Branding thought
A new speculative realist journal is about to begin and has issued a cfp, details over here. The new journal seems to be only an online journal, although I’m not entirely sure about that. No details...
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The blog here has been a little quiet as I’ve become more and more immersed in my research. I took a years unpaid sabbatical from the University of Greenwich where I work as a part-time philosophy...
View ArticleAfter Finitude, notes #1
This is part of a series of notes, intended primarily to work through the arguments in Quentin Meillassoux’s book After Finitude. The first move made in Meillassoux’s book is to attempt to retrieve the...
View ArticleAfter Finitude, notes #2
In the first of these notes on After Finitude the focus was on the initial move in the book, the retrieval of the concept of primary properties. Even though this is the first move it is still vital to...
View ArticleAfter Finitude, notes #3
Meillassoux expresses the problem that the correlationist has with the arche-fossil via the concept of ‘the given’. For the correlationist the arche-fossil is quite straight-forwardly a...
View ArticleKnower-known relations (alien and intimate knowledge)
The problem of access that is central to the critique of correlationism depends on the epistemological gap between knower and known. This gap, almost inherent to and therefore inevitably inextricable...
View ArticleNew essay published
I don't publish much, mainly because I write slowly, but a new essay has just come out.
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