New English Translations of Gilles Deleuze’s Paris Lectures

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The following lectures represent a small sample of Gilles Deleuze’s Paris Lectures, with additional lectures forthcoming. See the anticipated publication timeline for details…
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Alain Resnais
Alfred Jarry
André Gide
André Gorz
André Haudricourt
Antonin Artaud
Arthur Schopenhauer
Auguste Herbin
Baruch Spinoza
Benoit Mandelbrot
Blaise Pascal
Charles Péguy
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Claude Lévi-Strauss
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Badiou weighs in on the End Times and Beyond

The oldest combat of the intellect is undoubtedly the one that Plato organized under the name of philosophy, against a precisely named enemy: δοξα, opinion. The intellect builds arguments, refers at each step to previously clarified notions, passes from the singular to the universal and back again, in order to free individuals from fallacious images and mass constraints,... Continue Reading →

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Reza Negarestani Reading Simon Sellars’ Applied Ballardianism

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Simon Sellars, Applied Ballardianism (Urbanomic, 2018)

I have never cared that much for science fiction, or Ballard for that matter, save for a handful of short stories. Which is obviously not the best way to start a review of a book you are passionate about and which is entitled Applied Ballardianism. But monikers and references, as always, can be fundamentally misleading, to the extent that they can be reappropriated, reinvented, and deformed—to such an extent that, in the end, they may as a matter of fact have no association with their point of origin other than a thin connective tissue of impressions, personal experiences, and vague affiliations which are subordinated to the course of time, and therefore subject to change and impermanence. Such is the case with Simon Sellars’s cross-genre work, in which (his [over-]interpretation of) the Ballardian worldview is applied to his conceptions of himself and the world…

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New Media and Beyond

The question is simply this: What can artistic practice and theoretical speculation do for one another? The aim is to achieve an art practice contemporary with up-to-date theory and a theoretical practice contemporary with up-to-date art… This requires the construction of a space-time continuum between the contemporary theories of new art forms and the new... Continue Reading →

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New Media Admission Requirements

Applications for 2018-2019 are now open...  All admissions will be on 50% or 100% scholarships... Portfolio Content Your portfolio consists of the examples of your work. The portfolio informs the New Media Department about your creative interest, experience, skills and direction. Choose your best work that provide a sampling of your practice and document it... Continue Reading →

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Badiou on Kant and Hegel

There are two main philosophical targets of Badiou as he puts in The Subject of Art:[4] Those who identify the body and the subject, in which case creativity can only take the form of experimentation with the limits of the body, an experience of the finitude and complete unity of the body. Death being the limit... Continue Reading →

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Non-Philosophy Journal ORAXIOM weighs in on The End Times and Beyond

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Call for Papers for the Inaugural Issue: “The End Times”

 2018-06-18

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The apocalypse is disappointing.
—Maurice Blanchot, 1964

Another end of the world is possible.
—Anonymous graffiti, 2016

If for Marx, humanity’s species-being was the ability to transform its conditions of existence, now in times of the discursive ‘end of the world,’ the defining impulse of humanity appears as autophagy, that is, the ability to annihilate and cannibalize these very conditions. The future is thus held in suspense and the present is defined by the eschatology of an inescapable entanglement of the social, political, economic and ecological. François Laruelle demands in Struggle and Utopia at the End Times of Philosophy: “let us make a tabula rasa out of the future.” This claim presents for us an imperative, an Aufgabe, of ever increasing importance. No longer is the future to be…

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Ray Brassier: Marx and Philosophy (Video)

INSTRUCTOR: Ray Brassier PROGRAM: Critical Philosophy DATE: Sundays, November 12, 19, 26, December 3, January 7, 14, 21, 28 TIME: 10 AM Ray Brassier: Marx & Philosophy DESCRIPTION: Marx’s analysis of capital continues to haunt contemporary theoretical discourse. As capitalist globalization enters its world-dissolving phase, Marx’s account of the logic of capital provides cognitive traction... Continue Reading →

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Xenofeminism ~ Video Sketch of an Idea

  =-=-=-= A POLITICS FOR ALIENATION =-=-=-= Laboria Cuboniks =-=-=-= Xenofeminism by Diann Bauer "Xenofeminism (XF) is a gender abolitionist, anti-naturalist, technomaterialist form of posthumanism, initiated by the working group Laboria Cuboniks. It is a world-building project working from the assumption that any society worth constructing would take feminism as a foundational principle. It is... Continue Reading →

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Devrim ve Metafiziğe Geri Dönüş: Deleuze ve Badiou – Thomas Nail

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Metafizik ve devrimin geri dönüşü cesur bir iddiadır ve biraz açılması gerekir. Bu iddiamı ayrıntılandırmak için, yirminci yüzyılın sonlarında sözde ‘metafiziğin sonu’, ‘felsefenin ölümü’ ve ‘devrimin tükenişi’ ne karşı çıkan iki çağdaş filozofun çalışmalarından yararlanacağım: Gilles Deleuze ve Alain Badiou. Nihayette iddiam odur ki, bu iki düşünür arasında hangi farklılıklar olursa olsun, metafiziğe geri dönüşün çok spesifik ve ortak bir formülasyonunu bulabiliriz; bunun da, politik devrimin temsili olmayan bir teorisine doğru umut verici yeni bir yön önerdiğine inanıyorum. Daha açık söylemek gerekirse, ontoloji ve felsefe ile siyaset arasındaki ilişkiye dair önemli anlaşmazlıkları olmasına rağmen (ya da tam da bundan dolayı) Deleuze ve Badiou, “olay metafiziği” olarak adlandırdığım şeye karşı bağlılığı paylaşırlar. Olay metafiziğinden, ifade etmek istediğim, onların realizmlerinin iki felsefi bağlılık üzerine kurulu olduğudur: (I) ontolojik olumsallığın (veya çokluğun) gerekli koşulu ve (2) olayların varlığı ve sonuçlarının yeterli koşulu. Badiou için olaylar nispeten nadir olabilir ve Deleuze için sayıları çok daha fazla olduğu halde burada önemli olan, her iki düşünür için olaylar, metafizik ve devrimin geri dönüşünü mümkün kılan olaylardır.

~ Thomas Nail

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Metafizik ve politik devrim arasındaki ilişki nedir? Çağdaş Avrupa felsefesinde en çok itibarsızlaştırılmış iki kavram olmasına rağmen, bu yazı, hem Fransız filozof Gilles Deleuze hem de Alain Badiou’nun çalışmalarında her iki kavramın geri dönüşüne tanık olduğumuzu iddia etmektedir.[1] Fakat bu kavramların geri dönüşü, bütünlük ve devletin tanımladığı klasik metafizik ve modern devrimin önceki biçimlerinin salt bir tekrarı değildir. Aksine, bu geri dönüş, bu kavramların özündeki temel şeyleri değiştiren ve onlara oldukça yeni bir yaşam veren bir dönüş; diferansiyel (farksal) dönüştür. Birçok çağdaş Avrupalı filozof  “metafiziğin sonu” nu ve “felsefenin ölümü” nü ilan etmiştir. Metafizik ve devrim fikirlerini yıllar önce gömmüşler, ancak hayaletleri mezardan geri dönmesin diye de onları kötülemenin sonsuz görevini sürdürmeye devam etmişlerdir.

Çağdaş felsefe, olumlu bir post-Kantçı yön ve daha olumsuz bir eleştirel yön olmak üzere post-metafizik iki yöne çekilmiştir. İlk yönde, felsefenin gerçeğe erişimi, Quentin Meillassoux’un savunduğu gibi göreceli ya da “correlationist”(bağlılaşımcı)dır. Bu yönde, felsefenin gerçeklere…

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Alain Badiou: Kapitalizmin sözde gücü yalnızca rakiplerinin zayıflığının bir yansıması

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Badiou: Kapitalizmin sözde gücü yalnızca rakiplerinin zayıflığının bir yansıması…

8 Ocak 2018

A. Badiou: Kapitalizmin sözde gücü yalnızca rakiplerinin zayıflığının bir yansıması

Komünizm fikir(ler)inizi gerçeğe dönüştürmek için oldukça fazla çaba sarf ettiniz. Devrimci mücadeleye sizi çeken neydi ve ne sebep oldu?

Babam Nazilere karşı Direniş’e katılmış bir sosyalistti. Annem ise daha çok anarşizme eğilimliydi. İlk felsefe öğretmenim olan Jean Paul Sartre Fransız Komünist Partisi’nin destekçisiydi. Ben daha gençken Cezayir’de korkunç bir sömürgecilik savaşı vardı ve ben buna karşı çıktım. 30 yaşımdayken genç insanların ve işçilerin devasa hareketi olan Mayıs 68 yaşandı. Kısacası, tüm eğitimim beni devrimci ve komünist biçimdeki siyasete yönlendirdi.

‘Aptalların oyunu’ olarak gördüğünüz seçim olayını sert bir şekilde eleştirdiniz. Bu argümanı biraz açabilir misiniz? Buna alternatif ne olabilir?

Seçimler ancak çoğunluk ve muhalefet arasında toplumun örgütlenmesine ilişkin temel bir anlaşma varsa işe yarar. Şu ana kadar hiç kimse toplumda seçimlerden doğan bütünüyle bir değişim görmemiştir! Bu tamamen anlaşılır: Nasıl olur da muhafazakar toplum fikrini destekleyen bir parti sadece…

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New Media at ARUCAD

Overview This brief overview is intended to cast an eye on the unique design of the #NewMedia department at ARUCAD's Faculty of Communication. It aims at outlining the structural dynamics at work in the program, as well as clarifying the contours of its #CreativeArts oriented content. It culminates in a suggestive survey of the post-degree... Continue Reading →

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Yaratıcı Yazarlık ve Felsefe Söyleşisi (Video)

“Edebiyat, insanın yaşamadıklarını da yazabilmesidir...” "Amaç edebiyat dünyasına nitelikli eserler kazandırmak. Bunu yaparken de  edebiyatın kişisel tecrübeleri kaleme almaktan öte, insanın yaşamadıklarını da yazabilmesini mümkün kıldığını özellikle akılda tutmak lâzım...”   Cengiz Erdem Kıbrıslı bir yazar ama onu başkalarından farklı kılan yanı, içinde yaşattığı felsefi dürtü ile kaleme aldığı kitapları… Sohbetimizde söylediği ‘herkesin önünde soyunmak... Continue Reading →

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Speculative Solution: Quentin Meillassoux and Florian Hecker Talk Hyperchaos

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This conversation took place during the development of Florian Hecker’s piece Speculative Solution, an Urbanomic commission that explored Quentin Meillassoux’s concept of ‘Hyperchaos’

Chez Meillassoux, Paris, 22 July 2010.

florian hecker: I’m very interested in this notion of surprise and sudden change in sound; so that one state of something could change into something totally different at times during the piece, and there would be no apparent connection from the process that manifests one sonic structure to the next one. When Robin pointed out your book [After Finitude1] to me, at the time I was working on Acid in the Style of David Tudor, which had this very direct, maybe literal, idea of a quasi-sonification of chaotic equations as the source of sound. However, many pieces I have been working on don’t have such a literal relation of using nonlinear functions to synthesize certain…

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Mark Fisher – Nubureaucracy and Capitalist Realism

Date: 12 February 2010 Mark Fisher – Nubureaucracy and Capitalist Realism "Neoliberalism presents itself as the enemy of bureaucracy, the destroyer of the nanny state and the eliminator of red tape. Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism(Zer0 books, 2009) argues that, contrary to this widely accepted story, bureaucracy has proliferated under neoliberalism. Far from decreasing, bureaucracy has... Continue Reading →

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A Brief Note on Kant

Kant’s initial project was to explicate the difference between “knowing-what” (pure reason) and “knowing-how” (practical reason) in the way of laying the foundations of a scientific metaphysics. Counter to Descartes[1] and Hume[2] he aimed at situating the subject within the limits of what can be known by rational human beings. The Kantian subject is embodied,... Continue Reading →

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Justice, Normativity, Temporality

My aim in carrying out this research project is to revise and update the contemporary conceptualizations of what it means to be just. I will initially analyse the status of justice in relation to normativity and temporality, especially focusing on how it furthers our understanding of the concept of justice to situate it in the... Continue Reading →

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Kantian Reflections on Science, Metaphysics, and the Future of Time: Situating Kant’s Spatio-Temporal Modalities of Being and Thought in Contemporary Philosophy and Neuroscience

Inferential Rationality Kant’s initial project was to explicate the difference between “knowing-what” (pure reason) and “knowing-how” (practical reason) in the way of laying the foundations of a scientific metaphysics. Counter to Descartes[1] and Hume[2] he aimed at situating the subject within the limits of what can be known by rational human beings. The Kantian subject... Continue Reading →

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A Conversation with Alain Badiou on Corrupting the Youth

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 | Alain Badiou | 02 September 2016 | Versobooks.com|

At 79 years of age the philosopher Alain Badiou surveys the youth: the youth whom liberalism has left without a compass, the youth tempted by Daesh, and so, too, his own youth, marked by communism, to which he remains faithful. Interview by Juliette Cerf for Télérama. Translation by David Broder

Faithful at whatever cost to the Maoist ideals of his youth, applauded by some and jeered by others, this politically-committed philosopher is the author of a multi-faceted oeuvre that has been translated worldwide. It ranges from metaphysical tomes based on mathematics like Being and Event and Logics of Worlds — soon to be followed by a third volume, L’Immanence des vérités — to a series of political interventions named Circonstances, via plays for the stage, seminars on the great thinkers of the philosophical tradition, books for the wider public…

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The Storm Blowing from Paradise: Walter Benjamin and Klee’s Angelus Novus

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| Stuart Jeffries | Versobooks.com|

The Storyteller: Tales Out of Loneliness gathers for the first time the fiction of the legendary critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin. Each text in the book is accompanied by a Paul Klee illustration. Below, Stuart Jeffries examines the meaning that Klee’s Angelus Novus held for Benjamin.

To celebrate the book’s publication, The Storyteller is for sale at 40% off until Monday, August 8.

In 1921, Walter Benjamin bought Paul Klee’s Angelus Novus

What was so marvellous to Benjamin about this goofy, eternally hovering angel with hair that looks like paper scrolls, aerodynamically hopeless wings and googly if rather melancholy eyes? “This,” he wrote in one of his greatest essays, “is how one pictures the angel of history.”

The German-Jewish philosopher and critic hung Angelus Novus in every apartment he lived in, not quite as a guardian angel but a suggestive presence that would…

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