Archives mensuelles : octobre 2014

If we accept Lyotard’s idea that the breaking up of any Grand Narrative is the anti-platonic lesson of our post-modern world then we are left with the problem that the proliferation of singularities and multiplicities, of fluxes and events, which … Lire la suite →

Mehdi Belhaj Kacem argues that the quest for newness which characterises modernity has led to a lowering of intensity, a generalised depression. The solution he proposes is not to replace the quest for the new with something else, which would … Lire la suite →

Very interesting post combining the intellectual with the existential.

I just listened to a radio interview with Mehdi Belhaj Kacem and Tristan Garcia on the occasion of the publication of a new book L’ALGÈBRE DE LA TRAGÉDIE, containing the last chapter of Belhaj Kacem’s book L’ESPRIT DU NIHILISME (2009) … Lire la suite →

An interesting difference between Wolfendale’s explorations of Harman’s contradictory theory of time and my own analysis can be seen in his desperate attempt to construct a logic that would make sense of Harman’s seeming contradictions. We both agree that there … Lire la suite →

I have thanked Katerina Kolozova several times on this blog (for example in this post, here and here) for having provided interesting and useful conceptual content, from a broadly Laruellian perspective, to the term « correlation ». Her usage gives the term … Lire la suite →

I did not like Brassier’s postface as much as Wolfendale’s preface, no doubt because he combines his personal anamnesis of an ex-speculative realist with what I regard as a completely false historical narrative about the omnipresence of a correlationist orthodoxy … Lire la suite →

Wolfendale’s conflation of pluralism and correlationism leads him to claim this sceptico-critical alliance of strong correlationism and radical pluralism constitutes the reigning doxa of the Continental tradition in the latter half of the twentieth century », but he continues « that is … Lire la suite →

In his book OBJECT-ORIENTED PHILOSOPHY: THE NOUMENON’S NEW CLOTHES Pete Wolfendale asserts that « pluralism motivates strong correlationism » (346). He sees the break with correlationism that he desires to accomplish as being a break with pluralism and a return to universalism … Lire la suite →

My analysis of OOO differs from Wolfendale’s in that he tries to reconstruct a single coherent ontology of OOO whereas I think that Harman proposes, as if they were one, at least three different ontologies. My reserve about Pete Wolfendale’s … Lire la suite →