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[ { "role": "user", "content": "TEXT: In this specific sense, philosophical intervention can be seen as self-defeating. Contrary to philosophical intervention which aims to intervene in the world, the non-philosophical subject will take the world (i.e. the empirico-transcendental doublet auto-generated by Dec...
[ { "role": "user", "content": "TEXT: In doing so, both thought and practice remove the limits imposed upon them by capitalism, framed as they were by the horizon of the capital-body. New options, unimaginable for capitalism, become available to thought and practice. The new options cannot be intentionally ac...
[ { "role": "user", "content": "TEXT: Accordingly, in the more extreme forms of speculative thought, political intervention and political analysis have been curtailed or at least have been temporarily suspended. This is because the horizon of agency (of emancipation or intervention), ontological privileges an...
[ { "role": "user", "content": "TEXT: And it is the emphasis on praxis that speeds the awakening of Capital’s sweeping whirlwind. Therefore, such an identification of capitalism has become a programmatic form of apologetics for capitalism’s ubiquity which in turn justifies the axiomatic assimilation of all pl...
[ { "role": "user", "content": "TEXT: According to this definition of capitalism, although capitalism is ultimately emancipative in terms other than those of human, it can be participated and accelerated by human and for this reason, it does not exclude an ethics or politics of praxis. Since cosmic extinction...
[ { "role": "user", "content": "TEXT: For this reason, the emerging complexity of the living agency which corresponds with its ability to temporally postpone death and convert the acquired time to capitalizable ‘interest’ for the living organism bespeaks of nothing but the affordable way to die or dissipate. ...
[ { "role": "user", "content": "TEXT: In doing so, capitalism can prevent the mobilization of that negativity as an alternative way for binding exteriority and therefore, maintains its dominantly prevalent position in regard to the human. The reason for the vigilance against alternative paths of dissipation c...
[ { "role": "user", "content": "TEXT: It is the registering of the exorbitant truth of extinction as an affordable dissipative tendency that enables the organism to actively but economically ( viz. unsuccessfully) bind extinction. And it is the economical binding of extinction as a guarantor for active dissip...
[ { "role": "user", "content": "TEXT: Lebrun accepts that one cannot ‘refute’ Hegel: the machinery of Hegel’s dialectics is so all-encompassing that nothing is easier for Hegel than to demonstrate triumphantly how all such refutations are inconsistent, to turn them against themselves —‘one cannot refute an ey...
[ { "role": "user", "content": "TEXT: The Hegelian dialectics was often — but superficially — assimilated to a mobilism. And it is undoubtedly true that the critique of the fixity of determinations can give rise to the conviction of an infinite dialectical process: the limited being has to disappear again and...
[ { "role": "user", "content": "TEXT: not the desperate wager that, retroactively, one will be able to tell a consistent all-encompassing meaningful story within which each detail will be allotted its proper place, but, on the contrary, the weird certainty (comparable to the psychoanalyst’s certainty that the...
[ { "role": "user", "content": "TEXT: And is it not true that, if there is a lesson of the twentieth century, it is that all the extreme phenomena that took place in it cannot ever be unified in a single encompassing philosophical narrative? One simply cannot write a ‘phenomenology of the twentieth century Sp...
[ { "role": "user", "content": "TEXT: But is this shift from the living gods of the real to the dead God of the Law really what happens in Christianity? Is it not that this shift already takes place in Judaism, so that the death of Christ cannot stand for this shift, but for something much more radical — prec...
[ { "role": "user", "content": "TEXT: itself? A repetition which, by its excessive insistence, precisely breaks the cycle of natural repetition? A further paradox here is that this limitation of Hegel points not only towards Freud but also towards Marx. In a certain sense, the speculative movement of Capital ...
[ { "role": "user", "content": "TEXT: In short, the dissolution of the problem of induction comprises two phases: • A phase of recomposition or reformulation of the problem, which consists in passing from an ontological question — is there something like a necessary connection between events? — to a question ...
[ { "role": "user", "content": "TEXT: If the die or the coin to which such a calculative procedure is applied always falls on the same face, one concludes by affirming that it has become highly improbable that this phenomenon is truly contingent: the coin or die is most likely loaded, that is to say, it obeys...
[ { "role": "user", "content": "TEXT: bles which it can only effectuate, but not modify. In short: I posit that the law can be related to a universe of determinate cases; I posit that there is no Universe of universes of cases; I posit that time can bring forth any non-contradictory set of possibilities. As a...
[ { "role": "user", "content": "TEXT: Neither foundation nor auto-foundation, these sciences nevertheless have a ‘suitability’, one could almost say with Plato an ‘agathon’, with and for the others, yet a non-reciprocal suitability which must be investigated. Just like a so-called ‘generic’ medicine or produc...
[ { "role": "user", "content": "TEXT: It is therefore first a question of giving to the notion of ‘generic science’ its concept, which only appears in a fuzzy set, indeterminate and at the mercy of various discourses, objects, and disciplines. These include multiple discourses of extremely different origins (...
[ { "role": "user", "content": "TEXT: So as to distinguish Man from that of humanism and the problematic of the human Sciences, we shall not call Man ‘generic’ (this would be Feuerbachian man) but ‘in-person’ (or in a substitutive and more classically metaphysical way, lest we undo this initial sense, One-in-...
[ { "role": "user", "content": "TEXT: It is obvious that only science, prior to philosophy itself, can give us a somewhat rigorous concept of the generic and define a new type of knowledge that liberates itself from reversibility and duplicity. But which scientific property? Namely what we have posited as ide...
[ { "role": "user", "content": "TEXT: 1. Reduce the super-All or the One-of-the-One which is the true content of the metaphysical ‘One;’ impoverish it as a simple One or fold it out [ déplier ], unfold/implify [ implier ] it as idempotence of the ‘One-in-One’. This is its first aspect. The Real is neither ide...
[ { "role": "user", "content": "TEXT: In order to clarify the preceding and the following, namely the radical distinction between the generic and the philosophical — their unilateral duality which we have hit upon — it must be remembered that we have substituted the philosophical and vicious auto-critique of ...
[ { "role": "user", "content": "TEXT: The effect of sterile idempotent Lived Experience is to constrain philosophy to take note of its conditions of existence or validity which it spontaneously ignores because Lived Experience refuses itself to philosophy. The universal property that transmits the generic con...
[ { "role": "user", "content": "TEXT: unilateral, the ‘for’ indicating the first access under its real form; (3) it is not exposed primarily as a supposedly empty and ‘pure subjective form of intuition’, but concretely as a ‘formal intuition’ to use Kantian terms, or, to use our terms, as a material a priori ...
[ { "role": "user", "content": "TEXT: The a priori generic announces a quasi but ‘transformed’ materialism, as Marx would say. This problem becomes complicated because the generic, which fully involves the vastest relation to science and not simply to the philosophical tradition, is sometimes caught between a...
[ { "role": "user", "content": "TEXT: Philosophy will not regain its proper status until the gradual elaboration of categoreal schemes, definitely stated at each stage of progress, is recognized as its proper objective. There may be rival schemes, inconsistent among themselves; each with its own merits and it...
[ { "role": "user", "content": "TEXT: Consequently, prior to even posing questions of knowledge, of how we can know, whether we can know, and what we can know, the would-be knower is already situated among differences. Here we encounter one reason that the Ontic Principle is formulated as it is. Situated amon...
[ { "role": "user", "content": "TEXT: In this respect, the ontology suggested by the Ontic Principle is flat rather than vertical. Rather than tracing all beings back to an “ur-being” as in the case of the vertical ontologies of ontotheology or a humanism, the ontology that follows from the Ontic Principle is...
[ { "role": "user", "content": "TEXT: the essential in univocity is not that Being is said in a single and same sense, but that it is said, in a single and same sense, of all its individuating differences or intrinsic modalities. Being is the same for all these modalities, but these modalities are not the sa...
[ { "role": "user", "content": "TEXT: Where relational ontologies have it that objects are nothing but their relations, the Principle of Act-uality suggests that the condition for the possibility of any inter-ontic relation between two objects is dependent on the affects constituting those objects. In other w...
[ { "role": "user", "content": "TEXT: The Principle of Irreduction is not a dualist thesis to the effect that mind cannot be reduced to brain. Rather, the Principle of Irreduction is a thermodynamic principle or a principle of work. In many respects, the Principle of Irreduction states nothing more than the P...
[ { "role": "user", "content": "TEXT: For Harman, there is a fundamental gap between objects as they exist in and for themselves, and the external relations into which these objects enter. ‘The basic dualism in the world lies not between spirit and nature, or phenomenon and noumenon, but between things in the...
[ { "role": "user", "content": "TEXT: Having declared all relations to be ‘vicarious’ and inessential, he gets rid of the problem of explaining them by decreeing that ‘any relation must count as a substance’ in its own right (a stipulation which, as Harman admits, could just as easily be inverted). But this m...
[ { "role": "user", "content": "TEXT: Before addressing some of Shaviro’s specific complaints, it will be helpful to describe how I see Whitehead’s position in contemporary philosophy, since this differs considerably from Shaviro’s own view of the matter. We do agree that Whitehead is of towering significance...
[ { "role": "user", "content": "TEXT: The major difference between my position on the one hand and Whitehead’s and Latour’s on the other is that objects for me must be considered apart from all of their relations (and apart from their accidents, qualities, and moments as well —but let’s keep things simple for...
[ { "role": "user", "content": "TEXT: I have already suggested that there is nothing inherently transient about relations. If we imagine an ontology of isolated, cinematic frames of time, we will find relations even there. An instantaneous tree or butterfly already has relations; it is not the passage of beco...
[ { "role": "user", "content": "TEXT: The example of the pony, in particular, shows the difference between allure and the sublime, since even the wildest aficionado of horses would surely never call a pony sublime. Shaviro realizes this, since he notes that ‘Harman includes comedy as well as tragedy, and cute...
[ { "role": "user", "content": "TEXT: But quite apart from all of this, it is the very notion of a plurality of modes of existence, each of which must be respected in its own right, that makes his strange intellectual adventure totally original. Although there was no real follow-up (the philosophy of technolo...
[ { "role": "user", "content": "TEXT: We know how much William James valued, in his description of the stream of consciousness, what he called ‘a feeling for or , a feeling for because’. Here we would be in a world where the or rather , or the because of , the for , and above all the and then, and thus , woul...
[ { "role": "user", "content": "TEXT: You can see the abyss that separates his project from the tried and true procedure of collecting categories, which goes all the way back to Aristotle: if in effect there are several ways of saying something about something, you cannot get around the fact that it is always...
[ { "role": "user", "content": "TEXT: The first mode taken up by Souriau may seem surprising. It is the phenomenon. Let us recall that Souriau (like James and Whitehead) is not operating within a bifurcated nature. What he calls the phenomenon has nothing to do with matter, with the plain empty object to be u...
[ { "role": "user", "content": "TEXT: At one time such a project would have been systematically forbidden. If something had to be added to matter, one would turn towards mind, since there was no other option. And if this mind could really attribute values, dimensions and qualities to the world, these would be...
[ { "role": "user", "content": "TEXT: ‘In what way can one say that in Don Quixote the episode with the windmills precedes that of the galley-slaves?’ In a philosophy of being as other, continuity is never an acquired right, status, or effect of a substratum. Rather, it is always a result that causes one, app...
[ { "role": "user", "content": "TEXT: One does not have the right to speak philosophically of a being as real if, at the same time as one says that one has found in it a type of direct or intrinsic truth (I mean its way of being in its maximum state of present lucidity), one does not also say on what plane of...
[ { "role": "user", "content": "TEXT: To do so, we can begin by remarking that the critical gesture tends to present itself as a healthy way of overcoming a supposed crisis. The pathetic announcement of a crisis seems to be the necessary prolegomenon to an articulated set of reactive ‘critical’ operations, su...
[ { "role": "user", "content": "TEXT: Yet a philosophy capable of overcoming a critical moment and absolving itself of the transcendental limitations that follow must by definition be, as was the case for German idealism, an absolute philosophy of the absolute. By absolutely modern philosophy we mean a philos...