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
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)
International Panel on Bernard Stiegler's Philosophy of Education (date TBA) Thanks to my counterpart in Winchester, UK, and Teikyo, Japan
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
Even as there’s still a week more to waste before we finally bid goodbye to 2020, let me make a wager. Days can be infinitely longer when they are expected to separate from the phase space of time. Perhaps, it’s why there are holidays to mark what’s really the shortest wait; holidays to deaden time, … Continue reading They call it merryxmas
Schelling calls it the boundary that sustains the dual extensity between excitability and irritability, remisniscent of Plato’s chora. It’s the proverbial indivisible remainder that splits our consciousness of reality between quantitative indifference and mere difference, between potency and the immanence of phenomenology. It is the space interval where consciousness can posit the self-evidence of negativity … Continue reading On the non-evidence of freedom in Spinoza
'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
'Being is the scandal of Nature waiting for a new host' 