By: Jonah Dempcy
I’m sure you’re familiar with Žižek’s work THE SUBLIME OBJECT OF IDEOLOGY (1989). What do you think of his discussion of cynicism as a form of ideology, and his distinction, with Sloterdijk, of...
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I liked and felt fellow feeling with many of the sentiments expressed in this post, but do want to express a couple of small worries. The first worry concerns the fact that I always thought of you as...
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[...] of skepticism’ nor a ‘cynicism towards cynicism’ ―as Levy Bryant suggests in his last post [here]―. Against this scholastic view, Bourdieu says that the most effective reflection is the one that...
View ArticleBy: 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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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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What, incidentally, does it mean to say that capitalism is “hallucinated”?
View ArticleBy: 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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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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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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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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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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http://parodycentrum.blogspot.nl/2012/12/status-of-parody-in-world.html
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