Posts Tagged ‘quentin meillassoux’
It would be hard not to notice the numerous rapid descents in the Dark Knight which, while uncommon for filmic representations of superheroes, seem particularly frantic and well done. I would argue that this is indicative of the film’s content as well as its form: the Dark Knight is not so much the recognizable ‘descent […]
Filed under: Badiou, comic books/graphic novels, film, Lacan, Meillassoux, psychoanalysis, Zizek | 3 Comments
Tags: Badiou, batman, ethics, quentin meillassoux, the dark knight, the joker, Zizek
Speculative Heresy
Nick from The Accursed Share, Taylor from Fractal Ontology and myself have begun a collective blog which hopes to be a nexus for Speculative Realism, Non-Philosophy and Transcendental Materialism. It is called Speculative Heresy. Other authors have already signed on and translations and resources are also available.
Filed under: Brassier, Meillassoux, Speculative Realism, transcendental materialism | Leave a Comment
Tags: francois laruelle, quentin meillassoux, transcendental materialism
A fairly recent study to verify the existence of non-conscious effects in the brain entailed a subject being flashed with a fearful face so quickly (33 milliseconds) that it could not be consciously registered. Yet, as caught on a high res MRI, the face had an observable effect – causing anxiety in the test subject. […]
Filed under: Brassier, cognitive science, film, literature, Meillassoux, psychoanalysis, Speculative Realism, trauma | 1 Comment
Tags: collapse iv, concept horror, horror movie, lovecraft, quentin meillassoux, ray brassier, slasher, the thing
Speculative Realism is first and foremost a philosophy of depth: For Brassier it is the hopeless depth of nihil, for Harman the demanding depth of objects, for Grant the seething depth of nature and for Meillassoux it is the depth of Hyper-chaos. In this sense the speculative realist has a downward momentum into the abyss […]
Filed under: Badiou, Brassier, Massumi, Meillassoux, ontology, politics, Speculative Realism | 15 Comments
Tags: Althusser, Graham Harman, quentin meillassoux, ray brassier, Speculative Realism, Zielinski
Non-linearity and Momentum
Following Nick of The Accursed Share’s brilliant remarks on Brassier’s reading of Deleuze, I wish to return to the following passage from Nihil Unbound: “In Zizek’s Hegelianism, the subject achieves its autonomy by retroactively positing/reintegrating its own contingent material determinants: freedom is the subjective necessity of objective contingency. But by dissolving the idea of a […]
Filed under: Brassier, Deleuze, Freud, Lacan, Meillassoux, ontology, psychoanalysis, Speculative Realism, transcendental materialism, Zizek | 11 Comments
Tags: continental philosophy, Free Will, quantum physics, quentin meillassoux, ray brassier, Speculative Realism, transcendental materialism, Zizek
Naught Thought 