Posts Tagged ‘epistemology’
There are too many ways to address the difference, to try and even partially grapple what the difference really means. In Speculative Realism broadly construed and the related fields generally realism is taken as deflationary and materialism is inflationary. Realism is taken to be more concerned with epistemology whereas materialism is more concerned with doing […]
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Tags: Adrian Johnston, cognitive science, eliminativism, epistemology, hyperobjects, material, realism
Searching for Sadie Plant
Over at the blog for the upcoming nonhuman turn conference Rebekah Sheldon has a post on nonhuman thought entitled “Affect, Epistemology, and the Nonhuman Turn” which is interesting for several reasons. For one, it questions the issue of the status of human thinking in the nonhuman turn especially the assumption that thought is given access […]
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Tags: ccru, epistemology, Grosz, Sadie Plant
Dark Vitalism: Some Notes
The following is an attempt to summarize what exactly Dark Vitalism means as a metaphysical project. In many ways, it seems that quite a bit of philosophy seems lost between overformalization (Badiou) and lack of it (Deleuze). There is either not enough or too much speculative play with the very possibility and stature of the thinker poorly examined. […]
Filed under: Brassier, Deleuze, Iain Hamilton Grant, nature, ontology, Schelling, Speculative Realism, transcendental materialism | 13 Comments
Tags: darkness, epistemology, fields, forces, Iain Hamilton Grant, immanence, nature, Schelling
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
Thought and Nature (some notes)
“It was the age of everlasting night. The sunset of man had long since gone by, and the last few millions who still dwelt on earth in those far future days took refuge in the mighty pyramid of imperishable metal that was the last of all men’s cities and would ere long become his tomb” […]
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Tags: being, epistemology, nihilism, post-apocalypse, William Hope Hodgson, Zapffe
Naught Thought 