Posts Tagged ‘dark vitalism’
Ligotti’s triumphantly negative text is a philosophical, ethical, and aesthetic probing into the non-place that humans occupy in an indifferent universe. Ligotti’s touchstones range from Schopenhauer, to Nietzsche, to Zapffe to contemporaries such as David Benatar and Metzinger while also discussing classical, gothic, and weird fiction. Ligotti also touches on less expected topics such as […]
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Tags: bahnsen, dark vitalism, negativity, Nietzsche, pessimism, Schopenhauer, Zapffe
Again to think the cosmological cascade of Dark Vitallism in these terms we start with the following: Real – Immanence – Sense – Transcendence and translate it for the realm of thinking (and to borrow from Zizek: ) unknown unknowns – known unknowns – known knowns – unKnown knowns Previously I designated the following operators: […]
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Tags: dark vitalism, epistemology, gothic materialism, immanence, the Real
Michael ends a post partially in response to my last post that nature isn’t terrifying. Many of my posts here would seem to assert exactly the opposite – that a darkly vitalistic nature is a horrible monstrousity – but this darkness is a darkness for us and not in itself. This was suggested in comments […]
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Tags: cosmicism, dark vitalism, flat ontology, levi bryant, lovecraft, metroid, proximal
Darknesses
The limit or non-limit of darkness is its terrifying feature – if the darkness is expansive and not invasive (oil or plague like, creeping inside organisms) then it is its formalized bound that must be decided which also allows for the possibility of a darkness within darkness. Take the following from Ligotti’s “Flowers of the […]
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Tags: dark vitalism, darkness, vitalism
Dark Vitalism III
Repeatedly I have formulated Dark Vitalism as the description of the cosmological cascade or emergence of varying modes of reality schematized in the following way. Real—Immanence——Sense——Extilligence With matter as the operator between the first and second, life as the operator between the second and third, and pathology/drive as operating between the third and fourth. The […]
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Tags: cosmogony, dark vitalism, Hagglund, lorenz oken, sub-planck, vitalism
In their mostly fascinating text The Collapse of Chaos Jack Cohen and Iain Stewart make a strong case for a nuanced emergentism – arguing that patterns in the universe point to a actually real things stating that patterns are not only ideal constructions. On one level it does seem impossible to reject weak emergentism – […]
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Tags: dark vitalism, Hagglund, Harman, Lee Braver, temporality
Dark Vitalism II
Kvond and Michael at Complete Lies have both written on Dark Vitalism which has become the formal name for half of my (and possibly others’) speculative realist naturephilosophie (the other half being a darkening of Lacan, Henry and Zizek). One point that Kevin makes is that vitalism assumes a living substance and not a particular […]
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Tags: dark vitalism, vitalism
Absolute Oblivion
Marcus Aurelius, 2nd Meditation: “Of human life the time is a point, and the substance is in a flux, and the perception dull, and the composition of the whole body subject to putrefaction, and the soul a whirl, and fortune hard to divine, and fame a thing devoid of judgement. And, to say all in […]
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Tags: dark vitalism, laruelle, vitalism
Zuggtmoy/Juiblex Complex
From Wikipedia: “Zuggtmoy rules the 222nd layer of the Abyss, officially called Shedaklah, although according to her creator Gary Gygax, it is called Mycorji. She shares this layer with Juiblex, the Faceless Lord. Also called the Slime Pits, Shedaklah is a duo-layer: its surface is overran by fungi and plant creatures while its underground corollary […]
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Tags: d and d, dark vitalism, fungus, ooze, slime
Naught Thought 