Archive for July, 2009
Slime, Time, Space
The alchemist term azoth stretches from the beginning to the end in its etymological roots and unites cohesion and corrosion. This term may have inspired Lovecraft’s gibbering monstrosity known as Azathoth. This blind idiot god, I argue, is somewhere between or perhaps an interpenetration of Oken’s Zero and Plotinus’ One.
Filed under: Harman, Iain Hamilton Grant, ligotti, nature, Schelling, Speculative Realism | 2 Comments
Tags: azathoth, lovecraft, slime
Black Sun
The image of the black sun appears in various biblical, alchemist, hermetic and occult texts. The black sun appears as the dark material underside of the pure and philosophical sun (the Platonic sun). The productive material sun is placed as a rotting corpse into the earth’s core as its productive core going from Philolaus to […]
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Tags: black sun, nazism, nigredo, nihilism, reza negarestani
Two posts and resulting responses over at Larval Subjects have convinced me to do a pragmatic post. While I generally try and avoid anything relating to normal existence I am concerned about applying to Phd programs in the US. Basically, based on what I have read and heard about philosophy PhD programs in the US, […]
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Tags: advice, continental philosophy, PhD programs, the academy
In their mostly fascinating text The Collapse of Chaos Jack Cohen and Iain Stewart make a strong case for a nuanced emergentism – arguing that patterns in the universe point to a actually real things stating that patterns are not only ideal constructions. On one level it does seem impossible to reject weak emergentism – […]
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Tags: dark vitalism, Hagglund, Harman, Lee Braver, temporality
Naught Thought 
