Category: Multispecies Studies

Meillassoux, Multispecies Studies

Of Paraconsistent Times in a/the Nonmodern World

(excerpt from paper presentation in forthcoming conference) When Quentin Meillassoux (2008) proposed the theory of 'radical contingency' in contrast to the ontological spectrum of the 'necessity of being' whose 'telling symptom,' as Brassier (2007) notes, 'is the preoccupation with difference' prevalent in continental philosophy, he may not be aware that his unique treatment of contingency, … Continue reading Of Paraconsistent Times in a/the Nonmodern World

Multispecies Studies

On multispecies ethos

(excerpt from a work in progress) As constituent phenomena born by the colonial past, the threat of runaway climate change and the worsening epistemological condition of post-colonial existence, compounded by the rise of neofascism and neoconservative ideologies in recent years, vis-à-vis the dominant neoliberal mindset of the present global and geopolitical arrangement, reveal a consistent … Continue reading On multispecies ethos