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
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)
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
http://www.youtube.com/watch Christopher Satoor and Matthew T. Segall discussing Schelling and Whitehead, plus a bunch of sidebars on the working reality of friendship in philosophical discourse; an excellent complement to secondary literature on both Schelling and Whitehead, and the German romantics. I like the way Matthew put it concerning Hegel’s success as an individual thinker. Without … Continue reading On Schelling and Whitehead
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
Back in 2012, Zizek described a […] counter-point to the kind of crisis denial that erupted in our midst. In his criticism of Parmenides’ metaphysical conception of the fleeting ‘instant’ that cannot be properly accounted for to occur in time, but also paradoxically is ‘poised’ for both time and outside time, which already connotes a … Continue reading On Zizek and Parmenides, or was it the virus?
Reply to an orthodox Deleuzian who has read only a few Deleuze (I guess): “The ‘deepening of immanence’ is too rhizomatic to overcome the circularity of the reflexivity of becoming. Deleuze, in his early work, Difference and Repetition, attempted to disambiguate this immanent reflexivity of expressionism. Via Spinoza, he sought to re-inscribe the Spinozist substance … Continue reading On Immanence
'Being is the scandal of Nature waiting for a new host' 