Non-standard anti-capitalist philosophy publication.
Speculative Materialism
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Charge
Many years ago, I visited a place called Usgalimal in the western ghats of India in order to see the pre-historic petroglyphs discovered here in 1993. These rock carvings have been dated to around 6000-8000 years ago, belonging to the mesolithic-to-neolithic turn in the subcontinent, a period which according to archeologists marks the tail-end of…
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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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Deprivatization: On Post-Subjective Aesthetics
There have been rumors about the disappearance of desire from contemporary art. From cinema, the museum and biennial, and from the aesthetic encounter as such: from the moment of approach to an object that exceeds comprehension, the moment of being drawn toward something whose withdrawal demands a new form of attention. What has replaced desire…
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Incompossible/Obsolete: Logical and Empirical Form in Dilloway’s Modern Jester
Wilfrid Sellars’s diagnosis of contemporary philosophy continues to delineate its current state. Within it, two rival “images” of being-in-the-world are opposed: on the one hand, the manifest image—the present self-conception through philosophical reflection; on the other, the scientific image—the formulation of the human as a complex physical system….
Hyperspekulation 