Posts Tagged ‘Iain Hamilton Grant’
Holes, Caves, Lines, and Cameras
Jalal Toufic’s recent piece in issue #55 of e-flux titled “A Hitherto Unrecognized Apocalyptic Photographer: The Universe” starts with an interesting problem: is it the case that photographer deceptively freezes the motion of the world while art, at its best, captures the uncapturability of motion as Rodin argues? Toufic writes against Rodin’s assertion about time […]
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Tags: Bergson, black holes, Contagious Architecture, event horizon, hubble deep field, Iain Hamilton Grant, incredible machines, inexistence, Parisi, Physics
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
Schelling’s Spaces
[The following is a post based on my paper for the German Idealism Workshop (which was just rejected…c’est la vie!) and in many ways foregrounds issues that Iain Grant discussed this past week in Pittsburgh. I will follow this post with a discussion of Grant’s lectures] There is a fairly well known saying that the […]
Filed under: Hegel, Iain Hamilton Grant, Kant, Meillassoux, nature, ontology, Schelling, Speculative Realism, Zizek | 6 Comments
Tags: Iain Hamilton Grant, nature, Naturphilosophie, Physics, Schelling, speculative physics
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 […]
Filed under: cognitive science, Hegel, history, Iain Hamilton Grant, Kant, nature, ontology, politics, Schelling, Speculative Realism, transcendental materialism, Zizek | 3 Comments
Tags: Brandom, Fichte, Future, Futuristic German Idealism, fwj von schelling, German Idealism, German Philosophy, Hegel, Iain Hamilton Grant, Naturphilosophie, Objective Idealism
Art, Aesthetics, and Thought
I am consistently guilty over my lack of knowledge of contemporary art and aesthetics. Particularly in relation to Speculative Realism it seems that artists, curators, and media practitioners of various stripes are far better than philosophers or theorists at addressing art. This seems particularly evident in events such as The Matter of Contradiction (the video […]
Filed under: art, Badiou, Deleuze, Iain Hamilton Grant, politics, Ranciere, Schelling, Speculative Realism | 2 Comments
Tags: aesthetics, art, Badiou, contemporary art, Iain Hamilton Grant, reza negarestani, Schelling, unground
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
I’ve made some comments on the reception of Deleuze in the past which seemed to trouble some. In so many of the developments of SR and related movements (though OOO is openly critical of Deleuze on the whole) Deleuze is a central figure (implicitly or explicitly) usually cited alongside Guattari, Whitehead, Spinoza, James, and Stengers. […]
Filed under: Butler, Deleuze, feminism, Iain Hamilton Grant, Massumi, nature, ontology, queer theory, Speculative Realism, transcendental materialism | 3 Comments
Tags: ccru, cyberfeminism, cyborg, haraway, Iain Hamilton Grant, luciana parisi, nick land
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
Naught Thought 