The Trajectories of German Idealism (3)

06Feb14

Following from my last two posts (1 and 2) I have argued that German Idealism (and this is a fairly common observation) is a non-substantial monism by which the philosopher is set up as a figure of navigation having absorbed skepticism and the subsequent self-conditioning, to create or synthesize in a way that has global […]

Filed under: Badiou, Brassier, Hegel, Kant, Schelling, Zizek   |  3 Comments
Tags: augmentation, Chatelet, Fichte, Hegel, Iain Hamilton Grant, nature, reza negarestani, Schelling, Seneca

Asymptotic Thinking and Naturphilosophie: Some Thoughts (pt 1)

07Dec12

This post is largely jumping off from a string of comments between Reza Negarestani, Benedict Singleton, and Alex Williams amongst others from several weeks ago. Also Liam Sprod discusses some similar issues here. It is also jumping from from Reza’s two recent lectures in NYC. It started with this quote from Giuseppe Longo: “In this […]

Filed under: Brassier, Harman, Iain Hamilton Grant, nature, ontology, Schelling, Speculative Realism   |  1 Comment
Tags: Bertholz, Brassier, Chatelet, German Idealism, Longo, Negarestani, Oresme, reza negarestani, Speculative Realism, Zalamea