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Author Archives: billrosethorn
More Thoughts in Response to Levi Bryant
This time from his latest God and Mythico-Poetic Thought. Rather than reject religion outright, how about rejecting the monotheism that requires inward directed souls/subjects to declare their belief in a perfect God? The internalized desire of the believer-subject is reproduced … Continue reading
Beware: Labyrinth Ahead
The world that we inhabit today is tangled up in such a convoluted manner that we can only give it its proper name by calling it a labyrinth. This world of ours is no longer a limitless world of indefinite … Continue reading
On Levi Bryant’s ‘Axioms for a Dark Ontology’
Levi Bryant has drawn up a brief manifesto of a nihilist reflection on the world and life’s place in the one and only world as a mere accident. His materialism in the matters of human belief brings forth succinctly and … Continue reading
“There’s just no time for these thoughts…”
As a philosopher trying to keep up with the many strains and schools that diverge and often fight with each other, I’ve had to spend much time sitting for long periods of time and reading. The foreign, heady, and counter-intuitive … Continue reading
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Deleuze and the Advertisers
What say you on Philosophy and Marketing Gilles Deleuze? “Finally, the most shameful moment came when computer science, marketing, design, and advertising, all disciplines of communication, seized hold of the word concept itself and said: “This is our concern, we … Continue reading
Speculations on Obama's Brain Initiative
Reblogged from Footnotes 2 Plato: Francis Collins, director of the National Institute of Health and author of The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief (2006), introduces President Obama as the “scientist-in-chief.” Collins’ “BioLogos” theory is a brand … Continue reading
Century of the Self Documentary
Here is a link to the full BBC documentary by Adam Curtis The Century of the Self. It is a kind of historical, factual, British version of Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle. It details how Sigmund Freud’s idea of … Continue reading
Critical Fantasies: First Attempt at a Manifesto
Critical Fantasies are a mixture of critical philosophy and a retelling of poplar stories that are made by deep analysis to serve as current day myths. The stories are selected from the cultural field with the criteria that they contain … Continue reading
The End of Growth
I’ve been making my way through Richard Heinberg’s The End of Growth for over a year now and it raises some very pertinent concerns about a Capitalist economy and the energy that sustains it. Thanks to the people over at … Continue reading
Manuel DeLanda Lecture on the City and Capitalism
Here is a video of Manuel DeLanda giving a talk about the network of cities and trade in Europe for the last 500 years or so. His use of Assemblage Theory here diagrams how Capitalism was born of a stabilization … Continue reading
