All posts filed under: abyss

Cyclone

Friday, January 23, 2009
by Joseph Weissman
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abyss / birth / cycle / disorder / erasure / learning / multiplicity / parasite / trace / transcendence / universal / zero

  A properly ontological investigation is a ceaseless circulation around the notions of emptiness and presence, a rigorous attempt to discern the peculiar concepts of existence and nothingness, always and once again a faithful commitment to seeking out ones and zeroes. Patching up holes; but precisely in such a way that the reality grasped by ontology (like theology) is always-already as a shadow of reality, like the phantasm of another life. Cantor thought transfinite series […]

Liquid Generations: Decay, Creation and Morphogenesis

Tuesday, October 30, 2007
by Joseph Weissman
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abyss / autopoeisis / chaos / creation / death / decay / deviance / fecundity / health / inevitability / libido / life / machine / nature / parasite / space / symbiosis / Thought

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 us where we will be. Like a memory fragmenting, bodies rush towards singular points of annihilation, just as the very possibility of negation is implied by the presence of the law. Protection is absurd, insulation a pure minimum; there is but the most fragile and […]

Politics through the Abyss

Friday, August 24, 2007
by Joseph Weissman
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abyss / class / division / ontology / peace / Politics / transversality

Ontology after Deleuze, Badiou, Whitehead Politics through the Abyss We no longer need to be reminded that politics, and more generally ontology, are no longer concerned solely with concepts. We can even now question whether they have ever been. Ontology serenely seeks the primordial origin of all conceptual and actual order; politics, slightly more modest, seeks the root cause, or motive, to social order. Political ontology is not primarily concerned with concepts, but rather with […]

Beyond Ontology

Wednesday, July 25, 2007
by Joseph Weissman
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abyss / bodies / Deleuze / language / machine / ontology / sense

Where are the abysses? But they are already swarming: through the lines of others’ faces and in the depths of spaces, in reflections and in distortions, flowing over one another within the black holes through which subjectivity escapes. An abyss swarms because it is always consuming: it is the earth itself, an autopoeitic unity of timeless forces and endless devourings. The terrifying abyss of nonsense is fulfilled in the floating signifier — not in the […]