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By: Paul Bains

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By: virgilio rivas

I agree with Aaron here. If the goal of the new critique is to dispense with the critical framework of what has been considered critical works so far, then Laruelle is the nearest model we can utilize...

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By: larvalsubjects

Aaron, Virgilio, I don't advocate abandoning critique. As I wrote in the post: <blockquote><strong>The point is not to abandon the project of critique.</strong> We’ve all heard the...

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By: larvalsubjects

What, incidentally, does it mean to say that capitalism is “hallucinated”?

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By: virgilio rivas

Hi Levi. I take my view on Capital as a hallucinatory material from my extrapolation of Laruelle’s view on how all forms of objectification of the Real is hallucinatory in nature. So if Capital is an...

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By: virgilio rivas

I share your opinion that Laruelle is somehow a dead end. But just the same it does not prohibit us from mining potential views out of his rather thorny texts. If Laruelle needs to be interrogated, now...

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By: larvalsubjects

It strikes me as rather intellectualist to suggest that capitalism is a hallucination. It would be nice to be able to wave our hands and say it’s all just a dream, but materially it’s all too real....

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By: Aaron

I haven’t read Laruelle’s stuff on non-Marxism yet, so I’m not sure if he argues that capitalism is hallucinated. In my own appropriation of his work, I actually intend to move away from the...

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By: Aaron

P.S. I will be unpacking these ideas at a much greater level of detail in the third chapter of my dissertation, which will involve a specific focus on Laruelle, Harman, and Whitehead/Shaviro, including...

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By: Cultural Parody Center

http://parodycentrum.blogspot.nl/2012/12/status-of-parody-in-world.html

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