Non-standard anti-capitalist philosophy publication.
Speculative Realism
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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…
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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 