‘…souls are everywhere in matter.’ (The Fold – reading notes #1)
Notes on Deleuze’s ‘The Fold’ resulting from the work being done as I attend the excellent new reading group hosted by Matthew Dennis at Goldsmiths College, with thanks to him for the opportunity to...
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This is part of a series of notes, intended primarily to work through the arguments in Quentin Meillassoux’s book After Finitude. The first move made in Meillassoux’s book is to attempt to retrieve the...
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In the first of these notes on After Finitude the focus was on the initial move in the book, the retrieval of the concept of primary properties. Even though this is the first move it is still vital to...
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Meillassoux expresses the problem that the correlationist has with the arche-fossil via the concept of ‘the given’. For the correlationist the arche-fossil is quite straight-forwardly a...
View Article‘an active line on a walk’ (The Fold – reading notes #2)
Chapter 2 of F begins, if possible, even more obscurely than Chapter 1. The first line of F, Chapter 1, is ‘The Baroque refers not to an essence but rather to an operative function, to a trait’ (F:3)....
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I don't publish much, mainly because I write slowly, but a new essay has just come out.
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