Category Archives: hauntology

Nudity in Song

Posted on November 28, 2009 by reidkane

The way one feels could be likened to an opening or a slamming or a breathing hard all of them, all of them have seen inside my mouth have grown and flown south one day I’ll be my own Leadbelly … Continue reading →

Posted in experimental strategies, hauntology, para-ontology, utopian science | Tagged abandon, Badiou, being-no-one, communism, exposure, music, Nietzsche, nihilism, nudity | 10 Comments

Impatient Messianism

Posted on August 25, 2009 by reidkane

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 | 10 Comments

Raising the Dead

Posted on August 6, 2009 by reidkane

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 | 2 Comments

Iranian Variations, Marxist Repetitions UPDATED AGAIN

Posted on June 17, 2009 by reidkane

[Images from Boston.com, via Reza] UPDATE: Anyone reading this post should supplement it, at the very least, with Reza’s brief comment’s below, and with this great piece by Ali Alizadeh’s piece here. 2nd UPDATE: See also these great pieces by … Continue reading →

Posted in current affairs, eventalism, hauntology, historical materialism, para-ontology, political theology, politics, schizoanalysis, the real world | Tagged Agamben, ancestrality, Benjamin, capitalism, class struggle, communism, Deleuze, event, ex-appropriation, exception, Foucault, Guattari, inheritance, Iran election 09, Marx, misuse, non-capital, politics, proletariat, redemption, utopiation, xenoeconomics, Zizek | 32 Comments

Badiou and the Owl

Posted on June 9, 2009 by reidkane

“When philosophy paints its grey in grey then has a shape of life grown old. By philosophy’s grey in grey it cannot be rejuvenated but only understood. The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of dusk.” … Continue reading →

Posted in eventalism, hauntology, non-phi, schizoanalysis | Tagged abandon, Alex Williams, artifacticity, Badiou, Benjamin, Deleuze, event, ex-appropriation, foreclosure, Guattari, inheritance, misuse, Plato, schizoanalysis, Zizek | 2 Comments

Econontology 2: Zombie Banks, Undead Labor, and Dark Vitalism

Posted on March 4, 2009 by reidkane

If there is a tangible threat posed to our economic existence, it is that of the Zombie Banks, the massive credit institutions whose balance sheets are so disproportionately weighted with ‘toxic assets’ or dead capital that they essentially function as … Continue reading →

Posted in hauntology, historical materialism, politics, the real world, Uncategorized | Tagged ancestrality, capitalism, creaturely life, dark vitalism, economy, econontology, ex-appropriation, inheritance, non-capital, surplus-(of-)being, undead labor, xenoeconomics, zombie banks | 3 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

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

Paper Abstract – Strange Times: Aliens, Ghosts, and the Non-Event

Posted on November 22, 2008 by reidkane

This is my paper proposal for the CFP here, for the conference Affirmation, Negation, and the Politics of Late-Capitalism. Any questions or comments on the project are welcome.

Posted in eventalism, hauntology, politics, schizoanalysis, the real world | Tagged accelerationism, Agamben, ancestrality, Badiou, Benjamin, capitalism, Derrida, economy, event, historicity, Marx, Meillassoux, non-capital, non-event, politics, proletariat, retrograde temporality, specter, speculative realism, xenoeconomics | Leave a comment

Notes for the Debate: Alien vs. Specter

Posted on October 27, 2008 by reidkane

I want to briefly sketch out how hauntology, or the particular revision of it I have been working on, not only relates to but is ultimately indispensable for a xenoeconomic approach to capitalism. I am still finishing a more detailed … Continue reading →

Posted in hauntology, non-phi, politics, psychoanalysis, schizoanalysis | Tagged Agamben, ancestrality, Benjamin, Brassier, capitalism, class struggle, communism, Derrida, economy, foreclosure, inexistence, inheritance, Lacan, Laruelle, Marx, Meillassoux, non-capital, politics, proletariat, psymbolic, redemption, schizoanalysis, social bond, specter, speculative realism, undead labor, xenoeconomics | 2 Comments