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
biopolitics in a dual extensive world Sharing my paper (20-minute presentation) for the International Conference Immunity and Contagion: Philosophical and Biopolitical Approaches Toward the Pandemic 29-30 September 2022, Vilnius Introduction In his early attempt to win the favour of Fichte, Schelling, at a ripe philosophical age, expanded one of Fichte's intellectual concepts to propose a … Continue reading Immunity and duplicity:
(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
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
Date: TBA Thanks to my counterpart in University of Winchester, UK, and Teikyo University, Japan Experiments in Negentropic Knowledge: Bernard Stiegler’s contribution to the philosophy of education Professor Joff P.N. Bradley Teikyo University, Tokyo, Japan Emile Bojesen University of Winchester, UK Virgilio A. Rivas, Ph.D. Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Philippines Professor Ruth Irwin Formerly Aberdeen University, … Continue reading International Panel on Bernard Stiegler
Excerpt: "The irreducible inconsistency of the default universal is no different from the supersensible. The Kantian noumenon acquires a full-blown noetic status under the unprincipled noetic act and through the subjective interests of reason, making the ‘supersensible cognizable practically’ (Pluhar in Kant, 1987, xlvii). The amateur imparts the noumenon a distinctive performative value; here, we … Continue reading Stiegler and the task of tertiary retention (E-print) at
[an Island Studies work-in-progress] What to expect of a volatine planet, a cosmic island in the Kantian sense, confronting techno-climatic entropy? The entropy wave, for instance, has reached an exponential rate in terms of commercial and intergovernmental cooperation laying down the initial template for a space colony, beginning with Mars. In the age of space … Continue reading Notes on new island realism in the background of the cosmic archipelago
“We insist that the amateur's role is an essential interlude in Stiegler’s somewhat inadvertent conformist slip into embracing the adult-shielded tradition. Here we claim that, most importantly, the hack is the fail-safe against the potential stubbornness of the ‘second moment’ intrinsic to double epokhal redoubling. We refer to the inevitable dogmatic moment (Stiegler, 2017, p. … Continue reading On Stiegler and Tertiary Retention (forthcoming)
Tulad din ng mga aninong ito, maghapong nag-iisip nang isasalubong sa gabi. Aswang daw kasi ako, pala-isip ng ipaparaos sa magdamag, saka pa lang maghahanap ng pag-ibig, ng pagkakataon pang umasa. Paborito ko ang lasa ng Disyembre. Parang kahapon lang- magdamag walang araw, walang inaalalang kulay na kukutya sa mga bulag na mata. Nung Lunes … Continue reading Baka Lang Naman
When does real abstraction happen in the sense of Marx? Or if we follow the logical transmissibility of abstraction, when does real performance of abstracting occur? If the commodity is an outcome of real abstraction, then the latter must have originated in some unobtrusive layers of reality that requires abstraction to ex-pose it. But isn’t … Continue reading Re-reading Sohn-Rethel
'On the Occasion of World Philosophy Day' [I was invited to give a talk on the theme of Endarkenment. Below is my pitch. There’s slight correction from first upload] To be honest about the topic, the text I have in mind that approaches the theme of endarkenment or the concept of endarkening is the Dark … Continue reading Endarkening and the Limit of the Thinkable
Firstly, concerning a recent Deleuzian provocation, from Claire Colebrook‘s 2017 essay ascribing Stiegler’s philosophy a “curious problem of range,” we may consider analyzing the point about Stiegler’s forays into digital studies, which, from the perspective of a deconstructive persona, according to Colebrook, makes him an “unprincipled thinker.” Can this description hold outside of the interpretive … Continue reading Quick thoughts on B. Stiegler (work in progress)
The death of the world, as Andrew Culp introduces in his book Dark Deleuze, no longer insinuates into the phenomena of the death of God and the death of Man: both terms God and Man retain their anthropocentric images, dogmatic images of thought, in Nietzschean and Deleuzian terms. As Culp argues, the death of the World, … Continue reading Once again, on the death of the World, or why humans have no future
To get a clear picture of what Deleuze is saying here concerning the dark precursor that is nature, suppose God is a lobster, “a double pincer, a double bind.”[1] There is a bit of Schellingian aura here, apropos the Deleuzian double articulation (of matter or nature), which states: ‘articulate twice, B-A, BA.”[2] The bi-polar nature of nature, … Continue reading What is a God-lobster? (quick note)
As Schelling argued, nature's destruction takes effect under the combined principles of oikos and telos, or economic teleology,[1] in which nature is conceived as a “fixed, and self-enclosed existence.”[2] This concept of nature reflects the condition of “reason and the human race,” which, as Schelling argued in one of his public polemics, has become in itself unable … Continue reading Destruction or Collapse?
As to how nature becomes conceivable by its finite manifestations, or how nature is thought negatively, the task of the philosophy of nature, in a Deleuzean sense, is to deterritorialize a concept of nature known to reason. The difference between the idea of the cosmos and that of the earth is an excellent example to … Continue reading THE DELEUZE-SCHELLING CONJUNCTION
How does one explore a hermeneutic reading of nature that expands the Kantian theory of aesthetics beyond the need for beauty to support the final subjective interest of reason? As in Kant’s third Critique, this subjective interest must necessarily culminate in establishing the purposiveness of nature by moral intelligence. The recoil to subjective purposiveness demonstrates that … Continue reading Short of A Transcritique
In ‘Philosophical Letters on Criticism and Dogmatism,’ which predates his famous Naturphilosophie, Schelling identifies the proverbial synthetic ego or the transcendental I as a suspension apparatus that forces itself to create an artificial environment between the real world and the self. It is through this ego that, as Schelling argues, one’s “intuition of the world … Continue reading Brief Note on the Schellingianism of Zizek
To place Heidegger in context, thinking and poetry are forms of technopoeisis that prepares us for a sort of readiness to what universal technocomputation engenders unhampered on the level of scale. But Heidegger also says that technology is a donation of being. Suppose then that technopoetic subjects must also somehow be willing subjects of technocapital. … Continue reading On Luciana Parisi’s Heideggerianism
Heidegger's fourfold consists of earth, sky, gods, and mortals. Heidegger understood the ‘earth’ as the ‘matter of existence,’ but not matter as conventionally understood as material, corporeal or concrete. The earth is the matter of existence in the sense that it designates a ‘non-quantifiable sensuous’ condition of experience grounded in phenomena, and not in the … Continue reading Heidegger’s Fourfold: Some hints of contemplative submission to the exo-planetary
When science fiction films depict how technology becomes uncontainable, the more advanced a human society becomes, does it not occur like an analogy of nature thinking from the future? If we place this question within the Spinozist concept of nature, it is not difficult to draw the equation: nature thinks ahead so that human knowledge can … Continue reading Thinking from the future
Advanced text for Webinar on Philosophy of Nature Introduction For the first part of my discussion, I would like to begin with Aristotle, one of the most influential pagans of the ancient world, who once said that humans are ‘adapted by nature to receive virtues.’ Hundreds of centuries later, Thomas Aquinas, the angelic doctor, expanded on … Continue reading NATURE AS A POSTULATE
It is this ‘glimpse’ that knowledge translates into laws of nature through the a priori construction of Nature from first principles. This ‘construction’, which suggests it can be finished, does not imply that Nature will cease to be ‘unrestricted’, nor does it signify the most absurd, that knowledge has unlocked the mind of God through this small preview of the whole of creation.
I was sinking in the shallow waters of the marine sanctuary, my feet touching the tip of my memory. The mangroves were quietly kneeling at their roots as the silent tide dearest to a night like this was starting to mingle around them. On the far side, the moon was slowly seeping out of her nightdress; her wardrobe faintly burning in a kettle; on the hither, a lone ripple was brainwashing a coral reef, steady and persevering, in exchange for a night without sin, long enough before the light finally reclaimed her place, before the little memories faded in slow, gentle death.
Concerning Zizek’s Hegelian retroactivity, vis-à-vis Badiou, if state inversion is a logical necessity, then it can be justified because this necessity becomes what it is, retroactively speaking, that is to say, as expected the state will necessarily bungle its war operations in the face of the pandemic. Paradoxically speaking, the intervention of the state is … Continue reading Brief on Zizek’s Pandemic
Pandemic Encore Schelling ascribes extinction to the predominance of ‘irritability’ which he defines as the “armor of the sensible ... the chains in which it is bound” (2004,107), where irritability means the “activity of the formative drive,” and “by which the organic appears to be moved inwardly”(2004, 124). But without sensibility to act upon it, … Continue reading Schelling on Extinction:
The site of this transposition, Ranciere states elsewhere, is the “dividing line that has been the object of [his] constant study” (The Philosopher and His Poor, 225) between a particular distribution of the sensible and the dissensus it calls for out of which a unique subject of politics emerges. Ranciere defines ‘politics’ as “an activity … Continue reading On Ranciere: The Wrong People in the Transposition of Aesthetics and Politics
I wrote this on March 20, 2020, three days since the announcement of region-wide lockdown due to Covid-19. It's a bit of retrospect, as another lockdown is on the spades, with infection cases now close to 100,000. ........ Re-reading some of my old heroes while in quarantine, Peter Sloterdijk and Bruno Latour re-emerge as more … Continue reading Retrospect
The Anthropocene points to the inexistent problem of the Earth that is showing signs of incapability to provide an incipient field of thinking. It is fundamentally a problem of ethical grounding, but ‘inexistence’ has yet to enter our moral universe, given the false accordance of nature and mind that has become the epitome of the … Continue reading Epilogue to the Anthropocene
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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
'Being is the scandal of Nature waiting for a new host' 