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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

Politics of Survival

Posted on April 28, 2010 by reidkane

Anthony Paul Smith has written a post on a debate that has cropped up within his forthcoming edited volume, After the Postsecular and the Postmodern: New Essays in Continental Philosophy of Religion. The debate, therein represented by Michael Burns and Alex … Continue reading →

Posted in political theology, politics, Uncategorized, utopian science | Tagged biopolitics, Derrida, egalitarian politics, Hagglund, justice, liberalism, politics, survival | 13 Comments

Revolution LOL UPDATED AGAIN

Posted on January 6, 2010 by reidkane

*UPDATE* I want to clarify that I in no way intended any offense to Graham, or anyone else for that matter. I find the sort of remarks to which this post responds (and Graham is certainly not alone in making … Continue reading →

Posted in eventalism, experimental strategies, politics, the real world | Tagged Harman, Mark Fisher, Marx, politics, revolution | 54 Comments

“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

“And for the first time they begin to feel real ‘reality.’”

Posted on August 27, 2009 by reidkane

The words ‘down’ and ‘up’, according to Fuller, are awkward in that they refer to a planar concept of direction inconsistent with human experience. The words ‘in’ and ‘out’ should be used instead, he argued, because they better describe an … Continue reading →

Posted in experimental strategies, neuroscience, politics, utopian science | Tagged Buckminster Fuller, Churchland, eliminativism, ideology, politics, science | 8 Comments

Impatient Messianism

Posted on August 25, 2009 by reidkane

Messianic politics is often derided for its passivity, resignation, and ineffectuality. Yet these are not inherent vices, which I’ll attempt to demonstrate here by defending a very different sense of messianism. God’s Waiting Room Messianism is a matter of redemption. … Continue reading →

Posted in eventalism, futurology, hauntology, historical materialism, non-phi, para-ontology, political theology, politics, utopian science | Tagged abandon, Agamben, ancestrality, Benjamin, Brassier, class struggle, communism, decay, Derrida, example, experimentality, exposure, Marx, messianism, nihilism, onto-anthropology, Paul, politics, prefigurative praxis, redemption, ruin, threshold, utopiation, Zizek | 10 Comments

“A mind of its own”

Posted on August 5, 2009 by reidkane

Steve Shaviro, brilliant as usual, on Marxism vs Latour’s actor-network theory: I am sympathetic to Latour’s insistence that networked social processes cannot be explained in terms of global categories like “capital,” or “the social” – because these categories themselves are … Continue reading →

Posted in historical materialism, neuroscience, political economics, politics | Tagged anthropic impasse, capitalism, Latour, Marx, politics, real abstraction, Shaviro | 17 Comments

Whose Market?

Posted on August 4, 2009 by reidkane

Which of these does not belong? One of the great distortions operative in popular discourse is the notion that capitalism is a market economy. It is not. A market operates on the basis of massive competition amongst merchants, and a … Continue reading →

Posted in experimental strategies, political economics, politics | Tagged capitalism, class struggle, economy, non-capital, open market, politics | 2 Comments

Iranian Variations, Marxist Repetitions UPDATED AGAIN

Posted on June 17, 2009 by reidkane

[Images from Boston.com, via Reza] UPDATE: Anyone reading this post should supplement it, at the very least, with Reza’s brief comment’s below, and with this great piece by Ali Alizadeh’s piece here. 2nd UPDATE: See also these great pieces by … Continue reading →

Posted in current affairs, eventalism, hauntology, historical materialism, para-ontology, political theology, politics, schizoanalysis, the real world | Tagged Agamben, ancestrality, Benjamin, capitalism, class struggle, communism, Deleuze, event, ex-appropriation, exception, Foucault, Guattari, inheritance, Iran election 09, Marx, misuse, non-capital, politics, proletariat, redemption, utopiation, xenoeconomics, Zizek | 32 Comments

Schizoanalysis 3: Notes on Praxis

Posted on June 6, 2009 by reidkane

Schizoanalysis in Practice: A Sketch… Schizoanalysis or collective analysis is a method for provoking preexisting groups or arrangements (agencements) to actively question their composition as such. Every one of us participates in and is implicated in a large number of … Continue reading →

Posted in politics, schizoanalysis, the real world | Tagged anarchism, communism, Deleuze, familialism, Guattari, inheritance, Negri, organization, politics, prefigurative praxis, proletariat, schizoanalysis, utopiation | 10 Comments