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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Becoming Real in the Face of Flux
To be ultimately real is to be: independent, self-grounding, self-sustaining and self-motivated. Yet careful attention to the manifold totality of sense-experience reveals any given thing to be marked by impermanence, incompleteness and indeterminacy. Nothing in experience, whether classed as a mental or physical factor, escapes definition by these three marks or traits. Things exist, in …
Ascending Truth
There are two ways of understanding truth: as adjective and as verb.We often use "true" as an adjective, whereby we qualify the degree to which a proposition adequately corresponds to a given state of affairs, about which the proposition is giving attention. That a statement is true, in this sense of the word true, indicates …
∞
A holon is a singularity that is also a universe unto itself, simultaneously both part and whole, and irreducible to being counted as one. Though it cannot be counted as one, it still is.
The Material and the Ideal are Mutually Implicated
Critical materialism seems to have an ideal: the real apprehension of existence in terms of causes and conditions, rather than in terms of concepts and ideas. But there's an extent to which some self-professed "materialists" only proceed with their investigations of reality through a kind of fetish for materialism, which makes them ignorant as to …
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Holopoiesis 