Non-standard anti-capitalist philosophy publication.
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One of the four contributors to the 2007 Goldsmiths conference on Speculative Realism,[1] Ray Brassier occupies an important place among a diverse group of thinkers who have argued for realist alternatives to philosophies of subjectivity, finitude and deconstruction that had been core to post-Kantian continental philosophy for some years. Some of these new realisms have sought…
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“Politics is the archaic and inadequate name for something that must pass away into the religious history of capital. There are no effective anti-capitalist interests, but only anti-bourgeois desires in alliance with zero.”-Nick Land[1] “For what happens to whomever does not want to recognize the political economy is libidinal, is that he preproduces in other…
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Following Gödel’s famous results, any theory capable of carrying the most basic of maths, Arithmetic, is deemed to be either inconsistent or incomplete. At the very beginning, this position set the math world on fire because it shattered the Hilbertian dream of a logical grounding of mathematics. One of the problems was that, at the…
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Nothing happens without a reason. This is Leibniz’s principle of sufficient reason (PSR). According to this principle, every event in the universe is metaphysically bound to every other by some rational tie, generally understood as a cause. Causality acts as the unifying force of the universe. Now, “cause” means, in its broadest sense, reason and…
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Anarchism, as a political discourse, has consistently positioned itself as a total rejection of authority. The state, the church, capital, patriarchy, and even language itself have been critically dissected—both in classical anarchist traditions (Bakunin and Kropotkin) and in its post-structuralist iterations (Saul Newman, Todd May, and Lewis Call)—as structures of power that must be dismantled.…
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Nietzsche deconstructed the problem of existence by historicizing value, while Camus demanded that the subject revolt against the absurd. Yet both thinkers presumed a subject who possessed the capacity to stand: the free spirit who survives disenchantment, or the absurd hero who returns to his boulder with his faculties intact. Neither philosopher, at any juncture,…
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Consider this question: how do you know you are not dreaming right now? When you are immersed in a dream, everything feels real, until—a moment of lucidity breaks the spell. You say, “Oh, I am in fact dreaming”. But what guarantees that you are not dreaming right at this moment? You might point to consistencies,…
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After the law, across the line of unknowing, where tribunals count for nothing, Socrates is silent, and accusation is dissolved into the sun. Nick Land Right and the Title to compel, thus indicate the same thing. Immanuel Kant Introduction: For Deleuze, philosophy is primarily concerned with the creation of concepts, which arise in response to…
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Between cybernetics, psychiatry, computational neuroscience, mathematization of being, and capitalism We know that the mathematization of being is a very long-standing process, abiogenic one might say, in some ways. However, the scientific emergence of a specific desire to mechanize the mind emerged particularly in the 1950s with cybernetics, which accompanied a new computational era that encompassed and…
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In Nietzsche Contre Heidegger (1977), Laruelle puts forward the following proposition: Nietzsche’s text should be read with a materialist lens which allows us to see the concept of Will to Power as a material(ist) force. The opposing poles of Mastery and Rebellion remain in a non-relation (or a unilateral relation), reminiscent of his later concept…
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