Excerpt: "The irreducible inconsistency of the default universal is no different from the supersensible. The Kantian noumenon acquires a full-blown noetic status under the unprincipled noetic act and through the subjective interests of reason, making the ‘supersensible cognizable practically’ (Pluhar in Kant, 1987, xlvii). The amateur imparts the noumenon a distinctive performative value; here, we … Continue reading Stiegler and the task of tertiary retention (E-print) at
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Firstly, concerning a recent Deleuzian provocation, from Claire Colebrook‘s 2017 essay ascribing Stiegler’s philosophy a “curious problem of range,” we may consider analyzing the point about Stiegler’s forays into digital studies, which, from the perspective of a deconstructive persona, according to Colebrook, makes him an “unprincipled thinker.” Can this description hold outside of the interpretive … Continue reading Quick thoughts on B. Stiegler (work in progress)
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
To place Heidegger in context, thinking and poetry are forms of technopoeisis that prepares us for a sort of readiness to what universal technocomputation engenders unhampered on the level of scale. But Heidegger also says that technology is a donation of being. Suppose then that technopoetic subjects must also somehow be willing subjects of technocapital. … Continue reading On Luciana Parisi’s Heideggerianism
'Being is the scandal of Nature waiting for a new host' 