CONTEXT We are living through a very interesting period in the realm of Continental Philosophy, containing aspects of continuing progress and of intellectual regression. The regression proclaims itself to be a decisive progress beyond the merely negative and critical philosophies […]
LARUELLE AND DELEUZE: from difference to multiplicity
(This is the first of two excerpts from my talk at “Superpositions–A Symposium on Laruelle and the Humanities” hosted at the Center for Transformative Media at the New School. Read part two.) Newcomers to Laruelle often find his work challenging.
Dario Cankovic is an unhyphenated Marxist without adjectives, a doctoral student in philosophy at the University of Western Ontario working on the history of analytic philosophy (specifically the Marxist origins of and influences on the Vienna Circle), with a deep
Marxism as Anti-Philosophy: An Interview with Dario Cankovic
The current issue of October magazine contains several responses to a questionnaire on the nature of materialism today. My response is pasted below. Read the questionnaire prompt and download all responses here. Not too long ago, being a materialist meant
A Questionnaire on Materialisms
Over on The Real Movement blog Jehu has a timely post that carefully evaluates the so-called post-capitalist notion as erroneous. He begins with the worn and obvious quote by Zizek ironizing the notion that “it’s much easier to imagine the end of
Subtraction Theory: The Future of Capitalism
(Dieser Essay erschien in: Marcus S. Kleiner/Achim Szepanski : Soundcultures: Über digitale und elektronische Musik. Frankfurt/M. 2003, Suhrkamp Verlag.) „Ich habe den Bau eingerichtet und er scheint wohlgelungen. Von außen ist eigentlich nur ein großes Loch sichtbar, dieses führt aber
Wie sich alles „erhellt“ und „erhält“. Von der Musik der tausend Plateaus oder ihrem Bau
14 Thesen von Alexander Galloway gemäß Laruelle: 1) Das mediale Prinzip: Das Reale ist kommunizierbar, und das Kommunizierbare ist real. 2) Für das Standard-Modell der Philosophie ist alles, was gegeben ist, gespalten. 3) In der Non-Standard-Philosophie ist das Eine eine
Stichworte zu Alexander Galloways “Laruelle. Against The Digital”
Liveblogging reading Felix Guattari’s book LINES OF FLIGHT, translated by Andrew Goffey. The unconscious, for Guattari, is “structured” like a multiplicity of modes of semiotisation. This hypothesis contains in germ Bruno Latour ‘s multiple modes of existence, which are also
GUATTARI “LINES OF FLIGHT”: the hypothesis of modes of semiotisation (1 & 2)
On the occasion of Achille Mbembe’s new preface to the African reprint of On the Postcolony by Wits University Press. Mbembe: Critique is witnessing as well as endless vigilance, interrogation and anticipation. A proper critique requires us first to dwell
Afro-pessimism as Aesthetic Blackness? [Putting the Pessimism in Afro-Pessimism]
I). Die Politik, die uns anleitet, ist nicht ethisch, sondern grausam. Wir setzen der Politik der Ethik die Politik der Grausamkeit entgegen. Die Ethik geht ganz auf die Griechen zurück, deren Ethik das Studium des »guten Lebens« beinhaltete. Unsere Interessen
A sequence of non-musicological praxis corresponding to phases of Non-musicology: Marked by a rebellious apprenticeship in experimental music, the first period of non-musicological praxis is not thoroughly non-musical. Throughout Musicology ?, terribly uncreative secondary works of experimental music were composed.
A sequence of non-musicological praxis corresponding to phases of Non-musicology:
The usual accusation made against Israel or Zionism is that this state was founded where other people were already living. But the founding acts of all hitherto existing polities were never acts of justice, but rather always acts of violence.
On The Radical Left and National Liberation