I think there is an implicit ontology baked into capitalist social relations, and it's a contradictory "practical ontology" that simultaneously upholds a dualism between subject and object, self and other, the intensive and the extensive, mind and matter, etc. while unfolding through time as a tendency towards a monist subsumption of the former (subject, etc.) …
Nāgārjuna, Trans-Philosophy & Becoming-Sophianic
I would consider Nāgārjuna's Madhyamaka works (the "yukti-corpus") to be "trans-philosophical," which is to say that he (as the prefix "trans-" suggests) goes “beyond" or “across” philosophy. His works are not philosophical, because they do not attempt to build a system of thought that speculatively induces or transcendentally deduces the conditions of experience formed as …
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The Pure Form of Power
I believe that any and every instance of power is an empowered process empowering others to participate in the "creordering" (creative re-ordering) of a given social organization — power is not a "thing" that a single, isolated individual or even group of individuals can "possess,"; it is a relational nexus or matrix of processes of …
Hypermodernity and Gluteal Amnesia
Under conditions of hypermodernity, sedentary life predominates over nomadic life, and our asses suffer as a consequence. During hypermodernity, both production and consumption are predominantly cognitive or intellectual in nature rather than physical or manual, and they are increasingly mediated by the use of "computer terminals" (broadly construed, which includes your smart phone). Increasingly much …
The M/Other of Patriarchal-Capitalism
Capital's drive to diminish industrial labor inputs to absolute zero while infinitely accumulating value from itself alone through financial speculation can be seen as a real historical instantiation of an ancient patriarchal dream of transcending the flesh by appealing to the mind's supposed innate affiliation with the divine order ("logos" or "dharma"). The separation of …
Open/Emptiness and Inclusive-Transcendence
The following is an excerpt from my forthcoming manuscript, Process Buddhism & Ecofeminism: Freedom from the Master Mode. — The most generic features of Process Buddhism are the two ultimate principles of Open/Emptiness and Inclusive-Transcendence. The principle of Open/Emptiness is the basic principle that nothing can exist that does not depend on prior (causal) and extant …
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Between Vitalism and Mechanism
One can interpret contemporary expressions of vitalism in the form of some process philosophies or object-oriented ontologies as a kind of metaphysical expression of commodity fetishism — it has been critiqued that way before. I am all for continuously uncovering all the ways in which our discourses contribute to the mystification and obscuration of the …
Process Buddhism: Two Truths or One Truth?
In Buddhism we have the idea of the Two Truths: conventional truth and ultimate truth. In Process Buddhism, in contrast, there is only one truth. Conventional truths (saṃvṛtisatya) are what is true in terms of everyday ordinary experience, which ranges from truths about the most basic things of everyday life (pots, tables, cats, cars, houses) …
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Notes on the merits of a Process Buddhist synthesis
Here are some random thoughts I'm having while I'm finishing up an essay on the same topic: Part of the merit of a Process-Buddhist synthesis is that it can help resolve some deep aporias or internal inconsistencies in each of the traditions when they are considered in isolation. In Mahayana Buddhism there is a tendency …
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The Only Real Refuge
In the age of Hypermodernity where colonization is hypercolonization (where not just space but time and even attention itself is being colonized), the only real refuge is our own Buddha-nature — our innate core potential as the inseparable, amorous union of wisdom and compassion. Our real, true nature — our Buddha-nature — exceeds colonization and …
Holopoiesis 