Posts Tagged ‘Philosophy’
Maurizo Ferraris’ recent short text Positive Realism (Zer0, Dec 2015) attempts to define what his form of New Realism is against, and what it builds off of, engaging a wide range of philosophical positions (metaphysical realism, internal realism, scientific realism, Markus Gabriel’s New Realism, Harman’s ontology and others) while making a general claim to a philosophy […]
Filed under: art, Brassier, cognitive science, Harman, Hegel, Kant, ontology, Speculative Realism | 1 Comment
Tags: Markus Gabriel, Maurizo Ferraris, new realism, Philosophy, ray brassier, Speculative Realism, Tristan Garcia
Recent and Forthcoming Events
Things having calmed a bit I will try and do more regular postings here. The two lectures for the Congress of Pessimism seemed to well…I discussed reason as a kind of wandering insignificance – where the reasoner is a wayward figure stuck between the desert of reason and the ocean of nature. I hope to […]
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Tags: aesthetics, finitude, geophilosophy, geopolitics, nature, nick land, Philosophy, reza negarestani, science fiction
Jon Cogburn has posted a nice things to look for kind of post (but more thoughtful than that really) in regards to continental philosophy. The texts that he links to confirm some broader issues that I (and others) have been circling around recently: 1 – The legacy of Hegel as something more than a theory […]
Filed under: Badiou, Brassier, cognitive science, Deleuze, Iain Hamilton Grant, Kant, Meillassoux, Schelling, Speculative Realism | Closed
Tags: 2014, anthropocene, deleuze, feminisms, geology, geophilosophy, Markus Gabriel, Philosophy, plato, Schelling, Tristan Garcia
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
The doom that came to Middlesex
Having just returned home from work I am late to hear that Middlesex has decided to terminate every component of its philosophy program. Posts abound with Nina already cataloging the response here. It is hard to believe that such a program could be so carelessly obliterated at the hands of academic bean counters but alas…capitalist […]
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Tags: middlesex, Philosophy, philosophy departments, save middlesex
In a recent episode of Lost entitled “The Constant”, Desmond, a character who up until the previous episode had believed to be clairvoyant, begins jumping back and forth through time – his visions acknowledged as incomplete memories. Desmond eventually learns that he has become ‘unstuck’ in time – his consciousness begins to swing back and […]
Filed under: Badiou, cognitive science, Kant, ontology, psychoanalysis, television, transcendental materialism, Zizek | Leave a Comment
Tags: Free Will, Lost, Love, Philosophy
Naught Thought 