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EPEKEINA. International Journal of Ontology. History and Critics, Jun 15, 2015
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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Jul 19, 2021
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Springer eBooks, 2019
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DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals), Nov 1, 2016
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This chapter elaborates on the three Lacanian registers of the Symbolic, the Imaginary and the Re... more This chapter elaborates on the three Lacanian registers of the Symbolic, the Imaginary and the Real. It borrows directly from Lacan’s own conceptualizations to construe the role and character of what I call symbolic, imaginary and real objects. These can be in turn described as meaning values, gestures and events respectively. However, this chapter also proposes a theory of objects that dissociates it from ontologies portraying the Borromean triplet as a symmetrical schema. Instead, I argue that Lacan himself reshapes the hierarchy or order between these objects by acknowledging an unavoidable asymmetry that leans on the side of the Real. As such, these different objects that constitute the lived experience of subjectivity have less to do with a harmonious (or flat) system of co-dependent elements than they have to an always unstable tension triggered by the Real itself.
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One of the developments of recent literature on speculative realism has been Levi Bryant’s work o... more One of the developments of recent literature on speculative realism has been Levi Bryant’s work on MOO (Machine-Oriented ontology), which is a particular type of the more general Object-Oriented philosophy. Given that in Bryant’s account the ultimate entities of a world are machines (in Deleuze’s terms) and that, more importantly, machines are defined by their powers and what he calls “virtual proper being”, we will try to draw some philosophical consequences about the key notions of virtual , machine , and their relationship to that of attractor . We’ll try to suggest that these very notions are crucial for a realist and speculative account of what there is . More specifically, the concept of ‘virtual’ could be explained via that of ‘attractor’. We will thus conclude that both Bryant’s and DeLanda’s accounts point to the idea of a substance conceived as something intrinsically dynamic.
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This chapter focuses on the philosophical Real vis-a-vis the Lacanian Real. It proposes a (weakly... more This chapter focuses on the philosophical Real vis-a-vis the Lacanian Real. It proposes a (weakly) transcendental framework to comprise the Real of Lacanian subjectivity within the anti-correlationist philosophy of Quentin Meillassoux. In doing so, I initially rely on a critique towards Meillassoux’ account of (modern) science and argue that it is with the Lacanian reactualization of Freudism that we are really able to get rid of any substantialist or unscientific view on subjectivity itself. That is, I try to demonstrate how psychoanalysis radicalizes the anti-correlationist stance of contemporary ontologies by placing the subject in between the (self)reproductive automaton of language and its Truth. This chapter thus pinpoints the image of Lacan as a realist qua materialist thinker. However, contra Meillassoux, the theoretical emerging picture is that of a holed-realism which is able to give an account of subjectivity as a vibratile place of incompleteness.
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HARM – Journal of Hostility, Aggression, Repression and Malice
This essay opposes the idea that contemporary critical events like pandemics, global warming, env... more This essay opposes the idea that contemporary critical events like pandemics, global warming, environmental deterioration, et cetera, are to be considered as affecting humanity in a uniform way. Instead of seeing these phenomena like abstract universal threats, I propose to look at them through the lens of my concept of differential harm. By drawing on interdisciplinary sources, this concept aims at covering a series of processes that are best described in differential, rather than absolute, terms. By the same token, differential harm is a matter of scale. Moreover, this essay also suggests that macroscopic critical processes are better understood as instances of harm, rather than violence. Instead of framing macroscopic disruptive phenomena as simple calamities or crises, my approach also aims at acknowledging their social, political, and psychological dimensions.
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This essay opposes the idea that contemporary critical events like pandemics, global warming, env... more This essay opposes the idea that contemporary critical events like pandemics, global warming, environmental deterioration, et cetera, are to be considered as affecting humanity in a uniform way. Instead of seeing these phenomena like abstract universal threats, I propose to look at them through the lens of my concept of differential harm. By drawing on interdisciplinary sources, this concept aims at covering a series of processes that are best described in differential, rather than absolute, terms. By the same token, differential harm is a matter of scale. Moreover, this essay also suggests that macroscopic critical processes are better understood as instances of harm, rather than violence. Instead of framing macroscopic disruptive phenomena as simple calamities or crises, my approach also aims at acknowledging their social, political, and psychological dimensions.
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Hype: The Capitalist Degree of Induced Participation, Review of Capital as Power Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 1–16. Essay Prize Winner (2nd Place), 2022
Power is usually considered as either a 'positive' or 'negative' construct, as in the power to fo... more Power is usually considered as either a 'positive' or 'negative' construct, as in the power to force action versus the power to forbid it. This paper explores a hybridized approach to power based on the idea of 'induced participation'. Building on Bichler and Nitzan's theory of 'capital as power', I argue that capitalism reinforces its hold on society through the strategic use of 'hype'. The idea is that capitalists counteract resistance by boosting confidence in the promise of reward, a process that can be better understood using the concept of hype.
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La Deleuziana, 2016
This article attempts to outline some critical aspects of the accelerationist movement. More spec... more This article attempts to outline some critical aspects of the accelerationist movement. More specifically, it argues that light can be shed on key aspects of the political proposals of Williams and Srnicek by considering them from the perspective of the socio-political reflections of both Lacan and Deleuze and Guattari. Anti-Oedipus is one crucial starting point for accelerationist thinking, in terms of the concept of the 'machinic' and the explicit reference to 'acceleration', but it is equally obvious that Lacan has been an important figure in the debate on the topic of 'desire'. Likewise, and for the same reasons, accelerationism offers the potential for a fruitful reconsideration of Deleuzian philosophy, and of the difficult relationship between schizo- analysis and psycho-analysis. We argue that, in the light of accelerationism, the perspectives of Deleuze and Guattari and Lacan do converge, in particular around the theoretical articulation of the concep...
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Il testo di Francesco Marchesi, <em>Geometria del conflitto. Saggio sulla non-corrispondenz... more Il testo di Francesco Marchesi, <em>Geometria del conflitto. Saggio sulla non-corrispondenza</em> si caratterizza, innanzitutto, come una disamina puntuale delle teorie del conflitto che si sono avvicendate, nel pensiero politico e politico-filosofico, dal '900 fino ai giorni nostri. Attraverso un confronto – che ha il beneficio, non secondario ai fini della tenuta teorica complessiva, della precisione – con pensatori fondamentali della tradizione filosofico-politica che va da Carl Schmitt ad Alain Badiou, da Foucault ad Althusser, passando attraverso Laclau e il cosiddetto lacanismo di sinistra (Y. Stavrakakis), Marchesi costruisce un itinerario teoreticamente denso che si divide strategicamente in due compiti: la ricognizione dei limiti e delle possibilità aperte dagli autori in questione ma altresì – e senza soluzione di continuità – la delineazione di un metodo <em>attivo </em>di ricerca. Soffermiamoci, dapprima, su questo secondo aspetto del testo, l...
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One of the developments of recent literature on speculative realism has been Levi Bryant’s work o... more One of the developments of recent literature on speculative realism has been Levi Bryant’s work on MOO (Machine-Oriented ontology), which is a particular type of the more general Object-Oriented philosophy. Given that in Bryant’s account the ultimate entities of a world are machines (in Deleuze’s terms) and that, more importantly, machines are defined by their powers and what he calls “virtual proper being”, we will try to draw some philosophical consequences about the key notions of virtual , machine , and their relationship to that of attractor . We’ll try to suggest that these very notions are crucial for a realist and speculative account of what there is . More specifically, the concept of ‘virtual’ could be explained via that of ‘attractor’. We will thus conclude that both Bryant’s and DeLanda’s accounts point to the idea of a substance conceived as something intrinsically dynamic.
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This article attempts to outline some critical aspects of the accelerationist movement. More spec... more This article attempts to outline some critical aspects of the accelerationist movement. More specifically, it argues that light can be shed on key aspects of the political proposals of Williams and Srnicek by considering them from the perspective of the socio-political reflections of both Lacan and Deleuze and Guattari. Anti-Oedipus is one crucial starting point for accelerationist thinking, in terms of the concept of the 'machinic' and the explicit reference to 'acceleration', but it is equally obvious that Lacan has been an important figure in the debate on the topic of 'desire'. Likewise, and for the same reasons, accelerationism offers the potential for a fruitful reconsideration of Deleuzian philosophy, and of the difficult relationship between schizo-analysis and psychoanalysis. We argue that, in the light of accelerationism, the perspectives of Deleuze and Guattari and Lacan do converge, in particular around the theoretical articulation of the concept of the 'political'. Accelerationism, as many critics have noted, has numerous implications in the field of subjectivity and often falls into a general plea for a strong neo-Enlightenment. Hence we will attempt to explicate these implications by attempting to read accelerationism via the psychoanalytic categories of jouissance and fantasy. This last category, as Stavrakakis has shown, is directly linked to the political category of 'Utopia', and therefore provides an adequate theoretical basis for such a psychoanalytic reading of accelerationism. Should accelerationism be considered the only way out of the socio-political constraints of neoliberalism today? However we approach this question, the argument pursued here is that the best starting points for a critique of accelerationism are the concepts of jouissance, the state/capital relationship, schizo-analysis and paranoid ways of functioning.
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One of the developments in recent literature on speculative realism has been Levi Bryant’s
work o... more One of the developments in recent literature on speculative realism has been Levi Bryant’s
work on MOO (Machine-Oriented ontology), which is a particular type of the more general
Object-Oriented philosophy. Given that in Bryant’s account the ultimate entities of a world
are machines (in Deleuze’s terms) and that, more importantly, machines are defined by their
powers and what he calls “virtual proper being”, I will try to draw some philosophical consequences
about the key notions of virtual, machine, and their relationship to that of attractor.
I’ll try to suggest that these notions are crucial for a realist and speculative account of what
there is. More specifically, the concept of ‘virtual’ could be explained via that of ‘attractor’. I
will thus conclude that both Bryant’s and DeLanda’s accounts point to the idea of a substance
conceived as something intrinsically dynamic.
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work on MOO (Machine-Oriented ontology), which is a particular type of the more general
Object-Oriented philosophy. Given that in Bryant’s account the ultimate entities of a world
are machines (in Deleuze’s terms) and that, more importantly, machines are defined by their
powers and what he calls “virtual proper being”, I will try to draw some philosophical consequences
about the key notions of virtual, machine, and their relationship to that of attractor.
I’ll try to suggest that these notions are crucial for a realist and speculative account of what
there is. More specifically, the concept of ‘virtual’ could be explained via that of ‘attractor’. I
will thus conclude that both Bryant’s and DeLanda’s accounts point to the idea of a substance
conceived as something intrinsically dynamic.
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work on MOO (Machine-Oriented ontology), which is a particular type of the more general
Object-Oriented philosophy. Given that in Bryant’s account the ultimate entities of a world
are machines (in Deleuze’s terms) and that, more importantly, machines are defined by their
powers and what he calls “virtual proper being”, I will try to draw some philosophical consequences
about the key notions of virtual, machine, and their relationship to that of attractor.
I’ll try to suggest that these notions are crucial for a realist and speculative account of what
there is. More specifically, the concept of ‘virtual’ could be explained via that of ‘attractor’. I
will thus conclude that both Bryant’s and DeLanda’s accounts point to the idea of a substance
conceived as something intrinsically dynamic.