Archives mensuelles : janvier 2015

Badiou links the various anti-philosophical themes of chance, risk, freedom, and change to the notion of negation: « one can say that I am pursuing from one end of my philosophical enterprise to the other … a meditation on negation. I … Lire la suite →

Continuing in this Deleuzian vein, Badiou presents his philosophy of real happiness as a philosophy of desire. He claims to « take from poetry » the idea that philosophy « as oriented towards the universality of happiness » has four fundamental dimensions: revolt, logic, … Lire la suite →

« I will speak about anti-philosophy … Pascal, Rousseau, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Lacan. My thesis is that these antiphilosophers … are necessary for us, so that our classicism will not be transformed into academicism, which is the principal enemy of philosophy, … Lire la suite →

This is my completed review of Wolfendale’s book on Harman’s OOO. The book is quite interesting, but ultimately disappointing. Wolfendale has too much in common with Harman to provide a convincing alternative. I like the defence of speculation, but not … Lire la suite →

The perceptive reader was able to perceive that OOO was an imposture years ago, and Graham Harman’s philosophy was born refuted. But with the rise to popularity and the passage of time Harman became over-confident, expressing the basic structure of … Lire la suite →

Wolfendale’s critiques of OOP quite often do not originate with him, his book assembles in one place many criticisms of Harman’s system that have already been made by others, from its beginning up to now. Where Wolfendale’s text differs is … 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 did not like Ray Brassier’s postface to the book as much as Wolfendale’s preface, no doubt because in it he combines his own personal anamnesis as an ex-speculative realist with the promulgation of what I regard as a completely … Lire la suite →

An image of the alternative doxa, or non-correlationist “counter-image” of thought, favoured by Wolfendale can supposedly be found in the dialogue between Deleuze and Badiou, where he praises their substantial and “non-metaphorical” use of mathematics (353-354). He seems to see … Lire la suite →

Although we share similar experiences of the OOO community, my analysis of Harman’s OOO differs from Wolfendale’s. He tries to reconstruct a single coherent ontology of OOO whereas I think that Harman proposes, as if they were one, at least … Lire la suite →