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Tag Archives: utopiation
Notes on the Ideal University
Why would you want to live anywhere other than a university? Why should a community be anything other than a school, whose overriding collective purpose is to contribute as far as possible in every activity to the continuing enrichment of … Continue reading
“From the standpoint of catastrophe”
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
Impatient Messianism
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
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Utopian Schemes: King Gillette and Frederick Engels
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
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The Temptation of Meaning
Some climate-change deniers resort to the argument that warming is not some horrific abuse of nature by man, but simply a natural phenomenon that has occured countless times throughout history, and so even if man is contributing to it in … Continue reading
Artificial Realism
Ben Noys on the agency problem in Marxism. To briefly recapitulate, there is a debate as to the relation between labor and the standpoint of critique: is labor-power a force external to capital rooted in ‘human nature’ and on the … Continue reading
Posted in historical materialism, planomenology
Tagged abandon, artificiality, Brassier, Bryant, capitalism, Churchland, class struggle, communism, decay, Dennett, eliminativism, ex-appropriation, Marx, Negarestani, Noys, Pepperell, proletariat, ruin, salvagepunk, utopiation, xenoeconomics, Zizek
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Iranian Variations, Marxist Repetitions *UPDATED AGAIN*
[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
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Non-Philosophy 1: The Use of Philosophy
In what follows, I hope to offer a sketch of non-philosophy that will introduce some of its key concepts. Non-philosophy relies upon a highly technical, abstract, and counter-intuitive vocabulary, whose terms are almost always defined in relation to one another. … Continue reading
Schizoanalysis 3: Notes on Praxis
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
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The Real as Hostage (part 2): “Should Humanity Be Saved? And How?”
Philosophical Vanity. The Enslaving Mirror. Without further ado, allow me to announce my contention. It is a contention with object-oriented philosophy, speculative realism or materialism, but more generally, with philosophy taken as a whole, or taken wholly with itself.
