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Where is the Great Outdoors of Meillassoux’s Speculative Materialism?
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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What if consciousness is not an emergent property of the brain? Observational and empirical challenges to materialistic models [PDF]
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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Toward a Dramatic World: The Latest Resurgence of Drama and Speculative Materialism [PDF]
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]
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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Notes Toward an Extimate Materialism: A Reply to Graham Harman
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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Forget Meillassoux! A critique of speculative materialism [PDF]
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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Foucault’s Outside: Contingency, May-Being, and Revolt
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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Sublime Theology of the Decline of the Soviet Empire. Akat K. Belykh
Introduction. Socio-political disciplines are an important component of the Humanities of the Soviet period of Russian history. Scientific communism, introduced as a compulsory subject in all Higher education institutions of the USSR in the last 30 years
E. G. Sokolov
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On lustful deities and the ontological turn in the archaeology of ancient Egypt
Building on the ongoing debates surrounding the archaeological application of New Materialism, posthumanism, speculative realism, object-oriented ontology, and the anthropological ontological turn, this paper examines sexual interactions between deities
Uroš Matić
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Factuality and the Beyond of God
This article stages the confrontation of two approaches to thinking the absolute. On the one hand, it discusses Quentin Meillassoux’s speculative materialism. In suggesting that there is no ultimate ground of being and that only contingency is necessary,
Sandra Lehmann
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