Archives mensuelles : juin 2012

This is a translation of the second half of Stiegler’s third class. It discusses a change in the meaning of the dialectic, and the triumph of synchronic order over diachronic processes of individuation. Here:03 third class seminar 2012 part 2 … Lire la suite →

This is a translation of the first part of Stiegler’s third class. It discusses Derrida, Deleuze, and the limits of deconstruction in relation to Plato’s PHAEDRUS and REPUBLIC. 03 third class of seminar 2012 part 1 or here:

En attendant le nouveau livre de Bruno Latour, ENQUETES SUR LES MODES D’EXISTENCE, à paraître en septembre 2012, je voudrais examiner quelques points de convergence et de divergence entre la pensée de Latour et celle de Feyerabend. NB: Je suis … Lire la suite →

As I explained in a previous post, I have been following Bernard Stiegler’s online seminar on re-reading Plato’s REPUBLIC and PHAEDRUS in relation to tne new digital technologies that are revolutionising our lives. Stiegler has kindly consented to my publishing … Lire la suite →

Initialement publié sur Perverse Egalitarianism :
Certain realists (or, rather, « realists ») simply proclaim what the world is like, what it consists of, what sort of stuff is real (or, rather, « real ») – without even a hint of argumentation or even decency…

Bernard Stiegler is one of the most interesting philosophers alive today and his recent work concerns the creation of a neuro-politics. Stiegler is now thinking about the problems posed by the power and the impact of digital technologies, and is … Lire la suite →

Ernst Mach is often seen as a precursor of the logical positivists, an exponent of the idea that « things » are logical constructions built up out of the sensory qualities that compose the world, mere bundles of sensations. He would thus … Lire la suite →

We have seen that Harman operates a reduction of the world to objects and their qualities, in a gesture which claims to be primarily ontological and not epistemological ( he is wrong in this claim, and we have seen with … Lire la suite →

In WORD AND OBJECT the philosopher and logician Willard Van Orman Quine proposes a technique called « semantic ascent » to resolve certain problems in philosophy. This technique invites us to formulate our philosophical problems no longer in material terms, as questions … Lire la suite →

Bill Benzon’s critique of gorillationism was at its peak: when David Golumbia strengthened the case by posing the question: Is OOO making us stupid? Timothy Morton replied with a resounding « YES!«