Category Archives: para-ontology

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

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

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

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

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

Schizoanalysis 1: Infancy, Ancestrality, and the Non-Signifier

Posted on October 3, 2008 by reidkane

A child is born into language, and is from the outset a speech-being, a speaking thing. The child is not without language, and does not have to be led to language, taught to acquire language, nor does it have already … Continue reading →

Posted in non-phi, para-ontology, political theology, psychoanalysis, schizoanalysis | Tagged Agamben, ancestrality, Brassier, creaturely life, ex-appropriation, exception, foreclosure, Guattari, immemorial, inheritance, Lacan, Laruelle, non-signifier, offspring, operational time, psymbolic, schizoanalysis, schizobject | Leave a comment

Immanence 2: Returning Home

Posted on August 10, 2008 by reidkane

Immanence is what remains in its place, even when what had once occupied that place has departed. It is the remnant of a transcendence. Yet, to be cautious, we must make this relation clear. In a movement of transcendence, that … Continue reading →

Posted in non-phi, para-ontology, planomenology | Tagged as-not, given-without-givenness, immanence, in-and-not-itself, ipseity, Laruelle, ontology, planomenon, surplus-(of-)being, threshold | Leave a comment

Immanence 1: Departing, Remaining, and Abandoned Homes

Posted on August 8, 2008 by reidkane

Immanence: to remain in… Immanence is not and can not be presence, which is simply to be, to be there, to be therein. Im-manence: to remain in, therein, which already refers to contrast with departing, imparting, or parting-with. Immanence remains … Continue reading →

Posted in non-phi, para-ontology | Tagged abandon, example, immanence, in-and-not-itself, ontology, surplus-(of-)being, threshold | 1 Comment

Out Of It

Posted on August 5, 2008 by reidkane

Today, it is commonplace to question identity, to insist upon its problematic and unstable character. And yet, who today has the courage to submit this question to its own test? Who will question the identity of this question, which is … Continue reading →

Posted in non-phi, para-ontology | Tagged Deleuze, given-without-givenness, in-and-not-itself, ipseity, planomenon, surplus-(of-)being, threshold | Leave a comment