Archive for March, 2010
/2/ – Nature-as-becoming is an un-prethinkable becoming contra Deleuze’s image of thought or by any kind of virtuality. Any sense of prethinkability must be replaced by a darkness of onto-epistemlogical indistinction. Unprethinkable nature, in Schelling, comes from a combination of his dark absolute (famous because of Hegel’s black cows comment) and the concept of prius […]
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Tags: nature, naturephilosophie, philosophy of nature
The statement “What is that?” indexes the horror of the weird (or the weirdness of horror) in at least 7 dimensions. /1/ – ‘What’ is the epistemological dimension of horror or the very questioning of the identity of the creature or thing before the thinking entity subject to horror. Whatness assumes possibly belonging to a […]
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Tags: horror, lovecraft, radical outside
/1/ – Nature is the concept for the All, an All which has being as becoming but not a becoming of pure-flux or totalizing immanence. This becoming is interrupted and crystalized at various stages akin to a Schellingnian/Grantian Stufenfolge (what I have also refered to as the cosmological cascade). This process of grounding and ungrounding […]
Filed under: Badiou, Brassier, Deleuze, Iain Hamilton Grant, nature, Schelling, Speculative Realism, transcendental materialism | 2 Comments
Tags: becoming, flux, temporality
Naught Thought 