https://www.laverita.info/qui-sta-nascendo-un-nuovo-dispotismo-e-sara-peggiore-di-quelli-del-passato-2645789167.html The last part of the interview throws his words into sharp relief - the remedy is worse than the cure. It is difficult to admit that this is the same position that gets reified into the rightist rhetoric of reopening the economy by recharging population mobility
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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)
https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.abs-cbn.com/amp/entertainment/04/29/20/john-lloyd-bea-ig-live-revealed-as-experimental-movie-by-antoinette-jadaone To look for a point into which something can be posited into becoming, especially when a line of flight is made impassable, jammed, choked to a fault – that’s the conatus of accelerationism. If it is a new cinema, a new kind of point-navigation, a new point that contracts a line to 'will' an … Continue reading Addenda on Lloydie and Tisay Instagram conversation
counter.ateneo-naga.pdf A plenary tak I gave during the Postmodernism Festival organized by Ateneo De Naga University, February 2016. NB: copy excludes footnotes
In most dialogues of Plato, Socrates was kinda heavy talker. Of course its inarguable that the gadfly is a tremendous listener but if you have read enough of the dialogues you can notice that not only is Socrates a good listener but he is also somewhat a boring interlocutor in the sense that he would … Continue reading On Popoy and Basha
The Plague, written with war in the background (Camus wrote it while stranded in a French colony after a lockdown was imposed in the main land), is a reminder of existential uncertainty as a permanent staple of life. But the war that served as a background to the plague is different from the real outbreak … Continue reading Revenge of Ptolemy
veraqivas-wordpress-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/veraqivas.wordpress.com/2015/11/09/contour-or-abyssal-the-future-ecology-of-cities/amp/ I look back to this talk and wonder how much the 'city' has changed since the Corona outbreak. Hongkong, for one, a city that never ceased to fascinate me, is also struggling as a city politically, all the more today, with a wider health emergency issue, like all cities in the world as I … Continue reading Contour or Abyssal: The Future Ecology of Species
"It's extremely exciting to see if it can turn up any algorithms that we haven't even thought of yet, the impact of which to our daily lives may be enormous," one computer expert told Newsweek. — Read on http://www.newsweek.com/google-brain-artificial-intelligence-machine-learning-research-evolution-automl-zero-1497781 I believe it’s not only the ‘introduction of bias’ that characterizes one of the major drawbacks … Continue reading Artificial Intelligence That Can Evolve on Its Own Is Being Tested by Google Scientists
I.Sci-fi constructs imaginaries that paint a utopian promise or warn of dystopias to come. Corona surprises all these imaginaries. With the virus, the future has arrived without its novelist, its fictionist, its poet and seer, without its thinker, its sensorimotor predictor, without empiricism. Even the climate crisis that came before the pandemic wouldn’t help us … Continue reading On Sci-fi and Corona, Ground Zero or Unthinged Empiricism, and a note on R. Andersson:
As usual Terence Blake hit it. https://terenceblake.wordpress.com/2020/04/15/logical-grammar-vs-unrevisable-concepts-agamben-the-covid-19-virus-and-the-leap-of-logic/?fbclid=IwAR0h7-oBdY9qbwPaFTv8QxMbhnW0ZSx6fOpNRGQ_UkrqjlHU55s2hNkwoNA I can't believe Agamben would really go to this length explaining his opinion after opinion of the same opinion that's all obviously inside a bubble. He can't see a clear demarcation between a democray that's existing or being practiced (in Western or non-Western environments) versus his idea of … Continue reading Latest on Giorgio Agamben
<p value="<amp-fit-text layout="fixed-height" min-font-size="6" max-font-size="72" height="80"><amp-fit-text layout="fixed-height" min-font-size="6" max-font-size="72" height="80"></amp-fit-text> ‘Remember, this is the third decade of the Apocalypse’ The taxi window gave away the hard labor of the sidewalk, the combined weight of hundreds of wingless shells it carried from end to end, supported by foam crates loaned from the only polystyrene storehouse in … Continue reading Tale of a New Year
'Being is the scandal of Nature waiting for a new host' 