A continuous insistence on the illusion of being able to think the problem of the relation between theory and practice in the terms of an original disjunction and a possible synthesis can be observed in philosophy (the differential positions remain, …
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 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 …
Hegel ist ein Arschloch”-Karl Marx“Hegel ist ein Arschloch”-Carla Lonzi“Hegel ist ein Arschloch”-Gilles Deleuze“Hegel ist ein Arschloch”-Rei Terada Ehre, wem Ehre gebührt für die heutige Schreibaufforderung: Carla Lonzis Traktat “Let’s Spit on Hegel” aus dem Jahr 1970, das ursprünglich von der …
The utopia of its correspondence with the world/object as well as its ability to reshape the world according to its image, striven for by classical theory, can only come about due to a difference between it and the world, insofar …
Baudrillard’s maximization hypothesis and the flight into uncertainty (1)
Für Adorno geht es in der »Negativen Dialektik« darum, das Positive als eine affirmative Lüge zu denunzieren. Die Dialektik lebt von der Entzweiung, indem sie einen Gegenstand in Beziehung zu etwas anderem denkt. Die bestimmende Kraft des Begriffs ist stets …
“This book argues, from a functionalist perspective, that mind is only what it does; and that what it does is first and foremost realized by the sociality of agents, which itself is primarily and ontologically constituted by the semantic space …
Neorational Madness: Reza Negarestani and the New Society of Mind
In his book “Diagrammatic Immanence” Rocco Gangle summarizes Deleuzes Method in relation to Spinoza: “By conceiving of the relations between substance, attributes and modes as syllogistic, Deleuze emphasises their relational character. By interpreting the syllogistic relations themselves as mutually enfolded …
Marx’s reading of Greek atomism informs his uncompromisingly materialist stance, something we will inspect more closely further on in the chapter. At this point, suffice it to say that the contradiction that underpins Epicurean atomism, according to young Marx, is …
Chapter on Dialectics, Materialism, Change: From Epicurus to Marx via Aristotle
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Spectacular Logic in Hegel and Debord: Why Everything is as it Seems
Marxism constitutes one of the main currents of contemporary thought. By now, there is no counting the works that set out to expound, combat, or even ‘supersede’ it. It is already no easy task to find the path that cuts …
Published a century after Marx’s Capital, Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle was described upon its release as ‘the Capital of the new generation’ (Le Nouvel Observateur). However, the book’s content has almost never been seriously examined alongside the …