Tag Archives: planomenon

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 →

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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 →

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Immanence 2: Returning Home

Posted on August 10, 2008 by reidkane

Immanence is what remains in its place, even when what had once occupied that place has departed. It is the remnant of a transcendence. Yet, to be cautious, we must make this relation clear. In a movement of transcendence, that … Continue reading →

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Out Of It

Posted on August 5, 2008 by reidkane

Today, it is commonplace to question identity, to insist upon its problematic and unstable character. And yet, who today has the courage to submit this question to its own test? Who will question the identity of this question, which is … Continue reading →

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For Example

Posted on July 29, 2008 by reidkane

Para-ontology. This is the methodological/epistemological basis of Giorgio Agamben’s research, which weaves through fields as diverse as juridical theory, poetics, philosophy, and theology. More than that, it is the orientation of thought regarding itself, the thought of thought or the … Continue reading →

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Economy: Inside-Out

Posted on July 26, 2008 by reidkane

Some notes on a paradox, a paradox central to both the modern economic/administrative paradigm we know as bio-politics, and to its relation with the juridical paradigm of sovereignty. First of all, we find power originally abiding in a nexus between … Continue reading →

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The Heir To Be(ing)

Posted on July 5, 2008 by reidkane

Inheriting — being. The inheriting being, the heir whom receives or responds to the call of a gift, also is the inheritor of this being: the inheritance is being. To give – a giving that sends forth and relinquishes, cedes … Continue reading →

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