Tag Archives: threshold

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

Utopian Schemes: King Gillette and Frederick Engels

Posted on August 7, 2009 by reidkane

Man Coporate. He absorbs, enfolds, encompasses, and makes the world his own. He will do more; he will penetrate the confines of space, and make it deliver up its secrets and power, for Mind, the Child of the great Oversoul … Continue reading →

Posted in experimental strategies, futurology, historical materialism, political economics, utopian science | Tagged anthropic impasse, Badiou, capitalism, class struggle, communism, control, corporatism, decay, Engels, Gillette, immanence, proletariat, science, socialism, threshold, utopia, utopiation, xenoeconomics | 6 Comments

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 →

Posted in non-phi, para-ontology, planomenology | Tagged as-not, given-without-givenness, immanence, in-and-not-itself, ipseity, Laruelle, ontology, planomenon, surplus-(of-)being, threshold | Leave a comment

Immanence 1: Departing, Remaining, and Abandoned Homes

Posted on August 8, 2008 by reidkane

Immanence: to remain in… Immanence is not and can not be presence, which is simply to be, to be there, to be therein. Im-manence: to remain in, therein, which already refers to contrast with departing, imparting, or parting-with. Immanence remains … Continue reading →

Posted in non-phi, para-ontology | Tagged abandon, example, immanence, in-and-not-itself, ontology, surplus-(of-)being, threshold | 1 Comment

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 →

Posted in non-phi, para-ontology | Tagged Deleuze, given-without-givenness, in-and-not-itself, ipseity, planomenon, surplus-(of-)being, threshold | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in para-ontology, planomenology, political theology | Tagged Agamben, anthropic impasse, example, exception, immanence, in-and-not-itself, ontology, planomenon, speculative realism, threshold | 1 Comment

Like Father Like Son

Posted on July 27, 2008 by reidkane

Some notes following Giorgio Agamben’s lecture, “The Power and the Glory”. Economy properly becomes a concern when the activity or actuality of a praxis, which is to say, an effectivity or efficacy, cannot be reconciled with the being to which … Continue reading →

Posted in historical materialism, para-ontology, political theology, politics, psychoanalysis | Tagged Agamben, Deleuze, economy, ex-appropriation, forefather, Guattari, historicity, immanence, in-and-not-itself, inheritance, leading, manifest futurity, offspring, ontology, politics, threshold, xenoeconomics | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in para-ontology, political theology, politics | Tagged Agamben, cleavage, economy, ex-appropriation, example, exception, immanence, leading, planomenon, politics, threshold, to-be, xenoeconomics | Leave a comment

“God is dead”

Posted on September 8, 2007 by reidkane

It may well be that God has been agonizing for a very long time. What is surely less doubtful is how, for centuries, we have been busy with successive ways of embalming Him…I take the formula “God is dead” literally. … Continue reading →

Posted in planomenology, political theology | Tagged ancestrality, Badiou, DeLanda, Deleuze, manifest futurity, ontology, the uncreated, threshold, Zizek | 1 Comment