Non-standard anti-capitalist philosophy publication.
Rationalist Inhumanism
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The Mathematics of Neo-Rationalism: Notes on Categorical Logic and Topos Theory
This book provides the maths behind the program initiated by Peter Wolfendale and Reza Negarestani called “Neo-Rationalism.” My aim is to extend their program through these self-contained lecture-style notes in two parts. Part I develops categorical logic along the following arc: from Lawvere’s functorial semantics of algebraic theories, through the doctrinal hierarchy of logical fragments (cartesian,…
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The Tragic Individualism of the Search for Stability / The Failure of Entropy as Revolution and Emancipation
Desire has a mimetic component, as Girard reminds us, and above all, it is never disconnected from its cultural, social, and political context. This makes it, on the one hand, an experience that is also collective and, on the other, one that responds to the most individualistic principles[2] of human beings. Capitalism and political propaganda…
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Promethean and Posthuman Freedom: Brassier on Improvisation and Time
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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Quid Iuris: Conceptual Machines and Their Transcendental Function in Law
For Deleuze, philosophy is primarily concerned with the creation of concepts, which arise in response to a concrete problem. Thus, attending to both a particular thinker and a theoretical framework implies positioning oneself upon those bridges built to unite seemingly irreconcilable spheres and, on their basis, continuing this creative labor. It is in this sense…
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Notes on Entropy and Negentropy
By Christian Nirvana Damato 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…
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The Abiding Abyss of the Normative
The following essay intends to address the idea of a ‘radical discontinuity’ appearing in philosopher Reza Negarestani’s development from an early theory-fictional oriented work represented in Cyclonopedia (2008), to the recent synthesis of continental and contemporary analytical philosophical perspectives found in Intelligence and Spirit (2018). With this in mind, the idea of such a ‘radical…
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Inhumanist Marxism
Materialist philosophy confronts a persistent dichotomy: humanism versus anti-humanism. Marx embodies this split. The young Marx theorized alienation and proclaimed human-centricity in his theses on Feuerbach, a humanist gesture. The mature Marx analyzed capital’s cold mechanics, mapping the flows beneath production relations, an apparent turn from humanism. Yet throughout, Marx remained committed to one project:…
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