Posts Tagged ‘Speculative Realism’
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
This post is largely jumping off from a string of comments between Reza Negarestani, Benedict Singleton, and Alex Williams amongst others from several weeks ago. Also Liam Sprod discusses some similar issues here. It is also jumping from from Reza’s two recent lectures in NYC. It started with this quote from Giuseppe Longo: “In this […]
Filed under: Brassier, Harman, Iain Hamilton Grant, nature, ontology, Schelling, Speculative Realism | 1 Comment
Tags: Bertholz, Brassier, Chatelet, German Idealism, Longo, Negarestani, Oresme, reza negarestani, Speculative Realism, Zalamea
Brassier and Grant
From the recent interview which has been making the rounds: “The first problem is that the word ‘speculative’ actually means something quite specific in the context of post-Kantian Idealism: it refers to a type of philosophy (of which Hegel is perhaps the supreme exemplar) that proceeds on the basis of the ‘speculative’ identification of thinking […]
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Tags: Iain Grant, ray brassier, Speculative Realism
The Uneasiness in Nature
Zizek’s Unbehagen In Der Nature addresses current discussions surrounding ecology and nature. Right off the bat however Zizek’s conceptualization of nature is limited – seeming to be nature as it appears to us, nature as we can manipulate it. The anxieity or uneasiness that Zizek discusses seems more to be more about the loss of […]
Filed under: Kant, Lacan, nature, ontology, psychoanalysis, Speculative Realism, Zizek | 4 Comments
Tags: ecology, environment, nature, Speculative Realism, Zizek
The Unnatural Natural
In a recent post Reid writes: “If the difference between nature and artifice is itself artifice, then it seems in vain to probe into uncontaminated nature, which itself exists in its distinction only on behalf of artifice, and as itself artifice.” Reid writes that this does not lead to social constructivism but instead that: “Nature, […]
Filed under: Meillassoux, nature, ontology, politics, Schelling, Speculative Realism | 4 Comments
Tags: ecology, martin hagglund, nature, Speculative Realism
Let us make a decision – cut one half of the vicious fluid from the other – for our purposes slime is an organic substance and is different from waste in that waste is what the organic sheds to shed whereas slime harbors a stronger claim to the core of the organism – it’s functions […]
Filed under: Badiou, Brassier, comic books/graphic novels, Freud, Lacan, marxism, politics, psychoanalysis, Speculative Realism, Zizek | 3 Comments
Tags: hardt, marxism, negri, politics, pollution, ray brassier, slime, Speculative Realism, Zizek
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
Several points in the post are indebted to discussions here and here. Derrida’s notion of language play and the purported death of the transcendental signifier seems to have anchored narratology, as it is understood in cultural studies and many veins of literary studies, in the swamp of post-structuralism. Furthermore, the phenomenological and post-Kantian articulation of […]
Filed under: cognitive science, Copjec, Lacan, psychoanalysis, Speculative Realism, transcendental materialism, Zizek | 12 Comments
Tags: Brassier, cognitive science, Meillassoux, Speculative Realism, transcendental materialism, Zizek
Naught Thought 