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, […]
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S.C Hickman on The Machinic Unconscious
[Bernard Stiegler] relates that the automated processes implemented by algorithmic governmentality to Félix Guattari’s concepts of molecular machinic unconscious and machinic enslavement. The example used by Guattari for machinic enslavement […]
Unknowing and the Anosognosia of Everyday Life
Excepts From Interviews with David Dunning and V.S. Ramachandran Many have argued that human rationality grants us special access to the depths of psychological and metaphysical realities. Current advances in […]
Ontology as Embodied Cognitive Action?
In the comment section of a previous post I made the following claim: I’m a little worried about making a strong distinction between ‘knowing’ and ‘doing’. Knowing and communicating are also […]
Rhythm and Animality in Merleau-Ponty’s Ontology of the Flesh
One of the stereotypical notions that are used to characterize the post-modern turn is that “It” championed the end of grand/meta-narratives, but it might be more useful these days to […]
To Cultivate An Active Suicidality: possibility and suicide
Introduction In this essay I want to discuss suicide from within a Heideggerian perspective as a form of freedom. In doing so I will be making the distinction between suicide-as-event […]
Guattari’s Schizoanalytic Cartographies
Originally posted on Continental Drift:
or, the Pathic Core at the Heart of Cybernetics [This text was developed through a large number of improvised presentations. Thanks to all who listened…
Deleuze’s Politics: Psychoanalysis, Anthropology, and Nomadology
Daniel W Smith discussed Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s works Anti-Oedipus & A Thousand Plateaus at the Collegium Phaenomenologicum 2009. Smith, a professor of philosophy at Purdue University, is a […]
