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Where is the Great Outdoors of Meillassoux’s Speculative Materialism?
Open Philosophy, 2020 Quentin Meillassoux’s speculative materialism aims to define access to reality of the natural world apart from its giveness to sentient subjects. This world apart is designated by Meillassoux as the “Great Outdoors” which was marginalized as a topic of ...
Šatkauskas Ignas
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Forget Meillassoux! A critique of speculative materialism [PDF]
Hastapenak, 2022 Quentin Meillassoux´s philosophical project aims at challenging some of the most fundamental assumptions of contemporary philosophy. His polemic against “correlationism”, which he understands as the main paradigm of philosophy from Kant onwards, is ...
Mario Aguiriano Benéitez
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What if consciousness is not an emergent property of the brain? Observational and empirical challenges to materialistic models [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 The nature of consciousness is considered one of science’s most perplexing and persistent mysteries. We all know the subjective experience of consciousness, but where does it arise? What is its purpose? What are its full capacities? The assumption within
Helané Wahbeh +4 more
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Why Meillassoux’s Speculative Materialism Struggles with Ancestrality [PDF]
Annals of Philosophy, Social and Human Disciplines, 2014 This paper shows that Quentin Meillassoux’s speculative materialism doesn’t offer us the means to account for the ancestral statements that the modern sciences produce, i.e. for the scientific statements about events preceding all forms of life.
Ciprian Jeler
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Materiality, Race, and Speculative Aesthetics [PDF]
GeoHumanities, 2021 The papers in this forum on Spaces and Politics of Aesthetics share a concern with analyzing relationships between politics and aesthetics in ways that question humanist, anthropocentric logics underpinning dominant aesthetic regimes of power. They do so by foregrounding more-than-human materialities and critical analyses of race and colonial power. In
Julian Brigstocke, Günter Gassner
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Toward a Dramatic World: The Latest Resurgence of Drama and Speculative Materialism [PDF]
Litinfinite, 2020 This essay has two aims: it tries, first, to demonstrate that there is an unignorable correlative relationship between the current resurgence in the popularity of stage plays and the meteoric rise of Speculative Materialism, a philosophical school led by
Naruhiko Mikado
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Sprinkles of an Agate Sea-Wave—Multispecies Storyingas Creating with Matter [PDF]
The Polish Journal of Aesthetics, 2020 This article employs diffractive research strategies such as poetic inquiry, storying and speculative fabulation (Haraway 2013) to explore the interplay, or intra-action (Barad 2007), of memories, nostalgias, and material storied ...
Polina Golovátina-Mora
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Expanding Speculative Realism & Speculative Materialism: Meillassoux, and Correlationism
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2022 This relationship between human and Cosmos, is what Meillassoux refers as “correlationism”. Humans can only establish a correlation with the world through representational structures, but never can they access the in itself. But if one can only experience the world from their own perspective and understand it through synthetic categories via languages,
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Notes Toward an Extimate Materialism: A Reply to Graham Harman
Open Philosophy, 2021 This article mounts a defense of my and Slavoj Žižek’s co-edited anthology, Subject Lessons: Hegel, Lacan, and the Future of Materialism, against the two main criticisms of it made throughout Graham Harman’s article “The Battle of Objects and Subjects”: (
Sbriglia Russell
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Foucault’s Outside: Contingency, May-Being, and Revolt
Foucault Studies, 2021 In this paper, I argue for an alternative reading of Michel Foucault as an anti-correlationist thinker. Specifically, I position him as aligned with what philosopher Quentin Meillassoux calls speculative materialism (an offshoot of speculative realism).
Luke Martin
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