Category Archives: Philosophy and Literature
Mortal, All Too Mortal: Nihilistic Speculations from Dr. Lawgiverz (3)
If you were to ask me at gunpoint, like Hollywood producers who are too stupid to read books and say, “give me the punchline,” and were to demand, “Three sentences. What are you really trying to do?” I would
Mortal, All Too Mortal: Nihilistic Speculations from Dr. Lawgiverz (3)
If you were to ask me at gunpoint, like Hollywood producers who are too stupid to read books and say, “give me the punchline,” and were to demand, “Three sentences. What are you really trying to do?” I would
Nature, Culture, and Lacan
To have dismantled love in order to become capable of a greater loving. To have dismantled one’s self in order finally to be alone and meet the true double at the other end of the line. A clandestine passenger on
Nature, Culture, and Lacan
To have dismantled love in order to become capable of a greater loving. To have dismantled one’s self in order finally to be alone and meet the true double at the other end of the line. A clandestine passenger on
Thinking the uncommon (via Indecent Bazaar)
In one of the most interesting post I have encountered recently in the blogosphere–Object-Oriented Psychoanalysis and Derridean Deconstruction–Cengiz Erdem argues that the common things of everyday existence are produced out of the depressive position or abnormalities. As the author comments,
Thinking the uncommon (via Indecent Bazaar)
In one of the most interesting post I have encountered recently in the blogosphere–Object-Oriented Psychoanalysis and Derridean Deconstruction–Cengiz Erdem argues that the common things of everyday existence are produced out of the depressive position or abnormalities. As the author comments,
A Pineal Eye Soliloquy, or, The Critique of Surrealism Continued
Image via Wikipedia Mimicry is a definitive word for the operations of Surrealist aesthetics and it enters the scene through the Surrealist publication Minotaure. Roger Caillois defines mimicry as the activity through which the eye becomes a camera reproducing itself
A Pineal Eye Soliloquy, or, The Critique of Surrealism Continued
Image via Wikipedia Mimicry is a definitive word for the operations of Surrealist aesthetics and it enters the scene through the Surrealist publication Minotaure. Roger Caillois defines mimicry as the activity through which the eye becomes a camera reproducing itself
Graham Harman: The Object Smasher; or, the rhetorics of rubble (via Dark Chemistry)
Here is another nice post from Dark Chemistry on Graham Harman as smasher of objects, which he opens with a fine quote from one of my articles on Artaud, Deleuze, will to nothingness and literature. life span of a full moon.
Graham Harman: The Object Smasher; or, the rhetorics of rubble (via Dark Chemistry)
Here is another nice post from Dark Chemistry on Graham Harman as smasher of objects, which he opens with a fine quote from one of my articles on Artaud, Deleuze, will to nothingness and literature. life span of a full moon.
“Where would I go, if I could go, who would I be, if I could be, what would I say, if I had a voice, who says this saying it’s me?” (Beckett – 2)
Where would I go, if I could go, who would I be, if I could be, what would I say, if I had a voice, who says this saying it’s me? Answer simply. It’s the same old stranger as ever,
“Where would I go, if I could go, who would I be, if I could be, what would I say, if I had a voice, who says this saying it’s me?” (Beckett – 2)
Where would I go, if I could go, who would I be, if I could be, what would I say, if I had a voice, who says this saying it’s me? Answer simply. It’s the same old stranger as ever,
Krapp’s Last Tape (Beckett – 1)
It is a characteristic of Beckett’s plays to give the impression that there is nothing outside the stage. In Beckett’s plays God is never allowed to die altogether, but rather God is made to be felt by the audience as
Krapp’s Last Tape (Beckett – 1)
It is a characteristic of Beckett’s plays to give the impression that there is nothing outside the stage. In Beckett’s plays God is never allowed to die altogether, but rather God is made to be felt by the audience as
A Conversation Around Nietzsche Between a Stoic and a Sceptic
Sceptic: Nietzsche is one of those who do philosophy departing from a wound, from a deep-seated internal problem… The wound is internal to Nietzsche but the source of this wound is external, so you see, he is in-between. He attacks both
A Conversation Around Nietzsche Between a Stoic and a Sceptic
Sceptic: Nietzsche is one of those who do philosophy departing from a wound, from a deep-seated internal problem… The wound is internal to Nietzsche but the source of this wound is external, so you see, he is in-between. He attacks both
Lovecraftian Science/Lovecraftian Nature (via Speculative Heresy)
Today is the start of the Science and Metaphysics blog event organized by Pete Wolfendale, Reid Kotlas and myself. Ben Woodard provides us with the inaugural post, setting the stage for some of the implications of a speculative realism chained
Lovecraftian Science/Lovecraftian Nature (via Speculative Heresy)
Today is the start of the Science and Metaphysics blog event organized by Pete Wolfendale, Reid Kotlas and myself. Ben Woodard provides us with the inaugural post, setting the stage for some of the implications of a speculative realism chained
Ben Woodard – ‘A Nature to Pulp the Stoutest Philosopher: Towards a Lovecraftian Philosophy of Nature’ (via REAL HORROR)
Special commissioned writing by Ben Woodard A Nature to Pulp the Stoutest Philosopher: Towards a Lovecraftian Philosophy of Nature The possibility of Lovecraftian philosophy (and a philosophy of nature) is at least a threefold weirdness: 1-Lovecraft’s own philosophical views were
Ben Woodard – ‘A Nature to Pulp the Stoutest Philosopher: Towards a Lovecraftian Philosophy of Nature’ (via REAL HORROR)
Special commissioned writing by Ben Woodard A Nature to Pulp the Stoutest Philosopher: Towards a Lovecraftian Philosophy of Nature The possibility of Lovecraftian philosophy (and a philosophy of nature) is at least a threefold weirdness: 1-Lovecraft’s own philosophical views were
Mortal, All Too Mortal: Nihilistic Speculations From Dr. Lawgiverz-2
When the phone rang restlessly, whatever this means, Dr. Lawgiverz was sipping his dry red wine and smoking his hand rolled Havana cigar as if everything in the world was absolutely normal and nothing extraordinary was in progress concerning the
Mortal, All Too Mortal: Nihilistic Speculations From Dr. Lawgiverz-2
When the phone rang restlessly, whatever this means, Dr. Lawgiverz was sipping his dry red wine and smoking his hand rolled Havana cigar as if everything in the world was absolutely normal and nothing extraordinary was in progress concerning the
Collapse Vol. III: Unknown Deleuze [+ Speculative Realism] Now available to download for free (via Speculative Heresy)
Word from Urbanomic that Volume III of Collapse has sold out and is now available for free online. It includes the much-cited original Speculative Realism conference. Find it here. via Speculative Heresy Collapse III contains explorations of the work of
Collapse Vol. III: Unknown Deleuze [+ Speculative Realism] Now available to download for free (via Speculative Heresy)
Word from Urbanomic that Volume III of Collapse has sold out and is now available for free online. It includes the much-cited original Speculative Realism conference. Find it here. via Speculative Heresy Collapse III contains explorations of the work of
Vital Decay (via Naught Thought)
Reza has a wonderul discussion of decay in relation to space and triadic formulation of time. One sentence in particular stuck out to me: “vital time introduces nightmares of the cosmic time into the phenomena of life.” In a sense
Vital Decay (via Naught Thought)
Reza has a wonderul discussion of decay in relation to space and triadic formulation of time. One sentence in particular stuck out to me: “vital time introduces nightmares of the cosmic time into the phenomena of life.” In a sense
Philosophy and Poetry PDF E-Books
Philosophy E-books Novalis The Birth of Novalis: Friedrich Von Hardenberg’s Journal of 1797, With Selected Letters and Documents Fichte Studies Philosophical Writings Herder Selected Writings on Aesthetics Another Philosophy of History and Selected Political Writings Philosophical Writings Heidegger Contributions to
Philosophy and Poetry PDF E-Books
Philosophy E-books Novalis The Birth of Novalis: Friedrich Von Hardenberg’s Journal of 1797, With Selected Letters and Documents Fichte Studies Philosophical Writings Herder Selected Writings on Aesthetics Another Philosophy of History and Selected Political Writings Philosophical Writings Heidegger Contributions to
The Projection-Introjection Mechanism in Jack Kerouac’s The Subterraneans
The consequences of projection of fantasies onto the Real can be clearly observed in Kerouac’s The Subterraneans, which was quite a subversive book in its time, carrying Kerouac quite high up the cultural ladder, and in Burroughsian terms “causing thousands
The Projection-Introjection Mechanism in Jack Kerouac’s The Subterraneans
The consequences of projection of fantasies onto the Real can be clearly observed in Kerouac’s The Subterraneans, which was quite a subversive book in its time, carrying Kerouac quite high up the cultural ladder, and in Burroughsian terms “causing thousands
Cengiz Erdem
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