“The world is an illusion.” —Valentinus “…images precede the Real.” —Jean Baudrillard “What I call Integral Reality is the perpetrating on the world of an unlimited operational project whereby everything becomes real, everything becomes visible and transparent, everything is ‘liberated’…”.1 Child […]
Baudrillard schreibt im und durch die Systeme hindurch. Er unterlässt es wohlweislich Alternativen zu ihnen vorzuschlagen oder bunte Utopien auszupinseln, sondern er argumentiert gegen sie innerhalb ihrer eigenen Bedingungen und Logiken. Baudrillard zufolge muss man dies tun, weil das System
Simulation I’m going to spend a couple of posts pulling out some extracts from Rex Butler’s book on Baudrillard, widely considered to be one of the more subtle readings in the secondary literature (a view even expressed by the man
The schizophrenic’s extreme transference helps us to understand, the reasons that his world is so terrifying is that he sees it in many ways unblurred by repression.—Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death Even though there is much to disagree with
Post-Metaphysics: Toward a Posthuman Speculative Schizorealism
However, it seems uncertain—if not highly doubtful—that all those with an in-fluence on the future, especially those with fossil fuel interests, will firstly comprehend projected time, then feel inclined to adopt it, and on top of that, coordinate with everyone
Diabolical Diagramming: Deleuze, Dupuy, and Catastrophe
Part I: Non-Music, (N)Ontology, and Distinguishing Bubbles. It is important to remember from the offset that ‘non’ is not identical to ‘anti’ or ‘counter’, for example, ‘non-philosophy’ is not an ‘anti-philosophy’ in the sense of Badiou, although his work on
Claude Parent and Paul Virilio, Architecture Principe 5 (1966), p. 9. Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about diagonal lines and processes of diagonalization. Inherently formal and spatial, if not also graphical, the diagonal or oblique line has played any
The abject from which he does not cease separating is for him, in short, a land of oblivion that is constantly remembered.—Julia Kristeva, Powers of Horror The only certain thing we know about this planet is that it is a
“The world is an illusion.” —Valentinus “…images precede the Real.” —Jean Baudrillard “What I call Integral Reality is the perpetrating on the world of an unlimited operational project whereby everything becomes real, everything becomes visible and transparent, everything is ‘liberated’…”.1 Child
Genealogy of Deconstruction and the Differantial BreakFrançois LaruelleFrom Machines textuelles: déconstruction et libido d’écriture (Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1976), 39-45.Translated by Jeremy R. SmithPDF 1) Differantial thought in general (Derrida and Deleuze) is first defined by its effects, for example those that
Genealogy of Deconstruction and the Differantial Break
The period of catastrophe: the advent of a doctrine that sifts men— driving the weak to decisions, and the strong as well… —Fredrich Nietzsche Here, however, lies the task of any philosophical thought: to go to the limit of hypotheses
Jean Baudrillard: The Perfect Crime
As Patrick Lee Miller in his book Becoming God: Pure Reason in Early Greek Philosophy the central goal of the pre-Socratics through Plato was the ancient notion of becoming “divine and immortal”. Over the past couple decades, I’ve toyed with
Our Past, Our Future: Posthuman, Inhuman, and Transhuman Philosophies and Technologies