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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 →

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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

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

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 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

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 →

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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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