Tag Archives: Meillassoux

“From the standpoint of catastrophe”

Posted on October 26, 2009 by reidkane

I’ll be back to regular posting soon, including the Marx posts I’ve promised, but I’ve been very busy lately. In the mean time… Nina Power posts some thoughts on the privileging of ontology in philosophy to the detriment of the … Continue reading →

Posted in historical materialism, politics, speculative realism, utopian science | Tagged abandon, Agamben, contingency, facticity, Heidegger, in-and-not-itself, Meillassoux, nihilism, ontology, politics, resoluteness, speculative realism, utopiation | 12 Comments

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

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

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

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

Speculative Unrealism

Posted on January 7, 2009 by reidkane

The basic commonality that allows us to group such disparate lines of thought under the name of Speculative Realism is the assertion that, in short, there in fact exists something apart from our subjective access to its existence. As Graham … Continue reading →

Posted in non-phi, planomenology | Tagged ancestrality, anthropic impasse, foreclosure, Harman, inexistence, inheritance, manifest futurity, Meillassoux, object-oriented philosophy, ontology, speculative realism, subject-object | Leave a comment

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

Not Not Philosophy

Posted on August 7, 2008 by reidkane

The growing enthusiasm and interest around Speculative Realism and Laurelle’s non-philosophy can not reasonably be ignored. I was indifferent at first, but my interest has been peaked after skimming Mullarkey’s Post-Continental Philosophy, and more recently, having started reading Ray Brassier’s … Continue reading →

Posted in non-phi, political theology | Tagged ancestrality, anthropic impasse, as-not, Brassier, example, exception, Laruelle, Meillassoux, non-phi, speculative realism | Leave a comment