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The Metaphysics of Speculative Materialism
Philosophy Today, 2022Much has been made of the so-called “empirical turn” of “speculative materialism” with thinkers like Quentin Meillassoux championing the material sciences as a new route to absolute reality. According to Meillassoux, the material sciences “provide philosophers access once again to the great outdoors, the absolute outside,” of reality in-itself.
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Hegel’s Apprentice: from Speculative Idealism to Speculative Materialism
2021Chapter 4 identifies the epistemological limits of Hegel’s idealism, showing that the concept of the whole is incompatible with Hegel’s methodological alternation between reason and experience. Since this method relies upon the movement of becoming, it is incompatible with the “annulment of time” at the end of the Phenomenology of Spirit and the ...
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In Defence of Speculative Materialism
Historical Materialism, 2019Abstract Ernst Bloch’s recourse to speculative philosophy has guaranteed him the position of a perpetual outsider in the history of Western Marxism. When Jürgen Habermas described Bloch’s philosophy in 1960 as a ‘speculative materialism’, it was to denounce him for crossing the boundaries of critical thought set down as much by Kant’s Critique of Pure ...
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Deconstruction: Speculative Materialism and its Other
Derrida Today, 2021Since its inception in the late 2000s, supporters of Quentin Meillassoux tended to oppose the movement he founded, speculative materialism, to Derrida and the Derridean community. The arc of Meillassoux's later publications, however, did not support that opposition, especially when it became clear that he neither dismissed correlationism nor set aside ...
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Cessation and Contingency in Meillassoux’s Speculative Materialism
Philosophy Today, 2022This article analyzes Quentin Meillassoux’s concept of cessation. First, the article argues that this concept plays a decisive role in Meillassouxian philosophy. Second, by taking into consideration medieval and early modern debates on annihilation, it critically examines the conclusions elaborated in After Finitude.
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Algae Mask: Multidisciplinary exploration on material speculation
Technoetic Arts, 2020We live in a time where masks are rewriting wearable protocol. It is critical to understand entwining narratives around masks from the notion of health and safety to a wider discourse between the masked and the mask, including opportunistic capitalism and climatic implications. How about a mask that breathes, that is made by organic raw materials?
Kwan Queenie Li, Michelle Jingmin Lai
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