Non-standard anti-capitalist philosophy publication.
Alain Badiou
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Beyond Life and Death: Jean-Luc Nancy’s Ontology of Finitude
In the essay “Existence and Death,” Alain Badiou presents a critique of what he calls “ante-predicative” theories of death. These theories secretly elevate death into a constitutive power lying beneath or beyond determinate beings. Whether in the guise of Bergsonian life, Heideggerian finitude, Sartrean nothingness, or Deleuzian becoming, death ceases to be a simple limit…
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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…
Hyperspekulation 