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Does Speculative Realism Exist?

Posted on August 10, 2009 by reidkane

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 | 7 Comments

Utopian Schemes: King Gillette and Frederick Engels

Posted on August 7, 2009 by reidkane

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 | 6 Comments

“A mind of its own”

Posted on August 5, 2009 by reidkane

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 | 17 Comments

The Great Deceiver

Posted on July 21, 2009 by reidkane

I take it that you, upon finding yourself in this small corner of cyberspace, feel comfortable assuring yourself that you decided to do so. Just as I, at this very moment, feel perfectly content in my capacity to extend the … Continue reading →

Posted in non-phi, planomenology | Tagged abandon, abstract machine, anthropic impasse, capitalism, control, eliminativism, ethics, myth, nihilism, normative insecurity, philosophy, ruins, science | 1 Comment

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

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 | 23 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

The Real as Hostage (part 2): “Should Humanity Be Saved? And How?”

Posted on January 30, 2009 by reidkane

Philosophical Vanity. The Enslaving Mirror. Without further ado, allow me to announce my contention. It is a contention with object-oriented philosophy, speculative realism or materialism, but more generally, with philosophy taken as a whole, or taken wholly with itself.

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