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Guest Writer: Alexander Verney-Elliott
Alexander Verney-Elliott (M.A. Contemporary European Thought), my partner in life, recently wrote this interesting piece that deals with ‘Speculative Realism’ Alexander Verney-Elliott Objects have no...
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Graham Harman’s Fashionable Fascism; Or On Being ‘a Heideggerian’
“In recent years [Martin Heidegger] has allowed his anti-Semitism to come increasingly to the fore, even in his dealings with his groups of devoted Jewish students… The events of the last few weeks...
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Stupidly Stumbling Through Time
Eilif discusses his limited understanding of time, and pleads for a collaborator-physicist (theoretical) for an imagination-speculation project on temporality. Nonsense! Proceed: Fermions, bosons and...
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Graham Harman’s OOO
I wasn’t going to post this on my blog, and recorded it some time ago. With renewed debate about Graham Harman’s object-oriented ontology, I am putting this short analysis of Harman’s...
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The Internet and the Changing Aesthetics of Living
Hyper-Mobile Connectivity Below, Eilif Verney-Elliott argues for a psychoanalytical-philosophical examination of the ‘nebulous circuit board of capitalism,’ a system where all of us are implicated or,...
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Zizek, Badiou and Philosophy, A Critique
“The consistent anarchist, then, should be a socialist, but a socialist of a particular sort. He will not only oppose alienated and specialized labor and look forward to the appropriation of capital by...
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Speculative Realism, A Critique
“Social and political issues in general seem to me fairly simple; the effort to obfuscate them in esoteric and generally vacuous theory is one of the contributions of the intelligentsia to enhancing...
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Speculative Realism? Desecration, Time and Scatological Investigations
(1) To ‘take place’ is both a temporal (took, take, taken) and a spatial relational statement. More formally, it has two signifiers that release themselves into a potential for an infinite string(s)...
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Queer Theory: Scatological Investigations, Performative Politics and New Age...
“If people listen to me its because there is always a small crowd around an accident” – Georges Bataille At base, I am attempting, hesitatingly creating a new queer theoretical analytic of the...
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A Sketch: Capitalism and Its Discontents, On Anarcho-Socialism
Communism is togetherness – the Mitsein, the being-with – understood as the belonging to existence of the individuals, which means, in the existential meaning, to their essence. Society means an...
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The Sensation of the Corpse, Note 19
If what Freud discovered, and rediscovers ever more abruptly, has a meaning, it is that the signifier’s displacement determines subjects’ acts, destiny, refusals, blindnesses, success, and fate,...
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Speculative Realism – What is the reality of a sphere?
“And so man, as existing transcendence abounding in and surpassing toward possibilities, is a creature of distance. Only through the primordial distances he establishes toward all being in his...
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