How to spot an analog philosopher? First look at his attachments… What does he love the most? Analog philosophers value life and vitality, and thus have a special affection for nature. They talk about energy and aliveness, but also the […]
How to Spot an Analog Philosopher
1) For Laruelle, philosophy always revolves around dualities or differences, being – other, theory – practice, ontic-ontological, etc. 2) Laruelle leaves this terrain to fully invest his thinking power in the solutions of the One’s problem, or more precisely to
What is determination in the last instance? (20 points)
Andrés Abril – Lobo suelto! (17/10/2019) Things among things, the Bloom holds itself outside of everything in a forsaking identical to that of our universe. It is alone in all company and naked at all events. It is there that
Fatigue with the world, or the political power of exhaustion
Thomas Nail.Christopher N Gamble. Joshua Hanan. This paper argues that there is currently no single definition of new materialism but at least three distinct and partly incompatible trajectories. All three of these trajectories share at least one common theoretical commitment:
Deleuze’s philosophy of virtuality has simply put the non-creationist construction of problems, concepts and their relations before interpretation. Similarly, Althusser has formulated this in several passages of Das Kapital Lesen 1 when he writes that the production of a problem
Althusser and the “Problem” in Philosophy
The expression “Digital Philosophy” has a specific meaning. Recently I’ve tried to expand that meaning to include other thinkers and traditions from throughout history, not just those who claim, improbably, that “the world is a giant computer.” I’m thinking, for
How to Spot a Digital Philosopher
There is a continuous insistence in philosophy on the illusion that the problem of the relationship between theory and practice can be thought of in terms of an original disjunction and a possible synthesis (the differential positions remain, but are
) For Laruelle, philosophy always revolves around dualities or differences, being – other, theory – practice, ontic-ontological, etc. 2) Laruelle leaves this terrain to fully invest his thinking power in the solutions of the One’s problem, or more precisely to
What is determination in the last instance? (20 points)
This is such a shock to our geological imagination because our understanding of what the world is and how it works (our“ontologies”) have largely considered the Earth as something stable : as the static ground of being and knowing. The
An Ontology of Motion for a Moving World
The hegemonically important discourses are currently taking place between neoliberal positions propagating the national market as a location in international competition and thus free trade, mobility for capital and a limited immigration of labour, and between the racist New Right,
For a New Leftist Policy of Subtraction – Adorno – Dark Deleuze – Laruelle (1)
This text includes a presentation of TETRALOGOS, the new (2019) book by François Laruelle, followed by an examination of his formula for a «general science fiction» and a proposal to make this formula more generic. Abstract(1) some general considerations regarding
FROM EARTH TO THE UNIVERSE – LARUELLE AND RADICAL SCIENCE FICTION
1) Economic quantities can also be changed in time precisely because money, as a so-called transcendental signifier for capital, possesses the quality of a pure quantity, with which money is released from current barter exchanges and thus as a monetary