Monthly Archives: February 2009

Before “Our” Time

Posted on February 28, 2009 by reidkane

Jonas raises some crucial questions concerning my reading of Meillassoux in my previous post. Now this reading is central to the theory of temporality I’ve been working on, based around a version of ancestrality that departs from Meillassoux’s conception, so … Continue reading →

Posted in eventalism, historical materialism | Tagged ancestrality, anontology, anthropic impasse, Badiou, foreclosure, Harman, in-and-not-itself, inheritance, manifest futurity, Meillassoux | 2 Comments

“It is clear that something terrible is coming.” (UPDATED)

Posted on February 26, 2009 by reidkane

This (via The Row Boat) is a good example of why philosophy needs non-philosophy. Not simply the rude disagreement, but what Peter Van Inwagen identified as the ‘two different styles of philosophy’ that seemingly cannot tolerate each other. “Dennett believes … Continue reading →

Posted in current affairs, non-phi | 2 Comments

Non-Event 2: The Catastrophic Past

Posted on February 18, 2009 by reidkane

There is no disputing that, for Badiou, the Event is a thoroughly subjective category. The Event has no existence apart from being named by its faithful subjects, and from the process by which they explicate the consequences of the Event … Continue reading →

Posted in eventalism, hauntology, historical materialism, non-phi | Tagged advent, ancestrality, Badiou, Benjamin, catastrophe, event, evental recurrence, foreclosure, Meillassoux, non-event, onto-anthropology, retrograde temporality | 14 Comments

Non-Event 1: Counting Time

Posted on February 15, 2009 by reidkane

Michael provides a nice summary of the recent debate concerning Badiou and anthro-ontology (or maybe onto-anthropology, as that which the critique of onto-theology failed to leave behind) that has been brewing between Dominic, Graham and Levi. The debate continues briefly, … Continue reading →

Posted in eventalism, para-ontology, planomenology | Tagged Agamben, anthropic impasse, Badiou, count-as-one, Deleuze, foreclosure, Harman, in-and-not-itself, Kant, non-event, object-oriented philosophy, onto-anthropology, ontology, operational time, static genesis | 3 Comments

The Limits of Realism: Correlationism and the Principle of Sufficient Philosophy

Posted on February 11, 2009 by reidkane

Speculative Realism is synonymous with the rejection of ‘correlationism’, or the Parmenidean Axiom, which claims that thinking and being are irrevocably bound. The formula of correlationism, according to Meillassoux, is that ‘to be’ always means ‘to be for-thought’ or ‘to … Continue reading →

Posted in non-phi | Tagged anthropic impasse, Bryant, foreclosure, Harman, immanence, Laruelle, Meillassoux, object-oriented philosophy, ontology, speculative realism | 24 Comments

Anontology 2: Ontology Without Objects

Posted on February 8, 2009 by reidkane

Readers may be curious why I have couched the concept dark matter, which is an avowedly ontological concept (or rather, a non-ontological or anontological concept), in such blatantly epistemological language – judgment, determinability, the ‘unknown unknown’, et cetera. Am I … Continue reading →

Posted in non-phi, para-ontology, political theology | Tagged anontology, anthropic impasse, Bryant, example, foreclosure, Harman, Laruelle, misuse, object-oriented philosophy, ontology | 8 Comments

Speculative Realism vs. Spectral Realism

Posted on February 8, 2009 by reidkane

Michael over at Complete Lies has a nice post up, relating my discussion of dark matter to both Derrida’s hauntology and to Schelling’s ‘weird realism’. Don’t have much time to comment now, but highlights include his concept of the ‘presence’ … Continue reading →

Posted in hauntology, non-phi | Tagged anontology, dark matter, Derrida, inheritance, Schelling, specter, speculative realism | 7 Comments

Anontology 1: Theory of Dark Matter

Posted on February 6, 2009 by reidkane

Imagine an unspecified object. This ‘object’ image is a variable the value of which we cannot deduce. If we introduce this variable into a series of relations with other specified objects, we can determine that value and hence make definite … Continue reading →

Posted in non-phi, para-ontology, planomenology, political theology | Tagged anontology, anthropic impasse, dark matter, example, exception, foreclosure, object-oriented philosophy, ontology, planomenon | 3 Comments

Proposal

Posted on February 2, 2009 by reidkane

I have written the preliminary version of a ‘Proposal for an Organization of Practicing Schizoanalysts’, so if you are at all interested, check out the page on this site with the same title. That’s all for now.

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