Non-standard anti-capitalist philosophy publication.
Speculative Realism
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The Situation of the Subject and Post-Deleuzian Theology
How is the subject situated in the world? This issue has been contended throughout history. For the Neoplatonists, no such issue existed. The subject was only the outward presentation of a deeper noncorrelate point of reference. The One, being the nucleus toward which every thing contracts, preserving its circumscription against the aggregate of being itself,…
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Psychogeography apud Heraclitus
From 1957 to 1972, an eclectic constellation of European radical and avant-garde groups came together to form the Situationist International, which would produce, among many things, a technique of urban exploration known as psychogeography. As a reaction to the perceived sterility of 20th century urbanism, the Situationists encouraged the free, spontaneous wandering of the urban…
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On a Newly Arisen Futurist Tone in Criticism
The chosen title anticipates the movement: in 1982, Jacques Derrida delivered a lecture titled On a Newly Arisen Apocalyptic Tone in Philosophy, itself inspired by Kant’s 1796 essay On a Newly Arisen Superior Tone in Philosophy. In that lecture, Derrida picks a fight with the philosophy of his time, attacking the apocalyptic tone of endings…
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The Unsound of a Black Noise
Before learning about the philosophical grounding of John Cage’s 4’33 minutes of ‘silence’, i recalled my base, almost thoughtless, quasi-physiological, naïve, reactions. I asked myself: How far this game is allowed to proceed, and how many players are allowed at the table? To elaborate: What about full 2-3 hours “Concerts of Silence,” with each piece…
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Xenomechanology
The planet is burning. The ice is melting, the waters are rising, the atmosphere is changing. Capital has run the same feedback loop for three hundred years now. Colonial matrices that were intended to have disappeared continue to produce the same types of corpses in the same patterns. Fascism is back. Not as a historical…
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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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Set-Theoretic Hyperstition: An Esquisse
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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Principle of Insufficient Reason
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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Dreamwalking off the Cliff
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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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…
Hyperspekulation 