A Pathetic Argument Against Meillassoux
Meillassoux’s world is a barren one, prone to being absorbed by capital and ideologically disposed toward that absorption…
Why Being a “Modern Stoic” Makes You a Political Idiot
The key to success lies beyond performance. If you are not Marina Abramović, taking an ice bath will not make you a millionaire. Some contemporary trends in liberalism instrumentalize ancient philosophy to…
Four Reasons to Read Alain Badiou
Alain Badiou (born 1937) is one of the most influential French philosophers of our time…
What Is an Arche-Fossil? A History of Forgetfulness
An arche-fossil thus designates the material support on the basis of which the experiments that yield estimates of ancestral phenomena proceed…
The Elusive Social Dimension: Reading Michael Lazarus’s Absolute Ethical Life
The search for, and restoration of, sociality as the essence of humanity is thus an act of redemption of the highest order…
Quentin Meillassoux: Facticity and Scientific Methods
Quentin Meillassoux is an awakener for his contemporaries…
Maxwell’s demon, thermal death, and the stubbornness of being
Schrödinger, long before any knowledge of DNA, posited an intriguing thesis: some form of order must confront the chaos and uncertainty inherent in entropy. Let us begin by reviewing some basic concepts.…
What Is Life? Negative Entropy and the Gap Between Physics and Biology
Using Schrödinger's framework, the primary, albeit inconclusive, observation is that life is an act of resistance to decay and uncertainty…
On the limitation of flat ontologies to explain the emergence of free individuals
Ray Brassier delimits four aspects of what can be called “flat ontologies:” 1. No entity is prior or posterior to others. There is no ontology of transcendence. 2. The world or universe…
Computo ergo sum: An Elemental Cognition on Living Systems
The subject affirms itself and possesses the capacity for self-transcendence. This "auto-egocentrism" is a defining trait of living beings…