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Badiou’s misreading of Spinoza (and hence of Deleuze by association) | Aberrant Monism
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Spinozism and Life in the Chaosmos. June 21, 2010. Badiou’s misreading of Spinoza (and hence of Deleuze by association). Deleuze: The Clamor of Being. Badiou focuses upon the theory of the virtual and directs his harshest criticisms of Deleuze at this theory. More to the point, Badiou argues that when Deleuze claims that the virtual is complete in itself and yet only part of an actual object, the. Clamor of Being, 53). 2004, p. 84). Stating the problem baldly, Badiou asks, ‘how is it possible to ...At th...
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the relevance of philosophy (Frege or Spinoza) | Aberrant Monism
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Spinozism and Life in the Chaosmos. March 26, 2011. The relevance of philosophy (Frege or Spinoza). While they are identical with respect to reference (. More to the point, for Frege one may grasp the sense of a statement, word, thought, etc., but ‘one is not,’ he claims, ‘thereby assured of a. For Frege fiction is an example wherein one may grasp the sense of the story, follow the adventures of Odysseus for example, and yet this sense does not have a. Of ‘Troy’ had a. I began with Frege in order to get ...
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Philosophy has no future | Aberrant Monism
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Spinozism and Life in the Chaosmos. April 3, 2014. Philosophy has no future. This is cross-posted at NewAPPS. If either of these arguments are what the philosophy has no future title intends, then there are counter-arguments at the ready. With respect to the first, there is plenty of room to argue, as many have (see Laurie Paul’s essay. Along with Eric’s post. To have such a future is itself derivative of a philosophy that has no future. Key to understanding the relationship between a philosophy with a.
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Deleuze on Learning and Skill | Aberrant Monism
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Spinozism and Life in the Chaosmos. April 18, 2014. Deleuze on Learning and Skill. In clarifying what Deleuze means by conjugating the distinctive points in order to form a problematic field will offer, I argue, what I take to be a helpful perspective from which to understand Merleau-Ponty’s example of the expert organist as well as Jason Stanley’s recent work on skill. This is not how Deleuze would account for what is going on. Stated in Deleuzian terms, when the organist sits down at a new organ th...
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Facebook Friends | Aberrant Monism
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Spinozism and Life in the Chaosmos. March 25, 2014. In his second letter to Lucilius (discussed here. Seneca encourages him to linger over the texts of master-thinkers and select one [thought] to be thoroughly digested that day. (Letter 2). We are to befriend thought rather than be merely an acquaintance of thought. Yet the question arose as to how best to determine which thoughts to befriend. How do we select our thought for the day? What does it mean to discuss the friend him/herself? Then one becomes ...
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Seneca and the Condemned Prisoner | Aberrant Monism
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Spinozism and Life in the Chaosmos. March 21, 2014. Seneca and the Condemned Prisoner. To begin with Seneca and take on board the problems that motivated his philosophical writings, we can start with the concluding paragraph of his first letter to Lucilius. The paragraph begins with the question: What is the state of things, then? But is today’s task to be a constant meditation on death, a continual realization that we are constantly dying each and every day? 8220;fourfold root” of representation. 8230;]...
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Osaka | Aberrant Monism
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Spinozism and Life in the Chaosmos. March 27, 2014. I’ll be giving a series of lectures at the Deleuze Camp ( Workshop. In Osaka at the end of May. Here are the abstracts of the lectures. Any comments or feedback are welcome. Learning to Think: Deleuze and the Art of Philosophy. Lecture 1: The Problem with Solutions. In this first of three lectures I will begin to defend what I take to be Deleuze’s metephysics of multiplicity, a metaphysics that combines both. An affirmation of Humean multiplicity and.
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Second Abstract | COIN
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Contemporary Ontology Investigation Network. Other sites of interest. Centre for Art and Philosophy. February 12, 2015. February 12, 2015. The second abstract for the talks at our Colloquium has arrived. Maurizio Ferraris (Università degli Studi di Torino). Future of Realism Poster. Last Two Abstracts →. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out.
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Last Two Abstracts | COIN
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Contemporary Ontology Investigation Network. Other sites of interest. Centre for Art and Philosophy. February 16, 2015. Assuming that the concept of something is the weakest possible determination of being, Tristan Garcia will argue that something is what is incepted by thinking when it is excepted by thinking; it is so weak, that even its negation turns out to be its affirmation. Garcia will argue that the ontological model he defends in his book Form and Object. A Foray into Immanental Phenoumenology.
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