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
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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?
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
'Being is the scandal of Nature waiting for a new host' 