Tag Archives: philosophy

On At The Existentialist Café

Posted on 06/19/2018 by

I. I’ve been reading At The Existentialist Café a chapter at a time for a couple months now. It’s a weird way to read a book but, you know, things get in the way when you’re writing a dissertation. I barreled through … Continue reading →

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Adam Kotsko on “pure dismissal”

Posted on 06/01/2016 by

Adam Kotsko has a post up at AUFS about how one can engage in dismissal in a world dominated by critical thinking. This is something I’ve advocated before, and I’ve always gotten an almost extreme reaction of “how dare you not take … Continue reading →

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Adam Kotsko’s Radical Materialism

Posted on 09/08/2015 by

[T]his post, itself, is the most radical materialism possible. Keep these words that I am blogging to you today in your heart. Recite them to your children and talk about them when you are at home and when you are … Continue reading →

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Tom Sparrow’s “Plastic Bodies” is Out!

Posted on 03/25/2015 by

I’m super excited about this book and it is free so go check it out. The blurb: Sensation is a concept with a conflicted philosophical history. It has found as many allies as enemies in nearly every camp from empiricism … Continue reading →

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Rosi Braidotti on the future

Posted on 11/05/2014 by

TVWhat makes the project of the nomadic programmatic, or utopian? Rosi Braidotti: Let’s call it programmatic; maybe that’s a better term than utopian here. I call to actively embrace this ethic of affirmation. We need to borrow the energy from … Continue reading →

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On Lyotard and Thebaud’s “Just Gaming”

Posted on 09/17/2014 by

[I originally wrote this post in February 2014 and never published it for some reason. A lot of it, especially at the beginning, is written for a specific time and moment. Forgive me.] As you may know, I am writing … Continue reading →

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On Darius Kazemi’s “Zeno of Elea”

Posted on 01/21/2014 by

I should have spent the break between semesters planning my course materials for the spring and working on my thesis, but instead I was playing World of Warcraft for “research,” which really meant performing the rote task of grinding in order to … Continue reading →

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Mark Fisher on Nick Land

Posted on 08/23/2013 by

Land was our Nietzsche – with the same baiting of the so-called progressive tendencies, the same bizarre mixture of the reactionary and the futuristic, and a writing style that updates nineteenth century aphorisms into what Kodwo Eshun called “text at … Continue reading →

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Rhizome Profiles Alex Myers

Posted on 04/05/2013 by

So Alex Myers has a lot of radditude and you can look at his blog and his twitter for constant updates on his life. I constantly want to write at length about Alex, but I’ve yet to spend the time … Continue reading →

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Nonhuman Life: Quentin Meillassoux’s After Finitude

Posted on 02/01/2013 by

This post is part of a series of posts that I am writing in conjunction with an independent study I am taking that is based around the concept of nonhuman life. You can read more about it here. Up front: After … Continue reading →

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