Lectures in Philosophy
“In 1919, friends of Professor George Holmes Howison, many of whom had also been his students, established the Howison Lectures in Philosophy at the University of California. In their bequest, the...
View ArticleThe Transcendental Materialist Logic of Enlightenment in a Hegelian Sense
The relationship between the subject and power is a theme that has played a significant role in determining the direction of European thought since Nietzsche, Marx, and Freud weighed in on the scene....
View ArticleRay Brassier in conversation with Thomas Metzinger
Picture by Alex Woodward @ Crimson Glow Photography / Arika Ray Brassier: I am going to begin, first of all, by talking about, or asking Thomas about the concept of transparency. The title of this...
View ArticleDerrida and Laruelle in Conversation
Controversy over the Possibility of a Science of Philosophy Jacques Derrida and François Laruelle Translated by Ray Brassier JD: Mines is not an easy task. After what you’ve just heard, you can see the...
View ArticleThe Future History of a Non-Reductive Philosophical Agenda
Situating Neuroscience in the Context of Transcendental Realism/Materialism and Non-Reductive Naturalism Inferential Rationality The question I had in mind as I was in search of funding for a research...
View ArticleNihilizmin Önlenemez Yükselişi Karşısında Ne Yapmalı İnsan Olan?
Sözün bitmeye, kelimelerinse kifayetsiz kalmaya yüz tuttuğu yerdeyiz aslında. Gün geçtikçe artan bir hızla boğulmaya devam ediyoruz bu lânetli coğrafyada. Umutsuzluktan depresyona, oradan da...
View ArticleThe Collapse of Change: A View from the Future
Originally posted on synthetic zerø: https://vimeo.com/147024385
View ArticleA New Low For Humanity
Take a look at these pictures and ask yourself, why has humanity become so heartless? And more importantly, why do our governments not carry out anything to help these victims of this endless war in...
View ArticleZero Cult ~ Heartwork
On the eve of philosophy and beyond it the logic of sense lost itself in calculations without end, only to find itself in this poetic time of truth eternally dismembered…
View ArticleAppeal by Sartre, Foucault, Guattari, Deleuze and others on imprisonment of...
In 1977 Sartre, Foucault, Guattari, Deleuze, Barthes, and others wrote an open letter protesting about the imprisonment and investigation of a number of Italian intellectuals, including ‘Bifo’ (Franco...
View ArticleAcademics Including Harvey, Chomsky, Ali and Balibar: We will not be a party...
“A petition entitled “We will not be a party to this crime”, calling on PM Erdogan and the Turkish government to stop the unlawful curfews in Kurdish cities that have caused many civilian deaths, was...
View ArticleAltering the Supposedly Predestined Future
The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living. ~ Karl Marx We live on the cusp of things, an age when the human Anthroposcene is giving way to the inhuman....
View ArticleHermetico-Promethean Postnihilism
To begin at the beginning we shall say that philosophy is the dialectical process of truth in time, it is an infinite questioning of that which is known, a continuity in change of the unknown, a...
View ArticleEthics of the Anthropocene?
Originally posted on Dr. Rinaldi's Horror Cabinet: …the “ancient wound” that, never healed, “lets . . . the stars / Into the animal-stinking ghost-ridden darkness”… ……– Robinson Jeffers This morning I...
View ArticleNihil Unbound: Subtractive Ontology and Thinking Capital
Originally posted on Total Assault On Culture: Here is my exegesis of Ray Brassier’s compelling conjectural reversal that moves from thinking Capital to the bold conclusion that Capital thinks. In his...
View ArticlePostnihilistic Speculations: The Ontology of Non-Being
Originally posted on Dr. Rinaldi's Horror Cabinet: For speculation which founded itself on the radical falsity of the Principle of Sufficient Reason would describe an absolute which would not constrain...
View ArticleAlain Badiou: The Frustration of a Desire for the West Opens Up a Space to...
This is a translation of Badiou’s recent interview with the French daily Libération on his new book about Terrorism and Global Capitalism entitled Notre mal vient de plus loin: penser la tuerie du 13...
View ArticleZizek and Badiou on Philosophy and Psychoanalysis (Videos)
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