Speculative Realism
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A dialog between Tristan Garcia and Flora Katz on the work of the artist Jessica Warboys. Written in the context of a residency at Parc Saint Leger with Martha Salimbeni, Hélène Bertin, Mathieu Arbez Hermoso and Christèle... more
El presente texto es el prólogo para mi traducción de Q. Meillassoux, "Metafísica y ficción extracientífica" (Santiago: Roneo, 2020), que co-escribimos M. Ramírez y yo. Contiene una explicación general del 'realismo especulativo' y el rol... more
Quentin Meillassoux, "Metafísica y ficción extracientífica, seguido de "La bola de billar" de I. Asimov. Santiago: Roneo, 2020. Traducción y notas de Meillassoux por Jean-Paul Grasset B. Prólogo de Jean-Paul Grasset B. y Mario Teodoro... more
Speculative Realism (SR) has often been characterised as a heterogeneous group of thinkers, united almost exclusively in their commitment to the critique of what Quentin Meillassoux terms ‘correlationism’ or what Graham Harman calls the... more
Este texto foi elaborado para a discussão do (Neo)Hegelianismo aqui exposto no III Congresso Hegel em Diálogo: O Próprio Tempo Apreendido em Pensamento, realizado na Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, de 29 a 31 de agosto de... more
The following short book discusses the aesthetics of realism in art and architecture. Published as part of the Treatise series by the Graham Foundation.
This is a speculative fiction and extract from my post-graduate dissertation, The dissertation itself investigated oikonomia, ‘a set of practices, bodies of knowledge, measures, and institutions’, rooted in the concept of the properly... more
The 2012-phenomenon includes apocalyptic fantasies regarding an impending collapse of our contemporary society, supposedly prophesized by the ancient Maya and their Long Count calendar. Sometimes connections to the ancient Maya collapse... more
Корпус тезисов, затрагивающий проблематику "Великого Внешнего" - концепта, введённого французским философом и одним из знаковых фигур спекулятивного реализма Квентином Мейясу.
Tradução do artigo de Nick Land, "As Origens do Clube Cthulhu".
Este trabalho consiste em apresentar, analisar e criticar, a partir do sistema filosófico de Quentin Meillassoux, apresentado em seu principal livro: Après la finitude: Essais sur nécessité de la contingence, e desenvolvido em seu seminal... more
This self-titled essay responds to the prescribed question below: 2. Claire Bishop has said of installation art that 'Rather than imagining the viewer as a pair of disembodied eyes that survey the work from a distance, [it] presupposes an... more
El presente texto es el prólogo para mi traducción de M. Gabriel, "El poder del arte", Santiago: Roneo, 2019. Contiene una localización general de Markus Gabriel en el panorama del "nuevo realismo" y el previo "realismo especulativo",... more
A review of Graham Harman's book, Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy.
The present catalogue text discerns between two kinds of eco-centric works the Austrian artist Herwig Scherabon presented in his latest solo exhibition “Against Nature“ (July 2021, Berlin Neukölln): landscapist and objectivist. Whereas... more
This short intervention explains the problem of 'robot gender' and the potential of the 'fourth sex' lost in naturalizing design and negligent academic criticism.
The core presumption of object oriented ontology and other speculative realisms is that we have epistemic access to the absolute-which seems to be a rather weird place looking at the systems these ontologists propose. One of the best... more
Qu’est-ce que le corps humain ? A la fois la plus familière et la plus méconnue des choses, le corps est au centre de l’expérience mais représente également le lieu d’une préhistoire antérieure à toute expérience. Étrange et inconnu, cet... more
The first edition of The Sympathy of Things, published with V2_Publishing, was quickly sold out to later be published in a revised new edition with Bloomsbury:... more
This talk starts from the presumption that the quantum challenge, as a set of philosophical questions, was a dialogue far beyond the discipline of physics. Quantum sociologist Gabriel Tarde, and philosophers Henri Bergson and Alfred North... more
Russian anarchism of the 1910s-1920s (biocosmism, pan-anarchism) proposed an original political and aesthetic model of "access to space", which possessed a great heuristic and utopian potential, which, due to political circumstances of... more
Understanding the exact nature of Deleuze’s debt to Kant, forms a large part of contemporary Deleuzian scholarship, a project made all the more urgent since the publishing of Meillassoux’s critique of correlationism in 2007. These... more
Revolutionary theory begins with recognizing accumulation as a fact of planetary existence. We find ourselves on a rock on which five billion years of solar accumulation have already taken place. If we also find ourselves in a planetary... more
Black Mirror's "Hang the DJ:" On Love in Algorithmic Embodiment. My paper discusses the episode titled "Hang the DJ" (2017) of Netflix-produced show Black Mirror, which tackles the highly computed experiences of romantic love. Rather than... more
In this paper, I relativize the widespread representation of the generalized relativism of 1970s philosophy. I will show how the group of thinkers of this period often referred to as the 'French Theory' movement is not always defined by... more
Verso la fine degli anni Novanta, Graham Harman inizia a parlare di Object-Oriented Philosophy per indicare una proposta filosofica, interna a una revisione critica della tradizione fenomenologica classica, di matrice fortemente realista.... more
В знаковой для спекулятивного реализма книге К. Мейясу решается задача получения доступа к «реальности как она есть». Выдвигаются аргументы против корреляционизма классической философии, главным из которых является отказ от принципа... more
Monografia filosófica onde estabeleço as diretrizes centrais de minha meta-metafísica que orienta minhas pesquisas de doutorado. Ademais, como um primeiro "case study", avaliamos a obra Après la Finitude de Quentin Meillassoux, além de... more
Ok, Children of the Corn was true classic from the days when Stephen King was the King of horror. However its true glory lies in marking an era where the Green Revolution has shown its true face as the unlikely Terminator. High-yield... more