Archives mensuelles : mars 2014

Thanks to everyone who responded with encouragement and kind words. I feel the need to change my way of interacting with the ideas and people I encounter on the internet. Bernard Stiegler this year in his seminar is talking a … Lire la suite →

Initialement publié sur PHILOSOPHY IN A TIME OF ERROR :
It was wonderful to meet some good friends in Dublin–a really incisive collective of people. (Greatly, Paul Ennis turned out to be as nihilistic and funny as I found him in…

If there is anyone who wishes that I continue my blog, even without agreeing with me, please click like, as I am sick of being boycotted and may stop.

In Levi Bryant’s terms, the « obscurantists » (who are everywhere) are those who think that materialism is « reductionist ». Yet Bryant does not distinguish between different forms of reductionism, and a non-materialist philosopher like Harman could easily respond with a tu quoque, … Lire la suite →

ONTO-PARANOIA: THE HEGEMONY OF BAD ONTOLOGIES The introduction to Levi Bryant’s new book begins with a condemnation of the « obscurantists », who « argue that materialism is reductive, mechanistic » (ONTO-CARTOGRAPHY, 1). This is in line with Bryant’s defence of a hard and … Lire la suite →

In this text (revised and completed) I consider the contradiction between Levi Bryant’s desire to inherit and carry further certain progressive post-structuralist themes and his allegiance to the regressive schemas of object-oriented ontology. https://www.academia.edu/6465110/ONTO-CARTOGRAPHY_OR_ONTO-NOSTALGIA_Notes_on_Levi_Bryants_ONTO-CARTOGRAPHY

Graham Harman introduced the pathological notion of withdrawal to reconfine speculative realism (without the scare-quotes or capital letters) inside the monist prison, arguing that this imprisonment was necessary to permit us to escape the constructivist nightmare. « Withdrawal », whether strong (as … Lire la suite →

My research on this blog has centered on recent contributions to post-monist ontological thought (Latour, Laruelle, Stiegler, Dreyfus and Kelly, Pickering) conjoined to a non-scientistic epistemological paradigm. During the post-structuralist period (Deleuze, Lyotard, Serres, but also Feyerabend and Rorty) it … Lire la suite →

Absract: Levi Bryant is unable to live up to the goals of his own philosophical project, and his texts are a dissatisfying mixture of conceptual incoherence, critiques of nonexistent adversaries, confusion between stipulative definitions and concrete theses about the world, … Lire la suite →

The official meta-language of OOO reduces everything to “objects” (and their relations). To be precise we should call these entities proposed by the meta-linguistic model “meta-objects”. The ontological instantiation of that meta-ontology promoted by Graham Harman is that these meta-objects … Lire la suite →