Introduction: Heidegger on His Head It is admittedly difficult to ascertain the warning latent in Heidegger’s late work on technology in a manner that can implicate how humans engage in politics. Heidegger’s affiliation in his brief rectorate does more than make this a problematic endeavor, it often makes it a dangerous one. However, ontology carriesContinue reading “The Danger and Disability”
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Preliminary Questions to an Investigation into Eugenic Modernity and its Metaphysics
I What does it mean to write philosophy in an epoch characterized by the complete domination of refinement? What does it mean to confront refinement as both the pinnacle of modernity and its primary concern? And, beyond these questions, what does it mean to even begin a discussion about the refinement of the human being?Continue reading “Preliminary Questions to an Investigation into Eugenic Modernity and its Metaphysics”
Foucault’s Analytic Philosophy of Politics: My First Seminar Address at Acid Horizon (2021)
Introductory statement: Because it is my first reading group, I need to promise you that I will not give the “why Foucault” talk. I’ve talked about it elsewhere, and I would imagine most of you have already found a reason or two to mute my Twitter. So we will dive right into this lecture. WhichContinue reading “Foucault’s Analytic Philosophy of Politics: My First Seminar Address at Acid Horizon (2021)”
A Comment on the Common
It Recedes upon its naming, knowable only by its circumscription. Where there is a named community, there is no common – an unchosen name left in place of an evacuated ethos or ecumen. Only its defense is left discernible once it is constituted. The common is shared, yes, but it is not given, received, orContinue reading “A Comment on the Common”
On Human Capital and the Eugenic Commitment
This is a DSC4 Presentation Manuscript [Introductory comments] [Freedom for Palestine, power to all those resisting Empire.] Eugenics has not returned. It has not returned because it has never left. We must be careful with narratives about resurgence, whether they be of the despotism of world leaders (which are becoming increasingly pathologized) or popular reactionaryContinue reading “On Human Capital and the Eugenic Commitment”
Death, Disability, Decision
(Presentation manuscript) [Duquesne Comments] [CWs]: Ableist language, mention of the Holocaust/Nazism [Freedom for Palestine and all those struggling against Empire.] In 2014, a very small memorial opened in Berlin at Tiergartenstrasse 4, it was a simple blue glass pane. Parallel to the pane was a series of statistics about forced euthanasia of “life unworthy ofContinue reading “Death, Disability, Decision”
The False Claimant: On the Regality of Madness
The Monarchy of Madness The king is the first madman. The leviathan walking street bears the king’s mark. All monsters are descendants of tyrants, sovereigns, and, most importantly, a power turned malignant. Throughout these histories of aberrance, going astray always carries with it an immediate political exile. The abnormal is deemed apolitical, beyond the boundsContinue reading “The False Claimant: On the Regality of Madness”
Failing and Witnessing: Fragments on Defeat
I. When asked where he was “situated” politically, the late philosopher, Mario Tronti, answered that he was a member of the “defeated party” in the “Benjaminian” sense of the term.[1] Today, in the imperial core, we stand defeated. I return to this comment from 2015, to this attestation of defeat, only to better understand whatContinue reading “Failing and Witnessing: Fragments on Defeat”
A Dispatch From the Norm
We are only ever permitted to experience the communal inasmuch as it emptily gestures to an articulable, exceptional, community. And this community is merely the space of a double articulation that appears and reappears. We find ourselves rendered at two registers: the flesh and the figure. The flesh, because we are always learning that theContinue reading “A Dispatch From the Norm”
Neutralizing Creation
Photograph by Hervé Guibert The Author Function and the Artist Machine: The tension between anonymity and ascription—perhaps for a surreptitiously good reason—remains somewhat philosophically under-examined. It is latent in those becomings and gestures marked out as “imperceptibility” and “refusal”. There have been treatises on “improper names,” “the propaganda of the deed,” and even the “unattributed”Continue reading “Neutralizing Creation”
