Non-standard anti-capitalist philosophy publication.
Wilfrid Sellars
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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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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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Genocidal Language Games
These lines applies the conceptual apparatus developed by Lynne Tirrell in “Genocidal Language Games”, a text in which the author offers a philosophical analysis of the role of language in the preparation and execution of the Rwandan genocide of 1994. Tirrell’s work belongs to a growing tradition within the philosophy of social and political language,…
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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….
