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[justdeenthings]

You owe no explanation, leave what hinders your journey. - (Follow: @JustDeenThings ) • • • • • • • • (#love#prayer#peace#writersofinstagram#quote#positive#faith#religion #inspiration#blog#reminders#wisdom#smile#dawah#quran#poetry#wisewords#wordstoliveby#worship#deensquad#islam#deen#writer#spiritual#muslim#sufi#poem#dua#humtv#justdeenthings)

[justdeenthings]

Do not victimise yourself. You learnt, you’re wiser. - (Follow: @JustDeenThings ) • • • • • • • • (#love#prayer#peace#writersofinstagram#quote#positive#faith#religion #inspiration#blog#reminders#wisdom#smile#dawah#quran#poetry#wisewords#wordstoliveby#worship#deensquad#islam#deen#writer#spiritual#muslim#sufi#poem#dua#humtv#justdeenthings)

[wentheearthcrumbles]

I despise the kind of book which tells you how to live, how to make yourself happy! Philosophers have no good news for you at this level! I believe the first duty of philosophy is making you understand what deep shit you are in!

Slavoj Žižek

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I am the Queen, the gatherer-up of treasures, most thoughtful, first of those who merit worship.     Thus gods have established me in many places with many homes to enter and abide in. Through me alone all eat the food that feeds them, – each man who sees, breathes, hears the word outspoken.     They know it not, yet I reside in the essence of the Universe. Hear, one and all, the truth as I declare it. I, verily, myself announce and utter the word that gods and men alike shall welcome.     I make the man I love exceeding mighty, make him nourished, a sage, and one who knows Brahman. I bend the bow for Rudra [Shiva], that his arrow may strike, and slay the hater of devotion.     I rouse and order battle for the people, I created Earth and Heaven and reside as their Inner Controller. On the world’s summit I bring forth sky the Father: my home is in the waters, in the ocean as Mother.     Thence I pervade all existing creatures, as their Inner Supreme Self, and manifest them with my body. I created all worlds at my will, without any higher being, and permeate and dwell within them.     The eternal and infinite consciousness is I, it is my greatness dwelling in everything.

Devi Sukta, Rigveda 10.125.3 – 10.125.8 (via hecataion)

[alfodrs-eye]

https://norse-mythology.org/concepts/destiny-wyrd-urd/

[red-priest]

Original content on my blog? It’s more lile than u think

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[siickangel]

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Documenting and expanding upon a [ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION](http://www.urbanomic.com/event-uf24-details.php) on the ramifications of Speculative Realism for aesthetics, this discussion ranges from contemporary art’s relation to the aesthetic, to accelerationism and abstraction, logic and design. From varied perspectives of philosophy, art and design, participants examine the new technological mediations between the human sensorium and the massive planetary media network within which it now exists, and consider how the aesthetic enables new modes of knowledge by processing sensory data through symbolic formalisms and technological devices. Speculative Aesthetics anticipates the possibility of a theory and practice no longer invested in the otherworldly promise of the aesthetic, but acknowledging the real force and traction of images in the world today, experimentally employing techniques of modelling, formalisation, and presentation so as to simultaneously engineer new domains of experience and map them through a recon gured aesthetics that is indissociable from sociotechnical conditions..

[stillunmade-deactivated20210321]

Vacation reading: the slightly more respectable side of my weirdness (drinking alone being the disreputable side of the coin).

[bemusedbibliophile]

Here, then, is one polemical hypothesis: the urge towards objects comports itself in a very particular fashion, one that will be familiar to scholars of colonialism and settler-colonialism, and that calls to mind any number of New-World-style fantasies about locations unmediated by social order. The ontological turn, that is to say, reshapes an old paradigm, a primitivist fantasy that hinges on the violent erasure of the social: the conjuring of a realm–an “ancestral realm”–that exists in the present, but in parallax to historical time. A terra nullius of the theoretical landscape.

Jordana Rosenberg, “The Molecularization of Sexuality: On Some Primitivisms of the Present” (x)

[danielottojackpetersen-deactiva]

The wood in a primitive sword and that in a modern windmill occupy utterly different niches of reality, unleash completely different forces in the world.

Graham Harman, Towards Speculative Realism (2010)

[danielottojackpetersen-deactiva]

A bridge is not a mere conglomerate of bolts and trestles, but a total geographic force to reckon with: a unitary bridge-effect. But even this unified bridge-machine is far from an absolute, obvious unit. It too has a vastly different reality depending on whether I cross it on the way to a romantic liaison or as a prisoner underway to execution. In one case it is equipment for rapture, in the other a means toward damnation and misery.

Graham Harman, ‘Object-Oriented Philosophy’ (1999), in Speculative Realism (2010)

[sterwood]

Hey Sterling, where would you recommend I start with as an intro to object oriented ontology?

Hi! I hope you don’t mind that I’m answering this publicly, so others can reference this if they like.

A good place to get a really quick overview can be found here: https://doctorzamalek2.wordpress.com/2010/07/23/brief-srooo-tutorial/ This is Graham Harman’s website, and this is his brief introduction to Object-Oriented Ontology, especially as it differs from Speculative Realism. The gist of it is that Speculative Realism was a term coined in 2007 during a conference that’s supposed to encapsulate ambiguously the thought of Graham Harman, Quentin Meillassoux, Ray Brassier, and Iain Hamilton Grant. I think every one of the members (except maybe Meillassoux) has repudiated the term, but oh well, that’s how they’re referred to now. Object-Oriented Philosophy, on the other hand, refers specifically to Harman’s work and was coined by him in his first book in 1999. Finally, Object-Oriented Ontology refers broadly to the work that’s been influenced by Harman, specifically that done by Levi Bryant.

After looking at that, I recommend taking a look at this Speculative Realism Pathfinder which gives you a lot of sources for both what Object-Oriented Ontology is and for a lot of blogs that people in the subfield post on (it can be hard to keep track of them sometimes). It would also probably be worthwhile to poke around Levi Bryant’s blog Larval Subjects (a term taken from Deleuze’s ‘Difference and Repetition’). That’s how I started getting into this stuff - reading Bryant’s blog a bunch and then reading some of Harman’s work (which I’ll get to in a second).

Then, I’d recommend taking a look at the book The Speculative Turn. It’s a collection of essays related to all the facets of Speculative Realism, with a few essays devoted to Object-Oriented Ontology specifically. Also, the first essay in that collection gives a good introduction to Object-Oriented stuff, and tries to situate it historically between other existing materialisms and trends within continental philosophy.

After that, where you should go kind of depends on if you’re interested in Object-Oriented Philosophy, or in Speculative Realism more broadly. If it’s the latter, then I recommend looking into Quentin Meillassoux’s book After Finitude (if you want an actual pdf and not just a scribd link, then I can send it to you). This work is kind of the ‘landmark’ work that helped turn so many people into looking at this area of philosophy (it’s also really important background information for understanding Brassier - I can’t speak for Hamilton though, since I still haven’t read him). Also, I think it stands alone and just a generally great piece of philosophical writing. If Object-Oriented Philosophy is your goal though, then theres a few places you should look:

Look up Graham’s major works. Not a lot of people read them, and I think that’s why a lot of people are so willing to easily dismiss him. The two major works are “Tool-Being: Heidegger and the Metaphysics of Objects” and “Guerilla Metaphysics: Phenomenology and the Carpentry of Things”. For a kind of shorter overview of Harman’s work, his book “The Quadruple Object” is meant as a kind of short-hand summary of his ideas, and might be worth checking out (I liked it a lot). These books are kind of hard to find pdfs of (Harman’s the hardest one of the Speculative Realist members to find pdfs of), but they are available on aaaaarg if you have access. If not, I can send these to you as well if you’d like.

Levi Bryant’s works are also great sources to look into here. His first book after starting to pursue Object-Oriented lines of inquiry called The Democracy of Objects is pretty easy to find online and is a lot of fun to read. His second work in this vein, Onto-Cartography, is harder to find but I posted a link to it a few days ago. If you search my “levi bryant“ tag, it should be there. Finally, if you want a look at how Bryant was thinking before he got persuaded by some of these ways of thinking, then his first book "Difference and Givenness: Deleuze’s Transcendental Empiricism and the Ontology of Immanence” (this book is accessible through aaaaarg too, so the same deal on sending it to you, if you want).

Basically, those are the two ~major~ figures of Object-Oriented Philosophy. There’s also a guy named Timothy Morton, but I never liked him much, so I’m not including him (whoops). The two basic theoretical fault-lines that this subfield rests on are a revision of Heidegger’s ontology (this is what Harman’s work is based on - along with a re-reading of Levinas, Lingis, Whitehead, Latour, and some others) or on a kind of synthesis or at least creative influence coming from Deleuze and Lacan (this is where Bryant’s coming from).

As far as I can tell, this should serve as a damn good introduction to this field of philosophy. If you have any further questions, feel free to ask. I hope this helps! :D

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the surfacing into visibility of an inner channel of upward thrust

‘When I look at the sequoias I do not focus on them by circumscribing their outlines; the width of their towering trunks and the shape of their sparse leaves drifting in the fog appear as the surfacing into visibility of an inner channel of upward thrust.’ -Alphonso Lingis, Foreign Bodies (1994), quoted in Graham Harman, Speculative Realism (2010); Harman adds:  ‘even the sequoia, that mass of semi-aware organic material, presents a face to those who encounter it.’ (via danielottojackpetersen)