Between a desert island as a mythical concept of origin (Deleuze, 2004) and what Deleuze described (later, with Guattari) as a fluent space of composition, independent of “any determined path” (1987: 371), comes a concept of a people that literature alone commands a power to invoke; a people producing itself as force producing new lines … Continue reading Mapping A People to Come
As I see it Sellars’s distinction between the manifest image and scientific image which he would eventually reduce to a synoptic vision of the man-in-the world[1]is comparable, at least, in method, to Schelling’s distinction between the ideal and the real.[2]In his early text (which presumably belonged to his identity-philosophy period), Schelling proposes the concept of … Continue reading A Brief on Sellars and Schelling
We are not yet in the Anthropocene, at least, officially speaking. The Holocene still in theory represents our geological epoch according to the latest (2018) report by the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS).[1]This is not to say we are literally (this is a problem of Naturphilosophie, to begin with) still in the Holocene. Let us … Continue reading The Anthropocene and the Literal Reading of Nature
'Being is the scandal of Nature waiting for a new host' 