Reply to an orthodox Deleuzian who has read only a few Deleuze (I guess): “The ‘deepening of immanence’ is too rhizomatic to overcome the circularity of the reflexivity of becoming. Deleuze, in his early work, Difference and Repetition, attempted to disambiguate this immanent reflexivity of expressionism. Via Spinoza, he sought to re-inscribe the Spinozist substance … Continue reading On Immanence
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I wrote this on March 20, 2020, three days since the announcement of region-wide lockdown due to Covid-19. It's a bit of retrospect, as another lockdown is on the spades, with infection cases now close to 100,000. ........ Re-reading some of my old heroes while in quarantine, Peter Sloterdijk and Bruno Latour re-emerge as more … Continue reading Retrospect
Starting with Kant’s Aesthetic Judgment, Kojin Karatani (in Transcritique: On Kant and Marx) raises the inherent problematic of Kant’s Critiques that stems from the fundamental orientation of critical reason in aesthetic experience, which grants a hermeneutic location that reveals the latent direction of art, that is, to ‘realize the concept.' Presumably, as Karatani suggests, even … Continue reading Outline of a work in progress
Recently, I entered the discipline of archaeology. The following post reflects my initial thoughts about the intersection of these two disciplines. ... My interest in archaeology isn’t far from what took me into philosophy, although I have to be frank, my philosophical orientation belongs for the large part to continental philosophy. The intersection between archaeology … Continue reading On Philosophy and Archaeology
Theoretically, a new normal is a biopolitical world order prodded by pharmacology that associates life to bare existence, life clinging to a minimum constant of organic needs which animate the human organism (with miniscule protection from viral threat, assuming there is no vaccine yet). A new normal may imply that human needs can be reduced … Continue reading Political Ecology for the New Normal
Controversial French writer Michel Houellebecq said Monday that he believes the world will be just the same after the coronavirus -- only worse. — Read on http://www.barrons.com/news/world-will-be-same-but-worse-after-banal-virus-says-houellebecq-01588598703 Michel Houllebecq may be right at one point. But he reminds me of DH Lawrence campaining for free sex, to put this hidden asset of libidinal economy back … Continue reading World Will Be Same But Worse After ‘Banal’ Virus, Says Houellebecq – Barron’s
Deleuze and Guattari’s most morbid imagery appears primarily in their most political statements: when they recall Marx’s account of capital’s “…Underground Intensities: The Gothic Marxism of Deleuze and Guattari
It’s been a year since I’ve posted here. A long year. A year of journeys and joys, a year of surprises and sorrows. And now we are at the …Stranger than Fiction: Rereading THE YEARS OF RICE AND SALT by Kim Stanley Robinson
https://www.laverita.info/qui-sta-nascendo-un-nuovo-dispotismo-e-sara-peggiore-di-quelli-del-passato-2645789167.html The last part of the interview throws his words into sharp relief - the remedy is worse than the cure. It is difficult to admit that this is the same position that gets reified into the rightist rhetoric of reopening the economy by recharging population mobility
'Being is the scandal of Nature waiting for a new host' 