Archives mensuelles : mars 2017

Laruelle’s method proceeds by stipulation and supplementation, rather than by dialogue demonstration. This is not necessarily a bad thing, as long as one is willing to admit that the propositions proferred are heuristic suggestions for further research rather than worked … Lire la suite →

I was into Lacan from 1975 to 1979 and then became disgusted with the dogmatic exclusive use of his thought, to the point that I moved from Sydney to Paris in 1980 to get away from that form of provincial … Lire la suite →

The problem with Bruno Latour’s style is largely due to his anxiety of influence and his consequent covering his tracks by changing the terminology and hiding the concepts by means of a seemingly de-concepted « infra-language ». This is motivated by his … Lire la suite →

Latour’s well-known opposition to critique is a pretence. Noone critiques as ferociously as Latour, only his de-concepted surface is « diplomatic ». For example, Latour is very critical of both naive realism and relativism, arguing in favour of a realist pluralism. I … Lire la suite →

Another example of de-philosophisation is the way Latour is read and sometimes even defended in English. This reception represents all the worst excesses of banal relativism couched in borrowed French jargon. This is a reading that Latour has gone to … Lire la suite →

The problem with Laruelle’s attempt to escape from philosophical sufficiency is that he is only able to do so under the sign of a sketchy fusion, or suture, between philosophy and one or other of its conditions. This inevitably results … Lire la suite →

In the current state of anglophone Laruelle studies it is impossible to separate pseudo-science, crypto-religion, and quasi-fiction from real scholarship. This is not so much an issue of translation as of cultural transposition. Laruelle’s Anglophone followers tend to have a … Lire la suite →

It has been argued that Latin is not a dead language but that it has survived and continues to be spoken today in various forms (French, Italian, Spanish, etc.). The same can also be said of Deleuze’s thought. His philosophy … Lire la suite →

I am dissatisfied with the analyses of those writers who create a demarcation in Lovecraft between the pure horror works and the dream cycle. The same noetic estrangement underlies both, and the privileging of the horror over the dream excludes … Lire la suite →