about reflection and intuition (bad writing on my part!). I have tried to clarify it below. Something that has been bothering me is that when […]
Filed under: Brassier, cognitive science, Deleuze, Hegel, Iain Hamilton Grant, nature, ontology, Schelling, Speculative Realism, transcendental materialism, Zizek | 17 Comments
Tags: Fichte, fwj von schelling, Iain Hamilton Grant, nature, Naturphilosophie, philosophy of nature, productive nature, Schelling
Short Review: Dead Man Working
Carl Cederstrom and Peter Fleming’s Dead Man Working (Zer0) is an interesting account of living and working in a dead world. It diagnoses several affective elements of the managerial co-option of life. Cederstrom and Fleming argue that life in a society dominated by capitalist realism becomes one in which the divide between life and work […]
Filed under: Deleuze, gender, politics, queer theory, Zizek | 2 Comments
Tags: becoming girl, becoming woman, cederstrom, fire starter, fleming, franco berardi, the shining, Zer0 books
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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Polygraph 22 Out Now Update
Polygraph: 22 Ecology and Ideology is out now. It is available for order on amazon. The issue includes pieces from Zizek, Michael Hardt, Anthony Paul Smith, Timothy Morton and myself among others. The introduction and several pieces are available as pdf at the link above. Looking at the contributions and thinking back on my own, […]
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Tags: duke, ideology, michael hardt, polygraph, timothy morton
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
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 […]
Filed under: Badiou, Brassier, Deleuze, Harman, Hegel, Iain Hamilton Grant, Meillassoux, Speculative Realism, transcendental materialism, Zizek | 3 Comments
