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