Non-standard anti-capitalist philosophy publication.
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Tiqqun is the name of a small group of intellectuals whose existence is recalled to us today essentially by the trace left behind in the two issues of the review of the same name. Appearing at the turn of the twenty-first century, it was a highly “intellectual” militant review, with genuinely dense philosophical content that…
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Firstly, what is the Jewish Question? In its simplest form, the question goes along the lines of: “What are we to do with the Jews?” Secondly, who asks the Jewish Question? Whom does it target? Historically speaking, the “we” that requires the Jews as the object of “our” question is the modern, nominally secular, European…
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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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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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“Man by nature is a political animal.”[1] This well-known statement from Aristotle’s Politics serves as the foundation behind what makes man and the concept of the Political something that is worth preserving as sacred values in the tradition of not only western philosophy and thought but civilization in general for more than over 2 millenniums.…
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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,…
