Was Baudrillard A Nihilist?
Introduction I am a nihilist. If it is nihilistic to be obsessed by the mode of disappearance, and no longer by the mode of production, then I am a nihilist.1 The question announced in the title of this paper, for […]
nietzsche
Laruelle zur Differenz (Nietzsche/Deleuze) – (Heidegger/Derrida)
Während die Philosophie des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts von Geschichte und Dialektik besessen war, sind die Schlüsselbegriffe des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts “Differenz” und “Endlichkeit”. Die Differenz wird in den Werken von Nietzsche und Deleuze behandelt. Eine Verbindung von Differenz und Endlichkeit findet sich
Laruelle zur Differenz (Nietzsche/Deleuze) – (Heidegger/Derrida)
The Technocommercium: Assemblages of the Mechanosphere
Everything becomes imperceptible, everything is becoming-imperceptible on the plane of consistency, which is nevertheless precisely where the imperceptible is seen and heard. It is the Planomenon, or the Rhizosphere, the Criterium (and still other names, as the number of dimensions
The Technocommercium: Assemblages of the Mechanosphere
Rhuthmos / Arithmos Deconsidered[1]
Abstract We all know by now why a kid starts whistling in the middle of a territory unknown. Refrain builds up a milieu, deterritorialising all the forces of the unknown with the ear of an other. However, have we as
Rhuthmos / Arithmos Deconsidered[1]
The Theses of Machinic Materialism and its Distinction from Dialectical Materialism
The Theses of Machinic Materialism and its Distinction from Dialectical MaterialismFrançois LaruelleSelections from Nietzsche contre Heidegger: thèses pour une politique nietzschéenne (Paris: Payot, 1977), p.122-136. The Theses of Machinic Materialism“Machinic materialism” is “Nietzsche’s” latent philosophy, produced at the same time as the
The Theses of Machinic Materialism and its Distinction from Dialectical Materialism
notes on boredom
Nietzsche invents a typology of boredom, in which boredom is initially a positive sign for the life of the scholar, while the ordinary thinker flees from boredom and seeks diversion with his participation in the entertainment machines, fashion, music and
we live in a society
(Notes on Adorno’s “Society.” Dedicated to my friends in the Adornotes reading group, or “Frankfurt School 2.” Thank you for keeping me sane this summer!) Society cannot be defined. Adorno tells us that “society” falls under the category of concepts
How to create with and against Nietzsche a music box for blackness that is no longer a prelude to a deeper – more powerful – perhaps more evil – and more mysterious music, but the music itself: a non-music or a music utopia.
A) Nietzsche and the music Nietzsche’s work Die Geburt der Tragödie deals in depth with music. The book explains that the tragedy originated in the dithyrambos, where lyric poetry was danced and entered into the drama in which music was
Wozu ist das Böse gut?
. Das Böse ist unbekannt. Das Gute bedingt das Böse. Und wenn das Gute dadurch gut ist, daß die Allgemeinheit aus ihm Nutzen ziehen kann, welcher Nutzen wäre dann unter welchen Umständen aus dem Bösen ziehbar? Demselben Bösen, welches per
COMMIT MOOSBRUGGER FOR TRIAL
Emilia Marra PROCESSO A MOOSBRUGGER CONSIDERAZIONI SULLA VITA IMPERSONALE … I will introduce the character of Moosbrugger, one of the most famous Robert Musil’s lonely planet in his own Nietzschean solar system. I would like to show here that this
THE TWO POLITICS OF NIETZSCHE
Laruelle, François. Nietzsche contre Heidegger. Payot: Paris, 1977, p. 9-20. Translated by Taylor Adkins 1. THE TWO POLITICS OF NIETZSCHE Thesis 1: Nietzsche is the revolutionary thinker who corresponds to the era of Imperialism in Capitalism, and more specifically to the era
ON RHTYHM, RESONANCE AND DISTORTION
Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman — a rope over an abyss…What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what is lovable in man is that he
ON RHTYHM, RESONANCE AND DISTORTION