Speculative Aesthetics reading group (Fall 2010) - Revision history

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Dominic Fox, Cold World

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	Ulrike Meinhof, protest (this doesn't suit me) vs. resistance (this that doesn't suit me shouldn't happen again)		Ulrike Meinhof, protest (this doesn't suit me) vs. resistance (this that doesn't suit me shouldn't happen again)

			cannot use bourgeois mentality in resistance fighting; political discourse of media sucks away revolutionary energy/potential

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Dominic Fox, Cold World

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	is hatred of all humanity possible? "Total misanthropy forces a split in the human self: a self-projection into the realm of the inhuman, which is indiscernible from a projection from that realm into the human world." (56)		is hatred of all humanity possible? "Total misanthropy forces a split in the human self: a self-projection into the realm of the inhuman, which is indiscernible from a projection from that realm into the human world." (56)

			Ulrike Meinhof, protest (this doesn't suit me) vs. resistance (this that doesn't suit me shouldn't happen again)

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Dominic Fox, Cold World

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	"Dejection is a condition of self-inflicted aesthetic privation, a willed crisis of language." (41)		"Dejection is a condition of self-inflicted aesthetic privation, a willed crisis of language." (41)

			the militant is separated from the world; does not live in the same world as everyone else (43); "There is no common measure, whether just or inflated, that can connect the world of the militant with the world she has forsaken." (44)

			depressive thinking, no difference between life and death; hyper-rational and lucid, but also blinkered thinking (48)

			late black metal: re-aestheticizing of a radically anti-aesthetic movement (53)

			is hatred of all humanity possible? "Total misanthropy forces a split in the human self: a self-projection into the realm of the inhuman, which is indiscernible from a projection from that realm into the human world." (56)

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	'''correlationism''': any contemporary opponent of realism (408); "no object, no being, no event, or law which is not always-already correlated to a point of view, to a subjective access -- this is the thesis of any correlationism" (409); for correlationists, if you speak about something you speak about something that is given to you and posited by you (409)		'''correlationism''': any contemporary opponent of realism (408); "no object, no being, no event, or law which is not always-already correlated to a point of view, to a subjective access -- this is the thesis of any correlationism" (409); for correlationists, if you speak about something you speak about something that is given to you and posited by you (409)
	* ex.: Fichte		* ex.: Fichte

			= Dominic Fox, ''Cold World'' =

			Fox, Dominic. ''Cold World: The Aesthetics of Dejection and the Politics of Militant Dysphoria.'' Hants: O Books, 2009.

			''a world'': meant "in roughly the sense in which one may speak of the world of a work of fiction; that is to say the way matters appear within the fiction, its image of the world" (1)

			''the cold world'': "the world voided of both human warmth and metaphysical comfort"; "the world made strange" (4); being jiggled or jolted out of place in the world (12)

			"Only at certain very rare moments, moments of profound disruption and severity, do mundane and quotidian calculations of interest, reckoning with the present world-order of values and appearances, give way to concrete decisions in the subjective path of a truth." (13)

			not just fear ''of'' stasis, but "a terror the experience of which ''is'' stasis, the experience of being held fast in place, frozen in the real" (21-2)

			cold world in Coleridge, Hopkins: determined by an absence of a transcendent power or vital principle; leaves world empty, incoherent (41)

			"Dejection is a condition of self-inflicted aesthetic privation, a willed crisis of language." (41)

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Meillassoux

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	== Meillassoux ==		== Meillassoux ==

			'''correlationism''': any contemporary opponent of realism (408); "no object, no being, no event, or law which is not always-already correlated to a point of view, to a subjective access -- this is the thesis of any correlationism" (409); for correlationists, if you speak about something you speak about something that is given to you and posited by you (409)
			* ex.: Fichte

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Harman

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	Heidegger, Husserl, intentional objects; an object is "not a solid, hard thing, but a thing that has a unified reality that is not exhausted by any relation to it, so that the intention as a whole is one thing" (377)		Heidegger, Husserl, intentional objects; an object is "not a solid, hard thing, but a thing that has a unified reality that is not exhausted by any relation to it, so that the intention as a whole is one thing" (377)
	* summary of his argument: 377		* summary of his argument: 377

			difference with Grant: Grant's against "somatism" or "just objects" (in favor of flux, becoming), Harman is in favor of it (383); defends product over productivity/process, "because I think much of the process is lost when the product is created, and you don't need to know the process" (384)

			:"Why not just have objects all the way down? Why do we need to have a unified dynamic nature?" (384)

			== Meillassoux ==

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Harman

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	occassionalism (problem of causation between objects; answer that God causes all things directly); bleeds into Humean skepticism, problem of things being unable to relate directly (374)		occassionalism (problem of causation between objects; answer that God causes all things directly); bleeds into Humean skepticism, problem of things being unable to relate directly (374)

			Heidegger, Husserl, intentional objects; an object is "not a solid, hard thing, but a thing that has a unified reality that is not exhausted by any relation to it, so that the intention as a whole is one thing" (377)
			* summary of his argument: 377

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Brassier, Harmon, Grant, Meillassoux, "Speculative Realism"

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 = Brassier, Harmon, Grant, Meillassoux, "Speculative Realism" =
-Ray Brassier, Graham Harmon, Iain Hamilton Grant, Quentin Meillassoux, "Speculative Realism," '''Collapse: Philosophical Research and Development''' Vol. III (2007), pp. 307-21, 334-45, 367-88, 408-35.
+Ray Brassier, Graham Harmon, Iain Hamilton Grant, Quentin Meillassoux, "Speculative Realism," ''Collapse: Philosophical Research and Development'' Vol. III (2007), pp. 307-21, 334-45, 367-88, 408-35.
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 * "There are a series of exteriorities between thinker, thought, Idea, the various strata of the nature necessary to produce that event" (339)
 * no longer any interiorities in which one can recognize oneself in one's own thought (340)

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Ray Brassier, Graham Harmon, Iain Hamilton Grant, Quentin Meillassoux, "Speculative Realism," Collapse: Philosophical Research and Development Vol. III (2007), pp. 307-21, 334-45, 367-88, 408-35.

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	SEP article, "Realism" [[http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/realism/]]		SEP article, "Realism" [[http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/realism/]]

	= Ray Brassier, Graham Harmon, Iain Hamilton Grant, Quentin Meillassoux, "Speculative Realism," '''Collapse: Philosophical Research and Development''' Vol. III (2007), pp. 307-21, 334-45, 367-88, 408-35. =		= Brassier, Harmon, Grant, Meillassoux, "Speculative Realism" =

			Ray Brassier, Graham Harmon, Iain Hamilton Grant, Quentin Meillassoux, "Speculative Realism," '''Collapse: Philosophical Research and Development''' Vol. III (2007), pp. 307-21, 334-45, 367-88, 408-35.

	:''This reading is a record of a conference/conversation between these four thinkers. Each discusses each other's work.''		:''This reading is a record of a conference/conversation between these four thinkers. Each discusses each other's work.''

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	SEP article, "Realism" [[http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/realism/]]		SEP article, "Realism" [[http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/realism/]]

	Ray Brassier, Graham Harmon, Iain Hamilton Grant, Quentin Meillassoux, "Speculative Realism," '''Collapse: Philosophical Research and Development''' Vol. III (2007), pp. 307-21, 334-45, 367-88, 408-35.		= Ray Brassier, Graham Harmon, Iain Hamilton Grant, Quentin Meillassoux, "Speculative Realism," '''Collapse: Philosophical Research and Development''' Vol. III (2007), pp. 307-21, 334-45, 367-88, 408-35. =

	:''This reading is a record of a conference/conversation between these four thinkers. Each discusses each other's work.''		:''This reading is a record of a conference/conversation between these four thinkers. Each discusses each other's work.''

	~~'''~~Brassier~~''':~~		== Brassier ==

	cites Iain Hamilton Grant, ''Philosophies of Nature After Schelling''; Grant points out that Aristotle/Kant reduce materiality to somatic or corporeal reality -- Schelling, though, posits '''transcendental materialism''' "where the real material structures are the abstract differential dynamisms that generate and produce bodies, organisms, and spatio-temporal objects" (312)		cites Iain Hamilton Grant, ''Philosophies of Nature After Schelling''; Grant points out that Aristotle/Kant reduce materiality to somatic or corporeal reality -- Schelling, though, posits '''transcendental materialism''' "where the real material structures are the abstract differential dynamisms that generate and produce bodies, organisms, and spatio-temporal objects" (312)
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	key challenge for speculative realism: "Can one be a realist about the sorts of entities and processes postulated by the sciences without having to shore up that commitment to realism with some sort of pragmatism on the one hand, or transcendentalism on the other?" (320)		key challenge for speculative realism: "Can one be a realist about the sorts of entities and processes postulated by the sciences without having to shore up that commitment to realism with some sort of pragmatism on the one hand, or transcendentalism on the other?" (320)

	~~'''~~Grant~~''':~~		== Grant ==

	Shelling: "transition engine" between Fichte and Hegel (334); voluminous output; coins "speculative physics"		Shelling: "transition engine" between Fichte and Hegel (334); voluminous output; coins "speculative physics"