Top Posts Tagged with #humanpersonnotes

Loose notes vol. 2 (Nihil Unbound)

Extinction (being-nothing) is the unbindable trauma of determination in the last instance of transcendental decision (unilateral duality) as death drive/will to know (inorganic/organic, death/life, etc). Thought voids being by naming it and is the sacrifice/mimicry to/of the inorganic surrendered to insulate consciousness and life from trauma. Contra Badiou, naming being the void can only take place with the objectifying transcendence of thought as a thing. The thanatosis of enlightenment is the purposelessness of reason, in contrast to reflexivity, in its mimicking of the inorganic (death drive), as thought is already a dead inorganic thing. Bataille thought sacrifice was the necessity of waste caused by the excess of the accursed share; for Adorno, Horkheimer, and Brassier, sacrifice expresses the logic of the death drive as a primal attempt to bind the excessive unconscious trauma of extinction through the attempt to return to the inorganic through mimicry. Adorno and Horkheimer want reason to produce a sublation of culture and nature to overcome the destructiveness of the death drive, but the thanatosis of enlightenment reveals the death drive and its logic of imitation of the inorganic to be the basis of reason itself. Non dialectical negativity never reaches the concept and remains a thing or object; there is no subject of cognition. 1st level of repression: unilateral duality of inorganic/organic, dead/alive, etc. 2nd level: unilateral duality of noise/information and input/output. “… the void can never surface as such, it can never occur, never take place, for it is nothing but an empty name devoid of reference, a letter that fails to designate, a sign without a concept.” (Brassier, Stellar void or cosmic animal?) Informational reservoir > informational sponge > epistemic engine; much like monads, these are differences in degree rather than differences in kind. Reason/normativity determined in the last instance by nature/cause. Language and normativity are particularly advanced forms of global/transindividual information exchange. Information is a closed system (noise/information and input/output), but epistemic engines are (irreversible) open systems.

#philosophy #theory #Ray brassier #Humanpersonnotes

•18+ Adults Only

Watch Anya Live on Cam

Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.

✓ Live Streaming✓ Interactive Chat✓ Private Shows✓ HD Quality✓ Free Actions

Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming

Loose notes vol. 1 (General concepts of psychoanalysis)

Three theories of the unconscious: 1) Natural/vital/energetic unconscious: Nietzsche, Spinoza, Bergson, and Deleuze/Guattari (theories of the will, Phusis, force, or Conatus); 2) Traumatic unconscious: Freud in BPP (oedipal or existential trauma whose repression is the unrepresentable core that consciousness is organized around) and Brassier in Nihil Unbound; 3) Symbolic unconscious: middle period Lacan and Zizek (the unconscious as gap or unsublatable remainder left behind by the development of consciousness that cannot be admitted into retroactive history or memory, ex: Schelling in The Ages of the World); “There are three modalities of the Real: the “real Real” (the horrifying Thing, the primordial object, from Irma’s throat to the Alien), the “symbolic Real” (the real as consistency: the signifier reduced to a senseless formula, like the quantum physics formulas that can no longer be translated back into, or related to, the everyday experience of our life-world), and the “imaginary Real” (the mysterious je ne sais quoi, the unfathomable “something” on account of which the sublime dimension shines through an ordinary object).” (Zizek, Organs Without Bodies, pg. 92) Land is somewhere between 1 and 2, and Schelling is somewhere between 1 and 3. There are many parallels between Freud and Nietzsche, superego and the theory of guilt/debt in the Genealogy, but they diverge insofar as: 1) Freud is a masochist (health as minimal necessary neurosis) and Nietzsche is a sadist, and 2) the psychoanalytic theory of trauma is a kernel of negativity that has no place in Neitzsche's affirmative positivity (Deleuze expunges trauma from his reading of Freud ex: death in Difference and Repetition is a productive shock that forces us to think, and in Anti-Oedipus death is a vacuole of lack necessitated by anti-production).

There are two poles of desire: Freud: psychosis and neurosis (ordinary psychosis is introduced by the late Lacan and Miler as a third pole); Lacan and Zizek: drive and desire; and Deleuze and Guattari: paranoia and schizophrenia.

#Humanpersonnotes #philosophy #theory #psychoanalysis #psychoanalytic theory