Posts Tagged ‘non-philosophy’
Philosophy…the very world bears a halo so tarnished with the fingernail scratches of a desperate hold that its meaning is as dim as it is persistent. Philosophy begins in wonder, in disappointment, with anything except instantaneous experience (according to Laruelle). So say the philosophers. Though few comments have seemed as honest as Lyotard’s – that […]
Filed under: Badiou, Brassier, Deleuze, ontology, transcendental materialism, Zizek | 4 Comments
Tags: francois laruelle, laruelle, non-philosophy, Philosophy
Movement and Thought: A Bestiary
27Apr13
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 […]
Filed under: Brassier, cognitive science, Iain Hamilton Grant, nature, Schelling, Speculative Realism | 2 Comments
Tags: alain berthoz, analysis paralysis, centipede dilemma, cohen and stewart, immanence, laruelle, non-philosophy, simplexity, transcendence
Naught Thought 