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What is a Constellation?8 comments

reidkane wrote 2 years ago: A constellation is an imaginary, invisible and immaterial relation drawn between real, visible, mate … more →

Tags: historical materialism, Benjamin, Nihilism, Myth, ruin, exposure, Sovereignty, mythic violence, constellation

The Fantasy of a Complete Science31 comments

reidkane wrote 2 years ago: Malcolm Gladwell, responding to criticism of Duncan Watts: In the end, though, I suppose that I feel … more →

Tags: political theology, Psychoanalysis, non-phi, Futurology, utopian science, Lacan, exception, accelerationism, capitalism

Does Speculative Realism Exist?7 comments

reidkane wrote 2 years ago: Does Speculative Realism exist? Many would answer in the negative. The (anti)party line today is tha … more →

Tags: non-phi, Neuroscience, Futurology, Speculative Realism, experimental strategies, brassier, meillassoux, Harman, manifest futurity

Principle of Organization

reidkane wrote 2 years ago: From the incredible-looking BLDGBLOG Book: I’ve often joked that BLDGBLOG is organized around … more →

Tags: planomenology, Psychoanalysis, experimental strategies, Lacan, in-and-not-itself, bldgblog

Artificial Realism9 comments

reidkane wrote 2 years ago: Ben Noys on the agency problem in Marxism. To briefly recapitulate, there is a debate as to the rela … more →

Tags: planomenology, historical materialism, Marx, communism, zizek, brassier, Class Struggle, xenoeconomics, utopiation

Ruins of Philosophy *UPDATED*7 comments

reidkane wrote 2 years ago: It may be necessary to understand philosophy as a desert littered with the ruins of rusted and dead … more →

Tags: planomenology, historical materialism, ancestrality, abandon, Inheritance, Nihilism, salvagepunk, ruins

Iranian Variations, Marxist Repetitions *UPDATED AGAIN*32 comments

reidkane wrote 2 years ago: [Images from Boston.com, via Reza] UPDATE: Anyone reading this post should supplement it, at the ver … more →

Tags: Schizoanalysis, Politics, Current Affairs, The real world, para-ontology, political theology, historical materialism, hauntology, eventalism

Anthrophobia13 comments

reidkane wrote 2 years ago: Fear of Flesh “The Human cannot slough off its skin, the physicist cannot find their Grand Uni … more →

Tags: eventalism, non-phi, ontology, badiou, Reduction, Speculative Realism, immanence, Object-Oriented Philosophy, Harman

Badiou and the Owl2 comments

reidkane wrote 2 years ago: “When philosophy paints its grey in grey then has a shape of life grown old. By philosophy … more →

Tags: Schizoanalysis, hauntology, eventalism, non-phi, Deleuze, Guattari, zizek, badiou, event

Econontology 2: Zombie Banks, Undead Labor, and Dark Vitalism3 comments

reidkane wrote 3 years ago: If there is a tangible threat posed to our economic existence, it is that of the Zombie Banks, the m … more →

Tags: Politics, The real world, historical materialism, hauntology, Economy, ancestrality, xenoeconomics, Inheritance, capitalism

The Real as Hostage (part 2): "Should Humanity Be Saved? And How?"

reidkane wrote 3 years ago: Philosophical Vanity. The Enslaving Mirror. Without further ado, allow me to announce my contention. … more →

Tags: non-phi, communism, badiou, Speculative Realism, Redemption, Laruelle, brassier, immanence, ancestrality

The Real as Hostage (part 1): Politics and Realism

reidkane wrote 3 years ago: While ontology may not be directly determining of a given political program, such that we cannot leg … more →

Tags: Politics, non-phi, ontology, zizek, Reduction, Speculative Realism, utopiation, anthropic impasse

A World-Without-World6 comments

reidkane wrote 3 years ago: Levi, in a reply to my last post, raises some questions about non-philosophy: I am unclear as to why … more →

Tags: non-phi, ontology, Speculative Realism, Laruelle, immanence, Object-Oriented Philosophy, foreclosure, Bryant

With the Real on Our Side (UPDATED)1 comment

reidkane wrote 3 years ago: [UPDATE: Alex of splintering bone ashes weighs in on these problems: "On Having Your Cake and Eating … more →

Tags: Schizoanalysis, Politics, non-phi, ontology, Lacan, Speculative Realism, Laruelle, utopiation, anthropic impasse

Schizoanalysis 1: Infancy, Ancestrality, and the Non-Signifier

reidkane wrote 3 years ago: A child is born into language, and is from the outset a speech-being, a speaking thing. The child is … more →

Tags: Schizoanalysis, para-ontology, political theology, Psychoanalysis, non-phi, Guattari, Lacan, Agamben, exception

Making History

reidkane wrote 3 years ago: What is historicity? We can see it when there happens to be, there emerges or occurs an event that b … more →

Tags: historical materialism, eventalism, ontology, Reduction, event, historicity, immanence, ancestrality, manifest futurity

Like Father Like Son

reidkane wrote 3 years ago: Some notes following Giorgio Agamben’s lecture, “The Power and the Glory”. Economy … more →

Tags: Politics, para-ontology, political theology, historical materialism, Psychoanalysis, ontology, Deleuze, Guattari, Agamben

Economy: Inside-Out

reidkane wrote 3 years ago: Some notes on a paradox, a paradox central to both the modern economic/administrative paradigm we kn … more →

Tags: Politics, para-ontology, political theology, Agamben, Economy, example, exception, Leading, immanence

The Heir To Be(ing)

reidkane wrote 3 years ago: Inheriting — being. The inheriting being, the heir whom receives or responds to the call of a … more →

Tags: planomenology, para-ontology, political theology, historical materialism, hauntology, non-phi, Reduction, exception, Redemption


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