In ‘Philosophical Letters on Criticism and Dogmatism,’ which predates his famous Naturphilosophie, Schelling identifies the proverbial synthetic ego or the transcendental I as a suspension apparatus that forces itself to create an artificial environment between the real world and the self. It is through this ego that, as Schelling argues, one’s “intuition of the world … Continue reading Brief Note on the Schellingianism of Zizek
Category: Slavoj Zizek
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
'Being is the scandal of Nature waiting for a new host' 