Here's a pitch for the 50th anniversary of the publication of Anti-Oedipus, published by Taylor and Francis online anti-oedipus-confronts-a-familiar-peopleDownload
Author: unprethinkinglybeing
My interest in Schelling intersects with broader theoretical aspects concerning nature and the paradigmatic shift to post-ecological thinking in critical theory, psychoanalysis, and contemporary phenomenology - overall, with nomadic thought as a point-attractor of the indifference of Nature. My dissertation 'Schelling and the Commitments of Nature' broadly explores this tautegorical relation between Nature and nomadic thinking, i.e., a relation distinctive of the scandal of Nature and the hyperstitional anomaly of freedom in a mutual indifference that seeps into the texture of creation.
Presently I am connected to the Faculty of the College of Arts and Letters of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines. I once served as a research director of the now-defunct Institute for Cultural Studies, and former Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Humanities (of the same University) before I went on leave (in 2017). I also serve on the Board of Directors as a board member of the Philosophical Association of the Philippines and a lifetime (founding) director of the Phillippine Association for the Sociology of Religion.
I’m a Ph.D. holder in Philosophy (Pontifical University of Santo Tomas, Graduate School)
(excerpt from Self-correcting Paths of Negativity and the Positive in Nature: https://www.cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/view/1039/1660) We have to concede, though, with Hegel when he puts it that there is a logical possibility to recover the ‘whole’, in the guise of the singularity of the Subject (described in the Phenomenology of the Spirit as somewhat analogous to Substance) referring … Continue reading Schelling on Negativity
(excerpt from paper presentation in forthcoming conference) When Quentin Meillassoux (2008) proposed the theory of 'radical contingency' in contrast to the ontological spectrum of the 'necessity of being' whose 'telling symptom,' as Brassier (2007) notes, 'is the preoccupation with difference' prevalent in continental philosophy, he may not be aware that his unique treatment of contingency, … Continue reading Of Paraconsistent Times in a/the Nonmodern World
(excerpt from a work in progress) As constituent phenomena born by the colonial past, the threat of runaway climate change and the worsening epistemological condition of post-colonial existence, compounded by the rise of neofascism and neoconservative ideologies in recent years, vis-à-vis the dominant neoliberal mindset of the present global and geopolitical arrangement, reveal a consistent … Continue reading On multispecies ethos
(excerpt from a forthcoming publication on island studies) The game-theoretic approach discussed in the previous sections as a strategy of diffracting power from the peripheries and margins of social order is not independent of the overarching system that conditions its practice within a conquered space. In game theory, however, the system that makes these determinations … Continue reading Detourning liquidity
(excerpt from a forthcoming publication on the 50th anniversary of Anti-Oedipus) Perhaps, this is the core of AO’s challenge to fascism. We can refer to this challenge in its most potent sense: the microfascism of the reproduction of Oedipal desire beyond the confines of the family. AO’s task is to remand the custody of Oedipus … Continue reading De-founding AO
In a post-climate change apocalypse, the revolution is soon betrayed by science. The rightwing Sellarians wanted the manifest image of hope expelled from Snowpiercer. Before the betrayal, Layton and his revolutionary government, spread a noble lie, a new Eden that will free the survivors in the train from its dependence on Snowpiercer (a marvel of … Continue reading Snowpiercer Season 3 be like:
Ah, there you are- fighting your loneliness, the tiresome question of all, why is there Christmas? Why this day wouldn’t get away? And there you are trying to not become sad and lonely, seeing yourselves playing the best part, like a lonely mouse trapped in the epithelium of the cold sky. The night sky is … Continue reading A tale of Kafka and Christmas
Without rhyme or reason, I thought of dedicating this introductory part (from a book chapter anthology on Deleuze and the Pandemic that I hope to complete by the end of the week) to a newly installed University President (yes, right in the middle of the pandemic), a one-‘time’ friend, but a deeply respected ‘one’. Out … Continue reading Flight of the Stationary
In one of his probably lesser-known essays, Stiegler talks about the unprincipled approach of the amateur, which he compared, in terms of the conflict of intelligence,[1] to its antinomial complement, the professional critic who is supposed to be an expert when it comes to resolving a crisis. The unprincipled label actually came from Claire Colebrook, who defines Stiegler’s … Continue reading The Amateur as an Educational Agency
'Being is the scandal of Nature waiting for a new host' 