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I wonder if philosophers are aware of the despair they induce in humans with their subtle conceptions of self, their incitements to becoming and individuation and experience? Of course, we are all more or less spontaneously seduced by the idea … Continue reading →

We have to grapple with how the conditions of thought-production are changing, and therefore with how its norms of production must also change. These changes bear on a few basic qualities: size, speed, and output status or “definitiveness.” The norm … Continue reading →

The Despair of Philosophy and The Fall of First Philosophy, by François Laruelle The philosophy of despair is one thing, the despair of philosophy is another. It is more extended and includes the first like a simple model that remains … Continue reading →