'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
Category: Anthropocene
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 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
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
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.
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
New research from the nation of Belize, Central America, has revealed that ancient Maya culture responded to population and environmental pressures by creating massive agricultural features in wetlands, potentially increasing atmospheric CO2 and methane through burning forests and farming.
We are not yet in the Anthropocene, at least, officially speaking. The Holocene still in theory represents our geological epoch according to the latest (2018) report by the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS).[1]This is not to say we are literally (this is a problem of Naturphilosophie, to begin with) still in the Holocene. Let us … Continue reading The Anthropocene and the Literal Reading of Nature
'Being is the scandal of Nature waiting for a new host' 