Author Archives: terenceblake

“Bryant is thrashing within the grips of the ascetic will, as Nietzsche described it”. I think Jason was making a valid point here, neither dogmatic nor servile nor even lacking in civility. We should distinguish being critical from being uncivil. … Continue reading →

JTH at atheology has given a very fair and open-minded reply to my remarks on the battle for cognitive hegemony (originally a comment to his post on verificationism), expressing his reservations about Deleuze and Guattari’s narrative of the attempt to … Continue reading →

Reblogged from BillRoseThorn: This time from his latest God and Mythico-Poetic Thought. Rather than reject religion outright, how about rejecting the monotheism that requires inward directed souls/subjects to declare their belief in a perfect God? The internalized desire of the … Continue reading →

Levi Bryant has posted some rather dogmatic and reductionistic aphorisms expressing his extrapolations of conclusions taken not from science itself but from his own rather confused hermeneutics of science. Bryant has been through a long intellectual apprenticeship, involving harrowing work … Continue reading →

Deleuze talks about the struggle for primacy in terms of the aspiration of various discipines to become “the official language of a Pure State” (DIALOGUES, 13). Thus in the French context the ancient supremacy of philosophy has been superseded by … Continue reading →

I am toying with the idea that if you take the idea of SF as cognitive estrangement you get to a vision somewhere in between sf and fantasy. If the “estrangement” is not just at the level of specific devices … Continue reading →

Reblogged from The Kindly Ones: Emmanuel Levinas directly challenges the predominant philosophical thinking (certainly as it has evolved in the West) when he insists upon ethics as first philosophy;1 when he maintains that ethics is prior to, has priority over, … Continue reading →

I think that Andrew Gibson is right to emphasise that the concept of hermeneutics is crucial. Harman is in denial of hermeneutics, and as with his denegation of epistemology, ends up doing bad hermeneutics. His hermeneutics of Eddington’s text is … Continue reading →

Reblogged from Wetwiring: I am responding here to some of the comments made by Terence Blake to the second part of my review of Graham Harman’s The Quadruple Object here. In my post, I bemoaned the fact that Harman very often … Continue reading →

I have gathered together and slightly updated a few things. This is a first draft, and any help or comments will be appreciated.