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Monthly Archives: August 2009
“And for the first time they begin to feel real ‘reality.’”
The words ‘down’ and ‘up’, according to Fuller, are awkward in that they refer to a planar concept of direction inconsistent with human experience. The words ‘in’ and ‘out’ should be used instead, he argued, because they better describe an … Continue reading
Posted in experimental strategies, neuroscience, politics, utopian science
Tagged Buckminster Fuller, Churchland, eliminativism, ideology, politics, science
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Bricoblog – Experiments in Cultural Pastiche
Hong Hao, My Things No. 2, 2001 My friend Abe Adams, my girlfriend Madeline Carlock, and I have started a new weblog that readers might be interested in: Bricoblog. It’s a collection of strange and curious fragments found around the … Continue reading
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Impatient Messianism
Messianic politics is often derided for its passivity, resignation, and ineffectuality. Yet these are not inherent vices, which I’ll attempt to demonstrate here by defending a very different sense of messianism. God’s Waiting Room Messianism is a matter of redemption. … Continue reading
Posted in eventalism, futurology, hauntology, historical materialism, non-phi, para-ontology, political theology, politics, utopian science
Tagged abandon, Agamben, ancestrality, Benjamin, Brassier, class struggle, communism, decay, Derrida, example, experimentality, exposure, Marx, messianism, nihilism, onto-anthropology, Paul, politics, prefigurative praxis, redemption, ruin, threshold, utopiation, Zizek
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The Fantasy of a Complete Science
Malcolm Gladwell, responding to criticism of Duncan Watts: In the end, though, I suppose that I feel the same ways about his insights as I do about Steve Levitt’s disagreements with me over the causes of the decline in violent … Continue reading
Posted in futurology, non-phi, political theology, psychoanalysis, utopian science
Tagged accelerationism, Alex Williams, capitalism, creaturely life, eliminativism, ex-appropriation, exception, experimentality, exposure, fantasy, Lacan, militant atheism, Negarestani, normative insecurity, normative suture, quasi-cause, radical openness, real abstraction, Santner, science, sexuation, surplus-jouissance, suspense, taphephobia, unconscious
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Does Speculative Realism Exist?
Does Speculative Realism exist? Many would answer in the negative. The (anti)party line today is that the term is one of convenience, marking a shared opposition to ‘correlationism’ and its philosophical avatars. Yet the commonalities end there, or so we … Continue reading
Posted in experimental strategies, futurology, neuroscience, non-phi, speculative realism
Tagged abstract machine, anthropic impasse, artificiality, Brassier, Decision, distributed cognition, ex-appropriation, experimentality, Grant, Harman, in-and-not-itself, manifest futurity, Meillassoux, normative insecurity, normative suture, onto-anthropology, Pepperell, real abstraction, speculative realism
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Utopian Schemes: King Gillette and Frederick Engels
Man Coporate. He absorbs, enfolds, encompasses, and makes the world his own. He will do more; he will penetrate the confines of space, and make it deliver up its secrets and power, for Mind, the Child of the great Oversoul … Continue reading
Posted in experimental strategies, futurology, historical materialism, political economics, utopian science
Tagged anthropic impasse, Badiou, capitalism, class struggle, communism, control, corporatism, decay, Engels, Gillette, immanence, proletariat, science, socialism, threshold, utopia, utopiation, xenoeconomics
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Raising the Dead
Yesterday I suggested that the emergence of memetic replication transforms genetics into one species of meme among others. Genes are naturally limited in their replication strategy, in that they depend on the continuity of transmission. In other words, they must … Continue reading
Posted in current affairs, futurology, hauntology
Tagged ancestrality, ecology, Kevin Kelly, machenome, machinic phylum, Michael Pollan, science, technology, Zizek
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“A mind of its own”
Steve Shaviro, brilliant as usual, on Marxism vs Latour’s actor-network theory: I am sympathetic to Latour’s insistence that networked social processes cannot be explained in terms of global categories like “capital,” or “the social” – because these categories themselves are … Continue reading
Posted in historical materialism, neuroscience, political economics, politics
Tagged anthropic impasse, capitalism, Latour, Marx, politics, real abstraction, Shaviro
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Note on Science and Philosophy
I despise the disposition which claims philosophy ought to progressively relinquish its problems, handing them over to science, because you simply can’t solve them via a priori introspection, and so on. Today it would be utterly vulgar to claim pure … Continue reading
Machenome
I must admit, I’m not very convinced by Susan Blackmore’s notion of ‘temes’, third-level replicators as distinct from memes as are the latter are from genes. I think it would be more useful to see the emergence of memetic replicators … Continue reading
