Sunday, October 4, 2020

Quentin Meillassoux news, links, and quotes

View from driver's seat while traveling from Dubuque, Iowa to Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin, Fall 2011.
Internet thugs thought that they had killed me - but some "objects" never die. 


Since my mp3 audio download from a week or two ago was so popular, as was the collection of links provided in the post before it, I have decided to report that Armen Avanessian has posted an introduction to, and translation into German of, Quentin Meillassoux and the well known essay "Time Without Becoming," and link that HERE (I've also posted about this some time ago, HERE) and post some Meillassoux links as well. 

I haven't spoken to Quentin since 2014 (see HERE) when we were attempting to bring him over for our Philadelphia Summer School in Continental Philosophy, which resulted for me a chapter in THIS book (also much thanks is due to one Ray Brassier for making much of that and several opportunities possible). You  can hear my opening remarks from that summer school HERE. John Caputo wound up graciously delivering the seminars, which you can download HERE. He discusses Meillassoux quite abit and in depth.

Perusing through After Nature blog one finds many, many posts covering Meillassoux. Some of which will appear in the (hopefully, one day) forthcoming Speculative Naturalism edited and polished into essays. This year I have a book review and two chapters in edited books to finish first though - so Speculative Naturalism keeps getting pushed back, and has been for at least three years now. In any case, you might find some of the following interesting, followed by some interesting quotes.

Some quotes:

"The authentic tradition of immanence resides in the Platonic divine, and in the gods of Spinoza and Hegel, not in the 'philosophical atheism' of Heidegger." 

 - Quentin Meillassoux - The Divine Inexistence

"The most underrated thinkers in the history of philosophy are Reinhold, Jacobi, Maimon: the German thinkers who formed the junction between Kant and Fichte. With these philosophers, we draw close to the edge of what would soon become the volcano of German Idealism. It is a volcano that would not have been able to erupt without them, even though Schelling and Hegel esteemed them lightly."

- Quentin Meillassoux

"Speculative realism is an appellation designating in itself nothing important but with which I have become associated.  It does not quite correspond to my enterprise since it also comprises the option that I seek to counter."

- Quentin Meillassoux

Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Not "New Wave," not "Dark Wave," not even "Cold Wave." No, it's...

"Tragic Wave." Here's the band, Drab Majesty with "Too Soon," from the "Demonstration" LP. First some Wikipedia though. Link's below the embedded video. 

From Wikipedia:

Drab Majesty is an American, Los Angeles-based musical project, founded by musician Deb Demure (Andrew Clinco) while working as the drummer for the band Marriages, in 2011. The project's first record was the 2012 EP Unarian Dances, first self-released and then re-released in 2014 on Lolipop Records. Since signing to Dais Records, Drab Majesty has released three albums - Careless (2015), The Demonstration (2017),and Modern Mirror (2019). 

Drab Majesty combine androgynous aesthetics and commanding vocals with futuristic and occult lyrics, a style Demure refers to as, "tragic wave." To create his imposing stage presence, Demure employs costumes, makeup and props to accompany his lush, '80s-influenced soundscapes.




Album LINK: HERE.

Some After Nature music posts about dark wave, cold wave, no wave, ummmm... you get the point:

Wednesday, September 2, 2020

Quote of the day (Nietzsche)


 "What was the intention of the Will, which is after all a singular one, in permitting the Dionysian elements to make inroads into its own Apollonian creation?

A new and higher mechane of existence had come into play, the birth of tragic thought."

- Nietzsche, The Dionysian Vision of the World (1870)

Wednesday, August 12, 2020

Quote of the day


 "The point of life is life."

- Goethe (letter to J.J. Meyer, 8 February 1796)

Sunday, July 26, 2020

Rat snake




Meet my new friend. He is already friends with Chonky the Bear. Species is the Pennsylvania rat snake.

Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Quote of the day


"Necessary: An eye for what is twilight. Sundown is sunrise elsewhere. Charaterologically: one is an optimist or pessimist. Change is effected through radiations.... Visible changes are preceded by less visible ones and these by ones that are invisible. Already technology rises up as modus vivendi from great depth. The precedence of spiritual change before technological, technological before political, political before strategic....Profit and loss lie in what is unforeseen. Just for this reason one should not lose faith too soon, not even in questions of power." 
- Ernst Junger, Maxima-Minima, Additional Notes to The Worker (1964)

Thursday, July 16, 2020

Ernst Junger's 'The Forest Passage' (1951) and 'Eumeswil' (1977)


Never knew that this was out there, but two of my favorite Junger books - which have been translated into English - are here presented in one volume.  If you enjoy Junger then these, obviously, are worth picking up in hardcopy. But this download containing both volumes in .pdf should give you an idea for what each is like.  Link HERE.