Archives mensuelles : octobre 2016

It can be a good idea to start at the end and work back. This would mean first reading the short essay « Postscript on societies of control » followed by the transcripts of Gilles Deleuze’s ABC Primer and the corresponding videos … Lire la suite →

Recently, I have been trying to synthesise the conclusions of my six years of philosophical blogging. One of the philosophies that I engaged with at the beginning was OOO. I wanted to include it in my synthesis, but it is … Lire la suite →

For Zizek DISPARITIES is an act of « philosophical warfare ». It is a political intervention in the domain of philosophy, in favour of a « new practice of philosophy ». Zizek agrees with Althusser’s thesis that philosophy is class struggle in the field … Lire la suite →

Zizek’s argument with OOO concerns the difference between the speculative judgement and the reductive judgement, and the impossibility of reductionism. He cites Hegel’s statement « Spirit is a bone » as an example of a judgement that at first sight seems to … Lire la suite →

Zizek continues his exploration of the impasses of OOO by examining its passage from subject to substance. His argument here is that far from escaping the problematic of the subject (which Meillassoux draws from Althusser and re-names « correlationism ») OOO reinforces … Lire la suite →

I argue that Deleuze already anticipated and drawn the practical implications of Laruelle’s « non-philosophical » critique of philosophies of Difference long before Laruelle published his  critique. Deleuze’s collaboration with Guattari amounted to effecting the passage from a philosophy of difference to … Lire la suite →

According to Zizek OOO has an irremediably incoherent view of language as containing two contradictory poles. Language is firstly a purely sensual construct comprising intrinsic perversions, antagonisms, and distortions – but also miraculously contains a referential pole or function. Note: … Lire la suite →

In the introduction and the first chapter to DISPARITIES Zizek has emphasised that his work is not only to be understood in terms of ideological critique but also as ontological critique. He is not just a  media critic or a … Lire la suite →

Sometimes one begins a conversation on social networks and after a few short exchanges it suddenly stops, your interlocutor rejects what you have been saying with a short sharp rejoinder, like a verbal slap in the face. What is to … Lire la suite →

Nobody would ever write a book on the « dark » Zizek as, following in Lacan’s footsteps, he systematically highlights dark options and terminology. In contrast, Deleuze, like Jung, is both dark and bright. The Shadow for Jung, but Deleuze too talks … Lire la suite →