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Reblogged from Intra-Being: I managed to get Cosmopolitics II back from a friend the other day and was led to revisit the last book in the series: The Curse of Tolerance. In the meanwhile, those sections of the interweb I … Continue reading →

Very interesting discussion over Deleuze’s views on the relation between philosophical concepts and scientific categories at Footnotes to Plato. I agree with Matt that Deleuze was trying to provide a metaphysics for science and so was criticising the representationalism and … Continue reading →

Reblogged from Fractal Ontology: Royal science is inseparable from a “hylomorphic” model implying both a form that organizes matter, and a matter prepared for the form; it has often been shown that this schema derives less from technology or life … Continue reading →

“Bryant is thrashing within the grips of the ascetic will, as Nietzsche described it” (see comments section here) I think Jason was making a valid point here, neither dogmatic nor servile nor even lacking in civility. We should distinguish being … 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 Thus in the French context the ancient supremacy of philosophy has been superseded by … Continue reading →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 →