Dead Subjects: On Heretical Defiance and Fabricated Philosophy
“What is the difference between a subsumed individual and the human-in-person? Only an axiomatic gesture of heretical defiance…” – Patrick Jennings
Category Archives: Brassier
Promethean and Posthuman Improvisation and Time
Dr David Roden has worked for the Open University as a lecturer and associate lecturer. His published work has addressed the relationship between deconstruction and analytic philosophy, philosophical naturalism, the […]
Terminal Abstraction and the Radically Human
What follows is a response to a point made by David Roden in the post “Against Non-Philosophical Humanism“. I am not critiquing the Post-humanist stance as such, though. I found […]
Ray Brassier: Marx & Philosophy
RAY BRASSIER: MARX & PHILOSOPHY The New Centre for Research & Practice – Streamed live on Jan 20, 2018 DESCRIPTION: Marx’s analysis of capital continues to haunt contemporary theoretical discourse. As […]
Steven Shaviro on Brassier and Land
Steven Shaviro on Ray Brassier on Nick Land: Ray Brassier and Nick Land “Against this widely-shared idea of desire’s infinitude, what I am calling neo-aestheticism understands desire as being finite, […]
Re-conceptualizing Zero; or: Zero-stroke
Tonight, I want to talk about zero (big props to Petra for the music). To be honest, I’ve resisted the exploration of zero for some time, despite it being part of the […]
Ray Brassier on Real Subsumption
Subsumption is the process by which the social relations of production penetrate the labour process itself. Marx distinguishes between the “formal” and “real” subsumption of the labour process by capital. […]
The Persistence of Belief
The elimination and ratification of belief The problem of nihilism is also the problem of belief. If our highest values have corroded and our firmest foundations have been removed from […]
Ray Brassier – Nominalism, Naturalism and Materialism
Ray Brassier (b.1965) is a member of the philosophy faculty at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, known for his work in philosophical realism. He was formerly Research Fellow at […]
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