Ontological Terror meditates on this (non)relation between blackness and Being by arguing that black being incarnates metaphysical nothing, the terror of metaphysics, in an antiblack world. Blacks, then, have function but not Being — the function of black(ness) is to …
ONTOLOGICAL TERROR: Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation (INTRODUCTION)
Facebook discussion between Anna Newspeak and Achim Szepanski]. Anna Newspeak: Perhaps it is precisely nontological not to write, since not writing is closest to the movement of nothingness. It remains to be remembered that while Derrida grandly pursued the difference …
Zibodandez & Alii „Kann man sich zum Beispiel vorstellen, dass der Mensch noch eine Seele haben wird, wenn die Biologie und die Psychologie ihn gelehrt haben werden, sie zu verstehen, sie in ihrer Gesamtheit zu erfassen und zu behandeln?“ Robert …
Ayache’s approach, following the philosophical positions of Quentin Meillassoux, inheres a thinking of what exists in the real independently of human beings and their thinking, indeed an attempt not to want to think being, since (absolute) contingency remains eternally prior …
The feminine problem is the relationship of any woman – deprived as she is of power, of history, of culture, of a role of her own – to any man: his power, his history, his culture, his absolute role. This …
We talk about the movement of time but does time move, or does movement occur in time? This is a fundamental question in the philosophy of time that philosophers and physicists are still trying to answer. Interestingly, one of the …
1. Die „Philosophie“, die diesen Namen schon immer für sich beansprucht hat, stellt sich als einewandernde Disziplin am Rande des permanenten Ruins dar. Es ist jedoch keine Architektur, die maneinfach abreißen kann, sondern wir versuchen, sie von Grund auf auf …
Abhilfen für eine wandernde und sich wiederholende Philosophie
… My version of materialism is “indeterminate materialism,” meaning that matter is indeterminate, just as the quote you read, and something indeterminate does not have an essence, so movement preceeds the essence for sure. Harman would say that I am …
Träume über das Ende der Welt sind vielleicht nicht mehr nur die Früchte von Verzweiflung und Angst. Sie sind auch die Ausgelassenheit der Langeweile. Nicht nur, wenn die Welt böse oder hässlich ist, sondern wenn es keine Rolle mehr spielt, …
Dreams about the end of the world are not, perhaps, anymore the fruits of despair and fear alone. They are also the frolics of boredom. It is not only when the world is evil or ugly, but when it does …
Author: Giorgio AgambenTranslated by: Vincenzo Binetti and Cesare CasarinoWith an Introduction by: Gerry Coulter Why does Baudrillard enjoy reading Agamben? One reason is that while there are few direct conceptual overlaps – there are many thematic ones – as each, …
PrefaceThrough my Prolegomenon, I am attempting to create a «transcendental method» which is arrived at from self-evident axiomatic truths (‹truth› with lowercase t) of mathematics and de-ontologized without a necessary background ontology (for examples of «background ontologies» see how the …