3/10 Enter the “archifossil”: scientific evidence (e.g., cosmic background radiation) proving a pre-human reality. Meillassoux uses it to challenge correlationism - but his solution (hyper-chaos) is a dead end.
#Meillassoux #Archifossil #SpeculativeRealism #PhilSky
1/10 How can philosophy think a reality independent of human consciousness? The essay looks at Meillassoux' critique of modern philosophy’s “correlationism” and offers a radical alternative via post-structuralism.
#PhilSky #Philosophy #Meillassoux
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3/10 The concept of "Negative Materialism" sees - inspired by #Adorno, #Meillassoux, and feminist theories (Haraway, Barad) - materiality as "disruption", as "remainder" that resists total appropriation.
#NewMaterialism #Theory #PhilSky
Quentin Meillassoux's recent paper on Hegel awoke an old idea on mine regarding his quasi-paranoid methods in the history of philosophy. Curious to have anyone's opinion.
hypotyposes.substack.com/p/deadpan-comedy
hypotyposes.substack.com/p/pince-sans-rire
#philosophy #Meillassoux
"Rationality is really the possibility of being intelligently crazy." #Meillassoux
"rationality is just the capacity to be directly connected to a hyperchaos which has absolutely no limits." #Meillassoux