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ligion and secularity it must be subjected to the rigors of immanence 167 what this means is a deconstructive process of invention and disruption must guide signification positing a spinozist type immanence barber claims that the latter is excessive and as such properly unnameable it is that plane of which deleuze speaks in his essay immanence a life it is sheer power utter beatitude only by thinking from this transcendental field can signification avoid establishing ontological hierarchy immanence is therefore viewed as unavoidably productive and thus signifying and also excessively resistant to nominal capture atelic in nature immanence does not posit permanent valuations but rather it experiments with creative fictions religion and secular are thus from the vantage of an immanent logic fictive significations produced by a necessary power of immanence this is not to say that religion and secular are necessary in se just that the process which invented them is the way forward for barber is therefore not to fight against either religion or the secular but rather to bypass them altogether through perpetual signification in his words the way forward is not to not name immanence but to keep naming it it is not to say that the dominant signification is false but to exercise what deleuze calls the powers of the false the capacity to turn the falsity of the necessarily produced fiction of immanence against immanence s capture by the purportedly true fiction 170 what i take this to mean is that signification is the lie that tells the truth that is signification is that process of creation and disruption that both invents concepts for use but that also realizes that such concepts are fictions they are tools they are placeholders tools and placeholders that aid in further creation and that tame the excess of immanence s unbounded and indeterminate productivity while some of the above was deliberate interpretation of barber s article i believe it was a fairly faithful rendering of the essay that said there are a few points from the essay that i want to dwell on a bit further in the coming days weeks 1 the problem with naming immanence s surplus nature 2 the way in which significations are tools 3 the relationship between concept and signification and 4 for lack of a better term just now meta signification meillassoux part deux or dieu 10 thursday may 2012 posted by troy in philosophy 2 comments tags i need dis books mallarme meillassoux anyone who knows me understands that quentin meillassoux s somewhat bizzaro rise to philosophical fame remains my singularly important academic interest he captured our speculative hearts with after finitude and then dashed our collective hopes with the qualitatively insane excerpts from the divine inexistence or so goes the dominant narrative anyway his newest work the number and the siren has been recently translated and is available from urbanomic and it features a reading of french poet stephane mallarme s un coup de des a throw of the dice and how the latter is basically a one upping of jesus and the entire christian project wait what here s a snippet of adam kotsko s ridiculously awesome review yet in light of the number and the siren i don t think it s really accurate to say that meillassoux is embracing or appropriating christianity what he s really trying to do is much bolder and one might say more insane he wants to do christianity one better he wants to create something more powerful than christianity something that would radicalize christianity s wildest hopes and that would deliver insofar as it s based on the radical contingency of the universe rather than on the illusion of a transcendent god the beatific vision 25 wednesday apr 2012 posted by troy in philosophy 4 comments tags approaching the real book signings zizek the relevance of the human in politics conference reminder 04 wednesday apr 2012 posted by austin in academics philosophy politics 1 comment tags badassery free conference and cheap beer here is the schedule for our upcoming conference in dundee oh did i mention that registration is free bloggers the future of work and theories of posterity 15 thursday mar 2012 posted by troy in politics 1 comment tags economics keynes marx obama occupy political economy star trek mike konczal and peter frase on bloggingheads tv mike konczal aka the mighty rortybomb and peter frase aka editor of jacobin mag two of my absolute favorite bloggers on the internets recently engaged in an iteration of bloggingheads tv s fireside chats the entire discussion is fantastic as expected but of special note is the discussion of the future of work in a post capitalist social formation and the reference to frase s brilliant anti star trek post from awhile back do engage dear readers edit if anyone knows how to embed this clip in wordpress that d be of some assistance kant kant kant here we go 22 wednesday feb 2012 posted by austin in philosophy 4 comments tags imagination kant nature strawson transcendental philosophy here are a few thoughts i ve recently had on kant he s starting to become a larger figure in my thesis so i ve been tackling the prolegomena as well as some secondary literature surrounding the central claims in his transcendental system particularly those dealing with the imagination for kant objects of experience are in space and time space and time are the a priori forms of sensible intuition they are the formal conditions that enable cognition to experience objects sensible objects thus accord with the principles of intuition in that the latter prescribe the principles of the former upon them there is an immediate aporia that arises with kant s assertion that objects of experience are in space and time it has to do with language specifically the use of the preposition in it might be that kant was merely running up against the limits of language but nevertheless the point remains that his choice to employ a spatial metaphor has far reaching implications whether intended or not for kant the assertion that space and time are the only forms of possible intuition is a basic fact that he remarks must be accepted as just so as he remarks in prolegomena to any future metaphysics during an investigation of the pure elements of human cognition containing nothing empirical i first succeeded after long reflection to distinguish and separate with reliability the pure elementary concepts of sensibility space and time from those of the understanding emphasis added 39 this assertion is found in the appendix to the main transcendental question second part addressing the possibility of a pure natural science and it is regarded as a basic fact that is incapable of further explanation see cpr b 145 146 in this section of the prolegomena kant sets forth what he sees as one of the most crucial questions for transcendental philosophy how is nature itself possible 36 to answer this question kant believes that two elucidating questions first need to be addressed 1 how is nature materially possible and 2 how is nature formally possible kant answers the first thusly nature is materially possible by means of the constitution of our sensibility in accordance with which our sensibility is affected in its characteristic way by objects that are in themselves unknown to it and that are wholly distinct from said appearances 36 his answer to the second question is that nature is possible in the formal sense only by means of the constitution of our understanding in accordance with which all these representations of sensibility are necessarily referred to one consciousness and through which first the characteristic manner of our thinking namely by means of rules is possible and then by means of these rules experience is possible which is to be wholly distinguished from insight into objects in themselves 36 the second question and subsequent answer require much inspection but at the present moment we are most concerned with how nature is materially possible this is because the formal conditions for the possibility of nature pertain to the understanding whereas at present our inquiry is primarily concerned with kant s musings on objects of experience in space and time for kant the latter is an investigation firstly of sensibility thinking back to kant s answer to his posed question about how nature is materially possible there are a few striking points that are noticed first nature is materially possible by the constitution of our sensibility that is to say nature is possible in its material appearances as it accords with the sensibility over against the understanding and or reason more generally in other words the faculty of cognition that allows for the possibility of nature to be represented to a consciousness is sense intuition second this possibility is predicated on the affective encounter between sense cognition and possible objects third these possible objects of experience are unknown in themselves only their appearance to a given cognition as the latter represents its intuition of the encounter to itself might be known fourth and last the objects in themselves are said to be wholly distinct from their appearance perhaps it d be good to analyze each of the four points not being able to address each point in detail at the moment it will be sufficient to note that for kant the above points together indicate that nature is materially the sum total of appearances in other words nature in the material sense is the result of an encounter between intuition and phenomena it is the prescribed effect of cognition representing sensibility to itself but why must it be accepted that objects of experience are in space and time is this not a spatial metaphor that already assumes a particular determinate and determining paradigm a paradigm that 1 presupposes that space and time themselves require no genetic explanation as determinations of anterior ontological processes and that 2 forces one to interpret intuition as a schema by which objects are sensed derivatively i e secondarily in relation to primary determining forms thereby all but destroying any force of the elemental that might inhere within processes in a transcendental field if this is so then the supposed affect and thus effect s of the sentiendum on the sensible are merely illusory there is no direct affective relation between the two fields there is only a psuedo affective relation between the two whereby objects of experience fit into a prefabricated formal set of conditions in other words objects are always only already mediated through intuition s reflection on itself and on its primary prescription of the formal conditions that allow for such access to occur the word access is being used ironically here for this access is only access in a very specious sense without a direct relation between sensibility and the sentiendum there can be no point of access in any meaningfully affective sense and as such what becomes apparent is that kant was merely outlining the self enclosure of one s possible experience of oneself intuiting oneself and it is on this point where the charge of idealism does seem to appropriately apply but kant cannot merely be dismissed as a subjective idealist in the vein of berkeley for he is often described as being an empirical realist to what extent does this ascription apply in what ways was kant a self avowed realist how could he still makes claims to objectivity etc and here are some thoughts on the imagination in kant according to strawson the imagination is that which represents the nonactual it is the synthesis of past impressions or past intuitions and future anticipated possibilities that allows for present perceptions to be united by concepts of the understanding this seemingly pre eminent role of the imagination would seem to indicate that it has primacy in relation to sensibility and the understanding but in fact just when kant approaches such a move he backs off in favor of placing the understanding in the more prominent position not prominent in scope for the imagination clearly has a larger possible scope of influence rather the understanding s prominence is qualitative it has a greater importance in that it plays the key role in cognition s effort to approach objects of experience truthfully this is because the imagination is a great source of error whereas in his fourth meditation descartes describes judgment errors as deriving from the will exceeding the understanding in haste kant would argue that it is the imagination with its tendency towards daydreaming beyond the limits of experience that is the cause of error therefore the understanding is given the role of keeping the imagination in check thus in the last instant although the imagination is the grand synthesizer of sensibility and the understanding it is the latter which truly sets the bounds of the revelry of the imagination and limits cognition entirely within the sphere of experience 35 an unlikely hegelian 09 thursday feb 2012 posted by troy in philosophy leave a comment tags hegel russell the odd couple the true philosophic contemplation on the contrary finds its satisfaction in every enlargement of the not self in everything that magnifies the objects contemplated and thereby the subject contemplating everything in contemplation that is personal or private everything that depends upon habit self interest or desire distorts the object and hence impairs the union which the intellect seeks by thus making a barrier between subject and object such personal and private things become a prison to the intellect bertrand russell the problems of philosophy umm i hate to be that guy but doesn t russell s critique of kant sound a little like i don t know speculation and in the hegelian sense no less i know he s coming from the vantage point of a defense of the correspondence theory of truth the previous chapter of tpop but it s interesting to see how the two historically opposed schools might find a common ground in the critique of correlationism nucleus a trip into the heart of matter and more science stuff 31 tuesday jan 2012 posted by austin in science 5 comments tags jim al khalili nuclear physics quantum biology science well this is slightly off beat for this webspace but part of my funding package at the moment includes an internship with dundee university press at the moment i am working on marketing for the new edition of nucleus a trip into the heart of matter by ray mackintosh jim al khalili bjorn jonson and teresa pena nucleus is an accessible and informative story of the most recent discoveries in nuclear physics while this work is intended for popular consumption there is also plenty contained therein that even the more academic reader can glean from for me personally what i find most interesting are the introductory discussions of quantum biology a relatively new field quantum biology seeks to tap into the quantum hanky panky which essentially affects t...