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Reply to Levi on Marx and Normativity

Posted on August 29, 2010 by reidkane

Levi posted a series of responses (1, 2, 3) to my post on Marx and Normativity, to which I owe a long overdue reply. I regret that it has come long after the discussion has grown cold, but finishing my … Continue reading →

Posted in historical materialism | Tagged Bryant, ethics, Kant, Marx, Normativity, politics | 1 Comment

Normativity, Ideology, and Historicity in the Work of Karl Marx

Posted on June 25, 2010 by reidkane

I posted a comment on Levi Bryant’s recent post responding to some criticisms offered by Pete Wolfendale. You can read the exchange there if you’re interested, but I wanted to focus on something Levi said there, and on a comment … Continue reading →

Posted in historical materialism, political economics, politics | Tagged Brandom, Bryant, communism, historicity, ideology, Marx, Normativity, proletariat, Rationality, science, Wolfendale | 11 Comments

The Future of Planomenology

Posted on August 3, 2009 by reidkane

From the Voynich Manuscript. [link] Regular readers know that this blog often reads like a book missing the first hundred pages. The average post here is written in response to at least two or three posts over at other sites; … Continue reading →

Posted in experimental strategies, neuroscience, planomenology, speculative realism | Tagged Alex Williams, blogging, Brassier, Bryant, Churchland, distributed cognition, epistemic engines, Grant, Harman, media, Meillassoux, Negarestani, net neutrality, neuroscience, panpsychism, Pepperell, planomenon, speculative realism | 2 Comments

Artificial Realism

Posted on July 23, 2009 by reidkane

Ben Noys on the agency problem in Marxism. To briefly recapitulate, there is a debate as to the relation between labor and the standpoint of critique: is labor-power a force external to capital rooted in ‘human nature’ and on the … Continue reading →

Posted in historical materialism, planomenology | Tagged abandon, artificiality, Brassier, Bryant, capitalism, Churchland, class struggle, communism, decay, Dennett, eliminativism, ex-appropriation, Marx, Negarestani, Noys, Pepperell, proletariat, ruin, salvagepunk, utopiation, xenoeconomics, Zizek | 9 Comments

Non-Philosophy 1: The Use of Philosophy

Posted on June 14, 2009 by reidkane

In what follows, I hope to offer a sketch of non-philosophy that will introduce some of its key concepts. Non-philosophy relies upon a highly technical, abstract, and counter-intuitive vocabulary, whose terms are almost always defined in relation to one another. … Continue reading →

Posted in non-phi | Tagged Bryant, cloning, DITLI, force (of) thought, foreclosure, Harman, Laruelle, misuse, object-oriented philosophy, One-in-One, speculative realism, unilateral duality, utopiation, vision-in-One | 34 Comments

Anthrophobia

Posted on June 11, 2009 by reidkane

Fear of Flesh “The Human cannot slough off its skin, the physicist cannot find their Grand Unified Theory (or absolute univocal ontological component).” – Alex Williams According to Alex we are negentropic tensors poised between absolute annihilation on one side … Continue reading →

Posted in eventalism, non-phi | Tagged Alex Williams, anontology, anthrophobia, Badiou, Bryant, ex-appropriation, foreclosure, Harman, immanence, in-and-not-itself, object-oriented philosophy, ontology, reduction, speculative realism | 13 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

A World-Without-World

Posted on January 25, 2009 by reidkane

Levi, in a reply to my last post, raises some questions about non-philosophy: I am unclear as to why being or the real must be understood as something completely independent of the human. … What perplexes me is why a … Continue reading →

Posted in non-phi | Tagged Bryant, ex-appropriation, foreclosure, immanence, Laruelle, object-oriented philosophy, ontology, speculative realism | 6 Comments

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