Posts Tagged ‘immanence’
Movement and Thought: A Bestiary
A story at i09 a few days ago was about what’s called the centipede’s dilemma also known as the problem of hyper-reflection. The problem comes from a nursery rhyme written in 1871 in which a centipede, following a questioning toad, thinks too much about how it moves all its legs and then forgets how to […]
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Tags: alain berthoz, analysis paralysis, centipede dilemma, cohen and stewart, immanence, laruelle, non-philosophy, simplexity, transcendence
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. […]
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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
Naught Thought 