Monthly Archive: October, 2007

31 Oct

Translation of Vision-in-One: Additional Definition to Laruelle’s Dictionary of Non-Philosophy

The following is an entry from Francois Laruelle’s Dictionnaire de la non-philosophie. Paris: Editions Kimé, 1998. Original translation by Sid Littlefield, 10/31/07. Vision-in-One (One, One-in-One, Real) Primary concept of non-philosophy,…
Wednesday, October 31, 2007 at 7:50 pm By Taylor Adkins 3 Replies
31 Oct

Zarathustra and Genealogy: Where the State Ceases…

In Book 1 of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, there is a speech on the state (“Of the New Idol”) that is surrounded by a speech on war and the warrior prior…
Wednesday, October 31, 2007 at 7:55 am By Taylor Adkins 1 Reply
30 Oct

Liquid Generations: Decay, Creation and Morphogenesis

Flow The moment of death is uncertain and inevitable; its shadow approaches from an unknown region like a silent stranger. Death does not need to follow us; it just meets…
Tuesday, October 30, 2007 at 10:37 pm By Joseph Weissman 5 Replies
28 Oct

Rhythm, Expression, Transformation: Music and Nietzsche

(Image by Hectik, http://www.hectik.com/) In music the passions enjoy themselves. Friedrich Nietzsche In early 1872, the same year The Birth of Tragedy was published, Nietzsche delivered a series of lectures…

Sunday, October 28, 2007 at 8:36 pm By Joseph Weissman 6 Replies
25 Oct

Nietzsche’s Social Ontology: (Un)harnessing the Chaos

The individual is a chaos necessary to every political and social order, a chaos enveloped in a structural social machine. This chaos should be distinguished from a random distribution of…
Thursday, October 25, 2007 at 11:52 am By Taylor Adkins 6 Replies
24 Oct

Translation: Six Entries from Francois Laruelle’s Dictionary of Non-Philosophy

Francois Laruelle’s project (from the following entries) can, in my opinion, be best related to the previous translations I have posted on Alain Badiou and Albert Lautman. Badiou’s concept of…
Wednesday, October 24, 2007 at 10:02 am By Taylor Adkins 7 Replies
23 Oct

Notes on Logic of Sense: Preface, Series 1 and 2, Appendix 1 on Simulacrum and Ancient Philosophy

Logic of Sense: Preface Here Deleuze begins by highlighting Carroll and the Stoics for their theory of events; he says that there is a marriage of language and the unconscious…
Tuesday, October 23, 2007 at 6:07 pm By Taylor Adkins Leave a Reply
23 Oct

Acceptance!

A paper of mine has gotten accepted to the Event and Decision conference at Claremont Graduate University! Both Taylor and I will be attending. The conversation is going to be…
Tuesday, October 23, 2007 at 5:18 pm By Joseph Weissman 2 Replies
23 Oct

Schematic Confirmed

Hurray! We’ve finally integrated all of our outlines in one place. (Stable links are available here.) Currently we’ve got notes for Serres, Bahktin, Deleuze, Debord, Flusser and Lyotard. We plan…
Tuesday, October 23, 2007 at 4:06 pm By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
23 Oct

Notes on Vilém Flusser’s Philosophy of Photography: Chapter 1, the Image

Goraczka, Tomasz Setowski Images are significant surfaces. This means that images signify, as well as make comprehensible as an abstraction, “something ‘out there’.” Images are reduced from “four dimensions of…
Tuesday, October 23, 2007 at 3:01 pm By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
23 Oct

Notes on Lyotard’s Postmodern Condition: Introduction, Sections 1 and 2

This book enquires on the condition of knowledge today in highly developed societies (xxiii). It is also situated in the crisis of narratives (xxiii). Philosophy legitimates the rules of science’s…
Tuesday, October 23, 2007 at 2:58 pm By Taylor Adkins Leave a Reply
23 Oct

Notes to Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle: Chapters 1 and 2

Separation Perfected But certainly for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, the appearance to the essence…illusion only…
Tuesday, October 23, 2007 at 2:57 pm By Taylor Adkins 1 Reply
23 Oct

Notes to Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus: Rhizome, Chapter 1

D+G have reached the point where it is no longer of any importance whether one says I [This, of course, is preceded by similar assertions about the schizophrenic in Anti-Oedipus].…
Tuesday, October 23, 2007 at 2:55 pm By Taylor Adkins 4 Replies
23 Oct

Notes to Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus: Chapters 1 and 2

Anti-Oedipus 1: Desiring-Machines For every organ-machine, an energy machine (1). Schizophrenia and the time before the man-nature dichotomy/split (1). Nature lived as process of production (2). Oedipus presupposes a fantastic…
Tuesday, October 23, 2007 at 2:53 pm By Taylor Adkins Leave a Reply
22 Oct

Translation: Jean-Hugues Barthélémy on Simondon, Bergson and Teilhard de Chardin

The following is the first half of chapter 1 from Jean-Hugues Barthélémy’s book Penser l’individuation: Simondon et la philosophie de la nature. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2005. p. 37-48. Original translation by…
Monday, October 22, 2007 at 12:14 pm By Taylor Adkins 7 Replies
21 Oct

Tunnels and Voices: Love and the Cultural Architectonic of Space

(Ken Garduno) We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion; and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble. (Kahlil Gibran) Love is the…
Sunday, October 21, 2007 at 12:59 pm By Joseph Weissman 2 Replies
19 Oct

Warning, Hive Meltdown Imminent: Serres, Negarestani and Deleuze on Noise, Pestilence and Darkness

Four Birds Mixed media on paper (Catheryn Austen) Openness only comes in the imperceptible recesses of infection: A faceless love. (Reza Negarestani) Michel Serres never fails to remind us of…
Friday, October 19, 2007 at 5:13 pm By Joseph Weissman 9 Replies
19 Oct

Translation: Simondon, Completion of Section I, Chapter 1, The Individual and Its Physico-Biological Genesis

In the first place, singularities-events correspond to heterogeneous series which are organized into a system which is neither stable nor unstable, but rather ‘metastable,’ endowed with a potential energy wherein…
Friday, October 19, 2007 at 2:10 am By Taylor Adkins 6 Replies
18 Oct

The Genealogy of the Unconscious: Evolution, Awareness, Creativity

“What does man actually know about himself? Is he, indeed, ever able to perceive himself completely, as if laid out in a lighted display case? Does nature not conceal most…
Thursday, October 18, 2007 at 11:20 am By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
17 Oct

Paper Proposal: Information, Disparation, Transformation: Simondon, Ruyer, Deleuze and the Affective Pre-Individual Field of Singularities

Paper Proposal : Philosophy of Science Information, Disparation and Affectivity: the Pre-Individual Field of Singularities in Simondon, Ruyer and Deleuze On the importance of disparate series and their internal resonance…
Wednesday, October 17, 2007 at 7:53 am By Taylor Adkins 1 Reply
17 Oct

Translation: Alain Badiou and the Concept of the Model: Introduction to a Materialist Epistemology of Mathematics

The following is the first three sections of Alain Badiou’s first theoretical book Le Concept de modèle: introduction à une épistémologie matérialiste des mathématiques. Paris: Maspero, 1968. p. 7-17 and…
Wednesday, October 17, 2007 at 6:09 am By Taylor Adkins 5 Replies
16 Oct

Machines, Morphogenesis and Complexity

Cellular automata The harmony of the world is made manifest in Form and Number, and the heart and soul and all the poetry of Natural Philosophy are embodied in the…
Tuesday, October 16, 2007 at 8:04 pm By Joseph Weissman 2 Replies
16 Oct

Translation: Albert Lautman’s Essay on the Notions of Structure and Existence in Mathematics

We should speak of a dialectics of the calculus rather than a metaphysics. By “dialectic” we do not mean any kind of circulation of opposing representations which would make them…
Tuesday, October 16, 2007 at 6:17 pm By Taylor Adkins 5 Replies
16 Oct

Freedom and Becoming

Jacek Yerka, Port Artaud writes that there is a possibility in theater for the creation of a new freedom, under the light of a “strange sun, [with] an unusually bright…
Tuesday, October 16, 2007 at 12:15 am By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
15 Oct

Nomads: Space, Solitude, Science

Royal science is inseparable from a “hylomorphic” model implying both a form that organizes matter, and a matter prepared for the form; it has often been shown that this schema…
Monday, October 15, 2007 at 4:32 am By Joseph Weissman 3 Replies
14 Oct

Time and the Cultural Unconscious: Nietzsche and the Future

Woman at the Window Salvador Dalí, oil on board (1925) What do we understand to be the boundaries of our neighbor: I mean that which he as it were engraves…
Sunday, October 14, 2007 at 12:00 am By Joseph Weissman 3 Replies
11 Oct

Machinic Autopoesis

Process In Mechanism and Biological Explanation [Maturana 1970], Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela argue that machines and biological forms are very closely related — so closely, in fact, that biologists…
Thursday, October 11, 2007 at 6:40 pm By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
10 Oct

Translation: Michel Serres and the Eternal Return

The following is Michel Serres’s essay “Eternal Return” in Hermes IV: Distribution. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1977. pp. 115-124. Original translation by Taylor Adkins on 10/10/07 Philosophers glorify Nietzsche…
Wednesday, October 10, 2007 at 12:29 pm By Taylor Adkins 2 Replies
09 Oct

Empiricism and Power

The modern break with the authority of the past begins with critical history and the possibility of an empirical investigation into reality. A clinical eye belongs to the properly empirical,…
Tuesday, October 9, 2007 at 5:13 pm By Joseph Weissman 1 Reply
09 Oct

Translation: Francois Laruelle’s Beyond the Power Principle

The following is the preface from Francois Laruelle’s Beyond the Power Principle pp. 1-9 and is an original translation by Taylor Adkins 10/09/07. Stylistic Caution A: But if everyone knew…
Tuesday, October 9, 2007 at 2:59 pm By Taylor Adkins 8 Replies
09 Oct

The Power to Will: Nietzsche and Becoming Free

Reaching Out The will to power is not essentially political; it aims beyond politics towards a more subtle possession. The will to power is articulated as a higher expression of…
Tuesday, October 9, 2007 at 2:47 am By Joseph Weissman 1 Reply
08 Oct

Reconstructing Reality

Just as total war renders ethics derisory, consumer society annihiliates the horizons of authentic experience. God, the State, Father: abysses for the erasure of thought, until the only idea of…
Monday, October 8, 2007 at 9:28 am By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
03 Oct

No Utopia

It is characteristic of our age that we no longer remember how to feel utopia. To experience the absence of place, a break in the flow of time. But the…
Wednesday, October 3, 2007 at 8:55 pm By Joseph Weissman 2 Replies
03 Oct

French Translations: Works in Progress

My last six posts have all been translations; they range from philosophy of science to paradigms for approaching and studying Nietzsche. I plan to continue working on translating Boudot’s work…
Wednesday, October 3, 2007 at 5:18 pm By Taylor Adkins 22 Replies
03 Oct

Translation: Simondon and the Physico-Biological Genesis of the Individual

Simondon, Gilbert. L’individu et sa genèse physico-biologique. Paris : Presses Universitaires de France, 1964. Original Translation by Taylor Adkins. Chapter One: Form and Matter Section I—Foundations of the Hylemorphic Model:…
Wednesday, October 3, 2007 at 1:23 am By Taylor Adkins 6 Replies
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