Outline of a Sagitology
How are we to think simultaneously, on the one hand, différance as the economic detour which, in the element of the same, always aims at coming back to the pleasure of the…
Ideas for a Diagramatology: Maths, Art, and Philosophy
Musical scores include elements like sequences and stacks (chords) of notes, tempo, time signature, tonality, and dynamics…
How Lacan Discovered the Subject of Capitalism
Lacan based his theory of the subject on Hegel’s master-slave dynamic…
Principle of Insufficient Reason
Nothing happens without a reason. This is Leibniz's principle of sufficient reason (PSR)…
Genocide as fratricide: unbearable proximity disguised as otherness
We should reconsider the role of the unbearable proximity of the neighbor as a source of this extreme violence…
The Breakdown of Martin Heidegger’s Ontological Difference
To concede possibility and autonomy to beings beyond subjectivity would have required attributing to them certain traits of subjectivity…
Thinking realism
When asked about realism, we often think of the philosophical position that objects exist independently of our minds…
It’s not “the event”… but introscendence
The problem lies in radically opposing immanence and transcendence, thereby denying the world the possibility of transcending itself…
Properties as Actions: Atoms, Relationships and Emergence
Actions are effectuations of properties that simultaneously create and relate individuals…
Do we hallucinate our world?
Do we hallucinate our world? And if so, how could we know? Since it is impossible to step outside our own bodies and minds, are we condemned to never truly know whether…