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Schizophrenia of Zero
“Angelus Novus,” Paul Klee The production of extinction.The one we are is one more than was ever necessary. It aspires to a unity of the One when the starting point is a “much stranger” unity of the...
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Living
Francis Bacon, Tryptych (Inspired by Oresteia) What is modern? It can perhaps be discerned in the radical questioning of the status of piety, a questioning which slowly infects every discipline and...
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Transvaluation
Paul Klee, “En rhytme” 1930 Zero is nihilism defeated by itself. The first affirmation is destructive of the negative, the second, creative of the affirmative. Zero shows that “sovereign affirmation,”...
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Differend
Avaishi, “Music of the Spheres” Light. Events are not inherently luminescent, but perhaps in a certain light (to careful observers) they may become perceptible. Part of the difficulty of this logic is...
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Theory 1: Epigrams and Involutions
Theory 1: Epigrams and Involutions “When I’m dreaming back like that I begins to see we’re only all telescopes.” Joyce, Finnegan’s Wake “We have to learn to think differently — in order at last,...
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Speculative Materialisms: Thinking the Absolute with Meillassoux and Guattari
Quentin Meillassoux’s recent work After Finitude comes as a breath of fresh air for those who have been languishing under the dominant regimes of philosophy today. Meillassoux claims to be...
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Spectacles of Hate: Regarding the Disfigurement of Jean-Jacques
Bacon, “Figure with Meat”, 1954 Particular facialities are bound to power formations which are themselves inseparable from all the interactions in the social field…A face is always tied to a landscape...
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Dooley on Deleuze: the Dieulieuzian-Dooleuzian Disjunction
Thinking in waves Let me just say that it has been such an honor and such a treat to welcome Brian Dooley and his voice to Fractal Ontology (cf. Brian’s recent work “Schizophrenia of Zero” and...
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Post-media Piracy and the Common: Towards the Resingularization of Subjectivity
In his meditations on the nature of integrated world capitalism, Guattari proposed an idea that has for the most part remained undeveloped despite its obvious connections with the major motivations...
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Utopian
“Dream City”, Paul Klee “[U]topia is a fictive representation of an ideal social structure…”[1] Michel Serres names heaven the rejoining of the rational and the real. Is there not truly a disquietingly...
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The Non-Duality of Immanence
Van Gogh, “Wheat Field with Crows” If ‘turning toward’ is the movement of thought toward truth, how could truth not also turn toward thought? And how could truth itself not turn away from thought when...
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Exology of the City
How to think the infinity of the city, where all is fire and shadow? How could we hope to see into its opaque and terrible darkness; or hope to enjoy a view unblinded by its brilliant light? A city...
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Odysseus, the Stranger-subject
Death Mask of Agamemnon If we look at the first 111 lines of the Odyssey, we are given a few key elements that paint the scene; the invocation of the muse leads directly to the distress of Odysseus’...
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Risk
Paul Klee, “Insula Dulcamara” (1938); Oil on newsprint, mounted on burlap I began writing this before disaster struck very close to home; and so I finish it without finishing it. A disaster never...
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New Translation(s) of Laruelle on Univocal Press
Brett Amory, “Waiting” Over at Univocal Publishing there is a new translation of Laruelle’s essay on non-ethics available on their blog. Be sure to go over and check this out here:...
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Notes towards a Metaphysics of Light
Alchemy-2012-07-13-11-34-38 (work in progress) Neil Nieuwoudt 2012 Every tool carries with it the spirit by which it has been created. (Heisenberg) I would like to think light as the dynamic interval...
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Mutable
Paul Klee, “Domes” The movement of the signifier through history is toxic, viral, plastic — a fiery line of abolition interposing nullity into intensity, linking pure space to the absolute threshold....
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Internetics and Conviviality
Tierney Gearon So I thoroughly enjoyed reading through two books this weekend: Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet by Andrew Blum and Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet...
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Exchange
“untitled (structure)”, 2007. Jim Kazanjian Markets effect the generalized dispersion and annihilation of collective power. Along with the material inputs to industrial production, labor is brutally...
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‘The Mother or Her Substitute’: Sexuality and Self-preservation in Huxley’s...
Paulo Auladell –Our Ford—or Our Freud, as, for some inscrutable reason, he chose to call himself whenever he spoke of psychological matters—Our Freud has been the first to reveal the appalling dangers...
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