Neurology and Agency

Posted on September 11, 2008 by Nick Srnicek

[Before I begin, to anyone who’s interested, Graham Harman’s article on Manuel DeLanda, assemblage theory and realism has just been released in the journal Continental Philosophy Review.]

In one of his latest books, the short Freedom and Neurobiology, John Searle sets out to try and precisely frame the problem of integrating our conceptions of free will [...]

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Non-Psychoanalysis pt. 2 – Desire and Law

Posted on September 3, 2008 by Ben Woodard

Laruelle defines desire as that which:
“Designates, for non-psychoanalysis, the side of reality of jouissance, itself determined by the Real or Enjoying-without-enjoyment [Joui-sans-jouissance]. Deprived of its philosophical essence of desire of self or desire of the desire of the Other, it loses its determining role which philosophy, through Plato, and psychoanalysis, through Lacan, granted it.”
Laruelle immediately [...]

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