Speculative Realism/Speculative Materialism Workshop

Courtesy of IT, more information on the upcoming conference:

Speculative Realism / Speculative Materialism
A One-Day Workshop
12–7pm, Friday 24 April 2009
Lecture Theatre H124
St Matthias Campus
University of the West of England
Bristol BS16 2JP
Participants: Ray Brassier (American University of Beirut), Iain Hamilton Grant (University of the West of England), Graham Harman (American University in Cairo), Alberto Toscano (Goldsmiths, University [...]

Dictionary of Non-Philosophy

Thanks to Taylor’s amazing efforts, the very first English book of non-philosophy is now available – online and entirely free. Right now we only have a generic cover for the book, but if any enterprising individual wants to design a cover, do let us know!
Dictionary of Non-Philosophy

Completion! Final definitions to the Non-Philosophical Dictionary

(Non-)One
Other name for unilaterality, form of suspension or invalidation which, no longer arising from Being but from the One, is a mode of the One’s being-foreclosed, either real and not effectuated (“uni-laterality”), or transcendental and effectuated by the occasion of philosophical “nothingness” (“unilaterality”). It testifies to the primacy of (real) foreclosure over the (philosophical) negation.

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Non-philosophical Definitions on the Transcendental, Sense (of) Identity, Reflection, Generalization, Solitude, and Lived Experience

Transcendental (Pure Transcendental Identity)
First instance after the Real or the One constitutive of the subject as force (of) thought. It is the clone of the transcendental Unity proper to the philosophical Decision and produced by the vision-in-One on the basis of this symptomatic indication. Transcendental Identity is no longer the transcendental One of philosophy associated [...]

Non-Philosophical Definitions on Hypothesis, Experimentation, Noema, Noesis, Non-intuitive, Multiple, and Time-without-Temporality

Hypothesis (Philosophizing-by-Hypothesis)
“Applied” or variant usage of non-philosophy (proposed by A.F. Schmid) that adds to its axioms a supplementary axiom bearing upon the philosophical Decision: that of the de jure multiplicity of philosophical decisions. This axiom is simultaneously added to those of the vision-in-One and those formalizing the philosophical Decision.

This problem has no meaning in philosophy [...]

Non-Philosophical Definitions on Universal Pragmatics, Uni-versality, Universion, Performativity, Presentation, and Non-sufficiency

Presentation (Non-autopositional Presentation)
Immanent structure of reference of non-philosophical statements. It is a clone or reflection-without-reflecting, a theoretical givenness effectuated by and as the force (of) thought.

The metaphysics of Representation, or of autopositional representation as primary presence of the World, established itself in the 17th century. It is rediscovered beyond the doctrinal differences in every classical [...]

Laruelle’s Definitions on Thought, Science, the Real, Priority, and Primacy

Thought (Continent of Thought)
Uni-versalized concept, identically equivalent for philosophical thought and scientific knowledge. Thought is in this sense that which is determined-in-the-last-instance or cloned from these two disciplines.

The relations of thought and the real are given by the Parmenidian matrix: “Being and Thinking are the Same.” Thought and Being are in a relation of reciprocal [...]