Tag Archives: ontology

“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

Eliminative Marxism 1: Notes on Eliminativism

Posted on September 29, 2009 by reidkane

I’d intended to participate in an online reading group, proposed by Nate, centered on Chapter 25 of Marx’s Capital Vol. I, “The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation”, and had been preparing some preparatory posts on my reading of Marx, when … Continue reading →

Posted in historical materialism, neuroscience, political theology, politics, speculative realism, utopian science | Tagged Brassier, capitalism, Churchland, eliminativism, exception, Latour, Marx, mythic violence, nihilism, object-oriented philosophy, ontology, sovereignty, speculative realism, suspense | 13 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

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 1): Politics and Realism

Posted on January 30, 2009 by reidkane

While ontology may not be directly determining of a given political program, such that we cannot legitimately claim to derive normative prescriptions and hence policies from the very structure of the Real, there is nonetheless a sense in which ontology … Continue reading →

Posted in non-phi, politics | Tagged anthropic impasse, ex-appropriation, ontology, politics, reduction, speculative realism, utopiation, Zizek | Leave a comment

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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