At absolute polar extremes of the radical left we have on the one hand, an anarchist primitivism which considers the erection of class society and the development of technical civilization as an unjustified contingency initially resulting in the death of freedom and the birth of domination, and on the other a communist prometheanism that considers [...]
[Femme Theory] The Artificial is as “Real” as the Natural
Rather than considering my "natural" face, when lacking all cosmetic additions, as my "real" face, and my "artificial" face formed by cosmetic procedures as something "superfluous" or even "fake," I prefer to think of what is usually considered my "natural" face to be but one face among many, albeit one that also has the additional [...]
On the Incommensurability between the State of Capital and the Common Community
There is no transactional commensurability between the State of Capital and the Common Community. They are governed by mutually annihilating logics, since the function of the former is to valorize a false universal at the expense of all particulars whereas the function of the latter is to establish the existence of all particulars as real [...]
Marxism: one in Name and one without.
There seems to be two general currents in Marxism, one current proceeds from the form of Marx's critique, the other from the motion underlying the critique. By "motion" I am referring to the movement of thinking, the very way in which thought thinks, independent of its particular expression as any given form of thought. A [...]
Madhyamaka and the Problem of Approach
The doctrine of the two truths is a principle tenet of the Madhyamaka path, serving not only to show the non-contradictory coherence of the Buddha's different teachings but also serving as a support for the practice of achieving liberating knowing. The doctrine distinguishes between the conventional truth of phenomena as interdependently originated and the ultimate [...]
From Monologue-about to Dialogue-with Reality
The desecration or desacralization of the "enchanted real" that constituted premodern and indigenous world-views by the coruscating potency of modern reason results in a "disenchanted real" where previously held assumptions about the relationship between the cosmos and meaning is thoroughly undermined; the previously enchanted real, where universe and meaning where intertwined in a unity within [...]
extracts from an “exchange” with a “Quantum Buddhist” aka Western Buddhist Idealist
Me:I have a question sir. Is there a particular tradition that your practice is embedded in? Currently I follow the Vajrayana based Shambhala Path, though my personal theoretical orientation is closer to the Prasangika-Madhyamaka of the Mahayana. Graham Smetham :I have...noted something you mentioned about the ground of being and Capitalism which I think is [...]
