K-punk: Dialogue with Graham Harman. Dialogue with Graham Harman After reading Capitalist Realism, Graham Harman had a few questions for me. I present our email dialogue below. Graham: We agree that imaginative failure is the problem. But my question is as follows: is the Left sufficiently imaginative right now? I don't disagree with anything here. Graham: On a related note, you identify capitalist realism with a jaded, critical distance. Yes. Graham: And more concretely... I'm not sure Jameson would say that he is more imaginative than Jobs. Graham: Another thought... That's a good question.
Graham: At first I was worried about your remarks on Cobain, because they painted a picture of how we are all trapped in the system, including Cobain himself. I think what was unique and interesting about Cobain and Generation X, the step they took on from punk, was in starting from the awareness that everything was commodified, contained. The CYCLONOPEDIA Symposium. The Mortiloquist - Urbanomic. A sequel to Cyclonopedia and the second installment in the Blackening trilogy, The Mortiloquist is a barbaric interpretation of the life and problems of Western philosophy. Feasting on the theatrical resources of Greek tragedy, Jacobean revenge drama, grand guignol theater, the theater of cruelty, aktionism (especially Herman Nitsch's Fall of Jerusalem and Orgien Mysterien theater) and employing the dialogue-commentary of scholasticism, The Mortiloquist is a cross-breed of play and philosophy.
In this textual mongrel, the life of Western philosophy is gutted out by outlanders and barbarically staged. Taking place in an alternative history of the Greek Empire during a hypothetical siege of Athens, The Mortiloquist begins with a heated debate among three philosophers. Aristotle, Speusippus and Andronosos have refused to flee from the Academy. Oblivious to the commotion in the streets, they are arguing the impact of Speusippus' 'alien causality' on generation and corruption of ideas. Eliminative Culinarism. March 2, 2014 The Glass Bead Game As part of an event organized by Glass Bead (Fabien Giraud, Jeremy Lecomte, Vincent Normand, Ida Soulard, Inigo Wilkins) and Composing Differences (curated by Virginie Bobin), Guerino Mazzola and I will be presenting talks on philosophy, mathematics, games and the paradigm of navigation. Here is my abstract (I will post Mazzola's abstract later): What Philosophy Does to the Mind By entering the game of truths - that is, making sense of what is true and making it true - and approaching it as a rule-based game of navigation, philosophy opens up a new evolutionary vista for the transformation of the mind.
In liberating itself from its illusions of ineffability and irreproducible uniqueness, and by apprehending itself as an upgradable armamentarium of practices or abilities, the mind realizes itself as an expanding constructible edifice that effectuates a mind-only system. Date: April 22nd, 7-9pm. Posted by Reza Negarestani at 7:46 PM February 19, 2014. Graham Harman on the history of OOO and SR, Graham Harman talk on the history of OOO and SR Tim303 on USTREAM. Educational. Speculative realism. The Speculative Realism Aggregator is temporarily offline as I move it to this new website. It will return soon! This page aggregates posts from blogs that cover Speculative Realism in one way or another. This is just an aggregator; aside from the posts that come from this site, all of the others were created by and remain the property of their respective authors.
An RSS feed for this aggregator is also available.. You can also follow new posts on Twitter via @specreal, or on Facebook by ‘liking’ the Speculative Realism Page. Recent Posts Posts will return shortly after I fully move this aggregator to this new website. Included blogs Am I missing any? We Have Never Been Blogging. Velvet Howler › Blog Archive › Object-Oriented Philosophy as Ponzi Scheme: On Financial and Metaphysical Bubbles. I was inspired by Kvond’s excellent post at his blog Frames /sing —please do read it—responding to my informal comments over at this Perverse Egalitarianism thread , where I wrote a brief critique of the work of Graham Harman and the object-oriented philosophy (henceforth, OOP) movement that has recently coalesced around him, to formalize them a little bit into a post here at the Howler.
On the topic of Steven Shaviro and Graham Harman’s recent conversation/debate about object-oriented aesthetics, Mikhail Emelianov over at Perverse Egalitarianism perspicaciously notes: If I understand Shaviro’s point about OOP being an essentially aesthetic position (and Harman himself, I think, said that much), then it doesn’t seem as though anyone is really pretending to sell anything to anyone. . Although I typically find myself in agreement with Mikhail, especially when it comes to all things OOP-related, I sort of feel the opposite way about the OOP cadre and their work. Object-Oriented Philosophy. Graham Harman As twentieth century philosophy enters its final months, there have been fewer retrospective surveys of its past one hundred years than might have been expected. Whether this is due to widespread disorientation, or simply to the understandable wish to avoid melodrama, is anyone's guess.
But at least one historical model of philosophy is being aired on a regular basis. This is the view that the great philosophical achievement of our century lies in its "linguistic turn. " The philosophy of language is praised for having replaced an obsolete "philosophy of consciousness. " Instead of an aloof human subject that merely observes the world while managing to keep its fingers clean, the human being now appears as a less autonomous figure, unable to escape fully from a network of linguistic significations and historical projections.
But this version of twentieth century philosophy contains a notable flaw. Meanwhile, beneath this ceaseless argument, reality is churning. This is fine. About Me. Looking for a bio (long, short)? Looking for photos of me? Want my curriculum vitae? Trying to contact me? Dr. Bogost is author or co-author of Unit Operations: An Approach to Videogame Criticism, Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames, Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System, Newsgames: Journalism at Play, How To Do Things with Videogames, Alien Phenomenology, or What it's Like to Be a Thing, and 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10. Bogost's videogames about social and political issues cover topics as varied as airport security, consumer debt, disaffected workers, the petroleum industry, suburban errands, pandemic flu, and tort reform. ANTHEM. Speculative Realism as “philosophy fiction” | Beyond The Beyond. *As readers have likely gathered, here at the blog we’re mighty keen on “design fiction” and “architecture fiction,” while science fiction is, of course, pretty much an existential given.
*But what might unify these disparate strands of cultural interest? Well, they’d be united as disciplines within “speculative culture” generally. They’d still remain different in the way that architecture, design, science, and literature are different, but they’d be based on some larger zeitgeist. A philosophical unity within the living spirit of the times, as it were.
*So this would imply the necessary existence of a “philosophy fiction.” *I don’t want to declare that such a thing has actually happened, because I’m quite the flatfooted onlooker in philosophy. “Speculative Realism book series February 15, 2011 (((BEYOND THE BEYOND, your source of up-to-the-minute philosophy news.))) Feb/mar 2005. The German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk achieved much acclaim (and a wide readership) in the United States during the heyday of critical theory with the translation of his Critique of Cynical Reason (University of Minnesota Press, 1988), in which he introduced a multifaceted style of writing, freely engaging with philosophy, history, anthropology, fiction, poetry, literary theory, and colloquial language. This unique discursive repertoire was widely perceived as constituting an altogether new take on the role of philosophy, one that continues to mark his work.
If Sloterdijk's subsequently translated Thinker on Stage: Nietzsche's Materialism (University of Minnesota Press, 1989) also captured his performative philosophy (itself a continuation of the Nietzschean project that provides the book with its subject), the title was perhaps not the follow-up to Critique of Cynical Reason that American readers had expected. BF: Another post-Benjaminian book is Negri and Hardt's Empire. Speculative Realism Does Not Exist. Critical Animal has posed a series of questions to the so-called “Speculative Realists”. I’ll take a stab at trying to respond to some of them. (1) For an intellectual movement that has such a strong internet presence, why do you all have such an unhelpful wikipedia entry? No doubt this has to do with those who are writing the wiki entries. It would be rather self-indulgent to write one’s own wiki entry. (2) What are the major different currents of speculative realism? I just would not have thought to combine many of you together as part of a philosophical movement (school?
It seems to me that the major currents among the speculative realists are those of reductive materialism (Brassier), materialism (Meillassoux), object-oriented ontology (Harman, Latour, and myself), perhaps variants of vitalism (Grant?) Each one of these positions develops a positive ontology, very different from the others. I can only speak for myself with respect to Foucault. Read on! Answer: ∞ and Like this: Promiscuous Ontologies mp3. Quentin Meillassoux - After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency - Reviewed by Gabriel Riera, University of Illinois, Chicago - Philosophical Reviews - University of Notre Dame. Scientific knowledge often produces statements that refer to realities prior to the appearance of human life, such as the age of the earth and the universe, or the exact dating of a fossil whose species vanished well before human knowledge came into existence.
Such statements of astrophysics, geology, and paleontology imply a temporal discrepancy between thinking and being, between the world and the very emergence of thinking. At stake in what Quentin Meillassoux refers to as "ancestrality," the "arche-fossil," and "dia-chronicity" is the nature of empirical science in general, and most importantly, the question of the contentious relationship between philosophy and contemporary scientific discourse. Even though he begins After Finitude with a question pertaining to empirical knowledge, it soon becomes clear that, by taking the meaning of ancestral statements literally, he raises a series of issues that touch the very core of current philosophical debates.
Speculative Heresy. Collapse Vol. IV: Concept Horror - Urbanomic. 6 keys to After Finitude « Object-Oriented Philosophy.