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 …
Does non-philosophy need a “manifesto” like philosophy does? At the moment of carrying out a more rigorous technical and scientific turning, testing out a second existence by making itself into a “generic science,” involving quantum thought within it, it is …
“Agential realism is not a manifesto, it does not take for granted that all is or will or can be made manifest. On the contrary, it is a call, a plea, a provocation, a cry, a passionate yearning for an appreciation …
Reading Karen Barad’s Interview in New Materialism: Interviews & Cartographies
The new book by Thomas Nail “Theory of the Object” brings on the one hand more clarity to the question of the relation between continuous matter flow, as conceived in his book “Being and Motion”, and discrete objects/particles, on the …
Lucretius ’universe is not a harmonious place of equilibrium where destruction always balances creation. Ontology is profoundly historical and asymmetrical because matter flows. Flow necessarily entails global dissipation and dissolution from higher energy to lower energy. The swerve is indeterminate, not …
Democracy of-the-Last-Instance Within the Sciences: General Equivalency and Generic IdempotencyFrançois LaruelleIn Introduction aux sciences génériques (Paris: Éditions Pétra, 2008), p.97-104. 1) Many philosophers love to mock “democracy,” a theme that is either idealist or political [politicien] or popular, those who keep lying …
Democracy of-the-Last-Instance Within the Sciences: General Equivalency and Generic Idempotency
Wir überspringen die Abschnitte zur Relativitätstheorie, der digitalen Logik und der transzendentalen Mathematik (Riemann, nicht-euklidische Geometrie und Mengentheorie) und kommen direkt zum Kapitel über die zeitgenössischen Objekte. Bei diesen handelt es sich zum ersten um Loop-Objekte, die in der Quantentheorie, …
Motion is not just a new way to think about the world. It is a synthetic description of life in the 21st century based on our shared experience of increasing mobility, displacement, and instability. These movements are changing every structure on …
Laruelle strives for a non-philosophical or generic machine that combines a philosophy robbed of its sufficiency (without comprehensive transcendentality) with a quantum physics robbed of its mathemathical apparatus (without calculation). The turning out of the non-standard philosophy from the philosophy …
“Agential realism is not a manifesto, it does not take for granted that all is or will or can be made manifest. On the contrary, it is a call, a plea, a provocation, a cry, a passionate yearning for an appreciation …
Reading Karen Barad’s Interview in New Materialism: Interviews & Cartographies
Can another Einstein exist in this era? A better question is whether the spirit of his research program could emerge again in our current predicament. By his research program, I mean the activity that grasped through a few thought experiments …