Non-standard anti-capitalist philosophy publication.
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In the essay “Existence and Death,” Alain Badiou presents a critique of what he calls “ante-predicative” theories of death. These theories secretly elevate death into a constitutive power lying beneath or beyond determinate beings. Whether in the guise of Bergsonian life, Heideggerian finitude, Sartrean nothingness, or Deleuzian becoming, death ceases to be a simple limit…
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The chosen title anticipates the movement: in 1982, Jacques Derrida delivered a lecture titled On a Newly Arisen Apocalyptic Tone in Philosophy, itself inspired by Kant’s 1796 essay On a Newly Arisen Superior Tone in Philosophy. In that lecture, Derrida picks a fight with the philosophy of his time, attacking the apocalyptic tone of endings…
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Before learning about the philosophical grounding of John Cage’s 4’33 minutes of ‘silence’, i recalled my base, almost thoughtless, quasi-physiological, naïve, reactions. I asked myself: How far this game is allowed to proceed, and how many players are allowed at the table? To elaborate: What about full 2-3 hours “Concerts of Silence,” with each piece…
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Desire has a mimetic component, as Girard reminds us, and above all, it is never disconnected from its cultural, social, and political context. This makes it, on the one hand, an experience that is also collective and, on the other, one that responds to the most individualistic principles[2] of human beings. Capitalism and political propaganda…
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Tiqqun is the name of a small group of intellectuals whose existence is recalled to us today essentially by the trace left behind in the two issues of the review of the same name. Appearing at the turn of the twenty-first century, it was a highly “intellectual” militant review, with genuinely dense philosophical content that…
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Firstly, what is the Jewish Question? In its simplest form, the question goes along the lines of: “What are we to do with the Jews?” Secondly, who asks the Jewish Question? Whom does it target? Historically speaking, the “we” that requires the Jews as the object of “our” question is the modern, nominally secular, European…
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The planet is burning. The ice is melting, the waters are rising, the atmosphere is changing. Capital has run the same feedback loop for three hundred years now. Colonial matrices that were intended to have disappeared continue to produce the same types of corpses in the same patterns. Fascism is back. Not as a historical…
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One of the four contributors to the 2007 Goldsmiths conference on Speculative Realism,[1] Ray Brassier occupies an important place among a diverse group of thinkers who have argued for realist alternatives to philosophies of subjectivity, finitude and deconstruction that had been core to post-Kantian continental philosophy for some years. Some of these new realisms have sought…
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“Man by nature is a political animal.”[1] This well-known statement from Aristotle’s Politics serves as the foundation behind what makes man and the concept of the Political something that is worth preserving as sacred values in the tradition of not only western philosophy and thought but civilization in general for more than over 2 millenniums.…
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Following Gödel’s famous results, any theory capable of carrying the most basic of maths, Arithmetic, is deemed to be either inconsistent or incomplete. At the very beginning, this position set the math world on fire because it shattered the Hilbertian dream of a logical grounding of mathematics. One of the problems was that, at the…
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