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11 Mar

Lecture on Huxley contra Freud 4/1/13; ACLA Paper on Guattari

On April 1st of this year at 11:30 I will be giving a talk on my paper concerning Huxley and Freud. For those of you in the area, it’d be…
Monday, March 11, 2013 at 4:02 pm By Taylor Adkins 4 Replies
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01 Mar

Constant’s Seductive Education, or Adolphe’s Astonishment (with translations)

[Update: I have taken the liberty of translating, by my own limited and critically biased means, the French citations of Constant in this essay. I hope that this makes for…
Friday, March 1, 2013 at 4:54 pm By Taylor Adkins 1 Reply
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01 Mar

To Read or Love as She Pleased: Dream-Reading ‘Dora’ through Dora’s Reading-Dream

They do it in fear and trembling, with an uneasy look over their shoulder to see if some one may not be coming.—Freud, Dora: An Analysis of a Case of…
Friday, March 1, 2013 at 4:31 pm By Taylor Adkins 1 Reply
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01 Mar

Notes on ‘Introduction aux sciences génériques’

The following are notes typed up fairly summarily and quickly from Laruelle’s Introduction aux sciences génériques [Introduction to the Generic Sciences], Paris: Editions Petra, 2008. Since this work hasn’t yet…
Friday, March 1, 2013 at 4:07 pm By Taylor Adkins Leave a Reply
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23 Jan

Internetics and Conviviality

So I thoroughly enjoyed reading through two books this weekend: Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet by Andrew Blum and Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins…
Wednesday, January 23, 2013 at 12:49 pm By Taylor Adkins 1 Reply
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04 Dec

New Translation(s) of Laruelle on Univocal Press

Over at Univocal Publishing there is a new translation of Laruelle’s essay on non-ethics available on their blog. Be sure to go over and check this out here: http://univocalpublishing.com/blog/108-the-concept-of-an-ordinary-ethics-or-ethics-founded-in-man. Hopefully…

Tuesday, December 4, 2012 at 6:52 pm By Taylor Adkins 1 Reply
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24 Oct

Odysseus, the Stranger-subject

So Odysseus is telling the truth when he says he is nobody. This truth—told as a lie, functioning as a trick—allows him to escape, but Odysseus cannot stop there: he has to step over the line (hubris) and shout out his name to the Cyclops, he has to brag that the great Odysseus bested the Cyclops. What can we make of this? Precisely that Odysseus is not Odysseus until he says his name.
Wednesday, October 24, 2012 at 10:22 pm By Taylor Adkins Leave a Reply
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06 Feb

Animal

The status of the animal raises a number of critical questions — for psychology, for political economy, but also for philosophy, gathering together the problem of the meaning of the animal…
Monday, February 6, 2012 at 1:18 am By Joseph Weissman 2 Replies
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26 Jan

Three Hundred

We would like to take a moment to celebrate a milestone: Fractal Ontology is now over four years old and boasts more than 300 posts. We’ve upgraded our theme to…
Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 2:28 am By Joseph Weissman 1 Reply
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22 Jan

Simmel and Simondon: From the Ventures of Life to the Advent of Adventure

I have added a strange note to the end of this post that…trails off at the end. When you see it, if you do, good reader, (ha, old conventions are…
Sunday, January 22, 2012 at 4:20 am By Taylor Adkins 3 Replies
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22 Jan

‘Aversi sumus, perversi sumus’ : Augustine and the Eclipse of God

The following is an essay that I composed for a class last semester on the cultivation of the self. It is a work in progress, and I have added idiosyncratic…
Sunday, January 22, 2012 at 2:44 am By Taylor Adkins 7 Replies
01 Apr

New Post on Gabriel Catren’s Critique of Meillassoux via Speculative Physics

Over at Stellar Cartographies there is a new post (called: Speculative realism, stamp collecting, and the question of Science) that goes into great detail about Gabriel Catren’s critique of Meillassoux…
Wednesday, April 1, 2009 at 2:29 pm By Taylor Adkins 2 Replies
20 Dec

Machinic Unconscious Complete

I just wanted to throw out there that I have finished the bulk of translating Guattari’s The Machinic Unconscious: Essays in Schizoanalysis. Now begins the revision stage of my project,…
Saturday, December 20, 2008 at 5:56 am By Taylor Adkins 16 Replies
23 Nov

On the Misery of the Unbeliever

The Bhagavad Gita, like any text or doctrine rigorously indebted to the religious genre of literature, presents the (post)modern or skeptical reader with all the things that Krishna attributes to…
Sunday, November 23, 2008 at 9:34 pm By Taylor Adkins 8 Replies
20 Nov

Pre-eminence and the Status of Politics

“…all superior men who were irresistibly drawn to throw off the yoke of any kind of morality and to frame new laws had, if they were not actually mad, no…
Thursday, November 20, 2008 at 6:50 am By Taylor Adkins 1 Reply
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29 May

Outside

The relation between me and the other commences in the inequality of terms, transcendent to one another, where alterity does not determine the other in a formal sense… It is…
Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 5:32 pm By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
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02 May

Learning to Fly

Psychologists — and more especially philosophers — pay little attention to the play of miniature frequently introduced into fairy tales. In the eyes of the psychologist, the writer is merely…
Friday, May 2, 2008 at 5:45 pm By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
29 Apr

The Voice of Silence

Flow. There are no words, only silence; no silences, only words. It’s not as bad as you think. It’s worse. There is no beginning which is not also an end.…
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 at 3:53 pm By Joseph Weissman 26 Replies
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17 Apr

Abolishing Distinction: Adorno and Sense

I should account as the foremost musician one who knew only the sadness of the most profound happiness, and no other sadness at all; but such a musician has never…
Thursday, April 17, 2008 at 1:55 pm By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
30 Nov

New Archive Page Added with PDFs!

The archive page has recently been added. This page resolves three (minor) problems: it provides another medium for easier reading; it allows for Joe and I to fully differentiate our…
Friday, November 30, 2007 at 6:25 pm By Taylor Adkins Leave a Reply
07 Nov

SPEP Chicago

Taylor and I will be taking some well-deserved (and much-needed) time off to attend the 46th SPEP meeting in Chicago. We’re driving up tonight and will be back this weekend.…
Wednesday, November 7, 2007 at 11:16 am By Joseph Weissman 6 Replies
02 Nov

Blogosphere Kinships: Activity at Massthink

I’ve been visiting the massthink blog (populated by Ryan and Aless) for a couple of months now, but, as a bad reader, I failed to leave comments. I was thrilled…
Friday, November 2, 2007 at 11:08 pm By Taylor Adkins 2 Replies
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
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
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
25 Sep

Fractal Threads

Just for fun, we’ve developed some awesome theory-inspired and political-themed t-shirts available from Cafepress. Enjoy!
Tuesday, September 25, 2007 at 5:49 pm By Joseph Weissman Leave a Reply
22 Sep

Translation: Raymond Ruyer and the Genesis of Living Forms

Ruyer, Raymond. La genése des formes vivantes. Paris: Flammarion, 1958. The following is my translation of the introduction pg 5-9. Morphology, the study of forms and their arrangements, does not…
Saturday, September 22, 2007 at 11:40 pm By Taylor Adkins 3 Replies
18 May

Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus (Parts I, II)

Anti-Oedipus 1: Desiring-MachinesFor 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 repression of desiring-machines (3).The…
Friday, May 18, 2007 at 12:13 am By Taylor Adkins Leave a Reply
18 May

Debord: Society of the Spectacle Notes (Part 1)

Separation PerfectedBut 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 is…
Friday, May 18, 2007 at 12:11 am By Taylor Adkins Leave a Reply
18 May

Deleuze’s Bergson (Part I)

Bergsonism: Intuition as MethodIntuition as method entails: 1. stating and creating problems; 2. discovery of genuine differences in kind; 3. apprehension of real time (duration) (14).First rule: Apply the test…
Friday, May 18, 2007 at 12:10 am By Taylor Adkins Leave a Reply
18 May

Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition (Introduction, Parts 1-2)

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 language games…
Friday, May 18, 2007 at 12:09 am By Taylor Adkins Leave a Reply
18 May

Deleuze and Guattari’s Thousand Plateaus: Introduction to the Rhizome

Introduction: Rhizome 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…
Friday, May 18, 2007 at 12:08 am By Taylor Adkins Leave a Reply
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