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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
The Anthropocene points to the inexistent problem of the Earth that is showing signs of incapability to provide an incipient field of thinking. It is fundamentally a problem of ethical grounding, but ‘inexistence’ has yet to enter our moral universe, given the false accordance of nature and mind that has become the epitome of the … Continue reading Epilogue to the Anthropocene
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
I was asked to give a tribute to Ka Edel Garcellano who was a personal hero to many, a great teacher, and an important, if not the most important literary critic of our time. (The latter's description is not mine, but I wish I had said it). Despite the privilege of having sat in his … Continue reading A tribute to a theorist of freedom
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
'Being is the scandal of Nature waiting for a new host' 