Monthly Archives: May 2013

My post was meant as a response to the idea that the separation between scientific categories and transcendental principles is a necessary demarcation, needed to counter scientism, which conflates them into a simple identity. If one does not feel comfortable … Continue reading →

Thanks to Sam Kinsley here

Originally posted on Intra-Being:
I managed to get Cosmopolitics II back from a friend the other day and was led to revisit the last book in the series: The Curse of Tolerance. In the meanwhile, those sections of the interweb…

Very interesting discussion over Deleuze’s views on the relation between philosophical concepts and scientific categories at Footnotes to Plato. I agree with Matt that Deleuze was trying to provide a metaphysics for science and so was criticising the representationalism and … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Fractal Ontology:
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 derives less from technology or…

“Bryant is thrashing within the grips of the ascetic will, as Nietzsche described it” (see comments section here) I think Jason was making a valid point here, neither dogmatic nor servile nor even lacking in civility. We should distinguish being … Continue reading →

JTH at atheology has given a very fair and open-minded reply to my remarks on the battle for cognitive hegemony (originally a comment to his post on verificationism), expressing his reservations about Deleuze and Guattari’s narrative of the attempt to … Continue reading →