I In the opening pages of The Logic of Sense, Deleuze writes: “Alice and Through the Looking-Glass involve a very special kind of things: events, pure events.” Plus, he proposes the following example: “When I say ‘Alice becomes larger,’ I mean that she becomes larger than she was” but also “smaller than she is now,”…
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Metaphysics in disguise: Another look at Speculative Realism and New Materialism
I Marx once famously wrote that a spectre was haunting Europe: the spectre of communism. It can be affirmed that, today, a very different spectre, coming from northern Europe, haunts contemporary thought – and that, along the way, it has encountered another, older ghost – and that, together, like Typhon and Echidna, they have brought…
What Dies, and What Lasts: On Rosenzweig’s Indictment against Anaximander
I Franz Rosenzweig, in The Star of Redemption — which is a very interesting book, partly written in the trenches of the Balkan front during World War I —, accuses philosophy — he says: from Ionia to Jena, that is to say, all the history of philosophy, from its inception with the Ionian philosophers (Thales,…