Archives mensuelles : janvier 2013

I think that the OOO use of the word « correlation » is not ordinary, and the seeming circle of emprisonment it describes is more a Wittgensteinian « cramp » or contraction produced and propagated by those who pretend to show us the way … Lire la suite →

I see no reason to regard internal realism as correlationist, when it was elaborated to deal with the sorts of worries that the correlologists (those who believe in the notion of correlation) raise post festum, and Harman’s notion of the non-absolute … Lire la suite →

Jm Lacrosse poses the interesting idea that for Laruelle  » the table in-last-instance is not a table anymore, the table can only be said as table through the determination of a specific philosophy. There is no table in itself in Real … Lire la suite →

My feeling about the use of the word « correlation » changed as a result of reading the excellent article by Katerina Kolozova on Laruelle’s non-marxism and on the need for monstrously radical concepts. It confirmed my feeling that the OOOxians’ concept … Lire la suite →

The desire to escape from enslavement to traditional transcendental schemas of conceptuality, to be free from the domination of transcendence and of onto-theology, to make the leap into pure immanence, explains why some of us were initially attracted by the … Lire la suite →

I found Anthony Paul Smith’s talk on Laruelle and the Speculative Turn very interesting, but also very puzzling, especially if one compares the position attributed to Laruelle with Graham Harman’s position in THE THIRD TABLE. Harman’s position is one of … Lire la suite →

Another interesting talk by APS on Laruelle and the Speculative Turn here. He makes much use of Louis Morelle’s paper on Speculative Realism. Anthony for some reason keeps talking about chairs, but to align his talk with the example used … Lire la suite →

update: John Mullarkey has replied and Virgilio Rivas has made some very interesting comments. Adrian from Schizosophy has launched an interesting critique of non-philosophy in a discussion on facebook, in response to a quote I translated from Laruelle. I copy … Lire la suite →

Anthony Paul Smith in his recent lecture on Laruelle’s Ethical Theory confirms the ongoing analysis on this blog of Laruelle as a pluralist: « I wouldn’t say that Laruelle is a relativist in some kind of recognisable Anglophone sense…he’s really a … Lire la suite →

Ceci est une réponse au commentaire que Jean-Clet Martin a bien voulu faire de mon article « Pluralisme contemporain« . Voici son commentaire: « Ma question était « sommes-nous condamnés à la forme accidentelle de la « liste » en cherchant à déterminer la … Lire la suite →