Archives mensuelles : avril 2014

Text originally presented at the February 2009 symposium on Peter Greenaway’s films at the University of Nice, and published in CYCNOS, Volume 26 n°1: Peter Greenaway. Abstract: In this text I consider Peter Greenaway’s film The Falls as an extended … Lire la suite →

« Deleuze’s fundamental problem is most certainly not to liberate the multiple but to submit thinking to a renewed concept of the One…We can therefore first state that one must carefully identify a metaphysics of the One in the work of … Lire la suite →

I have been discussing Laruelle’s preface to THE PRINCIPLE OF MINORITY (one could also translate this title as THE MINORITY PRINCIPLE, on the analogy with the pleasure-principle and the reality-principle), a book which inaugurated a whole new phase in his … Lire la suite →

Laruelle’s THE PRINCIPLE OF MINORITY was published in February 1981, and it is the first book in his Philosophy II phase. It expresses a disappointment in the philosophies of difference and Laruelle’s enchantment by « the Absolute as such ». This disappointment … Lire la suite →

In his preface to THE PRINCIPLE OF MINORITY, published in French in 1981, situates his thought in relation to the philosophical context. He talks of working towards a possible encounter between pluralism, in danger of being conflated with relativism, and … Lire la suite →

Graham Harman’s philosophy of science promulgates an absolute difference between the « real » object as posited in his philosophy and the « sensual » object, i.e. both the theoretical object of science and the ideological object of common sense and of the humanities. … Lire la suite →

Bruno Latour writes about the “popularizer…dumbfounded by the multiplicity of quantum worlds” (AN INQUIRY INTO MODES OF EXISTENCE, 119) believing that the common sense world has the simplicity of Euclidean space filled with familiar solid objects. If we accept this … Lire la suite →

Graham Harman’s metaphysics and epistemology are monist: there is a realm of sensual objects, simulacra stemming from and giving rise to a plurality of apparent knowledges. But reality itself, the realm of real objects, is a withdrawn absolute outside our … Lire la suite →

Very interesting and well-argued paper by Christopher Watkin. His concept of a necessary, and non-harmful, “primo-anthropocentrism” is close to what Mehdi Belhaj Kacem calls a “necessary anthropologism” that he ties to the existence of Badiousian truth-events (or paradigm change). For … Lire la suite →